10 Wrestling Heel Turns That Should Be Erased From History
4. Jim Duggan
Perhaps Jim Duggan turning on the United States of America may have meant something in 1990. Maybe even 1992. Anything past that was really pushing it.
Had he turned heel around that time, the ultra patriot could have perhaps got a brief feud with Hulk Hogan out of the deal before being legdropped in the throat. But in 2001, an evil Duggan seemed more of a weird, desperate, nonsensical attempt to shock fans than anything. But it didn’t really shock them as much as it seemed to annoy and disinterest them.
Duggan joined Lance Storm’s Team Canada after turning his back on Hugh G. Rection, and thus the entire United States in the process. As you can guess, this was during Vince Russo’s run on creative. The entire thing was a contrived mess that nobody bought into, or really cared about. However, Duggan was very angry about the whole thing, and still seems a bit upset about it.
Yeah, let’s do him a solid and forget that this one never happened.