10 BEST Wrestling Rip-Offs
5. Kane (The Undertaker)
Kane had to be a ripoff to make any kind of sense, but few could have predicted the staying power of a man brought in to mimic - and improve upon - the actions, powers and theatrics of his storyline sibling.
Undertaker's monster-of-the-week feuds had ran out of juice by 1995, with programmes opposite Mankind and Shawn Michaels over the following years highlighting how important fresh rivals were for the evolution of a 'Deadman' gimmick that had strayed dangerously close to becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy.
'The Big Red Machine' existed in canon nearly six months before he ripped the door off of the new Hell In A Cell structure, but WWE's decision to present him as somebody even more terrifying than Undertaker himself ensured that the package lived up to the billing.
The tombstone, chokeslam, control of the lights and assorted other magic powers were familiar, but this terrifying spin on it was brand spanking new. It informed not just this one WrestleMania-ready feud, but much of Kane's remarkable successes in the years that followed.