This list will explore some effective imitation wrestling gimmicks, as well as other techniques that completely fail.

Over the years, the professional wrestling world has seen many colorful characters. Some of the gimmicks we introduced have similarities and characteristics with characters outside the wrestling world. This list will explore some effective imitation gimmicks and other completely failed techniques.

When you look back at some of these items, you might not think that creativity has acquired some characteristics from external sources, but thankfully, they did. However, the situation is different for those gimmicks that have not ended and quickly fell through in the audience.

Some items you will find in this list are unavailable for reasons beyond your control. This is how the cookies sometimes collapse. Most of those who put on these gimmicks succeeded after the gimmick played a role. One example is Kevin Nash's Oz, a gimmick based on the Wizard of Oz, who went through his sprint but continued to be Diesel, so that his level of success was almost unimaginable when he was Oz.

This list shows 13 successful gimmicks in professional wrestling, even though they mimic the characteristics and characteristics of popular culture. In addition, you will read about 12 imitation gimmicks that failed when they became public.

The gimmicks in this list draw features and characteristics from a wide range of sources. From movie characters to video games and musicians, the world of wrestling is a place to embrace the outside world, sometimes adding them to characters walking through curtains and ropes.

The following list will show the failures and successes of gimmicks compiled from the characteristics and habits of popular culture.

This entry is obvious. If you put a photo of the late Doors lead singer Jim Morrison with a photo of former WWE superstar John Morrison, this is a must-have gimmick. If not, the similarities will be brought up almost immediately.

WWE has seen a lot of talent in Morrison and hopes to maximize his gimmicks. They saw similarities in Jim Morrison. It goes far beyond appearance, but that is the wear and tear of its origin.

The wrestler showed an arrogant attitude, and cameras followed him every time he watched the game. Wrestler Morrison wears this gimmick proudly and has achieved great success. He is a multiple doubles champion, intercontinental champion and ECW champion.

Although his relationship with WWE ended with some backstage politics, it was almost ridiculous. Throughout his career, the late singer was stripped of his gimmicks.

This is a gimmick we are trying to forget. Paul Berger's pirate stunt is WWE's response to the height of the spotlight surrounding Disney's Pirates of the Caribbean. More specifically, Berger is not well suited to become Captain Jack Sparrow of WWE. It doesn't work at all.

Being British and possessing the charm that matches Johnny Depp's role in the film series, this seems to be a perfect fit.

Seeing this gimmick became the cornerstone of the feud between Burchill and British compatriot William Regal, once the feud was resolved, it did not last long. In fact, it is almost like a costume designed for feuds.

Once the rumors did not know that Vince McMahon of the Disney film series ordered the "walk the plank" gimmick, Berger's WWE career would never be restored. After a short stay on the ECW brand, he left WWE for the Independent Tour, until his retirement in 2017.

Once the ruling country was introduced into the WWE world, it is undeniable that WWE is trying to convey the similarities with the Islamic country. Ron Simmons (Ron Simmons) gimmick, using the name Faarooq, dressed and behaved in a way comparable to real-life party leader Louis Farrakhan (Louis Farrakhan).

It has been confirmed that the wrestling faction is loosely based on the Islamic State and the Black Panther Party.

The ruling country was organized with the influx of talents. Members include Godfather D'lo Brown (his name is Kama Mustafa), Mark Henry, The Rock, Savio Vega and the late Owen Hart. No matter how the gimmick was affected, it worked. The angry tirades on the microphone and their athletic ability every night gave this gimmick many benefits to withstand their longevity and many changes.

It can be said that it is the greatest faction of the attitude era, and the dominance of the country is definitely a very successful imitation gimmick.

Before there was Bree Wyatt, there was Warren Mercy. The main difference is that Mercy is not as smooth as Wyatt.

After being trained by the legendary Dusty Rhodes, Dan Spivey overcame many gimmicks and found him working with Mike Rotunda (aka IRS) and Teddy Long among others. The last gimmick used by Spivey in the wrestling world was inspired by Robert De Niro's role in the movie "Cape of Fear, Max Cady".

Although he may have the habit of acting and bowing his head and patting, the gimmick he brought to fans never really took off. Spivey may have played against some of the big names in WWE in 1995, and this gimmick eventually led to his retirement from the wrestling ring.

It is said that he left the phalanx because of injuries. However, it would be better if he left with a higher score in his career.

Although his career has been successful for ten years, at the end of 1996, Sting launched a new gimmick that immediately drew on the same as the image of Brandon Lee in the 1994 film "The Crow."

Appearing on the rafters for the first time, with a baseball bat, Sting continues his feud with the New World Order. His career is booming and he is once again a WCW leader.

This gimmick gave Sting the longevity he needed in his career to attract younger and younger audiences who began to like darker and more mysterious characters.

Before starting this gimmick, Sting had started his wrestling career for 10 years, and his career lasted for another 20 years. He was a little frustrated with Sting the Joker, but under all this, he was still an idol.

Sting attracted millions of people wherever he puts on his boots, and he finally made his WWE debut in 2015, the last year of his career. Although he only participated in a few games in WWE, the legacy he created a few years ago cemented his position in the WWE Hall of Fame in 2016 and became the headline news of the class that year.

When we think of Jillian Hall, we think of two things: the crazy mole that Boogeyman bit off her face, and her singing that is far below average.

She was used as a gimmick as a "restorer" and image consultant for MNM and JBL, but when she decided that she was not just a dazzling candy and not just a genius with her wrestling ability, everything changed.

No one wants to hear her sing, but she will do her best to even try to get Timbaland to help her get a recording contract when he appears on Raw.

It is said that Hall's gimmick comes from Britney Spears. If this is true, it is a failed attempt. Hall looked nothing like Spears, and the voice from her mouth would never make it into the top 100 on the bulletin board. Holborn should have turned a page from Spears' book and sang it.

Although Bray Wyatt’s appearance may be very similar to that worn by Waylon Mercy 20 years ago, there is another element of this gimmick that allows us to make a slight comparison with others. When the Wyatt family first debuted, there was a distinctive feature that reminded us of the cult leader.

Specifically, we think of the late Charles Manson. In the early days of the Wyatt family, the similarities were seamless. Manson never really committed a crime, but persuaded his followers to do dirty work.

The same is true for Bray Wyatt. With Eric Rowan, Luke Harper and Braun Stromman, Daniel Bryan, John Cena and Randy Orton behind him in different periods, Wyatt does not need to do too much. Many things can win the game.

Wyatt may not have family support, but change and growth are things that every gimmick needs to do to stay relevant. Wyatt welcomed this change and continued to make WWE headlines.

As for whom the devil used his gimmick to pay tribute to, it was no secret. Sadly for the wrestler, his career will never reach the success of the legendary rock band KISS.

Eric Bischoff, the creative director of WCW at the time, initially handed this gimmick to Brian Adams, who had more experience in the ring than Dell, who came to wrestling from a baseball background. ·Dale Torborg (Dale Torborg) more. Adams wore the gimmick twice before Bischoff handed it to Torborg.

This is a gimmick that looks great on the surface. KISS even got involved and asked The Demon to win a Main Event match.

Since Bischoff lost his position and the game was far from the main event, The Demon lost after a choking at The Wall. Bischoff seems to be the only one who believes that this gimmick will really work.

The gimmick after that didn't last long, just a small angle with the vampire. This left the bitter taste of the wrestling world in Toborg's mouth. When WWE purchased WCW, he did not participate in the scheduled trial training.

Hey, You! Scott Hall used his gimmick Razor Ramon to bring machismo. However, he is not the first to show this arrogance and vent his frustration on others. When Al Pacino played Tony Montana in the classic movie "Scarface", he also showed some of the same personality traits.

Hall gave WWE some of the best games in the world while participating in the Intercontinental Championship. For the first time, he competed with Hall of Famer Shawn Michaels (Shawn Michaels) in a ladder competition to compete for the prestigious title.

For four years, Hall has been at the peak of his WWE games and has made headlines due to the brawls and competitions he participated in. It was these years and those moments that helped him get the right to be elected to the WWE Hall of Fame. Become famous in 2014.

Regardless of the health and legal issues that Hall experienced in the years after serving as Razor Ramon, this gimmick is still a stepping stone to his success. When they jumped into WCW, he needed to change the entire foundation of the wrestling world with Kevin Nash in 1996 year.

Chris Kanyon is a very talented wrestler, his life ended too early at the age of 40. Although this may not be a profession known for its championship reign, Kanyon has already gained a large number of fans. This happened when he wrestled with his birth name. When he put on a gimmick that was different from his own, it didn't go so well. Come in, Mortis.

Mortis is a gimmick designed to compete with Glacier. Thinking of a character that can fight against the Sub-Zero that Glacier imitated, Mortis's creation has hints of reptiles and scorpions.

On paper, it looks great, but it does not surpass the wrestling ground. Kanyon gave up this gimmick in less than a year and switched to his original name for the remainder of his career.

Mortis is something that fans don't like to talk about or remember. I'm sure that if Kanyon was with us today, the only thing he would be grateful for was that it gave him his own stepping stone in the square circle.

Shane Helms appeared twice on this list. Thankfully, one of them is an effective gimmick.

For die-hard Helms fans, it has never been a secret that he is a comic book nerd. He has a tattoo of the Green Lantern logo, and using it, he appears in WWE as the company's own superhero Hurricane.

Helms achieved great success through this gimmick, and even found himself at odds with the People's Champion Rock Band. He has won one European championship and two world doubles championships. This is Helms’ greatest success in his career, working with great men such as Kane, Lance Storm and the late Rossi, and over the years with Molly Holly and Stacey Kebler and other partners cooperated.

The return in the 2018 Royals shows that the Hurricanes are still loved by fans and will be recorded in history as the greatest moment in the career of a North Carolina native.

Before becoming a social exile, Adam Rose reminded WWE of Russell Brand, a British party boy.

Adam Rose, as a party animal with a large party audience, quickly gathered a large number of fans. Moving from NXT to the main list, the party following Rose can easily be seen as WWE's response to Brand. Compared with Brand, he is very low-key, but Rose's WWE career is in Hollywood like a comedian.

Rose's gimmick as a party boy quickly became ridiculous, just like Brand's career. The whole gimmick is more witty than admiring, and it deprives Ray Lepin of his wrestling skills. After being arrested for domestic violence in May 2016, Rose asked for his release from WWE. After trying a more avant-garde game with party gimmicks on an independent circuit, he quit wrestling in 2017.

He is just a clown. There can be nothing sinister, right? Well, when we saw Stephen King’s famous clown Pennywise, we had learned to never judge a book by its cover.

Just like Pennywise, Doink gets happiness from hurting others.

Although Doink has the demeanor of a happy and friendly clown, once in close contact with his opponent, he is no longer friendly. The same goes for the clown that Tim Burton first brought to life on screen in 1990.

Although this gimmick has changed from a heel to a fan favorite over the years, the clown Doink has long existed in WWE, and fans still admire him very much. This gimmick may have started as an evil clown, but the change from heel to face allows it to live longer and consolidate its legacy in the wrestling world.

On the advice of the late Roddy Piper, Art Barr made his debut based on the role in the film of the same name shortly after the Tim Burton film was released in 1988 The role "Beetle Juice".

This gimmick made its debut when Barr wrestled for Portland, Oregon-based Pacific Northwest Wrestling. Barr's head and face are coated with white powder, similar to the way Michael Keaton dresses in the movie, Barr's gimmick soon became a fan's favorite.

In 1990, after his wrestling license was not renewed in Oregon, Barr quickly accepted a WCW trial. When he debuted, he changed the name of the gimmick to "juicer" to prevent copyright issues.

Barr's performance at WCW didn't even last a year. Barr received a plea bargain during his previous rape conviction and caught up with him, and the company had no choice but to release him. After leaving WCW, Barr struggled with two promotions in Mexico, EMLL and AAA before his untimely death in 1994.

This entry is not surprising to anyone. The similarities between the wrestler and the actor Jean Claude Van Damme are numerous.

The two have a long background in martial arts, and when similarities were raised to the wrestler in 1991, people compared more than just his boxing style. At that time, Van Damme was only a year away from starring in the movie "Taekwondo", and RVD also wore a similar mullet hairstyle.

These comparisons will follow RVD's entire career, which made him a huge success. He has made many pay-per-view headlines during his great tenures at ECW, TNA and WWE. In 2014, 13 years after WWE acquired ECW, they named RVD the greatest ECW wrestler of all time. Although he is currently wrestling on the independent stage, this gimmick not only helped RVD win many championships, but also became one of the most influential wrestlers of all time.

Of all the gimmicks experienced in Kevin Nash's career, Oz must be the worst decision he made. Although "The Wizard of Oz" is a timeless classic, the gimmick Nash created based on it is not.

After a strong push that lasted for about a month, when WCW cut costs, Nash refused to accept the pay cut. Although he continued to wrestle as Oz for the rest of the year, the driving force no longer exists. He suffered losses from his opponents, and these losses had been defeated by him a few months ago.

Nash has taken a break from WCW TV for a while, until he created a new gimmick for him. Although the gimmick may be Vinnie Vegas, it is not as bad as Oz. In addition to using his own name Diesel, Vinnie Vegas may be the stepping stone to Nash's most successful gimmick. However, Oz is something everyone wants to forget.

Only the great Dusty Rhodes can make such a work. Marc Mero was looking for newer gimmicks in the market. With Rhodes at the helm of WCW, he came up with the idea of ​​"Johnny B. Badd".

The idea came from Melo, who is similar to the legendary rock singer Richard Jr. Melo dressed gorgeously, wearing makeup and a feather boa as soon as he jumped into the ring.

After his debut as a villain in 1991, Melo persisted in the gimmick for five years and won the WCW TV championship three times. Melo met some big names at WCW. In matches against Diamond Dallas Page, Lex Luger and Rick Rude, Johnny B. Badd is the most successful gimmick Mero has ever used.

Dusty Rhodes was an amazing booker when he was at WCW. Although he may have made some mistakes (looking at you, Shockmaster), Johnyy B. Badd is certainly not one of them.

After a short stay at ECW, David Cash moved to indie games and participated in several games in WWE. Cash returned to ECW at the end of 1999 after being injured in a match with WWE doubles combination Too Cool. As the then owner of ECW, Paul Heyman saw something in Cash and wanted to repackage him to help reach a new level of success.

Hyman noticed how Kash looked like a musician, and Kid Rock, the newest member of the WWE Hall of Fame Wing of Fame, renamed him Kid Kash. In addition to the name, Cash will also appear on the ring like Kid Rock on the cover of his debut album "Demon Without Cause", and will name his Terminator after the singer's most popular song at the time, Bawitdaba.

In the two years he used this gimmick, Cash suffered multiple injuries and didn't let it pass as he or Hyman hoped. Thankfully, Cash gave up this gimmick after leaving ECW, put it in the past and kept it there.

This gimmick worked very well, and it is still true today. This may be because of where the idea came from or where it made its debut. In any case, Jushin Liger, based on the comic superhero of the same name, has achieved success in the past three years.

Liger participated in New Japan Professional Wrestling for the first time in 1989 and has achieved success in every promotion he participated in. Although he may not win the championship wherever he goes, he has a large number of fans following him wherever he goes.

It is hard to say whether his success is based on anime superheroes or his wrestling ability. Either way, when the Ligers are in the arena, all the fans always sit on the edge of their seats.

To this day, the Liger, who is still played by Keiichi Yamada, has appeared in independent promotions. It may not be an original gimmick, but it is definitely an effective gimmick.

It is easy to see the similarities here. Inland Jack's popularity in the wrestling world is centered around the success of the film franchise from which his character comes.

In the same month that the first Crocodile Dundee film was released, it made its debut in the then World Wrestling Federation. The wrestler was also Australian and was quickly accepted by the audience. Sadly, without his control, the popularity of wrestlers disappeared like a movie.

Although the wrestler is very talented and the company has seen some of his things, the failure of this gimmick is destined to happen. Basing roles on movie roles in a popular franchise is not always the best decision. Some work and succeed, just like the clown Doink did. Unfortunately, this one did not.

Peter Stillsbury, who plays the role of Inland Jack, has stated many times that he does not like to look back at his time in the world's top wrestling company. It seems that this gimmick fails not only in the eyes of fans, but also for people who have worn it for about two years.

It seems that Cody Silagyi, the father of super fan Izzy, turned his attention from MSK to Lince Dorado after Dorado was released from WWE.