10 Great Wrestlers And Their Terrible Impersonators
7. The Mega Powers - The Meta Powers
How To Assassinate A Wrestler's Momentum 101. WWE Creative thought that the reason why Mizdow got over was because he was a wrestler pretending to be another wrestler. Not because Sandow had been crapped on for months and his commitment to making a bad gimmick work was incredibly admirable to the fans. Nope, it seemed that the lesson they learned from the whole affair was "costumes iz de heehee lols", because not one month removed from having received a thunderous pop at Wrestlemania 31 for finally casting off the shadow of the Miz, Sandow was put back in costume as Macho Mandow, a Randy Savage clone. It didn't work for a number of reasons. First of all, Sandow's impersonation of Macho Man Randy Savage simply wasn't that strong; and second, he was chained to fellow perennial no-hoper, Curtis Axel, whose Axelmania schtick had slowly mutated into a full-blown doppelgänger of Hulk Hogan. The Meta Powers was born, and the whole thing stunk. Mandow and Axelmania only appeared on one PPV as a partnership; Payback 2015, where they were soundly beaten by The Ascension. Now that Hulk Hogan is a persona non grata with WWE, both gimmicks appear to have been scrapped and both men have scarcely been seen on WWE TV since.