Last Updated on March 15, 2024 by Avik Das
Look plays an important role in sports entertainment. For male Superstars, the gear, hairstyle, and attitude in the ring play key roles to make their characters interesting. With all those aspects, long-haired wrestlers and short-haired wrestlers can be seen in the ring, depending on the character.
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While it is common for Superstars to keep long hair to suit a character, it is not uncommon to see wrestlers without hair. There have many bald wrestlers who have done well in the squared circle. Several wrestlers with long hair as well as short hair have won the WWE Championship multiple times. Besides, the WWE Championship, some have also ended up winning the other active titles of the company, becoming grand slam champions.
Let’s find out the five best bald wrestlers in WWE history and five long haired wrestlers.
Updated On: 23 December 2023
5) Bald: Kurt Angle
Kurt Angle, the former Olympic gold medalist, was one of the greatest wrestlers ever to step foot in the WWE ring. He was literally a machine in the ring, given his amateur wrestling background. He was one of the first few wrestlers to bring the amateur wrestling style to professional wrestling.
Angle was one of the significant names of the company in the Attitude Era as well as the Ruthless Aggression Era. He headlined many pay-per-views of WWE in his heyday, including WrestleMania 19. Angle was a Grand Slam Champion, who became a World Champion five times. He also won other mid-card titles and the tag team titles. Although he had hair in the early days of his career, he became bald later.
5) Long Hair: Roman Reigns
The current face of WWE, Roman Reigns, has already established himself as a legend, and he still has many years left in his career. He has successfully replaced John Cena as the poster boy of the company. Reigns has attained unprecedented success in the past few years, headlining WrestleMania mainevents and winning numerous titles, including five World Titles. He is a three-time WWE Champion and a two-time Universal Champion. The Tribal Chief is also the reigning Universal Champion.
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From the initial years of his WWE career, he kept long hair. While he had long hair in the developmental brand, he also maintained the same during his Shield days. Even today, he has long hair and it is unlikely to change in the future, making home among the greatest long haired wrestlers.
4) Bald: Goldberg
Whether in WWE or WCW, Goldberg was simply an indomitable force. When the monstrous Superstar made his debut for WWE in 2003, he made an instant impact by defeating one of the biggest stars of the company, The Rock. He, eventually, had success as he won the World Heavyweight Championship. In his second stint, he ended up winning the Universal Title twice, with the recent run taking place in 2020.
Bill Goldberg never had hair from the beginning of his wrestling days. In fact, his bald look helped him to look like an intimidating monster.
4) Long Hair: Edge
Edge is a WWE Hall of Famer and he still wrestles after miraculously recovering from his career-threatening neck injury. The Rated R Superstar signed for WWE in 1996 wrestled fifteen years straight until announcing retirement in 2011. Even though he achieved a new height in the tag team division at first, his singles career flourished as a singles star later in. Edge captured the WWE Title four times while the World Heavyweight Title seven times, making him a record eleven-time World Champion.
Edge was one of the long haired wrestlers as young rookie on the WWE roster. When he started getting a singles push, his gimmick altered significantly but his hair length remained the same.
3) Bald: Kane ( Without Mask)
Well, Kane had two popular versions, one was with hair while the other one was bald. As a matter of fact, the masked Kane’s hair wasn’t real, and it was attached to his mask. In real life, the Devil’s favorite demon was bald, and it was certainly visible in the maskless Kane.
While the masked Kane created bone-chilling feelings whenever he entered the ring, the bald one without the mask wasn’t far away either. When he unveiled his real face, he had a stupendous run in the Ruthless Aggression Era. Kane was a Grand Slam champion and won the World Heavyweight Championship once. He would go down in history as one of the greatest big men in WWE.
3) Long Hair: Bret Hart
Bret Hart was regarded as one of the most influential figures in WWE in the 90s when he was a main event Superstar. Known as one of the greatest technical wrestlers of all time, Bret Hart was the face of the company in the New Generation Era. His career also flourished in WCW, where he won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship and spent the last couple of years of his wrestling career until hanging up his boots due to an injury.
The former Hart Foundation member was as successful as a tag team champion as well as a singles star. He not only headlined in numerous pay-per-views in the early and mid-90s but also won the WWE Championship five times. His feud with Shawn Michaels was one of the most intense rivalries in WWE history due to real-life heat. Meanwhile, Bret was one the famous long haired wrestlers because the fans never saw Bret Hart with short hair in his career. Even today, two decades after his retirement, he still has long hair.
2) Bald: Hulk Hogan
Although Hulk Hogan wasn’t fully bald, especially in the early days of his career, he started losing hair in the latter part of his career. As the Hollywood Hogan in WCW, he was bald on the front side of his skull and it didn’t change after his second arrival in WWE.
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Nevertheless, Hulk Hogan was one of the iconic names in WWE history, and he was the sole reason for the mainstream attention of professional wrestling in the early 90s. He won the World Title six times in his WWE career. Not to mention that he headlined almost every WrestleMania in the golden era.
2) Long Hair: Triple H
Triple H kept his hair long right from the start of his WWE career. Even before he signed for WWE, he was a guy with long hair in WCW. After being one of the long haired wrestlers for nearly two decades, he eventually chopped his hair. But since he was a wrestler with long hair in his prime and the majority of his career, he fits to be on this list.
The Game’s achievements are next to none in WWE. Regarded as one of the greatest heels of the business, Triple H dominated both the Attitude Era and Ruthless Aggression Era, and even a part of the PG Era. He won 14 World Titles in his career.
1) Bald: Stone Cold Steve Austin
Arguably the most popular name to grace the WWE ring, Stone Cold Steve Austin was the most successful bald guy to wrestle in WWE. He was the pioneer of the Attitude Era, helping WWE to reach an unprecedented height in terms of popularity. His charisma, promos, and carefree attitude were simply unmatched.The Texas Rattlesnake won seven World Titles before his early retirement due to an injury.
Stone Cold became one of the bald wrestlers on the roster from the start of his WWE career. He, however, had long blond hair when he was in WCW as well as ECW. Needless to say, having long hair didn’t work for him until the bald Austin became a megastar.
1) Long Hair: Shawn Michaels
Widely considered the best technical wrestler of all time, Shawn Michaels, was the best in-ring performer of his generation. The Heart Break Kid had a lengthy career, despite having five years of hiatus in between. He was a star not only in the New Generation Era but also the Attitude Era with DX and the Ruthless Aggression Era. He was the first Grand Slam Champion in WWE.
Michaels always was one of the long haired wrestlers even when he was in his early WWE days in the late 1980s. The fans can’t think of HBK without his signature long hair. When he retired against The Undertaker at Wrestle Mania 26, his hair length didn’t alter.
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Avik Das is the founder of Sportsheed. He is a sports lover with broad knowledge of Professional Wrestling, MMA, Football, and Cricket. He has an English major and has previously written articles for various sports and entertainment websites
