10 Times Wrestlers Got Away With Ripping Off WWE

3. Asya

Undertaker Sting
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Remember, at school, when some kids - the really needy and insecure ones - would up the ante of your every achievement or possession? They had the bigger TV in their room. They had kissed more girls, in the youth club you didn't know about. Their dad was harder than your dad.

The WWF had Chyna - the Ninth Wonder of the World, a completely unique female monster bodyguard-cum-wrestler - a performer unlike any before her in the realm of North American professional wrestling. She was a major component of the Attitude Era's success.

But WCW had the d*mn continent in Asya - the Tenth, Biggest Wonder of the World! - a woman who once went by the moniker 'Double D' in WCW's likeminded attempt to cash in the WWF's rampant, sexualised product. The grim irony, of course, was that Asya was significantly less successful than Chyna, much as WCW was by then significantly less successful than the WWF.

Nobody bought her in the role because she was so transparent as to be invisible. Fittingly, the WWF didn't even bother threatening legal action. Vince, in a rare feat of sympathy, simply felt too sorry for her.

Or gave no f*cks. One of the two.

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