8 Wrestlers Who Actually Looked MUCH Better BALD

2. Kurt Angle

Kurt Angle was a bald man in denial by the time WWE incorporated his final clipping into a storyline; he worked, unsuccessfully, a Hair vs. Hair match opposite Edge at 2002's Judgment Day, and after some back-and-forth over the Olympian's receding hairline, Kurt left Nashville a few grams lighter.

It was a blessing in disguise for Angle. After failed attempts at concealing his partial nakedness with a faux hairpiece, Kurt embraced his skull. Match quality skyrocketed in everybody's eyes apart from Dave Meltzer, and that rang twofold when Kurt changed addresses in 2006 and moved to TNA. He became Jeff Jarrett's focal attraction, putting more eyes on the company than there had ever been, while his streak of matches and angles between his '06 arrival and his 2009 Impact Zone peak are still as fondly discussed today as they were at the time of original broadcast.

Kurt had been in desperate need of ditching his follicles long before WWE mandated it, but nobody could have forecast the booming impact an all-over number one would have on his career, both as a wrestler and as a meme.