10 Times Imitation Was Not The Sincerest Form Of Flattery In Wrestling

3. The Huckster & The Nacho Man

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Calling out WCW for promoting 'old hat' wrestlers like Hulk Hogan and Randy Savage doesn't work when you're booking The Ultimate Warrior in main events against Jerry Lawler and also using the likes of Jake Roberts and Roddy Piper in featured positions. Somebody forgot to tell the WWF this in 1996, though, which is why fans had to sit through 'Billionaire Ted's Wrasslin' War Room'.

A series of skits that existed only to tell WWF fans that the only thing hip about Hogan et al was their next replacement surgery, Billionaire Ted (Ted Turner), The Huckster (Hogan), the Nacho Man (Savage) and Scheme Gene (Gene Okerlund) were all characters created by Vince McMahon to promote his 'New Generation' of WWF stars.

There was just one problem with all of this so-called hilarity: people didn't want to make fun of their childhood favourites. On top of that, the WWF should have spent more time talking up the athleticism of Bret Hart and Shawn Michaels, instead of making fans aware that they could see nostalgic brilliance on WCW programming.

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