8 Babyfaces The WWE Universe Turned Heel
1. Rocky Maivia
It is unlikely that there will ever be a more famous example of a crowd turning on a babyface in WWE history. Heck, these days Dwayne Johnson is the highest paid actor in Hollywood and a future WWE Hall of Famer. It is a far cry from his tentative first steps into the professional wrestling world as Rocky Maivia.
Rocky Maivia was introduced to the then-WWF world as a third generation blue chipper, all smiles and clean-cut image. He was literally referred to as 'The Blue Chipper', which pretty much guarantees a crowd turning against someone. His wrestling inexperience certainly didn't help, and this combined with a change in attitudes from wrestling audiences made chants of "Die Rocky, Die" an inevitability.
Well, that's somewhat dramatic but it is what it is. The audience turned on Maivia with a vitriol not seen before, and watching the young third-generation star try to grit his teeth and smile through it was painful to say the least. Luckily for him, it didn't last forever.
WWE had no choice but to turn him heel, which they did by aligning Maivia with the Nation of Domination. Rocky Maivia was dead, to be replaced by The Rock. The rest is history.