10 Iconic Wrestling Gimmicks You Didn't Know Were STOLEN

8. Steve Austin

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Steve Austin has of course spawned more than one famous imitator.

Shark Boy was less plagiarist and more loving, irreverent parody, and the same applies to the wonderfully stupid and weirdly uncanny Stone Cold ET. Austin also heavily, heavily influenced Horan Hogan, who is funnier than a comedy meme wrestler due to the sheer insolence factor.

Horace was a dull and basic grunt of a brawler who only got a WCW gig because he was Hulk Hogan's nephew, and yet, he didn't have the courtesy to draw inspiration from his uncle. There was a bigger star in wrestling from whom to copy in a bone-headed bid to make it big, and that man was Austin.

"Thanks for the job Uncle Terry, but you're a past-it old man!"

Everything about Horace 3:16 is wonderful. The bald head, the jean shorts, the goatee, even the knee brace is pure Austin. If you CTRL+F "knee" on Horace's Wikipedia, no results are found. Either he just wanted people to think he was just like Austin, or nobody cared to update the page. In the best touch of all, his waistcoat was white. The idea that wearing a black one would have made things too obvious is incredible.

A member of the Simpsons season four writing staff couldn't have written a funnier dumber person than that.

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