10 Wrestlers Who Went To Insane Lengths To Get Over (But Didn't)

10. Jack Evans Shaves His Head For No Payoff

In a very WWE-like development, AEW wasted everybody's time in 2021.

Remember the Orange Cassidy Vs. Matt Hardy feud?

It was rubbish. Matt targeted Cassidy's hair, telegraphing a Hair Vs. Hair match blow-off to a trilogy nobody had asked for. The first match was somewhat fun, in that the Big Money versus slacker character dynamic was explored with amusing enough prop comedy, but Hardy got busted open when it fell apart and fell well short of the expected opening Dynamite banger. Teasing the sight gag punchline, Orange Cassidy, after being taunted by Hardy on a loose, monthly basis all summer long - AEW transplanted its great main event long-term storytelling where it did not belong - defeated Jack Evans in a Hair Vs. Hair match. Hardy then defeated Cassidy in a Lumberjack match, and then...nothing.

CHAOS and Best Friends "won" the programme by defeating the Butcher and the Blade, but Cassidy never did shave Hardy bald. Evans, who has barely been sighted since, cut off his hair for nothing. It was the rarest, most damning of things: AEW, normally an excellent promotion, should have ran the match that nobody even wanted, if only for poor Jack's sake. Evans has been through this before, in 2017, so he probably wasn't too bothered - but that's some plot hole.

In the biggest indictment, Jim Cornette was actually vindicated for his bad faith criticisms of the promotion.