10 Bizarre Times Wrestlers Experimented With Their Look
3. Dolph Ziggler
A legendarily bad downgrade from a time where such steps were thought necessary in the act of getting over, Dolph Ziggler's trimming and recolouring of his long blonde locks only served to shock fans into silence and Ziggler himself into a state of unwelcome seriousness.
Debuting the look against Evan Bourne on an April 2011 Monday Night Raw didn't help. The pair looked more like brothers than opponents, which only heightened the rather pressing concern that 'The Show Off' had only made himself more generic with the move.
Ziggler at least clocked on that it wasn't working, and quickly fought to get his old style back. Tweeting in 2020 about it, he wasn't shy about placing blame on the machine for this particularly odd call. He noted then that;
“The cut wasn’t random, the fact that being told short hair would make me more credible, instead of occasionally winning matches, was the weird part.”
It's a pity for the former World Heavyweight Champion that the next decade's worth of wins were only occasional too.