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Welcome to Forever Heel, the place where you can let your hair down, and punch a clown. Unless that clown is beating the crap out of Kona Krush with a Mannequin arm. Here we will take a look at heels, heel factions, or storylines where the bad guys won. A bit about me: I’ve followed wrestling since I was a little guy. I’ve been following the IWC, since Scott Keith was Netcop, and Bob Ryder would pelt you with pop ups, for going to his site. I don’t care what he says, that was Ryder.

Our first entry is a man who most fans just wouldn’t take seriously as a villain because we all love him. I’m speaking of the recently retired Jim Ross. Since 1993, Jim Ross had been fired by WWE twice, both times by Vince McMahon. One time after Ross was struck with bell’s palsy, (Mick Foley forgot to write that part in his book) and a second time after WWE felt he wasn’t needed. On top of being raped by the business he loved, Ross was still forced to be Good Ol JR. Stupid hat, and all.

By the fall of 1996, the newly returned Jim Ross, was getting tired of what the WWE was turning into. Storyline wise, he was tired of the hijinks of then champ, Shawn Michaels; and guys like Stone Cold Steve Austin, and Brian Pillman. It should be noted he never mentions their names. He begins to take traditionalist heel role, similar to what Bob Backlund had done in 1994.

Jim Ross turned heel at the Buried Alive Pay Per View, in October of 1996. His microphone had been going out all through the first half of the event, while Vince McMahon, who was at the commentary table with Ross, found this hilarious. After informing viewers that Stamford Connecticut, is “an overpriced hell hole”. Ross finally got up from the table and proceeded to rant on about how WWE and Vince McMahon had treated him for the last 3 years. Ross had also claimed he was the primary reason Bret Hart was coming back. A comment that the storyline never followed up on.

Jim Ross was playing a crazy old man that makes shoot comments. Most of these comments were nonsense, and nothing big. Then Jim Ross claimed he was going to bring back Razor Ramon and Diesel. On RAW Good Ol Jim Ross debuted Glen Jacobs as Diesel, and some poor Canadian guy to play Razor. The fans immediately hated these guys. You could even see children in the audience swearing and slapping their wives, that’s how bad it was.  Ross’s only excuse for bringing in Fake Diesel and Razor was that they were bigger. This incident also caused Kevin Nash to make up some bullshit story about renegotiating his contract with Eric Bishoff, and getting more money because he thought the Outsiders might really leave.

After this fiasco JR began to distance himself from his heel ways. The only sign of his villainy was the occasional comment that he couldn’t understand why the fans were booing his two new abominations, as they walked to the ring? By then no one cared. The fans were just happy to have JR back.

CH Punk comes from Beverly Hills, California; but considers himself a citizen of the World. Punk also turned heel at age 5, after receiving a LJN Iron Sheik figure for Christmas. On that day he vowed he would stuff his Sheik figure up Hulk Hogan's nose, to ruin Hulkamania. By 1995 Hogan had already ruined it without CH's help.