10 Unbelievable Lookalikes That Will Ruin Wrestling For You
Do you remember your doppelgänger?
That which is seen cannot be un-seen.
Ducks wear dog masks, Colonel Sanders has a tiny stick man body, the 2012 London Olympics logo looks like Lisa Simpson in a very compromising position with her own brother - and the troubling Simpsons incest stuff doesn't end there, when one realises that Kirk Van and Luann Houten can't not be husband and wife and brother and sister. If it weren't actually hilarious, you could have sworn Vince McMahon wrote it.
Wrestlers in particular struggle with this practise of unwitting ruination, because in wrestling, image is everything. Image almost guarantees a gig even if you're the absolute sh*ts, and image prohibits a push even if you're absolutely fantastic at the craft. If one audience deems that you look "stupid", you are deemed stupid forever.
Some wrestlers have leaned into such comparisons, in order to market themselves effectively. Rob Van Dam named himself after Jean-Claude Van Damme because it created the impression that he, too, was an expert practitioner of the martial arts.
Mostly, though, this is something wrestlers have steered away from, even if they cannot escape more damning, deeper comparisons...
10. Braun Strowman Is Donald Gibb
A real spit take of a resemblance, rewatching Bloodsport on late night TV has surely spurred many wrestling fans to check Braun Strowman's Wikipedia page, because he was in it. He definitely played Ray Jackson, Jean Claude Van Damme's massive, testosterone-fuelled buddy, with whom he cements a friendship in suspiciously quick fashion purely to serve the narrative. A bit like that time Strowman became pals with Dolph Ziggler.
This *checks Bloodsport Wiki* "Donald Gibb" does not exist.
Both monstrous men share more than the exact same f*cking face and body in common. Gibb also played the role of 'Ogre' in the Revenge of the Nerds film series, in which he threw nerds off fraternity buildings, tormenting the dweebs much like Strowman has various enhancement talents and Sami Zayn.
Back to Bloodsport, in which Ray rose up the ranks with a flash squash win before immediately demanding actual competition in the form of Chong Li. That eventual clash ultimately resulted in his hospitalisation, which reads awfully like Strowman's monster push and burial at the hands of Brock Lesnar. And, while Ray's character returned for the lesser-seen Bloodsport II, he never did get his chance for revenge.
This *checks Bloodsport Wiki* "Donald Gibb" does not exist.