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Biggest copycats in the business 2016-11-06 18:14:41 Post No. 1939715
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It struck me that I have never seen a thread concerning copycats in the WWE (mostly), so here we go, let's talk about people in the wrestling business (mostly WWE) being basically walking, talking copies of other wrestlers - persona, gimmick, and style-wise.
Let's start with pic related. CM Punk:
>fighting style copied from Bryan Danielson and Kenta (heavily)
>taunts copied from various wrestlers, mostly japanese, but also Ricky Steamboat, Jimmy Snuka
>attire copied from Chris Jericho (2009) & RVD (boots)
>style of talking copied also from Bryan Danielson (watch his indie promos) and some pathological guys like New Jack
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>ability not to draw a dime copied from The Undercarder
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>>1939719
good work, made me spill my drink
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>>1939719
A lot of guys like Roman and Seth copied this as well lol
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>>1939715
You're not even trying anymore.
1/10
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>>1939715
>being a failure on MMA copied from Batista
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>>1939758
>Undertaker HoF induction
>legions of dimeless wonders parade in to pay respects to the great mentor and lockeroom leader
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>Picrelated
If we're being serious here though, this was one of WWE's best recent ideas. Too bad Hogan had to go and fuck it up.
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>>1939786
No Batista actually won his fight
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>>1939719
Based Taker still working the faggots
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>>1939860
Hogan fucked up gawker, not that gimmick
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>>1939857
This
/aspergers/ smarks btfo
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>>1939715
He's soooooooooooooooo much better than Bryan on the mic. There is no comparison here.
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>>1939715
You mean to tell me a wrestler drew from his inspirations? This is fascinating, tell me more OP
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>>1939908
Difference is Punk straight up copied everything from other people and did it worse than each of them. There isn't a single original thing about his act.
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>>1939860
They're mentioning him again, he'll be back by the end of next year
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>>1939867
check his opponent, m8
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>Ultimate Warrior
>Stole Kerry von Erich's ring attire
>Road Warrior facepaint
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>Hulk Hogan
>Stole Superstar Billy Graham's look
>and his promo style
>....brother
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> ric flair
> stole literally every single facet of himself
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>>1939938
There's only so much you can do with wrestling characters / gear. Just about everything's already been done, unless you want to start creating shit-gimmicks like The Goon and Repo Man again.
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>>1939877
He said nigger and based Axeman's Axelmania gets dropped.
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