10 Things WCW Ripped Off

10. André The Giant

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André the Giant was a bona fide wrestling superstar, a man who bridged the gap between the territorial days and the advent of Hulkamania and remained throughout a feature attraction audiences would pay just to see. In 1995 WCW would have happily signed André in their conflict with WWE, a plan that had little chance of succeeding since the Eighth Wonder Of The World had died in 1993.

So WCW did the next best thing, which was to make their own André. Fortunately they happened to have a seven footer waiting in the wings. Before he was the Big Show, Paul Wight was billed as 'The Giant' and introduced as André's son just in case nobody got the reference. He was duly thrown in against Hulk Hogan at the infamously bonkers Halloween Havoc 1995, where he grope-hugged his way to the world title. By the time he headed WWE-wards in 1999 the whole André thing had been dropped like the embarrassing and faintly offensive gimmick it was.