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Gilberg will always be my favorite joke gimmick in wwe history. Duane Gill deserves more respect imo. Aside from being the amazing wrestler he is, he also coached a little league team that went to and won the little league World Series!
Jay Lethal's Macho gimmick was cool, fans really loved it but when he started impersonating Ric Flair & feuding with him, on the mic & in the ring, it elivaited Lethals character work even more
The funny thing about both Taker and Palumbo's biker run was that both were accused of copying someone else. Taker was accused of copying DOA when in reality that's just Mark's lifestyle outside of the ring and Chuck being accused of copying American Badass when he owns a motorcycle shop and builds them. So really it's not a gimmick for neither men just their real life selves.
I came across TNA when surfing through channels and the thing that me made invested in TNA was Jay Lethal's Black Machismo gimmick and I was instantly hooked.
Even my mom was like "That ain't the real guy! Who's THIS faker?" when we first saw the Renegade back then. Fun Fact- Super Macho Man from the Punch-Out!! games was based on Superstar Billy Graham.
From what I understand is Taker and Chainz were cousins. A lot of the American Badass persona encompassed much of Taker's real personality along the lines Glenn Jacob's Corporate Kane.
Aaaaahhhhhh, but it was Chainz that did the mimicking first!!! Remember the Under-faker from Summerslam '94? That was Chainz! So nee ner nee ner neee ner! LOL
Real talk though, Gillberg is an amazing person in real life, and is never dull when he comes down the ramp. Also, so proud of Glenn for overcoming the joke character of Fake Diesel and becoming a first-pick Hall of Famer in Kane.
Was fake diesel a little before or a little after Isaac Yankem DDS? One of a long line of failed rivals for Bret Hart. Thank god for Owen, Shawn Michaels and Stone Cold... Or Brets best rival might have been Dangerous Danny Davis
What about the "You stole my gimmick, so I'm stealing yours!" dance between Mark Callaway and Brian Lee? Brian Lee was "The Underfaker" for Ted Dibiase before becoming biker "Prime Time" Brian Lee in ECW. A few years later, The Undertaker (Callaway) returned from surgery with an "Under Biker" American Badass gimmick....his ring gear looked an awful lot like....you guessed it...Brian Lee's!
@FartDonkey how isn't it? Brian Lee was also apart of DOA in the WWE with the bikes. But they were friends and Taker and Lee rode bikes together in real life. Same with Crush Brian Adams. So it wasn't so much stealing the gimmick. Take became himself
It was never meant to be taken literally but all in fun! Calloway and Lee are friends and probably had laughs about their gimmick switch behind the scenes!
Can't believe you guys missed Will Sasso the actor who played curly in The Three Stooges movie and his hilarious in ring impersonation of Stone Cold Steve Austin calling out Chris Jericho then coming face to face with the real Stone Cold and getting the stunner after "sharing" a beer with Austin
Really Billy Graham? I knew he was a famous evangelist and wrote a lot of books, but I never knew he gave Hulk his gimmick. Truly a man of many talents.
I wish WWE would've just went all in on Axel and Sandow being tag team impersonators after the Hogan scandal. Every week they come out dressed as a different tag team with gimmicky names to match, like one week they're Axel and Smashdow, the next Damien "Hitdow" Hart and Curt "The Axel" Neidhart.
Actually, Axelmania started at the Royal Rumble because he was never eliminated from the Royal Rumble and was therefore dubbing himself the winner. Then he'd pick up a few wins, before the Meta Powers were made.
Jay Lethal doing Ric Flair . . . How could you not include that ?!? Work or shoot, Flair's reaction to it was priceless. Especially one time where Flair was beside himself that Lethal wouldn't stop in a face-to-face Flair battle.
mark Mero in WCW was Johnny B. Badd which is a gimmick infringement of rockr and roll legend Little Richard. That was a fun one. He was always losing until he finally got his first win which was popular at the time.
I dont think Ryback was a copy of Goldberg. In WCW when most matches were star vs jobber 173 wasn't that impressive, till around 100 he won gold. Ryback had tougher competition and he had to same intensity but different move set. The Goldberg storyline only works once, just like the nWo.
Undertaker wasn't the first biker in WWF/WWE there was a 4 man biker group known as Disciples of Apocalypse consisting of Crush , Chainz , 8 Ball and Skull .
This channel earned ALOT of respect, bringing up Hogan and Superstar. So many of the wrestling sites on YT act like the 70s never even existed. The only miss was not including Scott Steiner and Jesse Ventura as Superstar ripoffs
The difference between the Nature Boys is that Ric Flair was beyond the effortless, and he was always flawless with going from face to heel while never dropping the title first. The problem with Hogan verses Graham is that Graham actually was denied a face turn, which was the root of why Graham had issues with Hogan. Ryback was lackluster at best... and had a ego overgrown past the push he was getting. All Savage imitations have been flattery. Last but not least, the fake "Razor and Diesel" were deliberate to remind the fans that those were characters, not the real men themselves.
Remember watching week in week out Dwayne Gill turn up with his mate Barry Hardy as the whipping boys for the talent it was fantastic to see him actually get given a character and Gillberg was hilarious.
I love how people say Ryback was ripping Goldberg off simply because he's a muscular dude who us bald, like wtf? Is that the entirety of your claim? He didn't do his moveset, didn't dress like him, talk like him, didn't use any if Goldbergs mannerisms... if you're gonna say he imitated Goldberg just because he's a big bald guy, you'd have to say that about every superstar who is just that. I don't like Ryback, but this Goldberg comparison is so stupid
I always felt bad for The Renegade, whose real name was Rick Wilson. None of that was his fault. He was actually a male stripper, who was looking to change career paths & make more money (I know the latter was his main driving motivator). He didn’t know much about the business & Bitch-Off, with the rest of the guys running WCW at the time, took advantage of him pretty badly. Should’ve never happened, and should’ve been taken off TV & repackaged. He didn’t _ask_ for _any_ of that! Then…when it all fell apart, he got severely depressed. He suffered from Depression pretty badly, as is reported at least. But, we _do_ know, for a _fact,_ low he had some level of depression. Why? Because Rick unalived himself, by way of gunshot to the head. He was hitting financial strife due to not working, & nobody else made him any offers. Bitch-Off’s arrogance & nativity pretty much killed that poor guy. Renegade (Rick Wilson) was only 33-years old. This happened in 1999. So, it didn’t take all too long, after Warrior showed up in ‘98; & this heartbreaking & tragic life ended.
Hogan didn't do the tie died bit in his prime (84-93) Flair clear cut stole from Rogers but Hogan didn't directly steal from Superstar but was maybe inspired or influenced by.
Anyone else here an adult now that grew up through the 90s/00s and much prefer watching things like this about wrestling than tuning into RAW or a pay per view to actually watching wrestling?
I met Buddy a couple times in Knoxville in the 90s. He was old school kayfabe trying to talk to me like I thought it was real. He was one of my favorites on the mic though. Hilarious promos
Know what I noticed? Whenever Vince McMahon learns of the background of the people he brings in. He always tries to incorporate that part of their background into their gimmicks and it horribly fails. So if anyone wants to get into the pro wrestling career and you meet Vince you better come up with something badass already to go before he picks your gimmick for you. I've always found that when people come up with the weirdest, disturbing social outcast, zealot, gothic gimmicks they tend to do fairly well with it if they fully believe it with time and creative effort.
I remember a match at Summer Slam or Backlash I think 2000 or 2001 where Big Show came out dressed as Hulk Hogan to his music and had a match with Kurt Angle as "the Showster" . Even Jerry Lawler said on comms Big Show did Hulk Hogan better than Hulk Hogan. He even took the mic routine off brilliantly calling everyone "dude" & "brother" & a "what ya gonna do, when the Showster goes wild on you" and did the Hogan voice. The match didn't last long as once Big Show had had enough of playing & Angle got on his nerves, he ripped his wig off and choke slammed Angle to finish the match.
Fun facts: 1, Scott Steiner's "Big Poppa Pump" character was also a rip off of Superstar Billy Graham as was Jesse "the Body" Ventura. 2, Nature Boy Buddy Rogers literally left the hospital to drop the WWWF title to Bruno Sammartino. At the time, Rogers was dealing with heart trouble, which is why he dropped the title. 3, Jay Lethal also did a realy good impression of Ric Flair. 4, Demolition was a rip off of the Road Warriors.
@@stevegallo8483 OK. Go watch the Strike Force vs Demolition match at WrestleMania 4. (Where Demolition win their first Tag Championship). Now, ask yourself this...if we replace Ax and Smash with Animal and Hawk, and do the exact same match, same finish, would that be a match the Road Warriors would have had?
The Renegade was tragic if you ask me. As much as he was a rip off they CLEARLY stated he was not the ultimate Warrior. Plus the Warrior told WCW to knock it off and they killed his push.... which also led to Renegades death
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Can you give us the chris benoit story please?
Controversial wrestling gimmicks like Muhammad Hassan and Sgt Slaughter the Iraqi sympathiser
We need the year in review: 2000
most on this list like Fake Razor Roman and gillberg were parody!
No Gimmicks needed the Chris Candido story
Gilberg will always be my favorite joke gimmick in wwe history. Duane Gill deserves more respect imo. Aside from being the amazing wrestler he is, he also coached a little league team that went to and won the little league World Series!
Gilberg would lay the smack down on Goldberg. Gilberg > Goldberg.
Goldberg is pro wrestling AIDS. watching that squash match vs Lesnar made me cry
Gillberg was a much better wrestler than Goldberg.
That’s what’s so funny
@@jefftaylor1186 no kidding Gillberg was trained Greenberg was just a beast.
HaHa gilburg was nothing more than a joke .he couldnt lay tge smack down on a rubber woman
Jay Lethal's Macho gimmick was cool, fans really loved it but when he started impersonating Ric Flair & feuding with him, on the mic & in the ring, it elivaited Lethals character work even more
We are truly blessed to be able to see Lethals career. He's so underrated
Black Machismo was awesome. And then the “Woooo” off he had with Flair was classic
I forgot about that , it was fantastic 🤟
HAMBURGER
@@joestone2579 find another adjective
The funny thing about both Taker and Palumbo's biker run was that both were accused of copying someone else. Taker was accused of copying DOA when in reality that's just Mark's lifestyle outside of the ring and Chuck being accused of copying American Badass when he owns a motorcycle shop and builds them. So really it's not a gimmick for neither men just their real life selves.
Nothing beats Jay Lethal. Legendary. Macho Man and Flair impressions were amazing.
I came across TNA when surfing through channels and the thing that me made invested in TNA was Jay Lethal's Black Machismo gimmick and I was instantly hooked.
Life and Times of a mark
He did a spot on impersonation of Macho and Flair
@@Jamessmith-xk3fh
Yes
His Flair and Savage are Awesome!!
@@Jamessmith-xk3fh I thought he was the son of MachoMan back then
The WOOO off between Jay Lethal and Ric Flair is Legendary!
Even my mom was like "That ain't the real guy! Who's THIS faker?" when we first saw the Renegade back then.
Fun Fact- Super Macho Man from the Punch-Out!! games was based on Superstar Billy Graham.
figured that much
Really? I thought Super Macho Man was inspired by "Macho Man" Randy Savage? At least the name. Had the physique of Lex Luger maybe too.
They forgot about Randy Hogan. A skinny Hulk Hogan in WCW. He always loss 😂
Randy never trained, said his prayers, took his vitamins, or truly believed in himself🤣
Damien Sandow as MIZDOW was funny af. I'm not ashamed to admit, he had me cracking up most weeks.
Yeah me too, it was actually pretty funny.
Undertakers biker gimmick was near identical to Chainz who rode his bike to the ring and wore a bandana. Surprised you never mentioned him!
From what I understand is Taker and Chainz were cousins. A lot of the American Badass persona encompassed much of Taker's real personality along the lines Glenn Jacob's Corporate Kane.
Don’t do that 🤦🏻♂️😂
Aaaaahhhhhh, but it was Chainz that did the mimicking first!!! Remember the Under-faker from Summerslam '94? That was Chainz! So nee ner nee ner neee ner! LOL
It was the drizzling shits, Undertaker is the best character ever. When I was a kid I would check under my bed for the Undertaker, not the Boogeyman.
I don’t know who that guy is but I do know who Chuck Palumbo is and he had the biker gimmick before undertaker
Real talk though, Gillberg is an amazing person in real life, and is never dull when he comes down the ramp. Also, so proud of Glenn for overcoming the joke character of Fake Diesel and becoming a first-pick Hall of Famer in Kane.
From hall of Fame wrestler, to trump mark fail human
Was fake diesel a little before or a little after Isaac Yankem DDS? One of a long line of failed rivals for Bret Hart. Thank god for Owen, Shawn Michaels and Stone Cold... Or Brets best rival might have been Dangerous Danny Davis
@@snerdterguson fake diesel was after Isaac Yankem. The fake diesel gimmick was the last one he had before becoming Kane.
@@CNYKnifeNutWhat's your favorite flavor of window?
Lethal as Savage was the absolute best. his Flair impression was also brilliant
Some people think Gilberg was disrespectful to Goldberg. Personally I always found it hilarious! 🤣
I preferred Gilberg to Goldberg 😂
Gilbert was much more entertaining. Made me laugh so much over the years.
I found Goldberg disrespectful to wrestling
Oh boy...the Goldberg haters are out full force.
What about the "You stole my gimmick, so I'm stealing yours!" dance between Mark Callaway and Brian Lee? Brian Lee was "The Underfaker" for Ted Dibiase before becoming biker "Prime Time" Brian Lee in ECW. A few years later, The Undertaker (Callaway) returned from surgery with an "Under Biker" American Badass gimmick....his ring gear looked an awful lot like....you guessed it...Brian Lee's!
Not true
@FartDonkey how isn't it? Brian Lee was also apart of DOA in the WWE with the bikes. But they were friends and Taker and Lee rode bikes together in real life. Same with Crush Brian Adams. So it wasn't so much stealing the gimmick. Take became himself
It was never meant to be taken literally but all in fun! Calloway and Lee are friends and probably had laughs about their gimmick switch behind the scenes!
Can't believe you guys missed Will Sasso the actor who played curly in The Three Stooges movie and his hilarious in ring impersonation of Stone Cold Steve Austin calling out Chris Jericho then coming face to face with the real Stone Cold and getting the stunner after "sharing" a beer with Austin
Does a mean Jesse Ventura.
His venture is scary good.love it
@@Spongemonkey26 I heard him do it down in the Baja.
Jay Lethal: The Number One Macho Man behind the original! He nailed it perfectly! And his Ric Flair!?! Even Flair was impressed by it!
It's hilarious how much Jay lethal looked like macho man in the entrance gear
Really Billy Graham? I knew he was a famous evangelist and wrote a lot of books, but I never knew he gave Hulk his gimmick. Truly a man of many talents.
I wish WWE would've just went all in on Axel and Sandow being tag team impersonators after the Hogan scandal. Every week they come out dressed as a different tag team with gimmicky names to match, like one week they're Axel and Smashdow, the next Damien "Hitdow" Hart and Curt "The Axel" Neidhart.
kind of like what Charlie Haas did
@@CharizardMaster69 Exactly
ECW had Stevie Richards and the Blue Meanie doing that gimmick ultimately culminating into the BWO.
Actually, Axelmania started at the Royal Rumble because he was never eliminated from the Royal Rumble and was therefore dubbing himself the winner. Then he'd pick up a few wins, before the Meta Powers were made.
Jay Lethal doing Ric Flair . . . How could you not include that ?!? Work or shoot, Flair's reaction to it was priceless. Especially one time where Flair was beside himself that Lethal wouldn't stop in a face-to-face Flair battle.
It was a one off as cool as it was
Because Lethal as Macho Man was way better
By your logic anyone who rides a motorcycle is ripping off the undertaker.
Nature Boy is the best copycat gimmick imo!
Hands down.
Flair is the most overrated wrestler I've ever seen!
@@Dr._P._Enis you said Flair I said Nature Boy
@@Dr._P._Enis that's good to know 😄
@@Dr._P._Enis Flair put over the most wrestlers in WWF history, so I'd say he's not rated enough.
Jay Lethal's Macho Man was spot-on, hands down the best impersonation.
Jay lethal as Black Machismo was perfect! He took a bad idea and made it work!
Gilberg was such a fun character!
mark Mero in WCW was Johnny B. Badd which is a gimmick infringement of rockr and roll legend Little Richard. That was a fun one. He was always losing until he finally got his first win which was popular at the time.
Johnny B Badd was a great character. Vince ruined Mero when he went to WWF.
@@fixpacifica Yeah because that flamboyant Johnny B Badd gimmick would have killed in the WWF in '96, '97, '98...
I still remember on one Raw where they screwed up on the match announcement screen and it said “Wildman MERO Mero.”
I dont think Ryback was a copy of Goldberg. In WCW when most matches were star vs jobber 173 wasn't that impressive, till around 100 he won gold. Ryback had tougher competition and he had to same intensity but different move set. The Goldberg storyline only works once, just like the nWo.
Chuck’s biker gimmick was amazing
Shawn Michaels Hogan promo was legendary 😂
I'm surprised you didn't give an honorable mention to Abyss ripping off a Kane/Mankind hybrid.
Its more kane than mankind
and technically abyss was around that same period he was just an independent
Do your research! Abyss was definitely around at the same time.
Damian Sandow was a gem, i heard he retired recently
He's playing Elias now in wwe
I mean pro wrestling will always rely on the OG gimmicks...and will also try to copy them...thanks for the awesome video as always Andy 🔥🔥👌🏻
It was funny how Vince had Jim Ross introduce fake Diesel and Ramon as if it was his idea. Nah Vince, we all knew it was you bro 🤣
I think the reasoning was that Ross was from WCW as well.
Undertaker wasn't the first biker in WWF/WWE there was a 4 man biker group known as Disciples of Apocalypse consisting of Crush , Chainz , 8 Ball and Skull .
I liked Chuck's biker gimmick. He looked amazing and I loved it
You forgot Jay Lethal's Ric Flair. That one is spot on too and hilarious!
You missed shark boy. His stone cold impression deserved to be right after Jay lethal
And that's the fishing line because shark boy says so.
I've never actually heard that "genius steals" quote, but it's so true. It goes all the way back to Shakespeare. :p
When Jay Lethal did the Nature Boy Impression it was undoubtedly the best ever.....
This channel earned ALOT of respect, bringing up Hogan and Superstar. So many of the wrestling sites on YT act like the 70s never even existed. The only miss was not including Scott Steiner and Jesse Ventura as Superstar ripoffs
I remember one time, Edge broke down who Ric Flair stole every piece of his gimmick from on air.
How can you leave out Jay Lethal’s Ric Flair impersonation?!
3:45 Number 8,
Asya.
There was also Midnight, she was like the black version of Chyna, she teamed with Booker T.
It's criminal that Gillberg is not in the Halll of Fame. 🤪😆🤣
Actually, the fake Razor Ramon and Diesel gimmick cracked me up.
Gillberg trying to spear China and didn't even make her budge was one of the funniest moments ever he literally bounce off of her🤣🤣
The difference between the Nature Boys is that Ric Flair was beyond the effortless, and he was always flawless with going from face to heel while never dropping the title first.
The problem with Hogan verses Graham is that Graham actually was denied a face turn, which was the root of why Graham had issues with Hogan.
Ryback was lackluster at best... and had a ego overgrown past the push he was getting.
All Savage imitations have been flattery.
Last but not least, the fake "Razor and Diesel" were deliberate to remind the fans that those were characters, not the real men themselves.
Remember watching week in week out Dwayne Gill turn up with his mate Barry Hardy as the whipping boys for the talent it was fantastic to see him actually get given a character and Gillberg was hilarious.
Barry Horowitz u mean?
I never understood the Ryback/Goldberg comparison. Wow he's big and bald, so rare.
People said Goldberg was a Stone Cold ripoff.
Somehow when Rick Bogner played Razor Ramon, he looked even more drunk than Scott Hall ever was.
gillberg was always one of my favorite things of the attitude era. PUT THE MAN IN THE HALL OF FAME.
You say undertaker...I'm sitting here thinking....no....that's slash lol
I did not know hogan was not original. It makes me love ultimate warrior and macho man even more now
Yeah, he was Sterling Golden in the GCW and AWA....He also ripped of Jessie Ventura's gimmick
Honorable mention of Asuka and Tajiri who tiptoe the line of paying homage to and copying The Great Muta?
To all the people saying Ryback wasnt a Goldberg rip-off: HE LITERALLY CAME OUT TO GOLDBERGS ENTRANCE THEME IN THE BEGINNING
Jay Lethal does a really good Rik Flair. Check out the Whooo off between the two from TNA
Fun fact. Gillberg debuted in WCW against Chris Jericho.
I associate Pulmbo's biker gimmick with his real life interests over Taker 2.0
Parody shouldn’t be considered infringement
You skipped Mark Calloway doing a cheap knock off of Chainz.
You forgot Sharkboy ripping off Stone Cold. And some might even say Samoa Joe is a mini knockoff of Yokozuna.
Are you drunk. Joe and Yokozuna have nothing in common
Jay Lethal and Flair's promo battle is one of the funniest things ever. That's my line!!
Sidenote superstar billy Graham was happy to pass on his gimmick to Jesse ventura
I love how people say Ryback was ripping Goldberg off simply because he's a muscular dude who us bald, like wtf? Is that the entirety of your claim? He didn't do his moveset, didn't dress like him, talk like him, didn't use any if Goldbergs mannerisms... if you're gonna say he imitated Goldberg just because he's a big bald guy, you'd have to say that about every superstar who is just that. I don't like Ryback, but this Goldberg comparison is so stupid
😆 🤣 lol @ 19:07 the lady officer is rethinking her life choices...😁😁
Imagine Curtis axel finally thinking he’s going to gain some headway and here comes a video of hulk hogan saying “maybe I am racist?” Lmao
Austin Idol was doing "Idolmania is running wild" long before Hulk Hooligan came on the scene.
I’m surprised that Shark Boy wasn’t featured on this - his SCSA impersonations actually got him over for a short while
You guys forgot about when Shark Boy was doing Steve Austin.
I always felt bad for The Renegade, whose real name was Rick Wilson.
None of that was his fault. He was actually a male stripper, who was looking to change career paths & make more money (I know the latter was his main driving motivator). He didn’t know much about the business & Bitch-Off, with the rest of the guys running WCW at the time, took advantage of him pretty badly.
Should’ve never happened, and should’ve been taken off TV & repackaged. He didn’t _ask_ for _any_ of that!
Then…when it all fell apart, he got severely depressed. He suffered from Depression pretty badly, as is reported at least.
But, we _do_ know, for a _fact,_ low he had some level of depression. Why?
Because Rick unalived himself, by way of gunshot to the head. He was hitting financial strife due to not working, & nobody else made him any offers.
Bitch-Off’s arrogance & nativity pretty much killed that poor guy.
Renegade (Rick Wilson) was only 33-years old. This happened in 1999. So, it didn’t take all too long, after Warrior showed up in ‘98; & this heartbreaking & tragic life ended.
Hold up... Goldberg was a rip off of stone cold👀
Yeah no
You left out the Stone Cold one🤣 this was a great video.
You missed Sivi Afi, who was drowned out in early matches with 'We want Snuka' chants.
I first saw this thumbnail, I thought gillberg was dax Harwood lmao!
Hogan didn't do the tie died bit in his prime (84-93) Flair clear cut stole from Rogers but Hogan didn't directly steal from Superstar but was maybe inspired or influenced by.
I didn't know Chuck Palumbo was a biker Michael liker lol
I hope everyone gets this reference! Lol 😂
Anyone else here an adult now that grew up through the 90s/00s and much prefer watching things like this about wrestling than tuning into RAW or a pay per view to actually watching wrestling?
Loved Buddy Landel's Nature Boy rip off gimmick, he was truly good at it.
I met Buddy a couple times in Knoxville in the 90s. He was old school kayfabe trying to talk to me like I thought it was real. He was one of my favorites on the mic though. Hilarious promos
How on earth could you miss out the bWo???!!!!
Best gimmick infringement jay lethal as Rick flair the woo off will forever be iconic
Gilberg was great because it was the perfect mockery of the dumbness of Goldberg.
Know what I noticed? Whenever Vince McMahon learns of the background of the people he brings in. He always tries to incorporate that part of their background into their gimmicks and it horribly fails. So if anyone wants to get into the pro wrestling career and you meet Vince you better come up with something badass already to go before he picks your gimmick for you. I've always found that when people come up with the weirdest, disturbing social outcast, zealot, gothic gimmicks they tend to do fairly well with it if they fully believe it with time and creative effort.
I remember a match at Summer Slam or Backlash I think 2000 or 2001 where Big Show came out dressed as Hulk Hogan to his music and had a match with Kurt Angle as "the Showster" . Even Jerry Lawler said on comms Big Show did Hulk Hogan better than Hulk Hogan. He even took the mic routine off brilliantly calling everyone "dude" & "brother" & a "what ya gonna do, when the Showster goes wild on you" and did the Hogan voice. The match didn't last long as once Big Show had had enough of playing & Angle got on his nerves, he ripped his wig off and choke slammed Angle to finish the match.
The moniker "The Nature Boy" will always be synonymous with Ric Flair. WOOOOOOOOO.
Fun facts: 1, Scott Steiner's "Big Poppa Pump" character was also a rip off of Superstar Billy Graham as was Jesse "the Body" Ventura.
2, Nature Boy Buddy Rogers literally left the hospital to drop the WWWF title to Bruno Sammartino. At the time, Rogers was dealing with heart trouble, which is why he dropped the title.
3, Jay Lethal also did a realy good impression of Ric Flair.
4, Demolition was a rip off of the Road Warriors.
The Powers Of Pain were the REAL LOD knockoff team.
@@middlefinger1565 Both Demolition and the Powers of Pain were.
@@stevegallo8483 OK. Go watch the Strike Force vs Demolition match at WrestleMania 4. (Where Demolition win their first Tag Championship).
Now, ask yourself this...if we replace Ax and Smash with Animal and Hawk, and do the exact same match, same finish, would that be a match the Road Warriors would have had?
You called Goldberg "the latter" and Ryback "The Former".
It's exactly the opposite way around.
Golberg is "The Former".
You forgot Shark boy mimicking Steve Austin
i would like to see the return of The Shockmaster myself...or someone stealing that gimmick
I noticed that the Hollywood Blondes weren't on the list
Jay Lethal killed it.
Jay Lethal's Flair imitation.
I think it’s funny that sandow ripped off both of the poffos. Lanny to start and randy at the end
22' Pythons Superstar Billy Graham
24' Pythons The Immortal Hulk Hogan
Gillburg was HILARIOUS !!!
The Renegade was tragic if you ask me. As much as he was a rip off they CLEARLY stated he was not the ultimate Warrior. Plus the Warrior told WCW to knock it off and they killed his push.... which also led to Renegades death
The REAL Warrior used Rick Wilson (Renegade) as his stunt double in many WCW promos.
Yup... and for the Wargames match which also had the trap door that led to the British Bulldogs back pain
I would say imitation is the most sincere form of flattering only when it’s a good imitation
Bruh, your transitions are amazing
Pablo Picasso: "Good artists copy, great artists steal".
Jay Lethal also did a Ric Flair Gimmick That Should have been in this Video....Because that Gimmick was Hilarious!!!...😂😂😂😂