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unusual facts about Heel



A Chapter in Her Life

Anger and squabbling amongst the family are brought to heel through love, understanding and the teachings of Christian Science.

Achillesaurus

It was named in reference to Achilles' heel, because diagnostic features are found there for these animals.

Andy Douglas

He then moved on to USA Championship Wrestling, where he formed a heel tag team with Chase Stevens, turning on Santel.

Antistatic device

Antistatic strap, consisting of a metal component which presses against the skin when worn on the wrist or heel, in turn relayed to an electrical ground.

Brian Mailhot

His character and booking of matches that the fans disliked led to mainly heel reactions, though he played face at times such as during Survivor Series, where he helped SmackDown! general manager Theodore Long defeat Raw general manager Eric Bischoff.

Bryant Anderson

Briefly competing in Jim Crockett, Jr.'s World Wrestling Network, he teamed with Tully Blanchard before turning up in Smoky Mountain Wrestling in late 1994, where promoter Jim Cornette used him as a mid-card heel; his father briefly managed him but left after a few appearances.

Color commentator

Former Extreme Championship Wrestling color commentator Cyrus was known for having dual roles as a heel manager and a somewhat neutral commentator.

Dried blood spot

The concept that capillary blood, obtained from pricking the heel or finger and blotted onto filter paper, could be used to screen for metabolic diseases in large populations of neonates was introduced in Scotland by Robert Guthrie in 1963.

Dune prequel series

His Fremen armies are spread across the universe in attempt to bring rebel worlds to heel, and Paul avoids one assassination attempt only to nearly die in another.

Dustin Neace

During the fight, inside the first round, Neace applied a heel hook submission that looked like Corassani tapped to; however referee Herb Dean did not stop the fight and Corassani was released from the hold.

Elizabeth Miklosi

In 2006, Miklosi performed in the short-lived MTV wrestling series Wrestling Society X under the ring name Lizzy Valentine as a valet and girlfriend for Matt Sydal as a heel.

Gary Royal

In the early part of his career, he was a member of the Convertible Blonds, a heel stable with Rip Rogers and Pistol Pez Whatley.

Hey Ricky

# Hey Ricky (You're A Low Down Heel) - 4:15 (Melissa Manchester, Bernie Taupin)

Hirooki Goto

Goto made his return to CMLL on March 25 and would, for the next month, work for the promotion as a heel, culminating in a match on April 29 at Arena México's 55th anniversary show, where he unsuccessfully challenged Último Guerrero for the CMLL World Heavyweight Championship in a Two Out of Three Falls match.

Jack Tunney

Heel color commentator Jesse "the Body" Ventura attempted to bring up the subject several times but was censored each time, upsetting him so much that he left the broadcast booth toward the end of the show.

Jacquet de Berchem

He seems to lived the remainder of his life in Monopoli, a town near Bari on the heel of the Italian "boot", where he lived in relative affluence, since both the governor and bishop of Monopoli were his patrons, and his wife was from an aristocratic family.

Joey Abs

He was a part of the Mean Street Posse, a heel stable, with Pete Gas and Rodney, clad in sweater vests, loafers, and dress pants.

Justinian II

Justinian took advantage of the peace in the East to regain possession of the Balkans, which were before then almost totally under the heel of Slavic tribes.

Karen Haslam

In October 1991, a humorous incident occurred when Haslam was escorting Prince Charles on a tour of the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) when she caught her heel in a door sill and her shoe fell off.

Killer Karl Kox

As a singles heel through the sixties, he was a top-of-card fixture battling well-established crowd favourites such as Mark Lewin, Spiros Arion, Tex McKenzie, Dominic Denucci and Mario Milano.

Kosta Barbarouses

Barbarouses played his first match starting in the first team line-up against Newcastle Jets on 4 November 2009, assisting Chris Greenacre's goal with a back-heel pass.

Lloyd Ryan

In British professional wrestling, Ryan is also well known as having been the manager and spokesman of legendary masked heel Kendo Nagasaki.

Locomotor effects of shoes

Especially when running with the stiffer midsole, the EMG amplitude for tibialis anterior have shown to be significantly greater before the heel strike and lower following the heel strike than compared to the neutral midsole.

Marianne Timmer

On 13 November 2009, at a World Cup speedskating event in Heerenveen, Netherlands, Timmer sustained breaks in her heel bone when she crashed after Chinese skater Yu Jing fell in front of her during a 500 meter race.

Messapii

The Messapians or Messapii were inhabited, in historical times,Herodotus ( Ζ΄ 170), says they came from Crete - the south-eastern peninsula or "heel" of Italy (Salento, modern Apulia), known variously in ancient times as Calabria, Messapia and Iapygia.

Mick Mixon

He was formerly a color analyst for the UNC Tar Heel Sports Network, where he was teamed with "The Voice of the Tar Heels", Woody Durham beginning in 1989.

Mike McGuirk

From her debut, she was the object of ridicule from heel commentator Bobby Heenan.

Prenatal nutrition

Many research studies agree that SGA babies are those with birth weight or crown heel length measured at two standard deviations or more below the mean of the infant’s gestational age, based on data consisting of a reference population.

Quick Service

Getting his employer, that tough-egg, Steptoe, to waltz to his tune is but a moment's work for Joss, who uses Howard's Achilles' heel of playing dice (and losing dearly) to turn the relationship Damon-and-Pythias-esque.

Robbie Dynamite

As a heel, Dynamite adopted the moniker "The Body" (previously made famous by American wrestler turned commentator turned politician Jesse Ventura.)

Rockstar Spud

Spud had made a return appearance announced by TNA President Dixie Carter as the new Chief Of Staff as a heel lackey, Later on in the night, he hosted an in-ring Thanksgiving dinner with the entire heel roster only to be interrupted by Kurt Angle and the faces of TNA which ended in a brawl.

Sansabelt

In the "Janet Evanovich" book, Plum Lucky, "Stephanie Plum", as the narrator states "They were middle-aged thugs, dressed in bowling shirts and Sansabelt slacks. Their hair was slicked back. Their shoes were scuffed and run down at the heel. Their guns weren’t as big as ours."

Sean Mooney

On occasion, Mooney portrayed his fictional siblings, an identical twin sister named Betty on Prime Time Wrestling (alongside heel wrestlers including Sensational Sherri) and identical twin brother Ian Mooney while co-hosting Wrestling Spotlight.

Shawn Spears

On the August 19 episode of ECW, Spears made his WWE television debut as a heel under the name Gavin Spears as part of Theodore Long's "New Superstar Initiative" in a losing effort to Ricky Ortiz.

South's Oldest Rivalry

UNC's sole victory against Virginia during Curry's time as a Tar Heel came when he was a senior in 2001, when he also split time at quarterback (with freshman Darian Durant).

Takayuki Iizuka

During a tag team match with Hiroyoshi Tenzan against then-IWGP Tag Team Champions, Togi Makabe and Toru Yano, Iizuka turned on Tenzan with his trademark sleeper hold, turning heel and joining GBH as their newest member and their insider in the New Japan Seikigun.

Teddy Reade

After the soldiers broke up 4x4 changed his name to Cassius by joining a heel stable called Harlem Heat 2000 and acted as a bodyguard, the group consist of the leader Stevie Ray, Big T and manager J. Biggs then began feuding with Booker T. although the feud didn't last long and Harlem Heat 2000 began to split up.

The Fabulous Rougeaus

The Rougeaus were often matched against heel teams such as The Dream Team and Demolition (who called them the "Ragú sisters").

The Misfits In Action

The original Misfits stable was originally started on the April 17, 2000 episode of WCW Monday Nitro when Eric Bischoff berated a crew of wrestlers including Hugh Morrus, Lash LeRoux, Chavo Guerrero, Jr., and Booker T. along with Bam Bam Bigelow "who remained heel" and Jerry Flynn "on his last appearance on WCW TV" for not helping the New Blood dispatch their enemies known as the Millionaires Club.

Tie Rack

The first store opened in London at 91 Oxford Street; it was converted from a heel bar owned by Bishko from which he had trialled selling ties.

Tomasz Drwal

Drwal faced Rousimar Palhares on March 27, 2010 at UFC 111, losing after an early slip via heel hook submission which appeared to injure Drwal.

Umanosuke Ueda

Ueda was considered one of the first "traitor heels" in Japan, as he broke societal mores by dyeing his hair and using a brawling style, and teaming with a hated gaikokujin heel, Tiger Jeet Singh.

World Series of Fighting 9: Carl vs. Palhares

Taking Carl is former UFC vet Rousimar Palhares, who will be fighting for the first time since his release from the UFC back in October, for unsportsmanlike conduct for holding onto a heel hook on Mike Pierce after he tapped numerous times.

WPTI

Following derogatory comments made by Rush Limbaugh regarding Sandra Fluke, WPTI was asked not to promote the university or the Tar Heel Sports Network during The Rush Limbaugh Show.


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