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
You know what makes whatculture special other than blampied, Sams editing skills
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.
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.
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.
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
Wouldn't Jerry Lawler continuing the King gimmick be a nod of respect to the man he borrowed it from?
"You know. Like your mum does". That came out of nowhere, and made me spit out my coffee. Thank you for that, Adam.
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 )
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
The Rockers were kind of an imitation of the Rock N Roll Express.
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 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!
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.
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?
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
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?
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
What about Damien Sandow and The Genius? People think their similar.
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.
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.
What about Scott Hall? The Razor Ramon was completely taken from Scarface.
"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!!!
One of the better top 10 videos as of late.
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.
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.
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?
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.
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
I miss chanting FEED ME MORE
STOOPID!!!
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.
ADAM WE NEED MORE OF YOU !!!!!
He broke 1,000 guitars and never drew a dime
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
Rappers have been saying "you can't see me" since the early 90s
I knew you'd COME!
that moment when you propose to elizabet
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
How do yall come up with these topics i wouldve never thought of these things learn something everyday
i always thought bray wayatt was a mash up or charles manson and Jim jones.
of*
Last time I was this early what culture were doing on this day vids
BX
Glad to see you guys gave Diego Sanchez probs for the YES chant
finally a somewhat accurate video of knowledge
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!
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
I just found Jay Lethal's Macho Man impressions. Dude is spot on!
'No way we'll get an Adam video 3 times in a row' and then BAM ADAM VIDEO
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.
Shareholders
Zoukon101 yep
me to
I met GOLDBERG AND Y2J
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
I'm so glad this list was made cause noisy believed me when I say Ric Flair stole his whole gimmick
AMAZING ADAM!!!!
I'm not early but let me think of a joke...
WhatCulture
Jump off me
W
you should have said WCPW
Chaotik Magik boooo
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.
Lol the John Cena/Tony Yayo thing shocked me the most on the list. I did not know this!
the jokes on this video thou good job Adam
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.
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
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.
Hearing Adam try to pronounce Yayo is magical
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.
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'm so glad you guys picked up on the John Cena one.
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.
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.
Can you do a spin off of this list of wrestlers who's gimmicks were/are inspired by movies?
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
5:55 That's not the first time a white guy stole something from a Mexican!
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.
Kurt Angle was, in essence, The Patriot minus the mask. Hell, they even had the same entrance theme
anyone else catch the Elizabit' reference? Blampied, you are pure gold!
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.
that just like your mother joke caught me off guard and now I have beer all over my pants
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.
You forgot about Shark Boy from TNA posing as Stone Cold. "GIMME A SHELL YEAH!"
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.
Scott Hall got the inspiration for Razor Ramon from 'Scarface'. Scott watched a lot of movies as he suggested The Crow to Sting.
Dusty himself takes after Graham as well, particularly his manner of speech and promo cadence.
Paused the video with a smile on my face 4 seconds in and came to the comment section to say I'm happy Blampied is in this.
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
are we gonna act like the bullet club came up with the 2sweet hand gesture? lol
Adam is the best of whatculture.🤘💙
That chain gang thing Cena has was definitely a G-Unit knock off too while we at it
I question the Daniel Bryan one because the fans started that during Daniel Bryan's "NO!" chant days.
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
That moment of silence after the intro hoping for it to be Adam Blampied
BRAY WYATT'S "EATER OF WORLDS" SAYING WAS STOLE FROM CHILDS PLAY...THE PRAYER THAT CHUCKY DOES💯
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.
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.
Good list. Ziggler stealing from HBK and Razor stealing from Scarface spring to mind, also.
Stone Cold got his "that's the bottom line" quote from Roddy Piper and his 1994 show "Bottom Line"
Ric Flair stealing his gimmick and signature move is the most Ric Flair thing of all time
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!
I always thought Wyatt got his gimmick from Charlie Manson, but good call on Cape Fear.