10 Wrestlers Who Benefited From Looking Incredibly Stupid

7. "You're Bald"

Kurt Angle is an Olympic hero and remains to this day, one of the best technicians of his generation. He also went through one of the greatest character transitions of all time, debuting as an uptight, pompous self-promoting prude, before slowly turning into The Wrestling Machine, a ferocious in-ring force of bone-breaking, suplexing intensity. The lynchpin of that turn? He got shaved bald. Looking back, you could already see that Kurt Angle was losing the ironman match against his hairline. Evidently, he made the call to change his look and the WWE thought, 'well we might as well get a match out of this' and placed him in a, rarely seen at that time, Hair vs Hair match against longtime rival Edge. One small package later, and this happens: https://youtu.be/6JrXBjx5bwo?t=381 Edge immediately did Angle a favour by encouraging the crowd to chant 'You're Bald' at him, modifying the standard "You Suck" chant that paired so well with his theme music. What followed was weeks of Angle pretending not to be as bald as the crowd chanted he was, fashioning wigs to his skull with headgear and refusing to let anyone see, or even acknowledge, his chrome dome. Finally, he was exposed and after the dust had settled, Kurt Angle had given himself a sleeker, more aggressive look whilst successfully losing none of the pomposity that has made him great. Over time, as the fans' appreciation for his wrestling ability grew and grew he was able to shed more and more of his weedy persona and become the Wrestling Machine that sorely deserved one more run in the WWE.