10 WWE Superstars That Should NEVER Turn Heel

3. Samoa Joe

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'The Samoan Submission Machine' hadn't ever been a babyface on the main roster until a recent return from injury, and with seemingly less and less time remaining on his career clock, the company would do well to simply steer into those "Joe! Joe! Joe!" chants one last time.

As a babyface, Samoa Joe can claim 50% of the record pay-per-view draw TNA achieved in 2008 when he finally dethroned heel Champion Kurt Angle in a Lockdown main event worthy of a place on the excellent WrestleMania card that took place just weeks before it. Time in the role in NXT wasn't quite as kind to the tenured star, but Joe eventually found enough support from the Full Sail faithful to give his signposted turn on Finn Bálor more than enough gravitas to inform their lengthy and evocative headline series.

A 2020 Monday Night Raw rebadge as a baddie has been derailed by injuries, but he should give whatever he's got left to being a brave babyface destroyer on the red brand. A promo polymath, he's not the sort of pushed prospect to lose a crowd. In this era, that's quite possibly his most bankable attribute.

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