10 "Foreign" Wrestlers Who Were Actually Born In America

9. Most Of The Jung Dragons

One of the brightest spots in WCW's last year of existence was the feud between wrestling boy band Three Count and mysterious Japanese stars The Jung Dragons €“ Kaz Hayashi and the decidedly non-Japanese-named Yun-Yang and Jamie-San. Though Hayashi was born in Tokyo, cut his teeth in Michinoku Pro Wrestling as part of the original Kaientai DX, and went back to compete for All Japan Pro Wrestling when WCW folded, Yang and Jamie would soon be exposed as the all-American boys they were. Jamie-San, unmasked and revealed to be Caucasian, would compete under the names Jamie Knoble and Jamie Noble, eventually winning the Cruiserweight Championship in WWE as a tobacco-chewing, trailer-living, denim-wearing hillbilly of the highest order. Yang's path was even more circuitous €“ after being released from WWE during the invasion, California-born, Georgia-raised Korean-American James Yun was rehired as "Akio," a still-Japanese lackey of Tajiri. When that didn't pan out, he was released once more, then rehired as Jimmy Wang Yang €“ a proud redneck with a cowboy hat and mustache. Whether that attitude represented the real Yun is anybody's guess, but it exposed his true nationality once and for all.