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I feel like a double turn can be achieved in one match/moment, but there needs to be a setup and development going into it.
It's kind of hard to pull something like that off with a couple weeks build. A double turn like Austin/Bret had months of events from kayfabe/real life that culminated in that match. The crowd is also a factor, and I just don't think the crowd is at a point where they're clammoring for Sheamus and ready to turn on HHH.
With that being said, the best scenario I can offer for something like this to possibly work, given the current circumstances, would be a fighting spirit angle.
Sheamus would cut a backstage promo before the match about how tonight is his night, and he owes it to himself and his generation to beat HHH, and do it decisively and cleanly. No more flukes.
The match goes off as planned, and Sheamus continually fights back. Nothing HHH can do can beat him. He begins to attempt dirty tactics. Still, Sheamus won't stay down.
Sheamus fights and scratches, but finally HHH puts him down with the sledgehammer and gets himself disqualified. He tries to dismantle him, and Sheamus keeps defying him.
When the crowd turns, HHH gets on the mic and argues that this is what they've always wanted. He comes off as a dirty player, and a zealot, and Sheamus looks like a million bucks.
That's really me just humoring the idea though. I don't know if that would all work out that way, and I don't know where it would go from there. I don't know how well accepted Sheamus would be as the heroic babyface from there on out.
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