10 Best foreign heels in WWE history

1: Baron Von Raschke

My father watched Championship Wrestling from Florida when I was a child. The first “heel” I was introduced to was Von Raschke, the bald German wrestler who looked like a gangly old man with a hoarse voice and a finishing move called “The Claw”.

Von Raschke spent time in the old WWWF, AWA and NWA. He did compete as a babyface (hard to believe) but his best role was his German wrestling role. You knew the end was near when he would do a goose-step and then put his finisher he called the "brainclaw"