9 Wrestlers WWE Never Turned Heel
8. Brutus 'The Barber' Beefcake
The second Brutus Beefcake picked up the oversized sheers - or, at WrestleMania III, an ill-suited electric razor - in 1987, he entered an elite group of safe midcard audience-poppers the company didn't need to ever dabble with again.
Almost as ripped as best friend Hulk Hogan during his peak 1989 period with the organisation, he was never considered a candidate to feud with 'The Hulkster' despite most of Hogan's other mates turning on him over the year. And not just because he wouldn't have much of a mop to chop if he did point his shears at Hulk's chrome dome.
The promise of seeing one of Beefcake's literal scalps was simply too great a potential treat for audiences on mammoth television tapings or house shows in the 1980s - WWE saw no need to flip the script and have him attempt some unwanted clippings on the babyfaces of the day.
Even his brief 1993 return after a near-fatal parasailing accident went the same way. Though audiences were trying to break away from his era (one ruthless New York Monday Night Raw crowd member once heartlessly heckled Brutus with a "KILL YOURSELF" taunt as he shared his tale of woe), McMahon flatly refused to move on the gimmick.