Ranking What Was Really The Best Wrestling Attire Every Year 1990-2021

20. 2002 - Kurt Angle

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2002 was the year in which Kurt Angle ramped up the intensity aspect of those old, endearing Three I's.

He always looked like a legitimate wrestler - because he was the most legitimate wrestler there ever was - and his old glory colour palette was fabulously inspired in how it was a deluded heel bit masquerading as a passé babyface characteristic.

The red white n' blue singlet effectively married the ideas of blowhard and super-worker, but when he shaved his head in 2002, he evolved into a much better performer: he had abandoned the chipper veneer and mutated into a sh*t-kicker so terrifying that some reckoned he was even more intense than career opponent Chris Benoit.

 
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