8 Biggest Turncoats In WWE History

There’s a certain rhythm when it comes to Randy Orton’s heel and face turns. It’s what you would call “The Circle of Orton,” and it’s a beautiful process.

First, Randy is a bored, unmotivated worker, and the fans don’t care about him, and that indifference turns to dislike. Then, that dislike is channeled into a heel turn, and suddenly, Randy becomes very motivated, putting on excellent matches with cool spots. The people are now behind him. Then he’s turned face due to being so well-liked, but after a brief honeymoon, WWE realizes they have no idea what to do with him as a face, and he’s placed in filler feuds. Randy loses his motivation, which means his matches become worse, and the fans stop caring about him, which means the cycle begins anew.

It’s because of this cycle that Randy, despite most of his great work coming as a heel, has seen his fair share of face runs. He debuted in WWE as a bland babyface before becoming a smarmy heel and joining Evolution. Once he was kicked out of the group, his smarm was turned into blandness, with him becoming a listless face. He then became a cocky, vicious heel in 2005 and remained as such until 2010, where he became a face once more, and the Cycle Of Orton truly began. Since then, he’s been in a semi-regular revolving door of morality, with him currently at the stage of the cycle where he’s a face whom nobody cares about.