10 Wrestling Parodies That Became Real
10. The New World Order Mock The Four Horsemen
It is as lowbrow as all hell, but you will never not pop at the sheer f*cking size of Syxx's prosthetic nose in his guise as Ric Flair.
He didn't yellow his teeth - this was phenomenally cruel, but insidiously so - but he certainly sunk them into Flair's reputation as an incoherent promo.
"You know, I'm out here screaming at the top of my lungs, and I don't even know why!"
"Flair" then summoned "Arn Anderson", played by Kevin Nash, as part of this legendary, influential Four Horsemen parody, and the detail that went into his prosthetics was just spectacular. He put more effort into this one segment than he did everything in his WCW career post-January 4, 1999.
It was like watching a power dynamic shift before your eyes; the nWo literally aged the Horsemen into retirement, the long, drawn-out, cutting, but very funny punchline of which was that the legendary stable were much too old to appear on national television and embarrass themselves with their romantic nostalgia.
Flash cut to: the mid-to-late 2010s, as the nWo did the exact same bloody thing in segments that were exponentially less funny; the barely group buried both the Ascension and the Revival, comfortably and odiously part of the boy's club establishment they once raged against.