 What's good Josh will Ross back out again with another video to check out 10 iconic wrestling gimmicks you didn't know we're stolen now this should be a very interesting one I think we've talked about this where wrestlers are get inspired from wrestlers of the past or whatnot it's it's a part of the wrestling business like some people feel like oh it's copying or stealing someone's idea not really if you make it your own we all we are all influenced by someone or you know a certain thing that's been done in the past not even just in wrestling and just all aspects of life that's just what it is so it's gonna be very interesting to see what you know how they're relating to stolen gimmicks per se should be an interesting one appreciate all the love from support you guys shown on channel we're gonna get right into this one. Role wrestling has an incredibly relaxed attitude towards plagiarism or rather inspiration Ric Flair took the nature boy nickname from buddy rogers gone rest his soul triple H in turn took on the flair role in 2003 except that his promos not his matches often lasted for an hour there are however less famous but far more insane gimmick thefts to wade through so with that in mind I am gareth here from what culture wrestling and here are 10 iconic wrestling gimmicks you didn't know were stolen number 10 road dog not only is road dog a difficult wrestling actor plagiarize there's no real money in it really it was fun to jump along with his shtick in 1998 in the building but nobody honestly paid to enter those buildings to watch the guy they were there to watch stone killed steve austin so which jelly for brains moron would think parodying the road dog was a good idea well vinteruso of course as part of his powers that be character he told brad armstrong one of the most underrated sellers and mechanics ever that he needed a tv friendly gimmick armstrong was made to arrive at buskill in a meta upon meta development he parodied his own brother in a parody of a televised wrestling show it was just a bit odd buskill came out to a sound alike of road dogs theme with cornrows and even had a similar bu wz column response how strange number nine kane if you want to cheese now i see why wcw ended up getting ball out by vance it's just cheese bro what is that that's that's appalling rip off kane in 2023 the process would be simple and quick if very painful if you repeatedly bang your head against a brick wall you turn out just as stupid as he is failing that you wear his attire except a blue away kit version and bk except blue now there's a certain incredibly temporary charm to this bit that recently did the rounds on the irony in the circuit blue cane plays kane but a yeah i've seen this i've seen it so many times it's literally a motherfucker just with a blue fit on he's blue kane what is this pokemon red versus blue like what are we doing what is this that's literally what it is if you guys are old enough showing my age you guys remember the gameboy pokemon games there was pokemon i believe pokemon yellow that's the one i had then there was pokemon red and then there was pokemon blue that's literally what it is it's and they were all mostly the same games different stuff but one had just color in it one had a red tint on the gameplay one had a blue tint on the gameplay that's it that's literally what we got here the version who has snow powers instead of fire powers wow the idea being that he does cane things without being a rancid individual set accounts wouldn't ever to be suspended on the social media hub known as x of course with blue kane now going by the name of blue k and carefully trying to live in elon's weird world without mentioning that awful jacob's number eight steve austin steve austin has of course more than one famous imitator shark boy was less plagiarist and more loving irreverent parody and the same applies to the wonderfully stupid and weirdly uncanny stone cold et austin austin stone cold et bro what are we this is this is bad stone cold et also heavily heavily influenced horris hogan who is funnier than a comedy meme wrestler due to the sheer insolence factor horris was a dull and basic grunt of a brawler he only got a wcw gig because he was hulk hogan's nephew and yet he didn't have the courtesy to draw inspiration from his uncle there was a bigger star in wrestling from whom to copy in a boneheaded bid to make it big and that man was austin thanks for the job uncle terry but you are past it old man everything about horris 316 is wonderful the bald head the jeans shorts the goatee even the knee braces pure austin and in the best touch of all his waistcoat was white the idea that wearing a black one would have made things too obvious is incredible number seven the rock while kevin ash believes that l a night is a blatant rock ripoff it's not quite fair really there are obvious similarities between the two performers but l a night sets himself apart by going a bit more nuts losing his composure and being electrified by himself that of his character was borrowed from rick flair yes but rock himself borrowed from flair with his right heavy promo style and catchphrases for an actual blatant rock ripoff see the rock jr who sought to go viral on the canadian indie circuit in the mid 2010s this is not subtle the rock is in the guy's name the rock jr the rock june this is this is taking inspiration a little bit too far man but it is very very stupid he does everything the rock does flips his tongue out lowers his sunglasses says the exact same things except he does them poorly this doesn't even seem to be a bit the guy just does the rocks act but not very well now i've got a question what is your favorite wrestling catchphrase the rock jr clearly loved him some homemade cooking let me know what you loved in the comment section below number six the apa wrestling is absolutely stupid it's less stupid now but in the 1990s it was very very stupid wcw found itself in the crosshairs of vince mcman's lawyer gerry mcdevitt more than once throughout that decade vince wasn't remotely happy when it was implied that scott hall still worked for him in may 1996 the former earthquake john tenter worked for wcw as avalanche before vince decided they were taken abyss and threatened legal action a similar scenario unfolded with the big boss man his wcw name the boss was also too close to the wws intellectual property and it didn't help that tony sheovani would say the boss man is he big wow did get a bit smarter when borrowing a tune from the wwf though by the time asia ripped off china now there is a statement the wf was so big that they'd stop caring asia ripped off china that's okay i just got that wcw was slightly less on the nose when presenting the chronic unit of brian adams and brian clark to audiences in 2000 the wws apa were stiff unrefined brawlers who drank beer chronic were stiff unrefined brawlers who smoked weed they weren't very good at protecting anybody they weren't even very good at protecting themselves having worked one of the worst wwe matches ever against the brothers of destruction at unforgiven 2001 and speaking of number five the undertaker the undertaker of course i don't know there's definitely been probably a few people that've tried to rip off that gimmick alone it's one of the greatest wrestling characters of all time once the creation of his storyline brother kane but that was the point kane mirrored his mannerisms and arsenal and indeed his slow walking gait very effective in late 1997 and again between 2001 and 2002 kane wasn't able to replicate the undertaker's electrifying late-stage streak form the undertaker also influenced a meme wrestler that you may have heard of and also influenced to put it mildly to tumba el enterrador which in english is to tumba the undertaker a wrestler based in argentina who sadly passed away on 22nd dave melter of the wrestling observer newsletter noted that when taker broke big in the early 1990s to tumba basically just grifted his shtick wholesale very little is known about the man and the performer outside of his homeland but as you can tell by these images you are seeing right now he was no uk undertaker his look was really well done fusing the taker aesthetic with something of a middle ages plague victim touch wait wait wait wait the uk undertaker number four every star of the 1990s in the early 1990s through the rise of sky tv the wwf got hot in britain several years after the promotion exploded in the us so many years in fact that the fed was already dying on the other side of the pond this allowed vince mcman to promote summer slam in front of a legitimate attendance of 80 thousand at wembley stadium this also allowed a bunch of beans on toast carnies to run fake all over the land look look at the picture they have a stone cold that who the fuck is that that's not stone cold bro who is that that's not came who are these people what yes if you were a fed mad 90s kid there's a high chance you begged your parents to watch wwf wrestling at the same place you took swimming lessons and went to five-a-side football parties there you'll have seen various nobodies from a dead british scene pretend to be superstars for younger fans imagine nxt uk with slightly worse production values number three razor ramon was a shameless self-professed tony montana ripoff his pet pattern adopted by scott hall was unmistakable he saw a cool movie and decided to play the guy in it in a case of art imitating life after life plagiarize art wholesale and with no emotion razor ramon influenced another character razor ramon hot guy which was not the character's original name well sort of a least betrayed by comedian masaki sumitani razor ramon hg born no resemblance whatsoever to hall's character the incredulity of which made it funny hg wore a pvc suit at literally every moment possible even when being threatened thrust his hips so quickly that he practically vibrated he entered the ring to ricky martins live in the vida loca and for a time in the 2000s was a well-regarded comedy wrestler for the insane hustle promotion the joke was very much ruined when it was revealed that sumitani was actually straight which lent a bleak note of mockery to the bit number two dav melter pro wrestling has a strange and invariably unbranded history with parodying the wrestling media in wcw in front of non-plus fans hulk hogan burned a copy of the wrestling observing newsletter on pay per view in retaliation for dav melter correctly reporting that randy savage was carrying an arm injury and that he would nonetheless win the titular world war 1995 match in an xt andre chase at a worked press conference was asked a question by dav chase asked if it was a five star question and said he'd imagine this particular day smoke face whenever he punched his opponent even in a w a critically revered show qt marshal is doing qtv which is a paranoid and unfunny bit about how journals enjoy ruining wrestlers careers the irony is palpable none of these promotions got there first though because herb abram's universal wrestling federation went as far as to debut a rotund hapless jobber who went by the quite brilliantly patronizing name of little davie melter incredibly happy to get bruno san martino on board to commentate on his loss to steve williams but bruno refused to sell the bit melter has an incredible business mind he's a profoundly knowledgeable historian and right inch perfect habituaries would herb could have probably got more out of the parody to be honest little davie should have cut a 10 minute promo from right don't hear the words like you know so here's the thing number one like you know uh here's the thing giving out five star ratings i believe there's a stat that he's never given curt angle a five star match curt angle i don't think he's ever given him a five star match once again ratings are subjective it's really up to you but you know it depends on your personal taste but i correct me if i'm wrong i don't think davie melter has ever given curt angle a five star match that in itself that's his opinion but wow thing the men fist territory has an uneven history and reception gerry gerrett was a pioneer of excellent pro wrestling television his influence is felt all over the very best show long story lines in wwe roars history he was the first to open the forbidden door and the first or at least most famous table wreckage happened in that territory as part of that fantastic angle involving randy savage he was also considered a joke territory brett hart famously thought it was a phony disgrace as a result of its wacky brawls and lamentable gimmicks there was dirty roads a portley fellow with bleach blonde hair who's for dirty not dusty roads dirty roads this is great this is fucking fantastic first name was a synonym and last name was the same as dusty so was incredibly macho warrior rick hogan this is fantastic all these wrestlers sound like their products of something from wish you get macho man you get a ultimate warrior you get hulk hogan from amazon you gotta wish you get macho warrior rick hogan all together for one price i'm done man incredibly macho warrior rick hogan and it was also the hornet an insect with the ability to sting who runs stings doppelganger brought in the hornet he can stink it brett to the uswa to take on brian christopher by gerry lawler they were up front about it at least lawler outright told the emerging ron oaks that sting painted his face to build his confidence so he should just be sting the name was terrible hornet can sting yes but they're still just crap wasps and that's our list nobody other iconic wrestling gimmicks this was fantastic bro i gotta like this video wait what was that day bro i got dirty roads oh macho warrior rick hogan that's that's fantastic that's fantastic i had to like that video bro ha ha ha macho warrior rick hogan that's that's great that's fantastic macho warrior rick hogan i'm done i'm done comment down below let me know what's the the funniest stolen gimmick you've seen if it wasn't this video it wasn't in this video if you've just seen it before comment down below let me know that wrestler's name please or if you can come up with a funny stolen wrestler's name put it down below in the comments but i appreciate i appreciate y'all kicking with me see y'all next one please