10 Heel turns that fans refused to accept

In wrestling, you have your popular Superstars, the babyfaces, and bad guys, the heels. It is a formula that wrestling has always needed to survive.

Without the popularity of Hulk Hogan, Stone Cold Steve Austin, The Rock, John Cena and more, WWE and all of the wrestling wouldn't be where it is today. But you can't just be as popular as these guys on your own. Every step of the way they have each had different villains to do battle with to help keep the fans engaged. For every Hogan, Austin, Rock and Cena, we've had a Roddy Piper, Andre The Giant, Triple H, Vince McMahon and many more.

However, epic heel runs don't always go the way WWE want them to. Sometimes a heel can be so good at being the bad guy, that they become cool and thus too popular to hate. Here are ten of such.

#10 Jeff Hardy: 2003

Jeff Hardy was in some creative frustration in WWE before he was granted his release from the company in April 2003.

When his brother Matt Hardy jumped to SmackDown, it became apparent that travelling with Matt was the only reason Jeff would ever show up on time for work. Following Matt's transfer, Jeff began showing up for WWE shows extremely late or not at all, which resulted in he losing his top babyface push.

WWE then decided to turn him heel in January 2003. Jeff began an angle where he was frustrated, and began to attack top RAW faces such as Rob Van Dam, Booker T and Shawn Michaels, following their matches. The heel turn lasted just about a month before Shawn briefly took Jeff under his wing.

Jeff wasn't booed during this month long heel run. Jeff would also have a short heel run in TNA Wrestling in late 2010. He was booed a little at first but was still cheered over oppoenets such as Matt Morgan, who he feuded with during most of his run. He may have become a better heel if he had more time, but his personal life spun out of control, as witnessed at TNA Victory Road, which took Jeff off TV and he returned as a face.