WWE performers often turn babyface or heel to ignite various feuds. There are also "tweeners"characters who are more in the gray area between the black and white extremes, who may be also referred to as anti-heroes. 4/26: Randy Orton is at least in tweener territory after teaming with Matt Riddle. 11/25 - Xia Brookside seems to be a heel after many weeks of heading in that direction. 10/7 - Killian Dain is a reluctant babyface, but he's definitely more babyface now after helping Drake Maverick out post-teaming with him. Lately, Omos has been on a downwards trend. Afterwards, Rhea, Bianca and Mandy stand with each other, raising their respective championship belts, then greeting the WWE universe fans!!! Do check the Promotions tab if you cannot find it in the Primary Inbox. I do believe you start to see a slow turn after Wrestlemania 38 and by the halfway point of 2022, a babyface AJ Styles will emerge and hell likely finish his career in that role. If they cant do it at Wrestlemania 38, I could see them keeping Reigns as a heel until the match at Wrestlemania 39. All Rights Reserved. He's feuded with Velveteen Dream a bit and now he's gone after Timothy Thatcher. It seems inevitable that we are going to get Rey Mysterio vs. his son Dominik Mysterio at Wrestlemania in Dallas. I think Sheamus turning face is more likely than Cesaro turning heel at this point. The fans do not want to boo Becky Lynch. And one of the most anticipated moments from that expectation list arguably the heel turn on John Cena.Cena has . Once his partnership with Omos ends, I feel a return back to his babyface character is in the cards. We'll see where she ends up down the line. It is a money match if played right. Dave Meltzer's Star Ratings. What theyre doing right now with Roman Reigns and Paul Heyman is some of the best stuff I have ever seen them do. Some WWE Superstars are natural heels and Randy Orton is certainly one of them. He lost the feud against Bobby Lashley and also got pulverized at Money in the Bank. WWE fans believe Logan Paul is fodder for Reigns at a time when the company lacks capable challengers. Alright, everyone wants RK-Bro to split up down the line with Randy Orton becoming 'The Apex Predator' once more. 10/5 - Murphy is a babyface after fighting with Seth Rollins, unless this is all a ruse. I feel like it will get progressively worse until the heel turn is complete. Nikki Cross could still do wonders as a heel, although not with the A.S.H gimmick. Copyright 2009-2023: Smark Out Moment - a web branch off A Mango Tree, an Anthony Mango company. 5/13 - Timothy Thatcher turned heel on NXT by flipping out on Matt Riddle, leaving him mid-match and attacking him backstage. That's random. Alongside Rhea Ripley, Finn Balor, and Damian Priest, Dominik . It is a weird dynamic, but I believe Becky changes that next year by reverting back to her babyface persona. WWE Battle of the Brands: Raw vs. SmackDown - Best Show of the Week (June 6-10, 2022) Smark Out Moment Today at 5:35 AM WWE Power Rankings Top 10 Superstars This Week: #402 - In Your Cell & Hell In A House Smark Out Moment Yesterday at 7:35 PM WWE Title Change: New Intercontinental Champion Crowned on Friday Night SmackDown The Road to WrestleMania has always been a crucial period for the company. He pointed out that the fans didn't support him during his reign. If they're going to bounce her around back and forth, it's not worth updating every time she's booked the opposite direction one week after the next (so don't bother asking about it haha). There has been a lot of shifting around the foundation of WWE as we head to the big event in Dallas. In defeat, The Maverick might snap and turn on the audience. Theyve been planting the seeds for a Mysterios split for months now. In this list, we will take a look at three superstars who could turn heel and two who could turn babyface at WWE Crown Jewel 2022. World Snore 3: Putin's elite are caught yawning and even sleeping during his marathon anti-West state-of-the-union rant. Granted, I feel that coming out of WrestleMania, this ship will right itself and Flair will be the heel and Rhea Ripley will be the big time babyface (while also distancing herself from Judgement Day . 6/14 - Akira Tozawa's been positioned as the antagonist for The Viking Profits. ** QUARTER 1 PREDICTIONS [FROM JANUARY 1] **, WILL TURN HEEL: Ashante "Thee" Adonis, Asuka, August Grey, Brian Kendrick, Dave Mastiff, Isaiah "Swerve" Scott, Isla Dawn, Kenny Williams, Kevin Owens, Naomi, Ricochet, Sasha Banks, Tamina, WILL TURN BABYFACE: Alexa Bliss, Bobby Lashley, Bray Wyatt, Cedric Alexander, MVP, Natalya, Peyton Royce, Shelton Benjamin, WILL BOUNCE AROUND BACK AND FORTH: Akira Tozawa, Charlotte Flair, Drew Gulak, ** QUARTER 2 PREDICTIONS UPDATES [AFTER WRESTLEMANIA] **, WILL TURN BABYFACE: Bray Wyatt, Cedric Alexander, Omos, Raquel Gonzalez, Reckoning/Mia Yim, Seth Rollins, Shelton Benjamin, ** QUARTER 3 PREDICTIONS UPDATES [BEFORE SUMMERSLAM] **, WILL TURN HEEL: Andre Chase, Ari Sterling, Gigi Dolin, Jacy Jayne, Jaxson Ryker, Kevin Owens, Mandy Rose, Naomi, Randy Orton, Rhea Ripley, Shelton Benjamin, WILL TURN BABYFACE: Alexa Bliss, Doudrop, Indi Hartwell, Raquel Gonzalez, Seth Rollins, WILL BOUNCE AROUND BACK AND FORTH: Drew Gulak, Reginald Thomas, ** QUARTER 4 PREDICTIONS UPDATES [POST-DRAFT, BEFORE SURVIVOR SERIES] **, WILL TURN HEEL: Aliyah, Dominik Mysterio (maybe not until 2022), Keith Lee, Kevin Owens, Jaxson Ryker, WILL TURN BABYFACE: Mia Yim, Sasha Banks, Xia Li, WILL BOUNCE AROUND BACK AND FORTH: Akira Tozawa, Drake Maverick, Drew Gulak. 10 Cody Rhodes They locked up and Vinci took the advantage. When she and her sister - in the Bella Twins - were ever put against each other, Nikki was always the Evil Twin. 2/16 - Johnny Gargano turned heel by nailing Tommaso Ciampa with the NXT Championship and costing him his match at TakeOver: Portland. Usually every time there's a draft, you can count on at least one character change. 4/12 - Charlotte Flair is back to being a heel again. Also, sometimes, I update the heel and face index, but not as often as the updates you see below. Maybe not a 100% confirmation of a heel turn, but it sure seems like it. 10/12 - Elias turned heel on Raw by hitting Jeff Hardy with a guitar. This shouldnt surprise anyone. It shows their lack of plans for a character as marked by The Fiend's run with Alexa Bliss. 11/23 - Kay Lee Ray apparently transitioned to a babyface somewhere during my honeymoon, so I'm calling it official for tonight but it may have been before that. KEEP IN MIND: When a babyface attacks another babyface, this is almost always a heel turn. I also think that moment will be the beginning of a character change. 4/5 - Mandy Rose turned babyface at WrestleMania 36 by aligning herself with Otis. 2/19 - Chad Gable and Otis turned heel on SmackDown by attacking Rey Mysterio after their match. Both Sheamus and Edge turned both heels and face during the year. 10/20 - Braun Strowman may not be 100% heel, but he sure as hell is booked like it when he low-blows Keith Lee. Please share your opinions in the comments section below. If you bring Bayley back as a heel, and turn Alexa heel as I mentioned earlier, suddenly you can afford to turn Becky Lynch babyface. Why is that you ask? They'll remain tweeners for now. Please logout and login again. 2021 was a year of frequent face and heel turns in WWE with around 50 babyface and heel turns in the year. Do you think the following heel and face turns will happen? Theyre both in the later stages of their careers. 3/13 - Drew Gulak has forged an alliance with Daniel Bryan and appears to be a babyface now. Their style and the way they work lends them to a more heelish tag team anyway. Heel: Ronda Rousey 1 of 4 Ronda Rousey has always been better in WWE as a heel. Is this a turn you want to see? Nia Jax and Shayna Baszler are definitely heels and not tweeners anymore. . WWE continues to struggle for big names as heels and faces. Please logout and login again. Im not sure what the future holds for Rey Mysterio, but a loss to Dominik at Wrestlemania 38 seems to be his immediate future. Be the first one to comment on this story. 5) Santana & Ortiz Now that the Lucha Bros have had a run as the AEW Tag Team Champions, Santana & Ortiz is the team. Your email address will not be published. Your login session has expired. That just doesn't mean it makes Banks a babyface by default. Check here for the complete list of heels and faces in WWE. We can trace his heel turn back to then, though, as he's likely to be a heel going forward. Styles established himself as a babyface after he offered a hand to Damian Priest following the Phenomenal One's loss. We need to confirm your email address. Flair called out Ripley, but she didn't respond. They changed his music and took away the Arrow pointing from his entrance which was always designed to get a pop. Another alternative is both members of RK-Bro turning heel to feud with the likes of The Street Profits or even The New Day, if they show up on RAW following the next Superstar Shake-Up. 11/18 - Tommaso Ciampa seems to maybe be either a babyface or at least a tweener at this point. 4/1 - Isla Dawn turned heel by attacking Emilia McKenzie to align herself with Kay Lee Ray. I think RK-Bro loses the tag team titles before that show. 12/9 - Tyler Rust (aka Russ Taylor) tried to help Timothy Thatcher distract/interfere with Tommaso Ciampa's match and then partnered up with Malcolm Bivens, meaning he's gone from a blank slate to a heel. This will cause Randy to snap, either at the Royal Rumble or the next night on Raw because he didnt win it in his hometown. On this week's SmackDown, Happy Corbin was scheduled to face McIntyre. I think Sheamus turning face and winning the one title thats eluded him, the Intercontinental Title, is a strong possibility in the next six or eight months. WWE is an American professional wrestling promotion based in Stamford, Connecticut. No real true turning point happened, but WWE certainly kept her against heels from this point on. 6/15 - Cameron Grimes is definitely a babyface now, after speculation from the past 2 weeks or so. 6/14 - Piper Niven (soon to be renamed, most likely) is now a heel after aligning with Eva Marie. With just two months flipped on the calendar, there have been many ups and downs. Charlotte Flair entered the ring and pointed at the WrestleMania sign. Stay tuned for random updates to this page! He played a heel early on in NXT, but hes been a babyface his entire time on the main roster. As of 4/13, I'm classifying Karrion Kross (and Scarlett by proxy) as tweeners. She's likely a face as of that point, if not a little earlier when she teamed with Rhea Ripley against Charlotte Flair and Chelsea Green. 6/10 - Damian Priest may be a face now as of NXT following TakeOver: In Your House. @Puto_Takagi. I think Bayley and Becky is still a feud that WWE wants to do. Cody Rhodes Should Turn Heel 1 of 6 Credit: All Elite. Maybe he accidentally gets eliminated by Riddle. Like any form of entertainment, professional wrestling is built on the backbone of "good vs. evil" storytelling. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and LinkedIn. Listen, the WWE RAW Women's Champion Becky Lynch may be a heel, but the crowds love her. promos like a heel. Having Orton take Riddle out for a month or two in the lead-up could be enough to keep it fresh without having them confront each other every week for three months. (In a future updatenever mind.). The Royal Rumble is in St. Louis, the hometown of Randy Orton. As a babyface, he struggled to connect with the crowd. He is the hottest star with the best storyline in the business. It's fairly certain he's full-blown babyface at least for now, after having helped out The New Day alongside Mansoor against Mace and T-Bar. 8/28 - Alexa Bliss did a pretty heelish thing by smashing the mug she bought for Nikki Cross and flipping out at her. To me, theyre the best tag team in the business. Knight is ready-made to take on a similar role to The A-Lister for SmackDown, playing the charismatic personality off top names. Manage Settings Sheamus has been a heel for the better part of the last five years. All Rights Reserved. I think it happens soon. What do you think of all the heel and babyface switches that have taken place recently as we head towards WrestleMania? But it will be interesting to see if Riddle can split away from Randy Orton and swerve the world by going heel. I feel like eventually, Dominik is going to get tired of his dad always messing things up for him until eventually, he snaps. 9/6 - Mustafa Ali has been on the babyface spectrum as a tweener for a while. Dakota takes issue with Mandy getting the headlines and after Mandy loses the NXT womens championship to Io Shrai, Gigi Dolin and Jacy Jayne join Dakota in attacking Mandy. And if it happens in any of the cricket stadium, crowd is going to be HUGE. This one may not even make it to 2022. 10/8 - Amale seems to have settled in to a role as a heel. 10/30 - Jey Uso turned heel by aligning with Roman Reigns and attacking Daniel Bryan after their match. We have already witnessed that with Shotzi turning heel on Smackdown last week. Shaking hands, she may hint at a face turn. Executives and board members are also listed. I feel like the old Alexa Bliss may return sooner or later and the old Alexa Bliss is not a very good babyface. All of this came from his feud against his partner and rival, Johnny Gargano. These turns are important because, if handled properly, they could propel a wrestler to greatness or set them up for doom. Continue with Recommended Cookies. Ironically, Ciampa also turned face because of Gargano; he embraced Johnny after Gargano defeated Adam Cole to . I think, IF Bayley is healed in time (she might be), Becky Lynch vs Bayley is a realistic possibility for WrestleMania 38. 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