8 Wrestlers Who Actually Looked MUCH Better BALD
Honouring pro wrestling's less follicularly fortunate.
It's not a good look, bald, for John Cena, but his follically-fuelled transformation was at least founded on bettering his life:
"I saw their signs that said, 'The bald John Cena.' They pushed me into going to see what my options were. I now have a routine: red-light therapy, minoxidil, vitamins, shampoo, conditioner, and I also got a hair transplant last November. I hate the fact that if there wasn't so much shame around it, I'd have gotten it done ten years ago. I thought I was alone, but seven or eight out of ten [men] suffer from thinning or baldness."
Hair is everything to everybody still blessed with the option of growing out their luscious locks, perhaps more so in pro wrestling than any other public-facing industry. On the subject of WWE's star player being mocked and, without sounding dramatic, cyberbullied for his slowly departing follicles, you wouldn't dish out the same coarseness to a Starbucks barista, just like you wouldn't bellow the childish comment of "BALDY!" to a hairless doctor who was inspecting your prostate.
If you would, then please seek help.
Back to pro wrestling, though, a business where bald isn't always beautiful, but when it is, it's a license to print money...
8. Ricochet
Bald for as long as he's been in the mainstream, Ricochet embraced his nude noggin shortly after jumping territories to Tony Khan's AEW during the summer of 2024.
At first, and in a very WWE-like development, lacking a single strand atop his dome formed the foundation of Ricochet's character, but in a very unlike WWE development, the simple gimmick getting over with AEW's core audience didn't result in its legs being cut off. Turning heel turned up the ante. While also forgoing the acrobatics that had propelled him to a worldwide audience, degrading head slaps became a core part of Ricochet's matches, as did crowd choruses pointing out the Illinoisan's baldness.
It's all very child-friendly in execution, rare for a promotion as renowned for its strong style showdowns as it is for its bloodbath World Title feuds, but in an almost sublime sense, being bald has provided Ricochet with career stability, and it's just as well he embraced the loss of his luscious locks.
Somehow simultaneously receding and overflowing, Ricochet's mane was very of its time, but unlike its very slightly less atrocious cousin, the mullet, nobody is trying to make it cool again.