5 Obvious Heel Turns in WWE That Worked

4. Christian Hits The One-Man Con-Chair-To on Edge

Christian was always seen as the second banana in his team with his storyline brother, Edge. While Christian was the first to hold singles gold in WWE (he was Light Heavyweight Champion for a brief period of time), he was not the star. In fact, he was the low man on the totem pole in The Brood, as well. Before Edge turned heel and joined Gangrel and Christian, the veteran Gangrel told Christian what to do, and the rookie would do it. Edge was brought into the company and immediately treated like he was going to be a top star.

The team had a lot of success from 1998 into 2001. Interestingly, their seven reigns as champions (second of all time after the Dudley Boyz) came in an extremely short period of time. They were in the picture for the better part of a year before finally winning the Tag Titles for the first time at WrestleMania 2000. Between April and December of 2000, the team would hold the belts on 5 separate occasions. Their 7th, and final, title reign, started exactly 364 days after the beginning of their 1st reign. That's a lot of switches.

As 2001 progressed, however, Edge began to further pull ahead of his partner. He was already the better-looking and more popular one, the taller one, and thought of as better than Christian in most ways. As Edge made his way through the King of the Ring tournament in 2001, Christian's jealously started to show deeper and deeper. Both men made the final four that year, and when Edge won, Christian started to carry the trophy around for him, and even their grandmother, "Gran", liked Edge more. Edge winning the Intercontinental Title at SummerSlam was the last straw. Only a few weeks later, Christian turned on his brother and used their famous tag team chair shot on his own, crushing Edge's head between two chairs.

The turn was really a long time coming, but the build itself made the eventual turn extremely obvious at the beginning of June and lasted for three months before Christian attacked Edge at the beginning of September. Edge would still go on to become the bigger star and the heel turn didn't do as much for Christian as most people expected, but he still went on to win a number of singles titles - including two World Heavyweight Championships - and a few more tag belts as well.