5 Times WWE Superstars had body doubles

Taker and Faker

You would think that the WWE knows that their audience is not that stupid. It’s only up to some limit that you can suspend disbelief. But no, the company still goes ahead with pulling off some major logic-defying, head scratching moments that you have to just sit through.

Imposters are such things that are as ridiculous as ridiculous comes. Thinking that there might be ‘ two’ much of a good thing is a romanticized notion. Actually, it is usually hard to sit through watching an imposter make you believe he is the real deal. But sometimes, rarely, it worked.

Throughout WWE’s history this has happened a handful of times

Here are those instances where imposters came to the fore-

1.The Underfaker

The year was 1994, Undertaker’s feud with Yokozuna had just ended and he was dumped into a casket by his rival. He left the company for 7 months to take a break and nurse his injuries. In the middle of that absence, WWE began airing videos showing people who claimed that they’d seen the Undertaker. Undertaker re-emerged after Wrestlemania X. But only this time, it wasn’t the Undertaker, it was an imposter played by Brian Lee, a travel friend of the real Undertaker.

He wasn’t able to fill those shoes. Fans realized the ruse and called him ‘Underfaker’. The real Undertaker returned at Summerslam and faced this imposter and defeated him after delivering three tombstone piledrivers.

Underfaker was put in a casket and never returned. Ever.

2.Fake Diesel and Fake Razor Ramon

Jim Ross and Fake Razor Ramon

Why oh Why Vince Mcmahon thought he could pull off this idea is a mystery. In 1996, after Scott Hall and Kevin Nash left WWE for WCW, McMahon thought about having with their gimmicks. He made Jim Ross introduce two people who acted like Diesel and Ramon. Diesel was played by the same man who became famous as Kane. The one who played Ramon never returned after his contract expired.

Well, painting yourself green doesn’t make you a frog.

This gimmick lasted all of three months.

3.Faking with a Vengence

So, storyline wise- Kane started hearing voices that kept repeating the date ‘May 19th’. It was the date when his family was killed in a fire. But the source of that voice was conspicuous by their absence. But during a match against Shelton Benjamin, Kane and everybody else knew where the voices were coming from. A man dressed like 1997 kane came out, having the same, identical voice and choke slammed the real, unmasked Kane.

These two had a terrible match at Vengence. The man who played the imposter was Luke Gallows.

4.Sin Sin Cara Cara

Sin Cara’s time in the WWE was an utter botch. Everything he did evoked jokes and what not, for all the botches that happened.

The rotten cherry on top was that he failed WWE’s Wellness Policy and was out with a suspension.

So, Hunico filled his shoes and was doing quite well in that role, until the real Sin Cara. By then, imposter Sin Cara had turned heel. Real Sin Cara returned as face during heel’s match against Cody Rhodes.

Even though they had a few good matches and even though WWE tried to differentiate between them, this was a losing battle.

5.2 Stings

Like The Undertaker, Sting decided to take a break from wrestling. During ths break Eric Bischoff brought an impostor. The audience, in this case, believed it was the real Sting Steve Bordon. This continued for a few months. When the NWO came to the fore, Sting and Luger were their rivals. But once real Sting was out on a break, imposter Sting came and attacked Luger and fought for the NWO. When Real Sting returned he tried hard to make Luger believe that he was attacked by an impostor, which Luger refused to.

To prove his point, he took all NWO members out and then left neither joining WCW or the NWO. He became the loner and the silent badass that we’ve come to know.