15 Awesomely Ridiculous Pro Wrestling Photos

6. RACIST CARICATURE POWERS ACTIVATE!

Kamala Kamala Ii And Abdullah The Butcher Wrestling has changed a lot. No longer is it a place where it's common for a black guy to acts scary so he can be some kind of "African savage." It especially isn't a place where you can have three of them teaming together. Here, in a picture from Japan, Abdullah the Butcher, allegedly a Sudanese madman, is teaming with Kamala, the Ugandan headhunter, and Kamala II, who was...presumably also a Ugandan cannibal. Before he hooked up with Kamala, he was doing a Kamala knockoff gimmick as the Botswana Beast. As much as it's joked about that, say, Rusev kept squashing black guys, or how black guys feud and/or team with each other a bit too often, could you imagine ever seeing anything like THIS again in a major wrestling company?

5. Smile!

Michinoku Pro Team Photo This "team photo" from Michinoku Pro Wrestling features a number of stars who English-speaking fans might know from WCW or the WWF, including Taka Michinoku, Ultimo Dragon, The Great Sasuke, Dick Togo, Men's Teioh, and Kaz Hayashi under a mask as Shiryu. It's really not that weird until you notice that they're on the side of the road somewhere in northwestern Japan. Why are they taking this photo here of all places? Did their tour bus break down?
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Formerly the site manager of Cageside Seats and the WWE Team Leader at Bleacher Report, David Bixenspan has been writing professionally about WWE, UFC, and other pop culture since 2009. He's currently WhatCulture's U.S. Editor and also serves as the lead writer of Figure Four Weekly and a monthly contributor to Fighting Spirit Magazine.