Pro wrestling history is littered with cheap knockoffs for every rick rude does a battle

venous.

Can't afford gangrel, just go out and buy kevin thorn instead.

Although actually being called Adam at what culture, I should probably just get to the list

hey.

These are 10 rip off wrestling gimmicks that messed up what they copied.

Number 10 Woken Matt Hardy

Broken Matt Hardy was fantastic for a number of reasons.

Not least, Hardy's commitment to the whackiness of it all, but it was the unspoken words that

spoke the loudest.

Broken Matt Hardy didn't need to explain every reference to you the viewer.

Woken Matt Hardy fell into the same trap that all WWE characters tend to, an obsession

with wink, wink, nudge, nudge, and a total sodding inability to leave some things left

unsaid.

Number 9 Pyrrup Paul Berchell

Brits in WWE may be all the rage these days, but that wasn't the case back in 2005.

Berchell was something of a novelty, a curiosity accentuated by a then-unique finishing move.

Of course he was immediately placed with countryman Regal or Brits our friends after all

before turning babyface in a backstage segment and informing the world about his pirate ancestry.

One week later, Berchell was swinging to the ring on a rope and dialing up the tweed like

an impressively athletic Jack Sparrow.

The gimmick didn't last long before it was Jess and he was trying to shag his sister

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