5 wrestling gimmick ripoffs that surprisingly succeeded

Modified Oct 28, 2017 11:03 GMT

The popular New World Order faction of WCWJust because a gimmick has been blatantly ripped off from one that came before, it is no reason why that gimmick can't be successful. In fact, some ripped off gimmicks have been so successful that promoters frequently copy what their competition is doing.

#3 Demolition

The team New Day passed to break the record for longest tag team championship reign was Ax, Smash, and Crush - Demolition.

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Demolition was one of many teams who was largely believed to have been a rip-off of the Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal. The Road Warriors themselves were actually thought to be a rip-off of characters from the Mad Max movie franchise.

In actuality, face-painted monster tag-teams are a genre of tag-team more than they are all a rip-off of the road warriors. The Ascension being the latest team to don the gimmick.

Edited by Nishant Jayaram