10 WWE Gimmicks That Started Elsewhere

2. The Hurt Business

Inarguably one of the few decent things to come from WWE creative in 2020, The Hurt Business have existed exclusively within the company's crowd-free era and yet feel like an act that would be over if the Amway Center was able to hold more than a few thousand Zoom calls.

Not least because it's worked before.

MVP worked with and against Bobby Lashley in Impact Wrestling as leader of The Beatdown Clan. The modus operandi was largely the same - bully heels stiffing the sh*t out of people in their path in order to make money and elevate Porter himself to the top of the promotion.

Both benefited from their relationship at various points, and the implication made when 'The All Mighty' traded Lana for his old friend earlier this year was that he remembered exactly what the former United States Champion could do for him.

Utilising relationships from other companies and a sliver of subtext. On occasion, WWE can still do this thing.