10 Wrestlers Who Borrowed What Got Them Over
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Edge borrowed Matt Hardy's girlfriend to get himself over
Lmao
Edge was well over by then mate
This joke got me through the quarantine 😂 thank you
Zero thats you’re one per list💀
And getting himself off
I’ll leave now
I love how Adam called Ryback "The Ryback", made me laugh.
We need to start a GOOOLDBERG! chant for Simon
He's actually Johnny sins
+Saquib Hussain hahahahaha
GOOOLDBERG
GOOOLLLDDBBEERRRGG GOOLLLDBBEERGG
GOOOOOLDBERG
And number one, Adam Blampied aka Eric Bischoff
XD
I can't be the only one to think, "If Adam grew a beard, it'd make him look like Vince Russo."
And we'll quietly pretend that was never said.
*Plumpy
lucky dominguez *Pervy
Or Dusty himself, How Ironic lol
Surprised Scott Hall basing the Razor Ramon gimmick off Scarface wasn't on here. Still, good vid.
Funny part about that is, Vince never even heard of the movie and thought Scott created the idea from scratch.
Vince has been out of touch since before he got the company.
That's just sad... Scarface is just such a quintessentially 80s movie. I mean don't forget Vice City copied it so much to make an at the time modern game so nostalgic. I grew up in the 80s and 90s so to me it is actually nostalgic.
irony of all that is scarface is a remake itself
Yep! And Carlito borrowed elements of Razor's gimmick (and his vignettes) some years later.
You know what makes whatculture special other than blampied, Sams editing skills
I'm still not over the fact that Adam mentioned Tony Yayo. Lol so fucking dope
"so fucking dope" hahahhaha
It's a funny expression
***** Oh toss off
***** it uses a word that in America means drugs and in Great Britain means idiot, and which has a sudden closed off ending like butt or boop do, it's unusual outside of a very narrow context and thus unexpected and it's far more extreme (as fuck!) than you would expect as a reaction to a guy just mentioning another guy.
It's funny. It might not be funny to you, but it has all ingridients to be as funny as a three word phrase can be.
***** in the streets the term yayo means crack cocaine... "Thats dope" it was an unintended pun I thought was funny
Since we're mentioning films I'm surprised Razor Ramon was never mentioned
Me too. I expected him to be near the top of the list. And then Carlito having borrowed Razor's gimmick.
Don't forget The Rock where he borrowed his nickname "The Great One" from Muhammad Ali and the term "Jabroni" from Iron Sheik.
Jabron is in insider term used by pretty much every wrestler ever.
My pick would be AJ Styles hair taken from a lesbian soccer mop
Not sure if you misspelled Soccer Mom, but Soccer Mop sounds hilarious
Nope the mop part was intentional it looks like a mop AJ sort that shit out.
not to mention "The Rock" from Don Muraco..
and his name "The Rock" from Don't Muraco
James Elsworth stole from Triple H and Chris Jericho for being the King of Kings and the best in world at what he does
yup
You forgot that he's also the most electrifying man in sports entertainment, the hardcore legend and the toughest S.O.B. He is the attitude era!
You forgot to mention he's also The Gold Standard and the REAL American Badass.
He also conquered The Streak
Conquered The Streak? Let's not get ahead of ourselves. Ellsworth was out sick that day so Lesnar had to fill in for him. Although he did main event WrestleMania 20 and MITB 2011.
Wouldn't Jerry Lawler continuing the King gimmick be a nod of respect to the man he borrowed it from?
Cena may have stole the hand gesture from Yayo but he stole the You Can't See Me and thug stuff from 2Pac. Listen to Can't C Me by 2Pac.
And 2Pac stole his gimmick from KRS-One, Public Enemy, and Nas.
+Matty Tupac was around WAY before Nas.
ok but there were two others mentioned.
Nas sucks! Overrated AF and barely to show for.
HAHAHAHAHA NO
"You know. Like your mum does". That came out of nowhere, and made me spit out my coffee. Thank you for that, Adam.
I absolutely love that the WCPW exists. It seems like a very fan friendly thing for wrestling and genuinely hope that they attract a bigger audience.
The Waylon Mercy gimmick was waaaay ahead of it's time. Spivey was perfect for that gimmick.
Robert De Niro himself stole the gimmick from Robert Mitchum. Wyatt swiped a swipe of a swipe! AND I STILL LOVE IT!
The New Day are the longest reigning WWE Tag team champions and Demolition are the longest reigning World Tag Team champions.
thats a semantic argument.. one belt is as good as another in this case
not entirely true, the WTC was the first one used in wwwf but when wwe beat wcw, they took their tag titles, then retired them and introduced their own wwe tag titles wen the name change and brand extension happened, so they are pretty much 2 different belts. and new day are creeping up on that record anyway
New Day's belts have recently been renamed the Raw Tag Team Championships. I think they still do the "WWE World Tag Team Champions" thing because it's a part of their gimmick.
Also after the two tag titles were unified both sets of belts were used until the current copper looking ones were introduced which carried on the lineage of the Wwe tag team titles which were never held be demolition, the longest reign was from Brian Kendrick and Paul London which new day surpassed which is why new day are the longest reigning wwe tag team champions, but your right they're approaching the overall longest tag title reign anyway
I really don't want the longest reigning WWE tag team champs to be a comady act
How about Randy Orton stealing the "cutter finisher outta nowhere" gimmick from DDP?
The Cutter and RKO are highly different. From one, Arn Anderson gave Orton the RKO. Two, the RKO is a Jumping Cutter. The Cutter is a move where you stand still. The RKO is one you jump into.
I wouldn't call it "highly different" if the difference is that one is a drop and one is a jump and a drop. It's still the same move. That's like saying Taker's Tombstone and Jumping Tombstone are two completely different moves which are nothing alike. Also, both DDP and Orton stole the Cutter from John Laurinaitis/Johnny Ace, who was the inventor of the move and still did it best.
not sure if ur asking or saying but yea. he called it the ace crusher. also lethal injenction is the best version of the move. even if it has a silly setup
DDP gave Orton permission though
IlGreven though finishers are many times part of gimmicks using a similar finisher is not stealing. Imagine all the big guys like Batista, JBL and undertaker who used powerbombs as either their primary or secondary finishers, are they stealing. ALso the gimmick that got randy orton over was the legend killer gimmick.
The Rockers were kind of an imitation of the Rock N Roll Express.
Who else thought he was going to say Bryan ripped off Chris Benoit?
i did
i was hoping he did
I don't see it
No, that's just a coincidence. But there are a lot of similarities between the two.
me , especially because of the finisher sub. move
Chris Beniot : Cripplers crossroads
Daniel Bryan :
Yes lock ( I think )
And Adam is borrowing Vince Mcmahans gimmick in WCPW
I don't know if you would call Adam a "wrestler".
He's an authority figure, but Vince isn't really a wrestler either.
Vince McMahon didn't invent the authority figure character
WhatCulture even did a video on how WCW did it first, ya dingus.
Vince did his heel authority run in Memphis way before the nWo ever came around
I thought Bray Wyatts gimmick was based off of Charles Manson. There are tons of similarities.
Luke Harper's character is way more like Charles Manson.
NO way
Well, Manson had his "Manson Family". Does that sound familiar?
What about Damien Sandow and The Genius? People think their similar.
"You can't see me" came from 2pac, not Tony Yayo....
Yayo got it from Pac, Pac even has the song on "All Eyes On Me" called "You can't see me"...... look it up!!!
Just the hand gesture? Cena's whole gimmick was borrowed from Mark Wahlberg in his "Funky Bunch" days.
Maybe that's just what people from Massachusetts are like.
I'll tell you all a joke
What do you call someone with no body and no nose?
NOBODY KNOWS!
I haven't seen this before so uhhhh
gg
"I DONT KNOW!!!!"
- Lex Luger
Fall off me NOW
hahahahahahahaha. fantastic. i love dad jokes
wouldn't that be somebody with a nose for a body?
Isn't Mercy like the uncle of Bray? You know like in real life? Should of been something to note there Adam...
He gave Bray the gimmick.
Shocked me a little about Lawler as I didn't know that info. Would it be possible that Jerry just kept the gimmick going as a memory to his dead friend?
Well part of the thing with the Sting and Crow thing is that at the time WCW actually did advertising for The Crow: City of Angels, yeah not even the first movie, the crappy sequel.
Sting also knew he needed to reinvent himself at the time and a co-worker suggested he watch The Crow (the first one, from what I understand). Needless to say, Sting ran with it and it worked.
Actually it was Scott Hall's idea.
Olvi Langstrumpf I couldn't remember from when I last watched Into The Light. So thanks for refreshing my memory.
What about Scott Hall? The Razor Ramon was completely taken from Scarface.
Bryan also borrowed a lot of his style & moves from Chris Benoit. Furthermore, multiple wrestlers borrowed from Taker: Kane, Brey Wyatt, & Demon Finn Baylor
More likely, Bálor borrowed from The Bogeyman (wrestler ) when creatin the demon personality
Shitty observation
Nothing in Balor's gimmick is borrowed from Taker OR Boogeyman. If anything Balor got his inspirations from comic books, because before he went to WWE his body paint would look like Venom or Carnage from Spider-Man and other movie- and comicbook-characters. The Demon was probably just a compromise to be able to do the body paint without using copyrighted character designs. If anything, Boogeyman was a remake of Papa Shango: a black voodoo priest with a smokey staff and scary facepaint. Not to mention that Kane was specifically designed to be Taker's brother, so I wouldn't call it a rip-off.
Chris Benoit took his style and moves from the Dynamite kid.
Noobs. Bálor clearly is Venom & Carnage. Even down to the mouth
Orton's use of the Diamond Cutter springs to mind. I maintain it is that move that really got Orton over and whilst I know the move was perforemed elsewhere before DDP got his flexible Yoga hands on it it was Page that really made that move the "Out of Nowhere" killing device it remains to this day.
i always thought bray wayatt was a mash up or charles manson and Jim jones.
of*
Debra was literally the best thing about Jeff Jarrett. Holy damn, she was the best looking lady wrestling has ever had.
Justin Kroboth except for Elizabeth.
Steve Austin and Sandman? ECW and WWF attitude era!
Good point. The characters are very different, but no doubt Austin stole the beer swilling gimmick from Sandman.
Paul Heyman's "shoot" promo on Smackdown during invasion angle inside the ring infront of Vince, "When Doink the Clown was wearing rubber nose, Stone Cold was drinking his first beer in ECW damn you!"
I would actually go Steve Austin and Bad News Brown
It's also noteworthy that Lethal and Delirious did a recreation of the classic Savage/Ultimate Warrior match (WM 7) in ROH, with the two going almost move-for move. Maria played Liz, and I don't remember who played Sherri. It was pretty funny to watch, especially once the crowd got into it, chanting "three more times, two more times" for the sequence of elbow drops.
One of the better top 10 videos as of late.
BX
He broke 1,000 guitars and never drew a dime
I'm so glad this list was made cause noisy believed me when I say Ric Flair stole his whole gimmick
I knew you'd COME!
im a little bit countryyyyyy and and im a bit rock n rooooooolla
like if u know this
south park
Donnie and Marie Osmond, obviously.
sandstorm
Family guy? Just fucking around of course it's South Park, the greatest of all time
First heard that line in Friends
I miss chanting FEED ME MORE
STOOPID!!!
AMAZING ADAM!!!!
Rappers have been saying "you can't see me" since the early 90s
What about Dwayne Johnson using the Rock, when that was Don Muraco's name in the 80s lol?
It was shortened from Rocky Miavia
which was a combo from his dad and grandpa
that moment when you propose to elizabet
ADAM WE NEED MORE OF YOU !!!!!
I just found Jay Lethal's Macho Man impressions. Dude is spot on!
I want old school Jihn Cena back but with the pg era it's impossible.
I say we hold picket signs and protest at WWE Headquarters for Linda and Vince to bring back the TV-14 rating because they are the ones to blame.
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Zoukon101 yep
me to
I met GOLDBERG AND Y2J
Last time I was this early what culture were doing on this day vids
How do yall come up with these topics i wouldve never thought of these things learn something everyday
The Fabulous Ones were the original "two good-looking guys" gimmick. The Rock n Roll Express was created to work towns that the Fabs couldn't make, and they got more over than the Fabs. The Midnight Rockers were then a creation based on the RnR.
I gotta say you mispronounced Dan Spivey's name. The 'e' makes the 'i' a long sound. And you Brits talk about our English.
I read all the way back here to find out if someone else said this! LOL.... Who is Dan Spivvey?
ello, mate. Me finks I could explain the old British way of pronunciation but I have a busy shedyool cleaning me garridge
lul road warriors didnt get their gimmick from mad max they got it from hokuto no ken otherwise known as fist of the north star.
shut the fuck up you weeb fuck.
Yeah right the road warriors didn't take a thing from the movie "road warrior"
Yeah, that's why they call themselves The fist of the North Star.
the yes bit is only kinda correct. it got started from the crowd at Raw after the 18 second wrestlemania match. they yelled "yes" throughout the night including "si" to alberto del rio, but it really caught on with daniel bryan himself.
Kurt Angle was, in essence, The Patriot minus the mask. Hell, they even had the same entrance theme
Didn't Buddy Rogers and Billy Graham copy the original Gorgeous George?
Not really, Rogers and George happened nearly the same time and the two gimmicks aren't too similar.
no
ElFino013 Billy Graham used a lot of Ali...Who took a lot of his style from George Wagner...
Eh. I'd say the thing about Gorgeous George is that he sits so far back on the evolutionary ladder of wrestling it's kind of hard not to see at least bits and pieces of him in lot of wrestlers who came after and even he didn't innovate some of his tricks but rather crystallized them in one place. The pretty boy look, the flashy robes, the quaffed, styled hair and the arrogant, foppish demeanor, coming to the ring with a valet and to the music (pomp and circumstance to be specific.)
It would probably be easier to list the number of wrestlers who DIDN'T adopt from, homage, or parody him in some way, directly or indirectly.
What about the Damien sandow using miz's gimmick to get over
Same reason he said he left Sting off the list. Sandow was already over by the time the Miz stunt double act started.
He was not seen on TV until he was stuntdouble
It's more the other way around if I remember correctly. He was on TV a lot doing cosplay stuff after his Savior gimmick ended and that led to him being a stunt double. He got over with more of the crowd than ever and then stopped being on TV ever
Sandow was over before being a Stunt double
I thought thaty
some more honorable ones:The Dudley Boys-The Hanson Brothers(from paul newman's movie Slap Shot)WWE's Palmer Canon-Don Cyrus aka "The Network" on ECW on TNN. WCW's Michael Wallstreet -Gordon Gekko from "Wall Street"(which ironically evolved into WWE's I.R.S.)Curtis "Mr" Hughes-Big Bubba Rogers
Daniel Bryan took Chris benoit's move set. The crossface, the flying headbutt. They even recreated the triple threat match from WM 20 at WM 30
You do know that both the cross face and flying headbutt weren't Benoit's moves right? The Crippler Crossface was Dean Malenko's move originally, and the Diving Headbutt belonged to Dynamite Kid. You guys need to research your shit before coming here with stupid shit.
my mistake, but you have to agree with the similarities between WM 20 and 30
+amir ashmon A Triple Threat match in the Main Event? No, I don't have to agree with shit. Bryan had another match beforehand in order to get into that Match. Benoit won the Rumble. Benoit was the last person anybody thought would win that match. Bryan was not. There aren't really any similarities. All you see is a Triple Threat main event and two guys who are similar in the ring. That's terrible logic.
YAY-YO. It's slang for crack.
explaining it doesn't make it sound any less stupid, if anything, it sounds more stupid now, just go up to a crack dealer and say "yo man you...you got any, uh, y'know yo yo? nah man! not tha toy! the yay yays! no i ain't happy! i mean crack! okay?!"
-white people on hip-hop culture
lol yeah, you can keep it, it's cool, enjoy your yabba dabby yooos
+OSHEA XX hahahahaaha..we have to educated white folks on things they shoulf know
Okay!
I'm not early but let me think of a joke...
WhatCulture
Jump off me
W
you should have said WCPW
Chaotik Magik boooo
BRAY WYATT'S "EATER OF WORLDS" SAYING WAS STOLE FROM CHILDS PLAY...THE PRAYER THAT CHUCKY DOES💯
Hearing Adam try to pronounce Yayo is magical
I've got a serious fucking question. What is WWE's obsession with the word 'big'.
The big show
Big cass
The big guy Ryback
The big red machine
Big E
Big Boss Man
It goes on and on
It's simply just to promote their larger mass, height or muscle tone.
Also remember Vince loves his big men.
Someone used to sing a song about Vince McMahon’s taste in men...
I sort of wish Ric Flair would pass on the gimmick to a younger guy.
Charlotte could be The Nature Girl
No, it should be given to someone who's not a big name yet.
I was kind of joking.
He tried to do that in TNA with AJ Styles. Surprise, surprise. It was a massive failure.
AJ wouldn't look good as a blonde.
Glad to see you guys gave Diego Sanchez probs for the YES chant
Re: the tag team title reign records, The New Day's reign is with the titles that were created for SmackDown during the original roster split. The titles that Demolition had for even longer were WWE's original tag team titles (the WWE World Tag Team Championship, which was decommissioned in 2010). Please learn the difference because so many people don't know that the World Tag Team Championship and what's now called the WWE Raw Tag Team Championship are 2 entirely different championships, each with its own lineage.
what about shark boy ??
10 Wrestlers Who Borrowed What Got Them *Over*
I and everyone I know who watch wrestling loved Shark Boy.
Did Double J hit people with a guitar when he was doing his wannabe country star gimmick? I only remember him doing it during his "Don't Piss Me Off/Slapnuts" era.
Also, ELIZABITT!
I think he started the guitar thing very late in his first WWF run. I remember him hitting Ahmed Johnson over the head with a guitar at the Rumble 96.
Here's one that not too many know about. Steve Austin's "open up a can of whoop ass" that he still uses to this day I first heard that line from Martin Lawrence on his TV show Martin back in '93
The Daniel Bryan "YES!" chant was 100% original.
Anyone remember team hell no? Kane and D.Bryan? They would argue in their promos going YES-NO-YES-NO on and and and eventually Daniel adopted YES YES YES.
5:55 That's not the first time a white guy stole something from a Mexican!
Two missed opportunities I can think of.
Vader is from an anime, "Big Van Vader." Popular in Japan, World Champion in WCW, and a lesser great run in WWF.
Jushin Thunder Liger is also based on an anime "Jushin Thunder Liger". The character evolved as the anime character evolved, starting as Jushin Liger to then become Kishin Liger, which later he stayed with Jushin Thunder Liger. The best Junior Heavyweight in the world. Popular in Japan, WCW, and still wrestling today.
Scott Hall got the inspiration for Razor Ramon from 'Scarface'. Scott watched a lot of movies as he suggested The Crow to Sting.
finally a somewhat accurate video of knowledge
Lol the John Cena/Tony Yayo thing shocked me the most on the list. I did not know this!
This is why Broken Matt Hardy is excellent! He's doing stuff in a way no one in the business has done before. In a business that's over 40 years old, that's pretty exciting!
Dusty himself takes after Graham as well, particularly his manner of speech and promo cadence.
One thing that Wrestling has taught me is that 50 Years feels like more like 80 years
Adam, did you forget, when his gear changed, Ryback did Cm Punk's clobbering time thing during his enterance and even used his move of that knee on the chin and that corners if the ring.
anyone else catch the Elizabit' reference? Blampied, you are pure gold!
This catchphrase: "You want some? Come get some!"
Both John Cena and Rick Steiner stole/borrowed the line from Diamond Dallas Page.
Damien Sandow should be on here. He borrowed nearly everything he did from the wrestling 80-90 years ago. He talked about that in Jericho's podcast.
I once met Austin Idol, he came to my house to pick up an end table and I had no idea who he was until someone mentioned it later.
I question the Daniel Bryan one because the fans started that during Daniel Bryan's "NO!" chant days.
You forgot about Shark Boy from TNA posing as Stone Cold. "GIMME A SHELL YEAH!"
'No way we'll get an Adam video 3 times in a row' and then BAM ADAM VIDEO
6:10 When did the crowd EVER chant with Diego.
That chain gang thing Cena has was definitely a G-Unit knock off too while we at it
Can you do a spin off of this list of wrestlers who's gimmicks were/are inspired by movies?
I noticed with John Cena. He said his first live pro wrestling match he was at. It was Sabu's "teeth shattering match" and he was actually friends with Sabu around 2006. I noticed both men wear something wrapped around their left bicep. Sabu has it taped up, Cena wears a sweat band. Maybe he's paying homage, huh?
Adam is the best, I couldn't stop laughing at the wrestlers face being photoshop on a homeless person, the Jay Lethal and John Cena part was also funny.
"Not Boobs can't say that any more PUPPIES" quote from Jerry "The King" Lawyer . I do miss old J.R. (Now that he's doing NJPW)
Good list. Ziggler stealing from HBK and Razor stealing from Scarface spring to mind, also.
Demolition was planned as a "Road Warriors"-imitation - but the key to their success was, that they became a trademark of their own... (Funny you mentioned the feud with the "Powers of pain" - the Imitation of the Imitation which failed completely…)
The Rock took Razor Ramon's exaggerated punches and Iceman Parsons' wacky catchphrases particularly calling his opponent a "Rooty poot".
Not to mention the nickname was previously used by Ultimate Warrior (Rock in the Blade Runners), Ole Anderson, and Don Muraco.
His name comes from his father, Rocky Johnson, not the people you mention
Miz should have mentioned the thug and Yayo gimmick steal when Cena said that Miz stole his gimmick from Jericho the Smackdown before WM33.
4:27 Also The Bladerunners(1986 tag team with Sting and Rock[Ultimate Warrior])
Stone Cold got his "that's the bottom line" quote from Roddy Piper and his 1994 show "Bottom Line"