Face/heel turns during Russo's WCW stint

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I was wondering just how many face/heel turns took place in Russo's two WCW stints. Help me compile a list here. For instance DDP was turned on in three straight PPVs:

 

1) Kim Page turned on DDP and hit him with the guitar at Spring Stampede 2000, allowing Jeff Jarrett to win the title.

2) David Arquette turned heel on DDP at Slamboree 2000, hitting him with a guitar on top of the triple cage.

3) Kanyon turned heel on DDP at Great American Bash 2000, jumping out of his wheelchair and hitting a diamond cutter.

 

Now continue!

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Okay, I'll add some easy ones:

 

4) Bret Hart turned heel and joined the reformed nWo the night after Starrcade 1999.

5) Goldberg turned heel and cost Kevin Nash his title match at GAB 2000.

6) Goldberg turned face again after the heel turned failed, sometime soon after BATB 2000, I believe.

7) Bret Hart PRETENDED to turn face for one night on Thunder sometime before Souled Out 2000.

8) Bret Hart turned heel again by the end of the show.

9) Jim Duggan turned heel and joined Team Canada at Fall Brawl 2000

10) Jim Duggan turned back face not too long after that.

 

Okay, I got the ball rolling, now help me out here people.

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Filthy Animals started in October as heels when they attacked Ric Flair at Halloween Havoc, they turned face when they feuded with the Revolution and then in April were heels due to the New Blood thing, in the Summer they slowly turned face again.

 

Edit: During the Revolution feud Eddie Guerrero and Kidman had a match and it seemed that Eddie was about to become heel(I think they were hinting at an Eddie/Torrie relationship), after that the Animals were off tv until the night after Starrcade.

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The Varsity Club turned heel on partner Jim Duggan at Starrcade 99.

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Sting turned heel at Fall Brawl 99

 

Mike Awesome feuded with Lance Storm, turned heel and joined Team Canada, then turned face as That 70's guy.

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Sting turned heel at Fall Brawl 99

 

Mike Awesome feuded with Lance Storm, turned heel and joined Team Canada, then turned face as That 70's guy.

Russo wasn't around at the time of Fall Brawl 1999.

 

The 70s Guy gimmick was before he joined Team Canada. He never broke away from Team Canada until the buyout.

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Scott Steiner pretended to be retiring on Nitro, coming out in a wheelchair and giving a tearful promo. He turned heel and joined the nWo.

 

Scott Steiner turned face during the start of the New Blood angle and was Kevin Nash's buddy for a while.

 

Steiner turned heel again after Bash at the Beach 2000 (I think, could be sometime different) and was heel for the rest of his time in WCW.

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Russo wasn't around at the time of Fall Brawl 1999.

No he wasn't...but Sting turning face at Mayhem 1999 would count here.

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Major Gunns turned heel to voluntarily join Team Canada after she was forced to join them a few months prior.

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Here's two...

 

Bret Hart turned heel and joined the "New Blood" by cracking Hulk Hogan with a steel chair as he finally had Eric Bischoff in his grips.

 

Curt Hennig, after winning the fans acception when being forced to retire, turned heel and joined Russo's stable in late '99.

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David Flair (along with Daffney) turned on his father to join Russo and proclaim him his real "father".

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Kevin Nash was a face at the start of the New Blood angle but was a heel wrestling Booker T for the title a few months later, not sure exactly when he turned.

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Muta turned heel on The Cat on Nitro to join Vampiro's Dark Carnival.

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Kidman was a heel during his matches with Hogan, but the New Blood turned on him after he lost at the GAB 2000, I believe, and he went babyface.

 

Torrie Wilson turned on Kidman at GAB 2000 and low blowed him, leading to a Hogan win.

 

I know Horace Hogan turned a bunch over this time too, but I don't exactly know the details.

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Lance Storm started off as a face, with Kidman, but turned on him and started up the Team Canada Stable.

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Kevin Nash turned heel after becoming the #1 contender to Booker T's WCW World Title in Aug. 2000...and then beat him for the belt.

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Shane Douglas turned on Buff Bagwell, leading to Buff's face turn and a match at BATB 2000.

 

I know the Harris Bros. were heel as Creative Control but I'm almost positive they turned face as well and might have even turned back heel again. I really can't remember.

 

Heels like Sid and Luger were turned immediately at the start of the New Blood angle.

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Russo wasn't around at the time of Fall Brawl 1999.

No he wasn't...but Sting turning face at Mayhem 1999 would count here.

Sting had to turn face...the crowd refused to hate him.

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Stevie Ray turned heel on brother Booker T when T kept teaming with Midnight. Ray went on to form "Harlem Heat 2000" with Big T, J. Biggs, and Cash.

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The Varsity Club turned heel on partner Jim Duggan at Starrcade 99.

That was in the time period between Russo's booking stints, when Kevin Sullivan & co. were in charge.

 

Some of these turns are just mind boggling. I do NOT remember Bret Hart joining the New Blood.

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The Varsity Club turned heel on partner Jim Duggan at Starrcade 99.

That was in the time period between Russo's booking stints, when Kevin Sullivan & co. were in charge.

 

Some of these turns are just mind boggling. I do NOT remember Bret Hart joining the New Blood.

I remember Hart coming back and helping Lance Storm I believe, but nothing with the New Blood.

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The Varsity Club turned heel on partner Jim Duggan at Starrcade 99.

That was in the time period between Russo's booking stints, when Kevin Sullivan & co. were in charge.

 

Some of these turns are just mind boggling. I do NOT remember Bret Hart joining the New Blood.

I remember Hart coming back and helping Lance Storm I believe, but nothing with the New Blood.

He didn't help him, Lance Storm won the US title on a PPV and Bret came down after to congratulate him, nothing was out of the ordinary, as it was in Canada and Bret made his return.

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The Varsity Club turned heel on partner Jim Duggan at Starrcade 99.

That was in the time period between Russo's booking stints, when Kevin Sullivan & co. were in charge.

 

Some of these turns are just mind boggling. I do NOT remember Bret Hart joining the New Blood.

No it wasn't. The Sullivan period was from right before Souled Out to right after Uncensored. Starrcade was Russo.

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The Varsity Club turned heel on partner Jim Duggan at Starrcade 99.

That was in the time period between Russo's booking stints, when Kevin Sullivan & co. were in charge.

 

Some of these turns are just mind boggling. I do NOT remember Bret Hart joining the New Blood.

I remember Hart coming back and helping Lance Storm I believe, but nothing with the New Blood.

He didn't help him, Lance Storm won the US title on a PPV and Bret came down after to congratulate him, nothing was out of the ordinary, as it was in Canada and Bret made his return.

Sorry for picking nits w/ ya, but Storm retained the title at the ppv and won it on a prior Nitro (special Tues night?) in a one night tournament.

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A couple of weeks after the PPV where Hart came out to celebrate with Storm, he was involved in an angle on Nitro. Goldberg had kidnapped Russo and taken him out into the desert where he was planning to bury him. Then Bret Hart pulled up in a car, and started attacking Russo. He then turned on Goldberg by hitting him with a shovel.

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Why was the kayfabe reason for Sting's heel turn anyway?

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Why was the kayfabe reason for Sting's heel turn anyway?

I don't know if they really explained it much other than he wanted to win the title, so he teamed up with Luger to double cross Hogan and take the belt from him. I also know that two weeks after Fall Brawl, where Sting won the title, he had a really good title match with Benoit on Nitro.

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Why was the kayfabe reason for Sting's heel turn anyway?

I think on the Nitro after Fall brawl he and Luger said they were fed up of being held back by Hogan and Flair and that they'd waited to long to be at the top of WCW.

 

Although it wasn't mentioned I saw it as Sting/Luger who hadn't accomplished as much as Hogan/Flair, had never quite lived up to the promise shown 10 years ago and were running out of time to do so.

 

Edit: I loved heel Sting and thought that Sting/Goldberg was a lock for Starrcade until Russo came in.

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I like when people try to correct ME on WCW.

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I think Sting more than lived up to his hype. He came in barely a mid-carder, but Flair was able to make the fans care about him, and from then on he was always one of the more over people. He held the T.V. & U.S. Titles for good lengths of time, and was a multi-time World Champion.

 

Luger simply just got the shaft time after time when it came to being Champion until 1991, when he was about to retire from wrestling (it sounds stupid now, but he did retire after his reign ended).