7 Worst WWE Turns Of 2017

by Jamie Kennedy

1. Dolph Ziggler

Dolph Ziggler Kalisto
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If a freshly-turned heel is cheered wildly for ruthlessly battering two babyfaces with a steel chair, then the switch has failed. Dolph Ziggler was treated like a hero (and even thanked) by the live crowd when he smashed both Kalisto and Apollo Crews on the January 3 edition of SmackDown. That's what happens when fans don't care about the good guys.

People seemed to enjoy Dolph's fire. It didn't help that his turn was only a few months removed from an emotional, career-saving Intercontinental Title win against The Miz at No Mercy in October, 2016. Fans were happily cheering Ziggler's impassioned pleas to save his career, and now they were expected to boo him for taking out his frustrations?

Forget it. The whole exercise made Dolph less of a star than he had appeared as a fired up babyface who would do anything to save his job. That's the opposite of what WWE should have been going for, and it left him swimming against the tide from the off in 2017.

Recent US Title win or not, he's still treading water as a heel.

Which WWE turns did you think were bogus in 2017? Let us know your thoughts down in the comments section below!

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Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.