10 Sneaky Tributes To WWE Greats

8. Andrade (Jake Roberts)

Andrade Humberto Carrillo DDT
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Humberto Carrillo hasn't quite managed to catch fire as WWE's next babyface hero, but that's not through any lack of trying. The company even decided to dust off a classic spot in hopes that it'd heap sympathy on the man Jerry Lawler once described as WWE's Justin Bieber.

Yeah, not idea what 'King' was smoking there.

On the 16 December 2019 Raw, Andrade mimicked Jake Roberts by dropping his smiling foe onto the concrete with a thudding DDT. That, right down to the camera shot used to show Carrillo's head smashing into the ground, was meticulously close to Jake's 1986 attack on Ricky Steamboat.

Back then, Roberts legit knocked Steamboat out cold - he'd warned against doing the spot, and did his best to protect his peer. Concrete is concrete though, and Steamboat took quite the bump. Humberto's was protected, but still tried to retain the same air.

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