It’s not a good look, bald, for John Cena, but his follically-fuelled transformation was at least founded on bettering his life:
“I saw their signs that said, ‘The bald John Cena.’ They pushed me into going to see what my options were. I now have a routine: red-light therapy, minoxidil, vitamins, shampoo, conditioner, and I also got a hair transplant last November. I hate the fact that if there wasn’t so much shame around it, I’d have gotten it done ten years ago. I thought I was alone, but seven or eight out of ten [men] suffer from thinning or baldness.”
Hair is everything to everybody still blessed with the option of growing out their luscious locks, perhaps more so in pro wrestling than any other public-facing industry. On the subject of WWE’s star player being mocked and, without sounding dramatic, cyberbullied for his slowly departing follicles, you wouldn’t dish out the same coarseness to a Starbucks barista, just like you wouldn’t bellow the childish comment of “BALDY!” to a hairless doctor who was inspecting your prostate.
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If you would, then please seek help.
Back to pro wrestling, though, a business where bald isn’t always beautiful, but when it is, it’s a license to print money…
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