10 WWE Faces Who Were Actually Total Heels

Who other than Hulk Hogan could possibly sit at the top of this particular pile? Hogan has been the biggest babyface on the planet at various times in his career, and one of the absolute worst at others.

In his heyday, Hogan was the bold, brash, larger than life superhero that Vince McMahon needed to take wrestling to the next level. Without him, WWE wouldn’t be half as successful as it is today, and he was a massive crowd-pleaser in his prime. For all his modern day transgressions, wrestling owes a huge debt of gratitude to Hulk Hogan, whose impact on the sport was immeasurable.

Hogan’s behaviour wasn’t always in-line with his popularity, however. He spat on the Russian flag while wrestling Nikolai Volkoff in 1985, and cheated Ted DiBiase out of the title by attacking him with a chair at WrestleMania 4. The 1989 saw him thrown out by the Twin Towers then assault them like a sore loser, and at the same event in 1992, Hogan distracted babyface Sid Justice to effectively help heel Ric Flair win the match.

That’s just the tip of the iceberg, and doesn’t even consider his reputation as a backstage politician or things like the Yokozuna debacle at WrestleMania IX. He finally turned heel in WCW in 1996, and eventually became a poster boy for why that company went out of business, then returned to WWE for a nostalgia run in 2002. Hulk Hogan is a trendsetter, and the most important professional wrestler of all-time, but he was often the biggest villain in the business, and that shouldn’t be forgotten.