George_South Posted May 12, 2009 Report Posted May 12, 2009 Often in wrestling there's a gimmick that is really over and then someone else decides it will be a good idea to rip off said gimmick. Let's list some wrestlers whose gimmicks were aped. I'll start it off with an obvious one: Road Warriors.....Demolition
Diamonddust Posted May 12, 2009 Report Posted May 12, 2009 Often in wrestling there's a gimmick that is really over and then someone else decides it will be a good idea to rip off said gimmick. Let's list some wrestlers whose gimmicks were aped. I'll start it off with an obvious one: Road Warriors.....Demolition -Throw the Powers of Pain in there as well... they were even closer to the Road Warriors than Demolition was. -Buddy Rogers, Nick Bockwinkel, and Ric Flair were all pretty much the same character. Then you had Buddy Landel, thus making three wrestlers that used "The Nature Boy" as a nickname. -The Rock and Roll Express were a junior version of The Fabulous Ones, as were The Fantastics -The Midnight Rockers (Later just The Rockers) were a knock-off of The Midnight Express and Rock 'N Roll Express -Prince Iaukea was a knock off of Rocky Maivia
muda345 Posted May 13, 2009 Report Posted May 13, 2009 Some think Hercules Hernandez was a rip off of Bruiser Brody
BruteSquad_BRODY Posted May 13, 2009 Report Posted May 13, 2009 Some think Hercules Hernandez was a rip off of Bruiser Brody Verne Gagne made John Nord a Brody rip off Plus Siva Afi was Snuka's WWF replacement and Cpl Kirchner was Sarge's WWF replacement
DangerousDamon Posted May 13, 2009 Report Posted May 13, 2009 The lineage of Dynamite Kid style wrestlers is absurd.
Retard Girl Posted May 13, 2009 Report Posted May 13, 2009 i know you're all not indy smarks, but i want to slap this Egotistico Fantastico kid for ripping off El Generico.
George_South Posted May 13, 2009 Author Report Posted May 13, 2009 i know you're all not indy smarks, but i want to slap this Egotistico Fantastico kid for ripping off El Generico. Whoa....clearly I'm in way over my head. Don't know either of those cats. Course I haven't heard of/seen many indie shows around my way in a long time.
thecitythesky Posted May 14, 2009 Report Posted May 14, 2009 i know you're all not indy smarks, but i want to slap this Egotistico Fantastico kid for ripping off El Generico. do you want to slap him for debuting a year earlier than generico too.?
JST Posted May 14, 2009 Report Posted May 14, 2009 Mask and cape, sure. Nice moves, ok. Other than that, I don't see it.
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