10 Wrestlers Who 'Borrowed' What Got Them Over
5. Demolition
The Road Warriors are no strangers to gimmick infringement. Not only did they lift their look from Mad Max, but they themselves have been the inspiration for a large number of tag teams, popularising the use of face paint and spikes. Demolition were by no means the only team to rip off The Road Warriors, (the Ascension spring to mind as the most recent culprits) but they probably did it with the most success.
The teams consisted of Ax and Smash (and later Crush) and, like the Road Warriors, the men wore aggressive paint on their face, mostly black, white and red, and wore shoulder pads with studs and spikes, not at all unlike the shoulder pads with spikes and the red, white and black face paint of The Road Warriors.
During their time with the WWF, Demolition feuded with teams like The Powers of Pain, The Brain Busters, and The Colossal Connection, winning the WWF tag team championships 3 times, including one record-breaking reign of 478 days. They soon faded into the background, however, after feuding and losing to the newly-debuted Legion of Doom, aka The Road Warriors. Revenge is sweet.