10 Bizarre Times Wrestlers Experimented With Their Look

8. Otis

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Ongoing as of this writing, Otis has gone from charmingly grizzled and bearded babyface brawler, to completely shaven meathead to something between the two as he scrambles around in the dark for a look that suits his current character.

As a member of the Alpha Academy with Chad Gable, the shaved baby look sort of made sense. There was a services enlistment vibe to chopping off the long hair, and disappearing the beard seemed to serve as a way of making one of the roster's obvious nice guys look a little meaner. Seemingly nobody in WWE thought about simply not turning him heel in the first place, but we are where we are with that, and as usual Gable has done his best to make sense of the stupid.

Both of them deserve better, but Otis in particular perhaps looked on at his former partner's own horrendous reinvention on Monday Night Raw last year and thought better of speaking up. Somebody in that company was a total f*cker to poor old Tucker as if to remind the remaining Heavy Machinery man of his place in the pecking order.

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