One more thing about Waylon Mercy is that he worked for the WWF from '85-'88 with Mike Rotunda, Bray Wyatt's dad, as the US Express, who are going into the WWE HOF later this year. He also tagged with Sid Vicious in WCW as the Sky Scrapers in the early 90s

@user-xd4rt2pb3p

3 ай бұрын

And also "Mean" Mark Callas A.K.A. The Undertaker

@fuysome2310

3 ай бұрын

They were the American Express

@stevegallo8483

3 ай бұрын

You confused two wrestlers. Barry Windham worked with Mike Rotunda in the US Express. Waylon Mercy's real name is Dan Spivey.

@nellybobo533

3 ай бұрын

Ccccc😂❤😊

@nickdogg7320

2 ай бұрын

​@@fuysome2310nope. They were the us express.

Superstar Billy Grahman was a charismatic cool heel way before cool heels became popular . He deserve way more respect and recognition than he gets

@Mjwara

3 ай бұрын

There's even a DVD dedicated to him called "20 years too early".

@SeeYouNextTuesday-

2 ай бұрын

He’s in the hall of fame what more dya want?

@mondocjenson-dy8zd

2 ай бұрын

I recall him and Ken Patera occasionally on MACW for Jim Crockett promotions back in the day.

@ericmonaco4509

2 ай бұрын

*Cough* Gorgeous George *Cough*

You know what they say, "every masterpiece has its cheap copy".

Ric Flair stole the Nature Boy gimmick to Buddy Rogers too

@kidz4p509

3 ай бұрын

Buddy Rogers isn’t a smaller wrestler.

@ghislainlalande8277

3 ай бұрын

@@kidz4p509 neither was Superstar Billy Graham

@executivesolutionsystemsllc

3 ай бұрын

He didn't steal the nature boy from Buddy. Buddy gave him his blessing.

@brandonjohnson9839

3 ай бұрын

exactly, he sounded like a flair hater@@executivesolutionsystemsllc

@mondocjenson-dy8zd

2 ай бұрын

Does anyone remember the Mighty 💪 Zulu from the Mighty Igor and Bulldog Brower wrestling 🤼‍♂️ era?

the first ladder match actually was in 1972 in stampede wrestling.

I ❤d Bray Wyatt. He had an amazing career. Hard to believe he's gone.

did not know Waylon voiced the puppet. really cool

@will4rmstrong

3 ай бұрын

I actually assumed Windham voiced it, but was given a deeper pitch to his voice

I always wonder why hulk and Billy kinda look similar

Not a suprise that Hogan is on here

LA Knight took EC3 style and poped like crazy, still LA got natural charisma

@jeromelancashire3278

3 ай бұрын

WHAT?

@painvillegaming4119

3 ай бұрын

And both of them took it from rocky

@jeromelancashire3278

3 ай бұрын

@@painvillegaming4119 EC3 is nothing like The Rock.

@cesarcanete3402

2 ай бұрын

I think you're thinking of MJF man.

@jeromelancashire3278

2 ай бұрын

@@cesarcanete3402 MJF is nothing like The Rock.

Rip Bray 😢

Joe E Legend created Right To Censor? Give this guy some recognition!

Steve Austin stealing from the Sandman

Danny Spivey (Waylon Mercy) teamed up with "Mean" Mark Callas (The Undertaker) in WCW and manager was Teddy long

@stevegallo8483

3 ай бұрын

He also teamed with Sid Vicious.

@eltriangulodelasbermudas

3 ай бұрын

So cool!❤

John cena: you cant see me Lil jimmy: you cant see me

Thank you for the update, Tap Out corner..!! I was surprised to learn Superstar was the original wrestler who used the cool word "brother" when he was addressing other people.

A ladder match was common in Stampede Wrestling, a promotion own by Stu Hart. Bret didn't come up with the idea but he forwarded the idea to WWF

Isn't waylon Mercy supposed to based off of max cady from the movie cape fear?

@Ben_Lorentz

2 ай бұрын

Yes

7:08 In other words, Billy Graham will live on.

CM Punk stealing from Kenta should be on here. Triple H stealing from Shane Douglas, Stone Cold stealing from The Sandman & Mikey Whipwreck, Solo Sikoa stealing from Umaga. The list goes on and on.

Bret didn’t come up with the ladder match, it was used from the 60s on in Japan, the UK and Stu Heart’s Calgary territory. Which is where Bret had first completed in one. As for ‘Puppies’ David Lee Roth was saying that as far back as 79.

Bret Hart definitely didn't invent the ladder match. I saw a ladder match once that took place in the 1970s or 80s, I don't remember what promotion - AWA maybe? But Jake Roberts was in the match and the goal was to climb the ladder to get a bag of money.

only a couple of these where smaller wrestlers and Bret Heart didn't come up with a ladder match that was a popular thing among the indie circuit before Bret bought it up

How is Billy graham a smaller wrestler when he was WWF champion 8 years prior to hogan’s first WWF championship run

What a great idea from Brodus Clay, "let me come back as a beast, beating up everybody so bad that they get injured", and he was surprised nobody listened to him?

It's been a very long time since I've seen such a loving and respectful comments section in a wrestling video. Restored my faith in humanity❤

This is the video that never asked for it but that I really need it 🤘

Bray did it the classiest. He got the blessing of the original and let him be part of it.

Hogan stole his entire gimmick from wrestlers. Even his haircut.

Matt Hardy submitted that name, because he saw in a magazine that they were going to go with the coolest fan submitted name for that tag team. And Matt threw his at the time wrestling name into that hat. And won. They didn't steal it from him, this is confirmed by Matt in either one of the book biographies or dvd ones. Either the twist of fate bio. Or the exist to inspire book.

WTF Superstar Billy Graham wasn't that of a small man he wrestled here in Florida and got more love here (as a heel) than he did in the WWWF just a "smaller"territory Hogan 6'7 Graham 6'4😁

Razor Ramon was a Scarface copy, and Waylon Mercy was a copy of DiNero’s character in Cape Fear.

@user-yx8lf8di2f

12 күн бұрын

I thought Mercy took inspiration from Charles Manson

@randyreese6413

12 күн бұрын

@@user-yx8lf8di2f Probably both

The rock by stealing from booker t

@b.kawhi-it7214

2 ай бұрын

How did the Rock steal from Booker T??? Might've missed it🤣👍🏾

4:21 Owen hart’s reaction when he said puppies is priceless

Jesse Ventura stole from Superstar Billy Graham more than Hogan. Actually a considerably amount more than Hulk if you factor in his look and taunts.

Waylon Mercy a.k.a. Dan Spivey was Wyndham redundance a.k.a bray Wyatt’s godfather

Just Joe looks like Billy Ray Cyrus with short hair 😂

CM Punk = Kenta's combo, GTS, Nagata's running knee + bulldog, Muta's taunt (ECW era)

Tbf WWE would show Bret and HBK's ladder match over a decade later on DVD

@davidadamsii9552

2 ай бұрын

Had it on vhs in the 90s

@zanethind

2 ай бұрын

@@davidadamsii9552 cool

Windham was such a class act! RIP Windham aka Bray Wyatt🙏🏾

Even though it wasn't on purpose, Stone Cold Steve Austin stole his gimmick from Dr D David Schulz.

@JPK169

3 ай бұрын

What gimmick ?

@jkeegan154

3 ай бұрын

@@JPK169Uh the badass redneck gimmick.

@jkeegan154

3 ай бұрын

@@JPK169 The badass redneck gimmick

Anyone saying Superstar Billy Graham was a smaller wrestler shows how little you know about wrestling industry...... I mean what coke are you snorting? He was never a smaller superstar, he was a pehnomena.

Even AEW Christian ripped the Matt off of the Ring and exposed the boards

I pitched a match, they used it, not going say what type a match it was, but I am honored with the two who did the match, and the story of the match fitted well with what was really going on.

Oh go figure so Hulk Hogan stole that move.

Dont forget ric flair ripping off the nature boy gimmick from Buddy Rogers.

Valhalla stole the gimmick of Max the Impaler

It's already been pointed out that Stampede had ladder matches. They even had them in the UK when I was a kid in the mid 80s. I actually think it was a British wrestler Kendo Nagasaki who invented it. He was in Canada at the start of the 70s. He was always coming up with mad gimmicks.

Remember that time when Mae Young showed her puppies?? 🤣🤣 Thanks Road Dog

This is why anybody tryna get into wrestling, make sure you have a solid salable gimmick and trademark that mess! It really seems like you need to be business savvy when dealing with these vultures. So glad they didn't take Boogeyman's gimmick but they did JTG and the others hella dirty.

Can we get a Matt Riddle bell to bell

so basically the drake of wrestling?

And Stone Cold stole the Stunner from Mikey Whipwreck from ECW.

Ladder matches happed on Canadian tv in the 70’s in Calgary Stampede and there was even a ladder match in 1986/7 on English TV during the World Of Sport wrestling

what is wrong with some of the people pfp

@damianking42

3 ай бұрын

They are bots

@anonluxor470

3 ай бұрын

It really annoying

The ladder match was first done in Japan years before WWE

Rip bray Wyatt

It's good to see a cameo from Doink The Clown.

I don't know how to tell you this, but Dean Ambrose is absolutely not the first guy to pitch tearing up the ring to expose the boards, it's a pretty standard move at this point.

Everyone old is new again. Almost every new wrestling character is a rebirth of an old wrestling character in some way or another.

Mr. Backland did it before Just Joe and Right to Censor.

@JonCombo

2 ай бұрын

Also Bret's rants on Americans.

7:51 “Issa Knife.” 21 😂

It's not stealing when WWE owns the rights to their characters

How does WCW using the name High Voltage for a jobber tag team have anything to do with WWF or Matt Hardy?

The Waylon Mercy character was based off Robert Deniro's character in the movie Cape Fear

I hope jtg can be on wwe again

Stone Cold not necessarily stealing, but "And that's the bottom line" was used a ton by Jake Roberts and Arn Anderson (...of course SC threw on the "Cause Stone Cold said so")

Technically Hullster didn't steal but polished already existing gimmick.

Steve Austin said he borrowed the beer chugging gimmick from Sandman.

Graham got ripped off by Ventura, Hogan and again by Scott Steiner.

Hogan could be on this list 20 times

Hogan put wrestling on the map, all while trying to deal with Metallica trying to make him their guitarist and Hollywood trying to make him the next John Wayne. Everyone needs to bow before this legend of wrestling and of humanity in general. Ask him, he'll tell you.

Wouldn't it have been cool if waylon mercy was like a mentor to bray who would show up on some occasions.

Isnt the Waylon Mercy character just a swipe of Max Cady (robert dinero) from Cape Fear?

Bret hart always crying about something

@MightnightSamuraiSake

8 күн бұрын

I mean he kinda had a right he was screwed over multiple times

@Brazil144hopeful

8 күн бұрын

@MightnightSamuraiSake I understand but when his brother Owen died they said Vince offered his wife 99 million or some high number like that. Instead of him telling her to take it he says no we going to take Vince for everything he got and she ended up only getting 2 million. My point is he never talks about the people who has messed over

@MightnightSamuraiSake

8 күн бұрын

@Brazil144hopeful that I agree with he should've just took the money instead of dragging everything out

@Brazil144hopeful

8 күн бұрын

@MightnightSamuraiSake right and basically ended up with nothing because after them lawyer fees I know his kids didn't get anything after there mother got done spending

Damien Sandow was similar to the Genius Lanny Poffo. JBL was similar to Ted DiBiase. Chad Gable is similar to Kurt Angle. Dominic borrowed his look from Eddie Guerrero.

Calling Billy Graham a "smaller wrestler" is wild.

Nice video

It's Hella difficult to continuously come up with new characters in pro wrestling. Obviously there are gonna be repeats.

00:01 Basically KZread In A Nutshell

Damn Hogan

Bel to Bel Bobby Leslie please

But the fact is when Billy graham hits front double biceps pose he looks great and when hogan hits that pose hogan looks complete idiot 👌

@khesipresents1885

3 ай бұрын

You only say that cuz you hate Hogan....not cuz it actually true

@imserious4113

3 ай бұрын

@@khesipresents1885 no i don't hate hogan and I got a valid reason for criticize hogan you know there's a video where Arnold was talking to a short guy who was a bodybuilder it was around mid 70s and Arnold says to that short guy don't hide your arms inside when you hit front double biceps pose 💪 just open em. Even lot of tall guys who hide their arms in biceps poses either they feel bad for their arms or they think if they keep their arms nearly to their shoulders hide their arms a lil inside the arms would look thicker and bigger 😌 which made em look funny just like hogan

Smaller wrestlers LOL . Yeah i get what you mean . Should have thought of a another word . Less famous wrestlers or something

Does anyone remember the Mighty 💪 Zulu from the Mighty Igor and Bulldog Brower wrestling 🤼‍♂️ era?

2:35 kind of looks like chad gable

I don’t think the waylon mercy character fits the times of the ‘80s though, mostly because of the lack of understanding of cults

Sure, Hogan is a huge name but calling Billy Graham a "small superstar" and saying that Hogan "ripped off Graham" when it was obviously inspiration from his childhood is a bit of a stretch.

AND CARMELLA COPYS NIKKI BELLA

WWE Stole many ideas from Dean Ambrose, the one mentioned in video, apart from that, wearing vest and cargo, entrance from crowd, leader of the Shield, and handed all to Roman Reigns, (nepotism), although Dean had always more talent than Roman, in mic skills, in fighting, Moreover, they stole spot of Chris Hero/Cassius Ohno from The Shield and handed it to Roman Reigns. That's WWE, Vince loved Roman, HHH supported Seth, Basically they ruined Dean Ambrose.

@TerrellW-io8ft

3 ай бұрын

Dean was just the third wheel just facts... Right now ity Roman>Seth>Dean 🤷🏾‍♂️

@nwc.fringe

3 ай бұрын

@@TerrellW-io8ftif you think dean is less than seth and roman, boy you don't know anything about wrestling world.

@TerrellW-io8ft

3 ай бұрын

@@nwc.fringe if it really is about nepotism then Rikishi would've been world champion instead of a dancing goof and main event 5 manias 🤷🏾‍♂️ again dean was only good in the shield if were talking about right now dean still a third member if I'm being honest.

Funny that how toher wrestlers steal another wrestlers ideas for their gimmick. I mean look at Hogan, that guy stole not only his gimmick but his entire look as well.

I am remembered, Just Joe.. I thought he was a good character..

R truth been that before him. So thats false

Do sting bell to bell

King always stole other people's words or phrases.... I thought everyone knew that he didn't start puppies. Lol

Rip bray wyatt

Billy graham ventura made hogan

WWE is better than my brother

Roman reigns needs to stop walking on his back

Just a little less "However" interesting video.