5 great heel turns we still talk about today

#2 Tommaso Ciampa turns on Johnny Gargano

Ciampa ends a long friendship with one knee to the face.

As fans, we are programmed to take the watermark at the bottom corner of our screens to indicate the end of a wrestling show.

You never expect anything to follow this. Fade to black, see you next week. That all changed the moment that Tommaso Ciampa struck.

Ciampa and his partner Johnny Gargano had just gone through a brutal match together against the Authors of Pain. They were unsuccessful in their bid to regain their NXT Tag Team Championships from AOP at NXT Takeover: Chicago 2017.

As the show was drawing to a close, the pair stood arm-in-arm reflecting on what looked like their last shot. Clearly more frustrated than his partner, Ciampa would proceed to grab Johnny Wrestling by the head and launch him into the LED wall.

It was a turn many had long expected, but nobody was sure exactly when it would happen. WWE planted the seeds for it during the Cruiserweight Classic when the pair squared off the year prior.

Doing it at this point certainly had the desired effect, as the fans were getting ready to turn off their TVs, when, all of a sudden, a man was being hurled head first into the entrance set.

How successful this turn would have been had Ciampa not missed the rest of the year injured beggars belief; we were still treated to what was the greatest and most drawn out feud in NXT history. Definitely a winning turn here.