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🗓️ 4 August 2020
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The looks, the moves, even the hair colour - it's all got to come from somewhere... Adam Clery presents 10 Wrestlers Who Modelled Their Whole Style On Other Wrestlers...
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0:00.0 | May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get |
0:08.0 | 10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride so you don't have to walk home in the brain again. |
0:16.5 | Trains now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. Pro wrestling history is littered with the real life blood feuds that came about over stolen |
0:36.4 | gimmicks. One wrestler usually enjoying a bigger stage than most of their peers lifts something |
0:41.0 | straight from someone else's playbook and passes it off as their own creative brilliance. |
0:45.7 | In the 80s these were settled with fistfights in the 90s they were settled in court but today |
0:50.4 | they usually just play out on Twitter. What a time to be alive! |
0:55.8 | Now stealing a move slogan or gimmick is one thing but basing your entire style on another |
1:00.6 | wrestler is something else entirely and often not even that much of a problem. |
1:05.8 | Where your signature move and catchphrase is marketable and thus someone else pinching it almost literally |
1:10.3 | takes food off your table, your ring style is actually something you probably hope |
1:15.1 | gets shared around. |
1:16.4 | Imitation is often said to be the sincerest form of flattery that mediocrity can pay |
1:20.8 | to greatness, but when it comes to a wrestler's in-ring style, it's more often |
1:24.9 | the case of adding new chapters to an already storybook. |
1:29.1 | Let's take a look at 10 such individuals who tried to take something that came before them and then build on it. |
1:34.6 | Number 10, Sasha Banks, Eddie Guerrero. |
1:37.4 | Sasha Banks is one of the most accomplished female performers ever seen inside a |
1:42.6 | W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. W. |
1:47.1 | Now doesn't make it any less true. |
1:48.8 | But it does highlight just how low the bar had been for their in-ring expectations for decades. |
1:54.6 | Not the fault of the women themselves, of course, because up until very recently, |
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