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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Mar 23, 2022 18:35:39 GMT -5
I recently got interested in a 90s puroresu guy named Volk Han. Russian shoot-style guy, mostly in WINGS. He had these awesome takedown submission moves, and I'm watching him, and I suddenly realize: this is Blue Mary.
I look, and yup, he was a big star, famously trained in a Russian wrestling style called sambo, which is her stated fighting style, and she was created during his height of fame. Cheesecake American Blue Mary is clearly supposed to be Volk Han.
On the other hand, there's wrestlers who visually resemble famous wrestlers, but whose moves aren't directly based on them. El Fuerte's mask looks a lot like El Santo's, but they don't fight the same.
And of course, there's the clear direct homages: Muscle Power from World Heroes just is Hulk Hogan, period.
How complete a list can we get? (let's just avoid Fire Pro, or we'd be here all day)
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Mar 23, 2022 18:41:47 GMT -5
Russian wrestler Victor Zangiev was used in the Street Fighter games.
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Post by petef3 on Mar 23, 2022 18:51:37 GMT -5
Zangief's name and nationality evidently came from Victor Zangiev, but other than that the two have almost nothing in common. Zangiev was a small, wiry, balding technical wizard and Zangief was a 7-foot monster who piledrove bears.
Alexander "The Grater" from Saturday Night Slam Masters was Vader. Other parallels can probably be drawn from SNSM characters to real wrestlers but none that are quite that overt.
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Post by tafkaga on Mar 23, 2022 19:40:07 GMT -5
Tecmo World Wrestling
Akira Dragon was Inoki
El Tigre was Tiger Mask
Dr. Guildo was Vader
Rex Beat was Road Warriors
Jackie Lee was Riki Choshu
Boris Chekov was Stan Hansen
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Post by nickcave on Mar 23, 2022 19:47:23 GMT -5
King in Tekken's look I believe is based on Tiger Mask even if the character differs
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Post by DSR on Mar 23, 2022 20:01:04 GMT -5
Zangief's name and nationality evidently came from Victor Zangiev, but other than that the two have almost nothing in common. Zangiev was a small, wiry, balding technical wizard and Zangief was a 7-foot monster who piledrove bears. Alexander "The Grater" from Saturday Night Slam Masters was Vader. Other parallels can probably be drawn from SNSM characters to real wrestlers but none that are quite that overt. I think The Great Oni from Slammasters was inspired by Great Kabuki. |
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Post by IgnahtaSempria on Mar 23, 2022 21:22:09 GMT -5
Raiden from Fatal Fury/King of Fighters is pretty heavily based on Vader.
From the same franchise, while not looking like his inspiration, Ramon's fighting style was based around Satoru Sayama, the original Tiger Mask.
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Post by chrom on Mar 23, 2022 21:25:23 GMT -5
Mike Haggar was based off of Jesse Ventura
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Post by petef3 on Mar 23, 2022 21:30:10 GMT -5
Mike Haggar was based off of Jesse Ventura Are we sure about that? Final Fight came out 2 years before Ventura's election as Brooklyn Park mayor. |
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Mar 24, 2022 1:24:05 GMT -5
I mean... Hugo and the Andores from Final Fight and Street Fighter are pretty obvious... Alex is based on Hogan apparently... and they'll even do the Mania 3 pose.  |
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Mar 24, 2022 2:37:02 GMT -5
Speaking of Final Fight the boss Abigali's likeness is clearly based off Road Warrior Animal.  Although they are of different race I guess maybe Edi E., another boss in the game, was based off the Big Boss Man in that they are both heavyset guys who are corrupt law enforcement officer characters. The game came out in 1989 and Boss Man was a pretty big heel in the WWF at the time feuding with Hogan so it wouldn't shock me. |
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Post by Mozenrath on Mar 24, 2022 3:57:40 GMT -5
Raiden from Fatal Fury/King of Fighters is pretty heavily based on Vader. From the same franchise, while not looking like his inspiration, Ramon's fighting style was based around Satoru Sayama, the original Tiger Mask. Yeah, Ramon does his DDT, his kicks, his leg sweep, and even his taunts and idle stance. The influence is heavy, with some fun attention to detail. Bass Armstrong in the Dead or Alive series certainly bears a strong resemblance to Hogan and Randy Savage, though Kevin Nash played him in live action form. |
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Post by pinja on Mar 24, 2022 5:29:59 GMT -5
Abadede(?) from Streets of Rage is pretty much the Ultimate Warrior. He even moves the same!
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Post by Fundertaker on Mar 24, 2022 6:10:28 GMT -5
There was that one Fatal Fury in which Billy Kane's appearence was slightly based off Dynamite Kid.
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Post by James Fabiano on Mar 24, 2022 7:22:17 GMT -5
Speaking of Final Fight the boss Abigali's likeness is clearly based off Road Warrior Animal. Although they are of different race I guess maybe Edi E., another boss in the game, was based off the Big Boss Man in that they are both heavyset guys who are corrupt law enforcement officer characters. The game came out in 1989 and Boss Man was a pretty big heel in the WWF at the time feuding with Hogan so it wouldn't shock me. And of course the obvious: Andore. The arcade Ninja Gaiden had two Road Warrior bosses (Hawk clones). Even has a ripoff of Iron Man as the BGM. Arcade Abobo (or Bolo or Jick or whatever) looks like Animal. |
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Mar 24, 2022 7:27:34 GMT -5
Speaking of Final Fight the boss Abigali's likeness is clearly based off Road Warrior Animal. Although they are of different race I guess maybe Edi E., another boss in the game, was based off the Big Boss Man in that they are both heavyset guys who are corrupt law enforcement officer characters. The game came out in 1989 and Boss Man was a pretty big heel in the WWF at the time feuding with Hogan so it wouldn't shock me. And of course the obvious: Andore. The arcade Ninja Gaiden had two Road Warrior bosses (Hawk clones). Even has a ripoff of Iron Man as the BGM. Arcade Abobo (or Bolo or Jick or whatever) looks like Animal. Whoever designed the characters for the game was clearly a wrestling fan. |
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Post by cassonova on Mar 24, 2022 7:49:20 GMT -5
Parallel point to the topic, but I really loved this when I noticed.
Fallout: New Vegas' King has lackeys named Roy, Wayne, and Ferris.
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Mar 24, 2022 7:56:37 GMT -5
Parallel point to the topic, but I really loved this when I noticed. Fallout: New Vegas' King has lackeys named Roy, Wayne, and Ferris. Fallout 4's Far Harbor DLC also had a group of raiders called the Husky Family named Bray, Luke, Rowan, and Braun. |
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Mar 24, 2022 8:08:25 GMT -5
Tecmo World Wrestling Akira Dragon was Inoki El Tigre was Tiger Mask Dr. Guildo was Vader Rex Beat was Road Warriors Jackie Lee was Riki Choshu Boris Chekov was Stan Hansen Oh yeah, tons of that obvious stand-in stuff in Japanese wrestling games. Fire Pro Wrestling had some great fake names (these were from the GBA game but I think they were used in most of them) Magnum TOKYO was Walther KYOTO Stone Cold Steve Austin was The Bionic Man Steve Majors. Hulk Hogan was Macho Star Axe Duggan Randy Savage was Slim Jim Mr. Mann |
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Post by 'Foretold' Joker on Mar 24, 2022 9:47:51 GMT -5
Rawk Hawk (Paper mario) is based off a combination of The Rock and lucha libre wrestling.
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