6 WWE Superstars who had gimmicks inspired by famous movies

Modified Sep 09, 2019 14:32 GMT

Both Paul Burchill and Kane's characters were inspired from films

#1 Razor Ramon – Scarface

Razor Ramon drew inspiration from Scarface

Scott Hall got his idea for Razor Ramon from the legendary Tony Montana character from the 1983 classic Scarface. Hall pitched the idea to Vince McMahon who, having never seen Scarface, loved the idea and ran with it. Razor Ramon quickly became one of the most popular Superstars of the New Generation Era.

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In an interview with Total Wrestling Magazine, Hall revealed that Vince loved the character so much that he personally directed the vignettes:

”I felt really flattered because Vince [McMahon] left TV personally to direct my vignettes, he flew with me to south beach Miami to do it. I knew things were cool and my DVD came out last July where they showed footage of Vince into the character. He’d never seen Scarface, so when I came out doing the Scarface gimmick, he thought I was a genius, I never told him. I don’t know why they don’t introduce new characters with vignettes like that anymore.”

Hall found great success as Razor Ramon, winning the WWE Intercontinental Championship 4 times. He stayed in WWE until 1996, when he signed for WCW along with Kevin Nash before debuting in the latter company as The Outsiders.

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Edited by Arvind Sriram