10 Wrestling Parodies That Became Real

2. Bullet Club Invades RAW

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In September 2017, the Bullet Club invaded WWE Monday Night RAW to parody that time DX invaded WCW but not on a tank, it was never a tank.

Cody led the charge. The Bullet Club wanted Marty Scurll's umbrella back, in an amusing burial of Jack Gallagher's plagiarism. They wanted Cody's last name, too, which was delightfully absurd. Was there a patent office in that arena?

Before tactically locating and gathering every WWE fan in BC merch, and spoofing also the speech from Independence day - "As fate would have it, today is the 4th of July," Cody said, in September - Hangman Page declared "war".

WWE, almost precisely two years later, engaged them in it.

The declaration intended as parody became an actual wrestling ratings war fought on Wednesday nights between, poetically, much of that Bullet Club and former DX leader Triple H, pitting AEW Dynamite against NXT. It's very strange, watching this episode of Being The Elite back now. For your writer's money, it felt small time then, and to paraphrase Johnny Rotten, it feels f*cking small-time now.

And it's stranger still to comprehend that, in this war, thus far, Finland is once more defeating the over-powered Russian enemy.

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Michael Sidgwick is an editor, writer and podcaster for WhatCulture Wrestling. With over seven years of experience in wrestling analysis, Michael was published in the influential institution that was Power Slam magazine, and specialises in providing insights into All Elite Wrestling - so much so that he wrote a book about the subject. You can order Becoming All Elite: The Rise Of AEW on Amazon. Possessing a deep knowledge also of WWE, WCW, ECW and New Japan Pro Wrestling, Michael’s work has been publicly praised by former AEW World Champions Kenny Omega and MJF, and current Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes. When he isn’t putting your finger on why things are the way they are in the endlessly fascinating world of professional wrestling, Michael wraps his own around a hand grinder to explore the world of specialty coffee. Follow Michael on X (formerly known as Twitter) @MSidgwick for more!