10 Wrestlers Who Benefited From Looking Incredibly Stupid

6. Cody's Moustache

From a loss of hair to the strategic gaining of it. In 2012, Cody Rhodes was somewhat adrift. His dashing gimmick was spent, and the deranged man-in-the-mask (a close contender to making this list) had played itself out. His identity was solely dependant on being Intercontinental champion and when he lost the belt he lost the last vestige of who he was. He remained a talented competitor but was lacking a tangible connection with the fans. Cody Rhodes formed a new tag team with Damien Sandow, The Rhodes Scholars, but Sandow was taking the lion's share of the spotlight with his clearly defined Intellectual Saviour of the Unwashed Masses gimmick. Then injury struck. Cody needed to use this time off to re-invent himself, to painstakingly dissect his appeal and calculate the most effective way to establish his character and his brand with the WWE audience. He grew a moustache. And it worked. Within moments of his reappearance, the crowd began to chant "Cody's Moustache clap-clap-clapclapclap." They had something with which to mock Cody, and they leapt on it. Rhodes became the delusional heel, calling his lip rat a 'lovestache', printing t-shirts with moustaches on them and taking pride in the face that his facial hair definitely didn't make him look like Tom Selleck's pervert son. By Money in the Bank 2013, he was one of the most over superstars on the card.