The problem with Asya is that despite the fact she was seriously jacked for a woman, she was really undersized. Unlike Chyna, Asya was only like 5'1 or 5'2 while Chyna was either 5'10 or 5'11. Plus she had nowhere near the same level of aura and presence as Chyna
I appreciate you not tearing Norman smiley apart and acknowledging that he was entertaining as screaming Norman. Dudes so underrated. If you’ve never heard Enzo amore talk about Norman helping him train you should it’s a great story
The 24/7 outmatched comic relief guy as hardcore champ inexplicably surviving by the skin of his teeth wasn’t a thing before Crash. When it got over WCW stole it for Norman. It was blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention. Just because Norman was great at it and entertaining doesn’t mean it wasn’t stolen.
@@MrRyan-wu4jxNorman Smiley did this before Crash, who was in the tag team division at that time. Watch Wrestling Bios' Reliving the War for the detailed timeline
@@Android18ukDo we know that for a fact? They could both pick people up. Chyna wasn't great, but she was leaps and bounds ahead of whatever Nicole could awkwardly do (RIP to her btw, I feel awful when people still make horrible comments about her appearance, woman can't even get a bit of dignity after she's died fairly young, but people be what they are 💔 )
@@ButWhatIfItIs Well there's conflicting stats, both could bench press over 300ibs and could squat/deadlift over 400ibs, but most of the Chyna stats that have seen are slightly higher, and given Chyna was smaller/weighed less than Nicola, pound for pound she's much stronger for her size.
#7 - Don't make fun of Norman Smiley. When it comes to real fighting, Smiley was the real thing. He put on a goofy persona, and he doesn't look tough. But Smiley always had tremendous respect from the boys in the WCW locker room. Certain wrestlers like Rick Rude, and Ron Simmons are legit tough guys who could seriously hurt opponents if they wanted to. Well, you can put Norman Smiley on that short list of guys who are for real.
The Norman/Crash one is a stretch, at best. Norman did it first, and better Shark might’ve been created quickly, but Tenta covered up his tattoo for the ill fated gimmick
Surely when a wrestler moves from one promotion to another, they generally keep the same gimmick/style, so that's not really stealing the gimmick. Earthquake to Avalanche just makes sense, i.e. give him a slightly different name. Same as Nash and Hall moving to WCW and basically having the same individual gimmick. Stealing gimmicks to me makes more sense when it's two companies using two different wrestlers with the same gimmick (like the Chyna vs Asya one).
-Kaientai being a ripoff of La Parka (the microphone voice overs) -Tag Team Champions that hate each other (WCW had Sting and Giant as enemy Tag Team Champions before Stone Cold and Undertaker became WWF Tag Champions that were enemies, but I don't know if to count this one as ECW did it first out of the big three companies as Chris Candido and Lance Storm were enemy Tag Team Champions months before WWF and WCW did it) -Gillberg being a mockery of Goldberg, also Billy Gunn (a Bill with a last name that starts with G that uses the Jackhammer move) -The Radicalz being a recycled Revolution (with Eddie Guerrero and Terri Runnels instead of Shane Douglas and Asya)
I disagree with Norman Smiley here. Crash was still tagging with Hardcore and he wasn’t over with hardcore title yet. I’ll give WCW credit for getting Norman over for being a non-hardcore hardcore champion first.
What you may have forgotten is that Chyna almost signed with WCW. When Joanie Laurer was getting discovered at Killer Kowalski's school, Killer stated that he introduced her to Shane McMahon and told him of her agreeing verbally to go with the southern wrassling company. However, the minute he heard that, Shane told Chyna that wwf was going to hire her.
How is getting someone like Earthquake, or Nailz, to keep doing what they did in WWE, stealing a gimmck? If that counts, then Hulk Hogan as Hulk Hogan in WCW, is stealing a gimmick.
So, I actually found Asya attractive, so I was happy to have her. But Chyna she was not. The Giant and Team Canada (for its rotating door of members at one point) were definite highlights. Norman Smiley was a gem and deserves the good things. Let's never mention Oklahoma again. Renegade, Richard Wilson, though... so, he ended up killing himself in large part due to his WCW termination and bad financial situations. It was tragic.
Now, could Nailz have had a temper? Of course...but hearing his side of things and seeing what McMahon has been charged with, I can see him being spot-on.
@@aliciasimmons8473, you're welcome. I'm not definitely stating that Vince *did* proposition Nailz, but I'm also not saying he didn't...just that Nailz' story isn't the only one against Vince.
The point of Giant being son of Andre was actually dropped almost immediately without it ever being mentioned or referred to again. Only the similar name stayed.
@@mikeg2491 No, there are other explanations. Russo has a God complex and wanted to think that anything he did was going to be better than anything anyone else did before, including trying to get a character over that WWF couldn't, making him look "better" than the WWF. It had nothing to do with revenge on WWF and no, McMahon did not sneak Russo into the WCW job in an attempt to destroy it from the inside.
I wouldn't call either Andre The Giant or Jim Ross as being "gimmicks." Jim Ross was just being Jim Ross and while I guess someone might be able to claim that most people only knew of Andre's time in the WWF, the fact of the matter is that he was touring the world as Andre The Giant for 2 decades. Wasn't really a WWF gimmick, so it couldn't be a WWF gimmick that WCW stole.
One WWE gimmick that WCW stole (that weren't mentioned in this video) is Se7en (played by Dustin Rhodes). Se7en had a dark entrance and wore a black jacket and black hat like the Undertaker did. The difference is that The Deadman didn't stalk children in his vignettes.
When Nailz went to WCW, instead of calling him "The Prisoner", he should've just had a number, like his DOC number. So basically, he would have no identity and just be a nameless "killing machine". If you needed to later, you give him a name and full backstory.
Always wondered why we hadn't done this yet to that effect in wrestling in recent memory (mine) I think that could put as much mileage on a performer as you like, you can bleed out info about them gradually which keeps the fans interest alive. Would be 100x better than the Wyatts nonsense.
@@JMartinM_AZ LOL I wanted a stable in WWF called "Tool Box", with Nailz, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, and Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart.
It's funny, because Vince McMahon did his fair share of stealing from NWA/WCW and the territories. But he did it much more successfully. Demolition was just a rip off of Road Warriors, DX only happened in response to NWO. But Demolition was awesome, a great tag team in their own right. And DX is probably a top 3 wrestling stable IMO. WCW under Russo and Bischoff was just bad at so many things. They got a bunch of stuff done great, but they had so many bad ideas. Best thing to come of it in the end is watching video of each one blaming the other.
XPac was a member of both! That blackface Nation of Domination skit was definitely influenced by Kevin Nash making fun of Arn Anderson retirement skit.
I believe Big Show was going to debut in WWF as Titan. They were about to run with that gimmick but they scrapped it with only days to go before Valentine’s Day and he went by Paul Wight until Mania when they figured out the Big Show gimmick
The biggest copy is Vince Mcmahon copying Bischoff's evil boss character from wcw. They were even commentators before the transition to onscreen characters. Bischoff were getting powerbombed, chokeslam and deaththropped way before Vince got the stunner.
Norman Smiley was an incredible rassler. There's so much more to that man than the silly dance & gimmick that got him over in WCW. He had a whole separate career south of the border where he was taken seriously. He's also a legit tough guy. Big Norman definitely deserves some recognition in the industry. ...and he's just the type of guy you want as a trainer/coach.
Yeah, massive disagree with Crash and Norman Smiley. Both great characters and i think each without the opposing show existing would have reached those character culminations naturally. Both hall of famers in my book.
Honorable mentions: 1. The Corporation and The Powers That Be 2. Kronik and APA 3. Big Boss Man and The Boss before becoming The Guardian Angel and later Big Bubba.
Non related: The New Blood: They were copying the establish WCW gimmicks • Ric Flair-Shane Douglas • Kanyon as Positively Kayon (Diamond Dallas Page) • Lex Luger-Chuck Palumbo • Mr. Perfect-Shawn Stasiak
I'm sorry but as soon as I saw this topic I was for sure that The Renegade would be #1. That was the only situation i could even think of. There is no way that there was a more obvious (like PATHETICALLY BLATANT OBVIOUS) attempt to copy at a total original WWE creation. RENEGADE SHOULD BE #1. End of story.
WWE does the rip-offs themselves with their own wrestlers . One example is the psycho gimmick where they first used it with Mickie James then they passed it off to Bayley and Becky Lynch.
That's a stretch. I am guessing you mean the short-lived attempt to turn JR heel. But I wouldn't say there are enough similarities between the JR heel attempt and the WCW Oklahoma character to be classified a stolen gimmick.
The fact that Asya was shorter than Perry Saturn, and in this case that is very telling because Chyna was booked at exactly the same height as Perry Saturn, there was no way that Asya could be physically or otherwise larger than Chyna.
Surprised this video didn’t talk about Booker t when they made him champion during dieing era . He was like a clone of the rock when the rock was Mr smackdown . Yes I know Booker been wrestling all his life as well he has a history but seriously everything he was doing during the rock was Mr smackdown Booker copied a lot of it Infront of the audience and it was great . Different Channel so it didn’t matter but when Booker came to the wwe that’s when our conclusion came to an end . The rock bottom vs the Bookem where rock called him a copy cat and Booker called rock a copy cat eventually his final finished changed where he uses the high leg drop more than the bookend . The high scissors kick leg drop was his original finisher before the hype . Either way I still respect him it was wcw pulling all the strings he probably didn’t intentionally try to copy the rock . I liked Booker t even before his major push in wcw when he was always in red beating people up all time I thought that character should of had been the superstar his original movesets is superstar status but they never pushed him to the greatest until the end when wcw fell apart . I think it’s on a episode on dark side of the ring or it’s aew legends forgot which episode but Booker mentioned about winning the title standing on top of the apron turn buckles and a ref tells him tonight is the last night of wcw and he said what !?!? Atleast they gave him his moment before closing the company down .
10. Hulk Hogan did say in that promo, “This is not the Ultimate Warrior. This is the Renegade.” (Then Ultimate Warrior pretty much said it wasn’t him.) 9. This was awful. 8. It was simply a copy paste with less than success. 7. While it was goofy, he did have great work. 6. Darn it would’ve been cool to see the Hogans interact. 5. It was just a carbon copy. 4. So it was just a one off? 3. No comment 2. They did try something very different. 1. In a way, it worked.
This was wrestlings rap equivalent of the East/West madness...WCW vs WWF was the epitome of big company trolling. They both went at each other in the craziest of ways! Dont think we will ever see anything like this again.... (P.S. Shoulda given Gillberg an honourable mention from the opps 😂)
With the Ultimate Warrior not only did they have the renegade but also Jungle Jim Steele he looked a lot like the Ultimate Warrior at times so did Jeff Gaylord.
@@tomseville2345 Jimmy Snuka? He started wrestling in the mid to late 70s, maybe physically he resembled the Warrior a little bit, but he had his own polinesian look.
Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley and nWo 2000's Bret Hart, in December 1999, both recently turned heel, on an episode of Smackdown, Stephanie teased a face turn all through the episode only to reveal her and Triple H were on the same page all along, a few weeks later on an episode of Thunder, Bret Hart teased a face turn all through the episode only for Arn Anderson and Terry Funk to see through his act to reveal that he was still on good terms with nWo 2000
I don't think Team Canada was really a rip off. Companies put people together based on nationality or race all the time. You might as well save The Nation of Domination was a rip off or vise versa of The Hart's. I'm not sure which came first. Also I can see the similarities in Crash and Norman but I think they were different enough
I'm shocked Harlem Heat 2000 didn't make the list because i remember when they tried to make it like the Nation Of Domination when Ahmed and Clarence Mason joined WCW
To be fair, when it comes to Chyna and Asya, I always felt like WWE copied WCW because Jacqueline was in WCW before Chyna was in WWE. Chyna ended up doing a lot of things that Jacqueline was already doing, and I don't recall anyone doing it before Jacqueline.
The problem with Asya is that despite the fact she was seriously jacked for a woman, she was really undersized. Unlike Chyna, Asya was only like 5'1 or 5'2 while Chyna was either 5'10 or 5'11. Plus she had nowhere near the same level of aura and presence as Chyna
Yup, just like Nicole Bass, a Howard Stern "Wack Pack" member/radio personality; who appeared in ECW, WWF, XPW and the NWA.
Chyna was NOT 5'10, bro. Lol.
WCW Midnight was more on par in terms of build, height and strength, maybe even more athletic than Chyna was!
@@lukethomas6900much taller than Asia though. The heels/platforms made her atleast appear tall.
Chyna was 5'9".
Not 5'10 or 5'11.
"Can I copy your homework?"
"Yeah, but don't make it look obvious"
Don't forget Randy Hogan.😂
They really try to feed sting to nailz?😂
More like "Go ahead and make it REALLY obvious."
“That works for me brother” - Randy Hogan
lmaooooooooooo
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I appreciate you not tearing Norman smiley apart and acknowledging that he was entertaining as screaming Norman. Dudes so underrated. If you’ve never heard Enzo amore talk about Norman helping him train you should it’s a great story
I thought that they ruined Norman Smiley with that gimmick. He was such an amazing technical wrestler that his pre-gimmick watches were art.
@@TomPlantagenet he was but for that era tech wrestling doesn’t get over. At least he was entertaining as screaming Norman
@@gravitykat714 true-a shame though
Norman Smiley was the original R-Truth but with the Hardcore championship.
No, he was hokey
I hated when WCW stole the Gillberg character and made Goldberg 🤦♂️
Ha ha lol
I stopped watching wcw when they did that
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I think it's all in your head. They were nothing alike. Well, they were both Jewish, but that's it.
lol WCW dying days is a meme all in itself
1999-2000 especially.
FACTS.
FACTS
Yeah it's almost as bad as aew
@@johnkallday you know, I remember saying AEW was gonna become WCW a few years back, & nobody believed me! And now look at AEW! I was right!😂😂😂😂😂
Norman Smiley would have thrived in WWE on the main roster.
Underrated asf, complete professional who got himself over.
🤣🤣🤣Do you believe what you write? Are you an idiot?
Smiley wasn’t a copy of anything. Just a good hardcore wrestler
What?
@PETER123-we5sj I agree with him. I don't remember Crash doing any kind of being scared gimmick. If the stealing is both were undersized....?
The 24/7 outmatched comic relief guy as hardcore champ inexplicably surviving by the skin of his teeth wasn’t a thing before Crash. When it got over WCW stole it for Norman. It was blatantly obvious to anyone paying attention. Just because Norman was great at it and entertaining doesn’t mean it wasn’t stolen.
Nothing wrong with screaming Norman Smiley! I used to love that guy and how he would somehow win.
@@MrRyan-wu4jxNorman Smiley did this before Crash, who was in the tag team division at that time. Watch Wrestling Bios' Reliving the War for the detailed timeline
Buzzkill looked like a hybrid of Road Dogg and Dude Love .
And Van Hammer
And Crush during his time in The Nation in late 96/early 97
Joey Styles on Nicole Bass, "We should call her Russia because she's so much bigger than Chyna"
Bigger but not stronger.
@@Android18ukDo we know that for a fact? They could both pick people up.
Chyna wasn't great, but she was leaps and bounds ahead of whatever Nicole could awkwardly do (RIP to her btw, I feel awful when people still make horrible comments about her appearance, woman can't even get a bit of dignity after she's died fairly young, but people be what they are 💔 )
@@ButWhatIfItIs Well there's conflicting stats, both could bench press over 300ibs and could squat/deadlift over 400ibs, but most of the Chyna stats that have seen are slightly higher, and given Chyna was smaller/weighed less than Nicola, pound for pound she's much stronger for her size.
@Android18uk so with that.. crash holly was a heavyweight lol
@@GBrimstoneThat's an amazing false equivalency you just made. Were you trying to look dumb, or does it just come naturally?
Randy Hogan LMAO
BRUH😂.
Now we need a Hulk Savage. Maybe he can eat beef jerky as part of his gimmick. "Bite off a piece! Uh-huh!" 😉😄
@@stevenwilliams6602Id buy into that character in 2024!! Lol
Randy Hogan looks like if you try to create Hulk Hogan in a Create a wrestler, but left most of the selections on default because you ran out of time.
Randamania runnin’ wild brother
Norman Smiley was a national treasure, nobody can wiggle quite like Norman
#7 - Don't make fun of Norman Smiley.
When it comes to real fighting, Smiley was the real thing. He put on a goofy persona, and he doesn't look tough. But Smiley always had tremendous respect from the boys in the WCW locker room. Certain wrestlers like Rick Rude, and Ron Simmons are legit tough guys who could seriously hurt opponents if they wanted to. Well, you can put Norman Smiley on that short list of guys who are for real.
@@dauntlessasmr7910 The man was legit tough and also gave us the Big Wiggle!
I actually loved Team Canada in WCW.
“Don’t blame us, blame Canada.”
I know that was a South Park joke from their movie but dang it it was awesome.
Lance Storm is so underrated he was awesome in WCW
I'd argue Screaming Norman Smiley was his own thing.
Personally never saw a Crash Holly parallel.
They said on commentary that Asya was bigger than Chyna…
If they were talking geography then they would have been correct….
Lol true. China is in Asia.
Yes, that was exactly their point with it.
It's interesting seeing this all happen through the Reliving the War series. It's sad to see how WCW fell over time
The Norman/Crash one is a stretch, at best. Norman did it first, and better
Shark might’ve been created quickly, but Tenta covered up his tattoo for the ill fated gimmick
Surely when a wrestler moves from one promotion to another, they generally keep the same gimmick/style, so that's not really stealing the gimmick. Earthquake to Avalanche just makes sense, i.e. give him a slightly different name. Same as Nash and Hall moving to WCW and basically having the same individual gimmick. Stealing gimmicks to me makes more sense when it's two companies using two different wrestlers with the same gimmick (like the Chyna vs Asya one).
Bro how do you never run out of top 10s😭😭
He actually does..pay closer attention.
Recycling
I was just thinking of this question lol. They put out content everyday
Cuz it's wrestlelamia bro they never run out of top 10
@@RealityOfItIswhere have they run out?
Screamin' Norman Smiley is a worldwide treasure
Looking forward to seeing Top 10 Gimmicks WWE Stole.
We know we won't see that. Just pure revisionist history written by the WWE.
All of their people came from nwa or wcw
-Kaientai being a ripoff of La Parka (the microphone voice overs)
-Tag Team Champions that hate each other (WCW had Sting and Giant as enemy Tag Team Champions before Stone Cold and Undertaker became WWF Tag Champions that were enemies, but I don't know if to count this one as ECW did it first out of the big three companies as Chris Candido and Lance Storm were enemy Tag Team Champions months before WWF and WCW did it)
-Gillberg being a mockery of Goldberg, also Billy Gunn (a Bill with a last name that starts with G that uses the Jackhammer move)
-The Radicalz being a recycled Revolution (with Eddie Guerrero and Terri Runnels instead of Shane Douglas and Asya)
WWE don't steal other companies gimmicks
@@brianbray2721All Their Attitude Era Superstars Except The Rock Were In WCW First.
I disagree with Norman Smiley here. Crash was still tagging with Hardcore and he wasn’t over with hardcore title yet. I’ll give WCW credit for getting Norman over for being a non-hardcore hardcore champion first.
What you may have forgotten is that Chyna almost signed with WCW. When Joanie Laurer was getting discovered at Killer Kowalski's school, Killer stated that he introduced her to Shane McMahon and told him of her agreeing verbally to go with the southern wrassling company. However, the minute he heard that, Shane told Chyna that wwf was going to hire her.
How is getting someone like Earthquake, or Nailz, to keep doing what they did in WWE, stealing a gimmck? If that counts, then Hulk Hogan as Hulk Hogan in WCW, is stealing a gimmick.
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It is!
So, I actually found Asya attractive, so I was happy to have her. But Chyna she was not.
The Giant and Team Canada (for its rotating door of members at one point) were definite highlights.
Norman Smiley was a gem and deserves the good things.
Let's never mention Oklahoma again.
Renegade, Richard Wilson, though... so, he ended up killing himself in large part due to his WCW termination and bad financial situations. It was tragic.
Now, could Nailz have had a temper? Of course...but hearing his side of things and seeing what McMahon has been charged with, I can see him being spot-on.
Didn't nailz claim that vince hit on him
@@aliciasimmons8473, that was his story at the time...but nobody believed (at the time) that Vince was propositioning people in that way.
@@Alsebra and now with what we know dam thank you I appreciate it
@@aliciasimmons8473, you're welcome. I'm not definitely stating that Vince *did* proposition Nailz, but I'm also not saying he didn't...just that Nailz' story isn't the only one against Vince.
@@Alsebra exactly you're right and only two in vinces office or were others there and I think nails punched him or lifted him off the ground
The point of Giant being son of Andre was actually dropped almost immediately without it ever being mentioned or referred to again. Only the similar name stayed.
Remember that Brad 'Buzzkill' Armstrong was also Brian 'Road Dogg Jesse James' Armstrong's brother. They just weren't the same personality!
Under Russo, WCW started becoming almost a parody of WWF.
Either he was sent by Vince to destroy WCW or he was bitter with his old employer, there’s no other explanation
@@mikeg2491 Or Russo was just a complete moron.
"almost?"
@@mikeg2491 No, there are other explanations. Russo has a God complex and wanted to think that anything he did was going to be better than anything anyone else did before, including trying to get a character over that WWF couldn't, making him look "better" than the WWF.
It had nothing to do with revenge on WWF and no, McMahon did not sneak Russo into the WCW job in an attempt to destroy it from the inside.
I wouldn't call either Andre The Giant or Jim Ross as being "gimmicks." Jim Ross was just being Jim Ross and while I guess someone might be able to claim that most people only knew of Andre's time in the WWF, the fact of the matter is that he was touring the world as Andre The Giant for 2 decades. Wasn't really a WWF gimmick, so it couldn't be a WWF gimmick that WCW stole.
Jim ross was more involved than you think. He’s def his own character basically
Norman Smiley was hilarious! 'Does the wiggle'
I'm not sure parody counts as stealing.
Wait. Norman was criminally underrated and better than Crash. RIP Michael Lockwood
One WWE gimmick that WCW stole (that weren't mentioned in this video) is Se7en (played by Dustin Rhodes).
Se7en had a dark entrance and wore a black jacket and black hat like the Undertaker did.
The difference is that The Deadman didn't stalk children in his vignettes.
That wasn't a stolen gimmick, that was a joke
I lost it 😂 with china and asya I forgot about asya 😂
When Nailz went to WCW, instead of calling him "The Prisoner", he should've just had a number, like his DOC number. So basically, he would have no identity and just be a nameless "killing machine". If you needed to later, you give him a name and full backstory.
Always wondered why we hadn't done this yet to that effect in wrestling in recent memory (mine)
I think that could put as much mileage on a performer as you like, you can bleed out info about them gradually which keeps the fans interest alive. Would be 100x better than the Wyatts nonsense.
I'm surprised they didn't call him the Hammer
@@JMartinM_AZ LOL I wanted a stable in WWF called "Tool Box", with Nailz, Greg "The Hammer" Valentine, "Hacksaw" Jim Duggan, and Jim "The Anvil" Neidhart.
It's funny, because Vince McMahon did his fair share of stealing from NWA/WCW and the territories. But he did it much more successfully. Demolition was just a rip off of Road Warriors, DX only happened in response to NWO. But Demolition was awesome, a great tag team in their own right. And DX is probably a top 3 wrestling stable IMO.
WCW under Russo and Bischoff was just bad at so many things. They got a bunch of stuff done great, but they had so many bad ideas. Best thing to come of it in the end is watching video of each one blaming the other.
XPac was a member of both! That blackface Nation of Domination skit was definitely influenced by Kevin Nash making fun of Arn Anderson retirement skit.
I saw more Powers of Pain being the ripped offs
I believe Big Show was going to debut in WWF as Titan. They were about to run with that gimmick but they scrapped it with only days to go before Valentine’s Day and he went by Paul Wight until Mania when they figured out the Big Show gimmick
I have never confused Norman for a Rip-off version of the Crash Holly Gimmick ..
Both were individually good at their stitch in their times.
Lance Storm is extremely underrated Team Canada was gold
The biggest copy is Vince Mcmahon copying Bischoff's evil boss character from wcw. They were even commentators before the transition to onscreen characters. Bischoff were getting powerbombed, chokeslam and deaththropped way before Vince got the stunner.
And Eric Bischoff Was Better At Building Heat. Vince Got Beat Up Far Too Much By
The Top Babyfaces.
Norman Smiley was an incredible rassler. There's so much more to that man than the silly dance & gimmick that got him over in WCW. He had a whole separate career south of the border where he was taken seriously. He's also a legit tough guy.
Big Norman definitely deserves some recognition in the industry. ...and he's just the type of guy you want as a trainer/coach.
I wouldn't call Nailz or Quake muffin copycat. That was literally their gimmick. Vince just liked to own the characters.
Chyna and Asya
WCW said to WWE hey you have a country, we have the whole continent😂😂
Yeah, massive disagree with Crash and Norman Smiley. Both great characters and i think each without the opposing show existing would have reached those character culminations naturally. Both hall of famers in my book.
I haven’t watched wrestling since about 2002, but I still love these videos. Brings me back to my youth.
I believe Sir Norman Smiley/Crash Holly and Team Canada/Hart Foundation is a really far stretch of being referred to as “copycats”.
Great to hear positive words about Smiley
The sammy davis jr of wrestling.😂
Crash Hilly and Norman Smiley is a big NO.
Not at all.
yet more reasons why WCW flopped faster than a fish outta water! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@joemomma3208 Facts I stopped watching WCW in 99, I used to flip back & forth between RAW & Nitro before 99 🤣
Also Bischoff giving most of their stars big money contracts who didn't really deserve it.
Flopped harder than Amandla Stenborg in her diss track video.
FACTS.
Truth but man was it FIRE when NWO first arrived
Norman Smiley is an absolute legend. Loved watching the guy growing up
in Nailz' defense, attacking Vince McMahon doesn't necessarily mean the person has anger management issues lol
People forget Smiley was a mega star in Mexico as Black Magic and being CMLL heavy weight champion too
Honorable mentions:
1. The Corporation and The Powers That Be
2. Kronik and APA
3. Big Boss Man and The Boss before becoming The Guardian Angel and later Big Bubba.
3. Was Big Bubbah before Bossman
@@JamesChatting I know. I should have "before going back to Big Bubba".
4. Finlay/Brian Knobbs and the Dudley Boys.
@@DBoy38Watch Reliving tye War, Finlay/Knobbs did the gimmick before the Dudleys. They had their old ECW gimmick at that time.
Team Canada, Norman Smiley and a couple of stars keeping similar names when switching over are hardly "literally copied"
Asya is no pull out
Yep. Not even a bit 😁
Okay Simp. Whatever you say
Man you guys are lonely 😂😂I'd work out with her I wouldn't work her out tho
She could get it
She could get it
The Saskatchewan Heavyweight International Title (S.H.!.T.) was one of the most prestigious titles in WCW history.
1:28 OMG that Oklahoma Character was terrible man.
Boomer Later😂😂
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Ultimate Warrior was basically the same character before working for WWF.
Yeah he just called himself The Dingo Warrior.
Non related: The New Blood: They were copying the establish WCW gimmicks
• Ric Flair-Shane Douglas
• Kanyon as Positively Kayon (Diamond Dallas Page)
• Lex Luger-Chuck Palumbo
• Mr. Perfect-Shawn Stasiak
Vampiro - Sting
And didn’t they all feud with each other too? Wcw had no authenticity by this point.
@@kendall6515 Yes
I'm sorry but as soon as I saw this topic I was for sure that The Renegade would be #1. That was the only situation i could even think of. There is no way that there was a more obvious (like PATHETICALLY BLATANT OBVIOUS) attempt to copy at a total original WWE creation. RENEGADE SHOULD BE #1. End of story.
3:47 thats nice at least he working at the top level
WWE even did the same thing for years 😂
Kimberly Page is no pull out 💯
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Agreed
FACTS.
@@Snuffpuppy15when your balls drop you'll understand
No need. She most likely went through menopause already. 😂😂
WWE does the rip-offs themselves with their own wrestlers . One example is the psycho gimmick where they first used it with Mickie James then they passed it off to Bayley and Becky Lynch.
Same thing as Chyna
Now they use rhea as Chyna
What about The Juice. Juve was a clear ripoff of The Rock.
When he would say Finally the juice has come back and he would say the wrong city 😂😂😂
Juvented did the Juice gimmick because The Rock mentioned Juventud during a promo on Raw with Chris Jericho in 1999.
Should do a 10 WCW Gimmicks WWE Stole
Honestly, Buzzkill look like the lovechild of Road Dogg and Dude Love 😶
I’m gone say WCW didn’t copy the crash idea just because Norman Smiley was so awesome to me. I give WCW a pass.
Now you need to do top 10 gimmicks WWF stole from the WcW
I remember being beyond pissed when Hogan was hyping up a potential Warrior debut in WCW and gave us Renegade. Jerks.
I believe Oklahoma was a WWF concept first.
That's a stretch. I am guessing you mean the short-lived attempt to turn JR heel. But I wouldn't say there are enough similarities between the JR heel attempt and the WCW Oklahoma character to be classified a stolen gimmick.
@@aceldamia9114Ed Ferrara appeared on WWF Heat as Oklahoma before he ever went to WCW
Why do people always forget that Ferrara did the gimmick in wwf first?
Honourable mention to F.U.N.B. "Stone Cold" Hulk Hogan lol
Aysa and Midnight would’ve been a great addition to WWF in 2001 for the invasion angle
You can say the same thing of all pro wrestling promotions
Too Cool and 3 Count
The Rock and The Book
Mannerisms of Jerry Lawler and mannerisms of Mark Madden
The fact that Asya was shorter than Perry Saturn, and in this case that is very telling because Chyna was booked at exactly the same height as Perry Saturn, there was no way that Asya could be physically or otherwise larger than Chyna.
they might have meant wider
The big show tossed my salad!! Back in 05!! It was in a barn in Nova Scotia
Surprised this video didn’t talk about Booker t when they made him champion during dieing era . He was like a clone of the rock when the rock was Mr smackdown . Yes I know Booker been wrestling all his life as well he has a history but seriously everything he was doing during the rock was Mr smackdown Booker copied a lot of it Infront of the audience and it was great . Different Channel so it didn’t matter but when Booker came to the wwe that’s when our conclusion came to an end . The rock bottom vs the Bookem where rock called him a copy cat and Booker called rock a copy cat eventually his final finished changed where he uses the high leg drop more than the bookend . The high scissors kick leg drop was his original finisher before the hype . Either way I still respect him it was wcw pulling all the strings he probably didn’t intentionally try to copy the rock . I liked Booker t even before his major push in wcw when he was always in red beating people up all time I thought that character should of had been the superstar his original movesets is superstar status but they never pushed him to the greatest until the end when wcw fell apart . I think it’s on a episode on dark side of the ring or it’s aew legends forgot which episode but Booker mentioned about winning the title standing on top of the apron turn buckles and a ref tells him tonight is the last night of wcw and he said what !?!? Atleast they gave him his moment before closing the company down .
We got a BUNCH here in Indiana...
"Big Daddy" Kenny Nash
Bobo Brazil Jr.
"The Barbarian Berserker" Jimmy Jacobs
"Macho Warrior" Ric Hogan 😂😂
Feel like Vince was jealous he didn't think of doing Oklahoma first.
10. Hulk Hogan did say in that promo, “This is not the Ultimate Warrior. This is the Renegade.” (Then Ultimate Warrior pretty much said it wasn’t him.)
9. This was awful.
8. It was simply a copy paste with less than success.
7. While it was goofy, he did have great work.
6. Darn it would’ve been cool to see the Hogans interact.
5. It was just a carbon copy.
4. So it was just a one off?
3. No comment
2. They did try something very different.
1. In a way, it worked.
So does that mean that the big boss man dug up Andre the giant then?😂
norman smiley was the one good thing about WCW in that era
This was wrestlings rap equivalent of the East/West madness...WCW vs WWF was the epitome of big company trolling. They both went at each other in the craziest of ways! Dont think we will ever see anything like this again.... (P.S. Shoulda given Gillberg an honourable mention from the opps 😂)
With the Ultimate Warrior not only did they have the renegade but also Jungle Jim Steele he looked a lot like the Ultimate Warrior at times so did Jeff Gaylord.
And Jimmy Snuka...
@@tomseville2345 Jimmy Snuka? He started wrestling in the mid to late 70s, maybe physically he resembled the Warrior a little bit, but he had his own polinesian look.
Some other guys the resembled the Ultimate Warrior were Conan Chriss Walker and Conan 2000 Scott Putski.
@@robertoacevedo6247 I'm talking about *Steele* adopting a similar look as *Snuka* to wrestle, not Snuka "copying" The Warrior...
@@tomseville2345 gotcha and your right Jungle Jim Steele did borrowed fron Snuka!
Ah Norman Smiley. The 'Big Wiggle' was one of the best parts of WCW back in the day.
Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley and nWo 2000's Bret Hart, in December 1999, both recently turned heel, on an episode of Smackdown, Stephanie teased a face turn all through the episode only to reveal her and Triple H were on the same page all along, a few weeks later on an episode of Thunder, Bret Hart teased a face turn all through the episode only for Arn Anderson and Terry Funk to see through his act to reveal that he was still on good terms with nWo 2000
I don't think Team Canada was really a rip off. Companies put people together based on nationality or race all the time. You might as well save The Nation of Domination was a rip off or vise versa of The Hart's. I'm not sure which came first. Also I can see the similarities in Crash and Norman but I think they were different enough
I'm shocked Harlem Heat 2000 didn't make the list because i remember when they tried to make it like the Nation Of Domination when Ahmed and Clarence Mason joined WCW
To be fair, when it comes to Chyna and Asya, I always felt like WWE copied WCW because Jacqueline was in WCW before Chyna was in WWE. Chyna ended up doing a lot of things that Jacqueline was already doing, and I don't recall anyone doing it before Jacqueline.
It went both ways…. Gilburg. Scheme gene. The nacho man. Huckster, billionaire Ted. The rockers were a rock n roll express knock off.
The Norman smiley choice is odd
Smiley segments STUNK
Are you young?
People already thought there were multiple Ultimate Warriors 😂
Urban Myths. I'm 36.
Asya and Chyna IS SO OBVIOUS....CAUSE CHINA IS LOCATED IN ASIA
That’s ok seeing as WWF and WCW had World and Wrestling in their titles. It’s a “problem” with other companies do it.