5 wrestling gimmick ripoffs that surprisingly succeeded

#3 Demolition

The team New Day passed to break the record for longest tag team championship reign was Ax, Smash, and Crush - Demolition.

Demolition was one of many teams who was largely believed to have been a rip-off of the Road Warriors, Hawk and Animal. The Road Warriors themselves were actually thought to be a rip-off of characters from the Mad Max movie franchise.

In actuality, face-painted monster tag-teams are a genre of tag-team more than they are all a rip-off of the road warriors. The Ascension being the latest team to don the gimmick.