8 WWE Wrestlers Vince McMahon Refused To Turn Heel
6. Tito Santana
Even though some of the other wrestlers featured in this list may have wrestled as a heel elsewhere - or possibly even dabbled in the dark side during their early days with WWE - it's a true rarity to find a professional wrestler who remained a true babyface throughout the entirety of their career.
One such rare performer is Tito Santana.
For those who only knew Santana for his time in the El Matador gimmick, it's hard to stress just how popular Tito was throughout the '80s. As a tag team star, Santana won tag gold with Ivan Putski and later with Rick Martel - Santana and Martel's Strike Force tandem being a standout act of the time - but it was Tito Santana's two reigns as Intercontinental Champion that saw him at his most popular.
At that time, it was a huge deal to with the IC Title, let alone to win it twice. It's also worth noting that this was at the time when the Intercontinental Champion would be responsible for headlining the house shows of the day, which indicates just how highly thought of Tito was by management.
For Santana's part, he actually pitched to turn heel in 1989. That was when it was decided that the Strike Force pairing was to be split into two singles acts, and Tito asked Vince McMahon to let him turn heel. As discussed by Bruce Prichard on a recent episode of his Something to Wrestle podcast, that request was immediately shot down due to the simple fact that, as Prichard put it, "Tito’s just too good of a person.”