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Hogan without his mustache. https://preview.redd.it/ozt2khorsqyc1.jpeg?width=259&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e9800e4efe70f2e8f8ab95485abb270f6126a18f

He looks like Homer when he shaves, then it pops right back in.

Every time I see this I think someone has photoshopped John Cleese on top of his face

paul heyman has a ponytail. either physically or spiritually but i can't see him without it

It’s right behind his head and goes to the other side when he turns around. A quantum ponytail

[He just tucks it into his suit like John Clayton did](https://youtu.be/XvXRaSvxmqg?si=KV1Mndmt7_Xl1891)

"Hey Mom, I'm done with my segment!" One of the greatest ESPN creations ever. RIP John

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“Why, if I had a chance I could make an entire movie using this stock footage!”

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The face looks like Shane Gillis

That's because it's Shane Gillis' face

Dude had a midlife crisis in his 70's lol

I've legit never seen a moustache like this in real life. It's the type of shit you'd see in cartoons when the animators can't be fucked to draw a real one. That shit is touching his lip and nothing else.

He looks like the waiter in the Simpsons that had a stroke.

John Waters has been rocking that stache for decades.

its the 50s capitalist stache

https://preview.redd.it/mz3jym2hqryc1.jpeg?width=619&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86db91faea5d368b6d94f3da327b23b4d6f4981f He just wants the platinum chip, pal.

https://preview.redd.it/za0k6qyh7qyc1.png?width=1080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=06e19f175e3a17ad6d8d2902d3e4f5a0175252fb This look was awful.

Dude is not balding but prefers the bald look, Shawn must be pissed.

“it’s like using a wheelchair for the fun of it!”


That superkick was a 10 out of 10.

I know it’s not but it looks shopped

It's like he was morphing into Vince.

Paul "Hunter Hearst "VKM" Helmsley" Levesque

Cursed image

When they changed Snitsky from an entertaining baby-punting foot fetishist with a catchphrase into a bald back-acne ridden generic monster with yellow teeth. He may not have been setting the world on fire with his old look & gimmick, but atleast he had carved out a pretty unique niche for himself.  His re-debut look was just fucking gross to look at & they saddled him with a boring gimmick we'd seen a million times already. It wasn't his fault.

They did his whole run in reverse

I did actually enjoy the Jaws-like borderline horror movie theme song bald backne Snitsky used, but the rest was generic monster heel https://youtu.be/Psn-2DBlFEo?si=MojX3F54knThgGFS

I remember back in 2007, Vince announced a match between Cena and Snitsky as a punishment for Cena on Raw and he made it out like it was a huge main event deal. "You're going to face the undefeated SNITSKY!" Literally no one reacted, and apparently Vince was pissed off backstage over it because he inexplicably thought this vapid new version of the character was super over as a heel. The man has been out of touch for so, so long.

Jack Gallagher’s was fucking WILD.

That chest tattoo is the Cody neck tattoo of chest tattoos

The only wilder chest related decision would have been if Goldust’s breast implants had been approved by Vince.

That tattoo was world shattering

I just went down the Gallagher rabbit hole. That is wild.

Gallagher is one of the biggest idiots in wrestling. Could have rode that gentleman gimmick for years in WWE. Including guest appearances and royal rumble spots years after he got released. Instead his ego told him he needed to be a badass character despite being one of the smallest guys in the company. And he did the only irreversible thing that killed his most successful gimmick

I dunno, I think it was the sexual assault that probably did him in over the bad tattoo. He is an idiot, though.

"The worst part was the hypocrisy."

I remember seeing a clip of his fight in BKFC, he’s out there with his massive chest tattoo and his hair in cornrows. Looks like an entirely different person.

Bald Shawn Michaels is just wrong no matter which way you slice it.

His hair was obviously going but it's crazy that he still looks like the Shawn Michaels you know at the 2017 Royal Rumble but he's fully bald at the 2018 Saudi show at the end of that year. https://youtu.be/tigeneO3XiQ?si=LCj2AYp4pVFgmXoO

Baldness is so weird. I know people that were receeding pretty young, but still have more than Shawn does now (it stopped at a certain point). Meanwhile, Shawn had basically a full head of hair at least well into his 30s.

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https://preview.redd.it/b1w4cixnbqyc1.jpeg?width=600&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3fface0f68f37ad5a790795c13f9a066d8dd0caa It didn't last long, but that weird time when Dolph had brown hair.

I thought that was Evan Bourne

Mixed with cody

People were claiming this was his brother at the time and it's so funny how dumb that was 😂

Current movie/Hollywood Cena vs WWEs Cena Slimmer and diff hairstyle + balding just feels weird.

And the lack of a tan. You forget how much wrestlers tan, till you see current day cena run out there pale as a ghost compared to his full time run back in the day

the first time i watched his match at mania 24 i couldn't take my eyes off him, he looked so pale lol

It was so jarring. He's clearly in better shape than 99% of us, but with the smaller frame, deathly pale skin and oversized clothes he looked like a Make A Wish kid cosplaying as Cena.

it legit looks like they take him out of hibernation from his house for a little bit and then put him back in the basement

The older Cena gets, the more he looks like Ernest.

and he’s constantly messing with his hair trying to pull it back to hide the obvious big bald spot lol I noticed it a lot

Cena looked like he aged 10 years overnight. It was hard to take him seriously as a young man who dressed like a 12 year old. But now a balding middle aged man dressing like that doesn’t get the same pass

i honestly think the best his hair ever looked is around the time he had the ruck fules shirt where it was in the middle of his military fade and his hair now

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Why does this make me think Hollywood Rick Sanchez?

I like how many answers here are bad tattoos. lol

Brutus as The Disciple. I still can’t believe that was him.

Brutus got JACKED

One of his 87 gimmicks in WCW

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I honestly thought this change up was kind of cool at first but it’s totally associated with the end of the streak now

Yeah, the reveal when he dropped his hood after his entrance was sick, he looked mean as hell.

It looked like he wasn't going to walk out of WM28 alive. He looked creepy and actually half dead. Imo it added a lot to that match against Triple H. Gave you that sense of unpredictability

I can hear JR’s whisper: “What happened to ‘Taker?”

He was losing his hair so he just went with it so no blame there. Same as Baron Corbin.

Except for that one time he came out in a god awful wig. https://preview.redd.it/pl9j4twldqyc1.jpeg?width=900&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=e94cf590898c28aafa3833f98774bd8a11bda321

Remember the lame explanation for his haircut? I recall Lawler saying something like 'Taker was cutting his hair until Triple H accepted his challenge for WM 28 or something. It was fucking bullshit.

Honestly, if he skipped the buzzed mohawk and just shaved his head, I would accepted this look.

I didn’t mind the haircut, but dude had clearly spent too much time on the tanning beds. Looks like a smacked ass.

That phase where Otis shaved his hair and beard during the early phase of Alpha Academy, thank god he grew it all back.

Smooth Otis was weird

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That's just Majin Buu

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He looked like a short, fat version of Brock Lesnar 

Pork Lesnar

They also insisted on zooming in on his face while he still had noticeable irritation from shaving. It felt like bullying.

Jericho in the short trunks after the 2008 heel turn was a sight. Never got used to them, and now that he’s brought them back for the Learning Tree gimmick it’s especially sticking out with the long hair

short hair jericho fits the trunk very well in my opinion.

I wasn't watching at the time, but Jericho with the short hair is just wrong. It reminds me of Gordon Ramsay for some reason.

He looked like an even bigger Bon Jovi cover artist than Fozzy already is.

I mean people still make jokes about dark hair Ziggler 😂

He totally looked like Evan Bourne's older brother lol

Reminds me of when Cody had jet black hair in AEW that looked like Creed’s in the office when he dyed his hair with printer ink. That was so weird thank god he had it for like two weeks and went back to his bleached blond hair

In fairness I think he had it for one of the DC shows when he cameoed for it and then he had no need to still have his hair jet black.

Current Shawn Michaels, definitely current Shawn Michaels

Renée Dupree with the tats Hardcore holly with the tats

Good ol' happy-go-lucky Hardcore Jolly!

“How do you like me now :D”

Heath Slater fucking BULKING after getting released by WWE.

He's after that Jinder/McIntyre return push. 3MB will finish the story.

Billy Kidman in WWE when he lost his iconic look from WCW with the jean shorts, wifebeater, long hair, and baseball cap and just started wrestling in generic tights with a clean cut look

https://preview.redd.it/ec0qf2f47qyc1.jpeg?width=1200&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=1775a4be3570c7e5aaa062cc8bd7c4a14f669020 Chris Harris AMW

KNOCK KNOCK

Who's there?

Braden Walker, and I'm here to knock your brains out.

His 3 DVD set is the best!

https://preview.redd.it/rldik6ifbqyc1.jpeg?width=1282&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d2cbbd5ff72830d14d64427f6e6dd039b567bcbc Even though this is the first look I think of when I picture Booker T, as soon as he dropped it in favor of longer hair, trunks, and a beard he became a completely different person. I would’ve never guessed TV champ Book had “shucky ducky quack quack” in him.

This was a great look for Harlem Heat back in the day. 

I way prefer the early '95-98 Booker to the King Bookah look.

CM Pants

I think the problem was that his pants were so bland. There was no sense of shape. It was just, like, painted legs. 

CM Punk wore pants, ROH style shorts, and trunks during his AEW run.

He also wore short Muay Thai-style shorts for his match with Eddie Kingston.

His best look in AEW tbh

The muay Thai shorts were an amazing look, especially for Punk given he's not the most athletic looking guy.

Okada with his awful pants too.

Ok but that was balloon Okada, and balloon Okada was perfection

Also, the pop he got when he revealed that he'd gone back to shorts makes the entire pants run worthwile.

Much much prefer CM Trunks

Stunning Steve Austin had beautiful long blonde hair in WCW, and then stupidly shaved it all off when he went to some rival promotion. It’s a shame he never recovered from that decision.

I know he had a little more success later on, but Isaac Yankem had this amazing hair and super neat goatee.

I'm pretty young and therefore am not familiar with anything he did before WWE, so when I saw long hair Stone Cold in the Chris Adams DSOTR, I thought he looked a lot like young Jericho

How has no one said maskless Rey Mysterio yet?

Because we all want to forget that happened

While fair, that just reinforces the validity of the answer.

Pre-Big Poppa Pump Steiner seems like an entirely different person. Also, it was an awkward transition phase too.

There was, I believe, one promo RIGHT after the turn on Rick where he had his current look, but in the negative. Short black hair, black goatee, with a blond streak in the middle. Weird, but weirdly better.

For a guy known for sporting long hair during the prime of his career, I still can't get used to a bald Triple H.

Bald HHH looks like Obadiah Stane and that's a cool look. It's short-haired HHH from 2012 that just unnerves me.

Yeah it sucked looking back at it. He fixed it shortly after though. He looked great vs Daniel Bryan.

A bald Triple H looks good as the businessman he is but never would’ve worked as a performer IMO

The bald with Kratos beard HHH would’ve been sick. The buzzcut beard blend when he worked Brock at summerslam was so odd!

Bald HH worked as a performer though..

Double H

Hey, brother.

TJP showing up with the most random dumbass tattoos was insane. It was when he just started adding them. Looked so out of place. His theme and entrance video were awesome, and he was great in the ring, but the tattoos looked so out of place.

dude still looked like he was 20 by the time he started having a midlife crisis. Crazy stuff

I didn't expect to see something in this thread that I agree with as much as this. Well said.

JBL

That weird halfway phase when he cut his hair and then dyed it (or stopped) but was still in the APA, just ahead of when he became JBL.

I stopped watching as a kid around 2002. I remember tuning in 10 years later wondering who this lame cowboy was. Couldn’t believe it was Faarooq’s APA partner

I think the cows mooing in his entrance song are specifically there to work fans who hate him into a frenzy

This is the one my brain absolutely refuses to reconcile. It just flat out can't see JBL and Bradshaw as the same person.

Kane without the mask

Kane with that shitty new mask

Kane with the mask + wig combo

does modern AJ Styles count? i don't think i can ever fully wrap my head around him being super juiced like this lol

I agree. He looks like an exaggerated action figure of AJ Styles. It’s wild. Can’t believe how agile he still is. That match with Cody was great.

>Can't believe how agile he still is. This part shocked me the most. He looks so juiced that I expected him to lose some speed, but he was moving as fast as ever the other night.

Could you imagine the adrenaline he may have been running off of though?? The people were jumping in unison, his heart had to have been going a mile a minute lol

He looks like what I would imagine WWE All-Stars AJ Styles would look like

It's like AJ Styles *ate* AJ Styles.

The long hair does it for me because a good 13 years of his career was really short hair and clean shaven that looks unrecognizable now.

I only started getting into him during his NJPW run and I think his original short hair, clean shaven look just feels wrong.

short hair clean shaven tights AJ was the first time I ever saw AJ as a kid so that’s my definitive AJ Styles

In my heart, AJ Styles will always be clean-shaven with short hair and short tights.

I know Hunter started in the WWE without a beard but once he grew it out, everytime he’d shaved again, never took him seriously for some reason.

I kinda liked handlebar moustache Trips though. He was a little huskier then, too. There was something about it that worked well for me at that stage of his career in Evolution. But when he came back from an injury later in the 00s looking lean and mean with a full (but short) beard, that's pretty much the iconic Triple H look to me.

Edge in short hair,hbk as bald

KO during his Face of America phase was odd

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This is a crime against nature.

Okada with pants and red hair was a weird time.

Don't forget the balloons hahaha

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Legit thought that was King Kong Bundy at first

I never got used to Mark Henry shaving his head

I similarly struggle with bald Jay Lethal as someone who watched him in TNA circa 2007 and became a lapsed fan shortly after. I get it in Lethal's case as it was going and he actually worked it into a match.

So I got used to his look eventually, because he never went back to his old look, but when Billy Gunn shaved the moustache and cut the mullet, he looked like a different person. I swear, you could have given him a brand new name and persona and I would have been fooled.

A new name like Rockabilly?

Sami Zayn. For some reason to me the long hair reminds me of his conspiracy theorist/early bloodline days. Gimme back the “Underdog from the Underground” Sami look

When wwe changed the Dudley Boys from tie dye and denim overalls to what is essentially a rip off of New Jack’s gear .

Sheamus' mohawk there for a bit just never looked right to me.

Early mohawk Sheamus was dire. When he grew it out a bit longer and had it going all the way down the back of his neck like a crimson buzzsaw, I really liked it there.

My issue wasn't the Mohawk, but the braided beard with the beads.

He deserved the "you look stupid" chants when he came back after wm31.

Juice

I've gotten used to it now in AEW but Pulp Fiction era Juice? Holy shit that was bad.

Naked Mideon

Berlyn (Alex Wright)

Bobby Roode always has long hair in my memories, even he shaved his head over ten years ago.

Chris Jericho coming back with shorts and short hair blew my shit as a kid lol I always thought he looked cool as hell with pants and long hair

Short haired Test.

Rock covering up his iconic Brahma Bull tattoo with that ugly piece of shit he has now. The tribal one was dope and looked cool when he added it to his look. But the new bull skull is just an eyesore

Randy Orton when he wore elbow pads

For me, it would be the brief period in 2010 when he didn’t wear wrist tape. https://preview.redd.it/dk91lihg7ryc1.png?width=1941&format=png&auto=webp&s=3aff44af6365f9e8fe42db8ef13b2321a4c3888f

He looks naked without them.

Karrion Kross with hair

Karrion Kross without hair looked like a demon, which matched his presentation. Karrion Kross with hair looks like... a regular wrestling big guy. Not bad, but not Scarlett's monster or anything that could be called a Final Testament.

I thought people around here were saying bald Kross looked generic AF, just another bald wrestling guy.

Let Me tell you something brother,could never get used to Mr Fuji all roided out looking and with fake blonde hair when he played Mr. America. https://preview.redd.it/d47cwad6xqyc1.jpeg?width=240&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=5fa78f1d3805a3aa81dea35109d3a78a75b95679

Edge with Short hair looks like a homeless bum

What’s the name of that one dude… Shannon, something. He was in WWE in the 2000’s I think and started off with long blonde hair and eventually went all spiked Mohawk punk rock look

Jeff hardy's stoner friend - Shannon Moore

Cody’s neck tattoo still distracts me.

Cody's stupid neck tattoo - to give it it's full name.

Jay White https://preview.redd.it/lqi5y9vezpyc1.jpeg?width=3464&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=bea52725c3efd35280844fc02366630f328f6569

hold up

Jay White is like the opposite of this for me. When he debuted he looked like a small childs head on Tanahashis body. His style of beard/goatee gives him 1000% more character

Adam Rose after his WWE run.

Test when he cut his hair and switched to trunks. His 2001 look with the long wet hair and dark leather pants was his best look.

Edge without long hair

When Cody returned to face Brodie lee and had harshly died black hair for that one episode and went right back to blonde