10 Bizarre Times Wrestlers Experimented With Their Look

5. Hulk Hogan

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It was fairly early into his run as 'Hollywood' that Hulk Hogan made this truly strange choice, but introducing a wig into a contest between two men notoriously protective of what little hair they had certainly made for a number of memorable visuals.

Hamming up just how big a !*$% he'd become in the short time the New World Order had been in existence, Hogan's poses with the fake 'do were insufferable enough that opponent Randy Savage generated an enormously positive response for the split second he tried it on.

A unique Halloween Havoc main event that had been booked a year out as an agreement with the venue, this Mega Powers explosion would have looked extremely different in 1995 while both were on the same side. By October 1996, the nWo were on a tear, and Savage was just another babyface barrier for them to barge over. The wig made Hogan look knowingly stupid, and his victory justified the early silliness.

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