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Post by XIII on Nov 27, 2022 13:02:36 GMT -5
In the grand tradition of John Wayne as Ghengis Khan let’s find all of the wrestlers that portrayed a character of a different ethnicity/nationality.
Kwang: Sávio Vega of Puerto Rico playing a Japanese ninja or something
the Sultan: Samoan Rikishi playing an Arab/Turk
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Post by ChitownKnight on Nov 27, 2022 13:05:16 GMT -5
Wasn’t Muhammed Hassan Italian?
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Nov 27, 2022 13:05:19 GMT -5
Al Snow, WWF 1998. Portrayed quite a few different ones trying to blend in at the announce table.
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Nov 27, 2022 13:10:57 GMT -5
Marc Mero was a white guy in heavy fake tan playing a character based on an african american musician.
Chief Jay Strongbow, Italan fake native american.
Chavo as Kerwin White.
Anthony Carelli played a russian shootfighter in OVW, Boris Alexief, and went on to debute on the main roster as Santono Marella, an Italian fan. He's actually indigenous canadian, part of the Metis of Ontario.
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Post by chrom on Nov 27, 2022 13:15:31 GMT -5
Yokozuna was Samoan
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Nov 27, 2022 13:21:10 GMT -5
Nikita Koloff was born Nelson Scott Simpson in Minneapolis, Minnesota, but was billed at various points as being from Russia, the Soviet Union, and Lithuania.
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Post by Triangle Lancer on Nov 27, 2022 13:38:01 GMT -5
From the USSR (by way of Quebec), Ivan Koloff.
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Post by karl100589 on Nov 27, 2022 14:35:00 GMT -5
IIRC The Commandant was the only member of The Truth Commission that was South African.
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Post by Jacy Jayne Atomic Dog AMV on Nov 27, 2022 14:40:03 GMT -5
My understanding of British wrestling from the 60s to the 2000s is that it was an endless war between raceswapped guys and fat guys that was so bloody that the leader of the fat guys went to America to become a sea monster.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Nov 27, 2022 14:42:06 GMT -5
He may have some heritage from there but Roddy Piper wasn’t Scottish.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 27, 2022 14:58:18 GMT -5
Some were clearly meant to be tongue-in-cheek, like Kerwin White being Chavo.
Random white guys putting on their best Boris and Natasha routine is a wrestling staple.
Jay Strongbow and Yokozuna are the two that stick out the most to me in terms of just being downright insulting to the viewers at home.
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Post by MolotovMocktail on Nov 27, 2022 15:00:14 GMT -5
Scott Hall as Cuban-American Razor Ramon Akeem: One Man Gang was suddenly from Africa. Fritz and Waldo Von Erich, as not only Germans, but Nazis.
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Post by Citizen Snips Has Left on Nov 27, 2022 15:17:07 GMT -5
JT Smith as an Italian
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Post by cassonova on Nov 27, 2022 15:38:28 GMT -5
He was full blooded! Just like Tracy Smothers and Tommy Rich!
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Post by Hypnosis on Nov 27, 2022 15:45:35 GMT -5
Kofi Kingston as a Jamaican.
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Post by James Fabiano on Nov 27, 2022 15:48:20 GMT -5
KATO.
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Post by EZ: Brainy Bae on Nov 27, 2022 15:56:18 GMT -5
I read the thread title and my brain immediately followed with Vince saying "the time-honored tradition"
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Post by chrom on Nov 27, 2022 16:01:00 GMT -5
Tanaka as well. Heck none of The Orient Express were Japanese.
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Post by XIII on Nov 27, 2022 16:17:28 GMT -5
Norman the Lunatic as Makhan Singh from Pakistan
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Nov 27, 2022 16:18:05 GMT -5
Tanaka as well. Heck none of The Orient Express were Japanese. I thought Sato was?
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