One of my favorite heel turns had to be when Lex Lugar faced Barry Windham in a steel cage (this was right after Flair left to the WWF)... It was for the vacated World Championship, and at the time I was a big fan of Sting, and since Lex was Sting's pal I was a big fan of Lex. I remember watching the match rooting for Lex and then Harley Race came down to ring side, and I was like "Who is that" being that I was like 9 at the time and just really started to get into wrestling, so I never saw Race wrestle.
My father said to me "That's Harley Race" and I asked "Is he a good guy or a bad guy" he said "He's a bad guy." So I got all nervous that he was going to cost Lex the World Championship so I went down stairs cause I was too nervous to watch... Next thing I know my dad is telling me that Lex won the title with the help of Harley Race, and I was so happy...
I then watched some WCW program, I forgot which one I watched at the time, and Lugar came out talking about how he hates the fans an everything, I was shocked. But I'd have to say that was the most surprising and saddest, to my 9 year old self, moments I saw in pro wrestling.
This continued with Sting getting gifts from a secret admirier... The first was Abdulla The Butcher, who sting feuded with, the next was Cactus Jack (my first time ever seeing Mick Foley) who he feuded with and the final package was Lex himself. I remembered going into the Lex Lugar v. Sting I so hated Lugar and I was so happy when Sting won...
An intresting note is Cactus Jack was the first heel, going against on of my favorite wrestlers, that I actually kinda liked.
Also as for most of the heel turns you said were great... The best turn was the Hogan one, well it would have been, had I not called it a week before the show... I remember telling my friends that Hogan was going to be the mystery teammate of Hall and Nash. I was so proud of myself when Hogan leg dropped Savage I felt so vindicated, cause all my friends called me stupid for thinking that.
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