10 WWE Wrestler Attires That Paid Tribute To Other Wrestlers

1. Candice LeRae - Shawn Michaels (NXT, 8th April 2020)

There was perhaps some foreshadowing unrelated to her own match buried within Candice LeRae's April 2nd tweet about the gear she'd be wearing on April 8th, but this article should pay the same generous tributes to Shawn Michaels as the wrestlers themselves so the less said about her involvement in the Johnny Gargano/Tommaso Ciampa main event the better.

What is worth talking about is her ensemble, which borrowed liberally and lovingly from the threads Shawn Michaels selected for his iconic WrestleMania X Ladder Match with Razor Ramon.

In the white, red and black 'HBK' wore for his Madison Square Garden epic, LeRae was dressed for the occasion even if she met the same fate as her Performance Center coach in the contest itself.

In 1994, Michaels looked up at Ramon as he held both the real and fake Intercontinental Title belts aloft. For 'Candice Wrestling', it was Io Shirai and a briefcase as the NXT Women's Championship yet again disappeared from view.

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