Top 5 rebels in WWE history

Professional wrestling has seen its fair share of good guys and the bad guys. Much like in the comics, the business usually is cut and dry. But there comes a point when there is a need for someone with a different character, a grey shade in an otherwise black and white world of professional wrestling. They’re termed the outsiders, the outlaws in the industry. The fans look at them as being “cool” and different. These are the people who go against the rules and make the product interesting, by turning on the establishment.

There have been quite a few anti-heroes or rebels in the WWE. Although they do what the bad guys usually do, their character and gimmick makes it different. From the Hogans to the Pipers, wrestling had the good and the bad. But with the grey shade in professional wrestling, a different dimension was added. Soon, the fans started loving these characters, and emulated them. In this article, we take a look at the top five rebels in WWE history.

5. The Outsiders

We start off with one of the most notorious factions in the history of professional wrestling, The Outsiders – Scott Hall and Kevin Nash. Nash and Hall went to WCW as the “informers sent by Vince McMahon” and wrecked havoc in the organization. Although they later returned to the WWE, they weren’t nearly as impactful, and were later released.

As a part of the now famous New World Order (NWO), they were also the founding fathers of the faction. Nash and Hall made it “cool” to be bad, and became a hit with the wrestling fans who were tired of the same monotonous storylines in professional wrestling. Nash and Hall were also responsible for WCW beating the WWF in the ratings back during the Monday Night Wars.