10 Wrestlers Who Piggybacked Their Way To Success
7. Horace Hogan
Success is relative in a list like this, because it's not exactly possible to reach the absolute pinnacle of pro wrestling purely by hanging around with the correct people - unless, of course, you are Triple H.
Horace Hogan, the nephew of Hulk, experienced a degree of success in WCW, but prior to that, he used his familial connection to land a gig in New Japan Pro Wrestling under the name of 'Axe Boulder'. A double-reference to his cousin's puro finish and early, dropped ring name, this was ironic, because he was nowhere near half as good. Almost distinctively bland, Horace's brief ECW ring name - Prey Of The Dead - was more fitting, because it reflected how useless he was.
A convincing if thoroughly unremarkable bruiser in FMW, Horace mostly plodded through colourless brawls stateside, though he was game for punishment. He took a trademark purser of a bump to the ribs, and he was quite mobile by lump standards, though he rushed so much of his offence that he barely conveyed what a unit he was.
Horace once unleashed a great response to a heckle - "Shut up ya pubes!" - but is remembered mostly for his repackage as Horace Hogan, a reveal in which his uncle somehow made exposition more obvious than his apology for being a massive racist.