This list will keep track of all the official babyface turns and heel turns that happen in WWE for the year 2023.
At the beginning of this year, I've made some predictions for who I think will end up turning face or heel at some point. I won't be altering these predictions at all throughout the entire year, but I will be adding some revised guesses quarterly around the big events, so it'll be interesting to see who I'm right and wrong about. Anybody who I'm right about, I'll strike out.
KEEP IN MIND: When a babyface attacks another babyface, this is almost always a heel turn. When a heel attacks another heel, it doesn't hold the same meaning. Villains turning on villains does not make the beaten down person suddenly a hero, but the actions that come out of that dictate whether a turn happens or not.
Also, sometimes, I update the heel and face index, but not as often as the updates you see below.
- Brock Lesnar is effectively a perpetual flip-flopper. He is heel or face on any given feud and will turn on a dime. It isn't worth tracking his turns.
- January 2 - Alexa Bliss turned heel on Monday Night Raw by attacking a referee and going overboard against Bianca Belair
- January 6 - Hit Row turned heel on SmackDown
- PENDING - Alpha Academy keep being positioned more as babyfaces without any true 100% turn
- Mustafa Ali started a heel turn back in January
- January 29 - Sami Zayn turned babyface at Royal Rumble
- January 31 - Alba Fyre is now a heel aligned with Isla Dawn
- February 6 - Piper Niven seems to have reverted back to being a heel; she may not have been a babyface even temporarily
- February 6 - Nikki Cross had a soft transition starting around here to become a babyface
- February 7 - In retrospect, it seems Jacy Jayne's attack on Gigi Dolin has been used as a means for Dolin to turn babyface
- February 13 - Santos Escobar and by proxy, the rest of Legado del Fantasma turned babyface to start becoming allies to Rey Mysterio
- February 14 - Drew Gulak turned heel by aligning with Charlie Dempsey and ditching Hank Walker
- PENDING February 17 - Emma and Madcap Moss are likely heading toward a heel turn after their frustrations following Moss losing to Gunther and blaming it on the fans
- February 18 - At this point, Elimination Chamber, I'm classifying Brock Lesnar as a perpetual tweener, and moving Bobby Lashley into that pending spot as well, as I think he'll turn heel soon. Pending on that. We'll see.
- February 18 - Logan Paul is officially playing heel for his feud with Seth Rollins and could continue on as a heel past that, for all we know
- March 7 - Carmelo Hayes (and by proxy, Trick Williams) are at least temporary tweeners, if not on the path to full babyfaces (Update from Stand & Deliver on April 1: Trick cheated twice in the title match and Hayes capitalized to win the belt, showing they're back to being heels, if not that they were always heels to begin with) (Update 2 from NXT April 4: Hayes and Williams were respectful in their promo, while Bron Breakker attacked them. Who knows at this point what WWE wants out of the heel/face dynamics of these guys?)
- March 14 - Tatum Paxley turned heel by betraying Ivy Nile on NXT
- March 20 - Asuka turned heel by attacking Bianca Belair on Raw, then doubled-down on this on the May 12 episode of SmackDown.
- April 4 - Bron Breakker seemingly turned heel on NXT by attacking a respectful Carmelo Hayes and Trick Williams
- April 10 - Trish Stratus turned heel by attacking Becky Lynch
- April 11 - Brooks Jensen turned heel by pushing Josh Briggs down and tried to convince Fallon Henley to use a foreign object to win.....only to turn back to babyface on April 25th.
- PENDING - Von Wagner has been more and more sympathetic after starting this story about the picture of him as a kid.
- May 23 - Reggie seems to have dropped the SCRYPTS name and is trying to make amends with Axiom for a babyface turn.
PREDICTIONS FOR FUTURE HEEL/FACE TURNS:
** QUARTER 1 PREDICTIONS [FROM JANUARY 1] **
WILL TURN HEEL: AJ Styles, Alba Fyre, Alexa Bliss, Ashante "Thee" Adonis, Asuka, B-Fab, Braun Strowman, Cameron Grimes, Charlotte Flair, Elias, Karl Anderson, Luke Gallows, Randy Orton, Top Dolla
WILL TURN BABYFACE: Bayley, Dakota Kai, Dominik Mysterio, Doudrop, Iyo Sky, Sami Zayn, Tommaso Ciampa
** QUARTER 2 PREDICTIONS UPDATES [AFTER WRESTLEMANIA] **
WILL TURN HEEL: AJ Styles, Apollo Crews, Asuka, Braun Strowman, Cameron Grimes, Charlotte Flair, Elias, Emma, Karl Anderson, Luke Gallows, Natalya, Randy Orton, Riddick Moss, Trish Stratus
WILL TURN BABYFACE: Bayley, Chad Gable, Dakota Kai, Iyo Sky, Tommaso Ciampa
** QUARTER 3 PREDICTIONS UPDATES [BEFORE SUMMERSLAM] **
WILL TURN HEEL: TBD
WILL TURN BABYFACE: TBD
** QUARTER 4 PREDICTIONS UPDATES [BEFORE SURVIVOR SERIES] **
WILL TURN HEEL: TBD
WILL TURN BABYFACE: TBD
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