10 WWE Superstars You Totally Forgot Were Heel
Which popular fan favourites actually donned the black hat during their WWE run?
Good vs. Evil. Right vs. Wrong. Light vs. Dark.
Professional wrestling has always been, at its core, a reflection of the above battles. There is a side battling for the good and there is a side battling for the bad. Babyface vs. Heel. Simple.
Just like the world of entertainment, which has featured iconic villains like Darth Vader, Hannibal Lecter, and Freddy Krueger, so has the world of sports-entertainment featured Ric Flair, Sycho Sid Justice, The Undertaker, Kane, and scores more. Those memorable villains helped create the world of WWE, providing many great stories in which the bad guy was an integral part.
But what about the lesser-known bad guys? Who were some of the more popular, fan favourite superstars that also spent time on the dark side?
In many cases, the villains are more entertaining than the heroes. Some performers' best work came when they were able to portray a heel, no matter how long the time may have lasted. Many of those forgotten bad guys aren't remembered as well as others because they played the role of babyface for the majority of their WWE career.
This article will take a look at 10 of those WWE superstars that fans may have
forgotten once played the role of a heel, simply because they were known more
for their as a blue-eye.
10. The Godfather
Starting off the list is a WWE Attitude Era favourite who had already tried out several gimmicks before finding the one that stuck and got over in the late 1990s.
The real-life Charles Wright debuted back in 1992 as the voodoo master Papa Shango, even getting a WrestleMania headlining run-in (although he missed his time cue) during the Hulk Hogan vs. Sid Justice main event from WrestleMania VIII.
After the Shango gimmick was scrapped, Wright would adopt several gimmicks, including an MMA fighter hailed as the "Supreme Fighting Machine", Kama, followed by being called Kama Mustafa, a member of the New Nation Of Domination.
Finally after the New Nation split in late 1998, Kama Mustafa slowly morphed into a colorful, flashy, cigar-smokin', womanizing pimp and, in 1999, that made him a babyface.
What many fans often forget though is that The Godfather, as popular as he was during the Attitude Era, actually began as a bad guy. His heel work as part of the New Nation is what precipitated his babyface run as The Godfather (and later as part of the Right To Censor).
Even ignoring Wright's work as Papa Shango, Kama, and The Goodfather, The Godfather's roots were always as a heel.