10 Wrestling Heel Turns That Made No Sense Whatsoever

3. The Canadian Turncoat

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If Sgt. Slaughter is an American hero in professional wrestling, then I can only dread to think what that makes 'Hacksaw' Jim Duggan. For his entire career Duggan was the most U-S-A! of all professional wrestlers.

He was as American as it gets, a man who very may have bled red, white and blue and most likely cried when singing the national anthem. Jim Duggan was more American than apple pie.

Well, WCW in the year 2000 was a miserable place, and one such example of this misery was the decision to not only turn Duggan heel, but to portray him as a Canadian sympathiser in doing so.

Duggan, pro wrestling's Captain America, turned his back on his beloved in order to align with her northern neighbour.

It made no sense and it didn't bring about anything interesting, serving only to confirm that WCW had been terminally infected with the millennium bug.

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