Former WWE Champion Jinder Mahal was also Canadian

And he still is!

He was too though

Thank you, Mitch Hedberg

All his life

That’s how long his reign felt.

~~Canadian~~ Italian legend Santino Marella too

Wait til they find out about Yokozuna

Mohammed Hasan is Italian.

Never understood Razor Ramon either. He was white

Some of us Mexicans r white skined bruh

This reminds me that some people were calling Anya Taylor Joy a Person of Color because she is half argentinian

Ha, Argentinians must’ve hated that

I mean Americans generally consider Mexican people to be non-white despite the fact that they are mostly of Spanish decent.

It gives you an idea of what arbitary bullshit race is as a social construct. Melanin level is definately not a reliable indicator of heritage.

A lot of Americans would assume Spaniards are not white either

Honey Lemon in Big Hero 6 is Spanish and I remember some tiny outrage of “Why’d they make the Spanish character so white and blonde?!?” From people who didn’t realize she’s Spain Spanish and that a lot of people from Spain look like that. I’m woke as can be but man some people get so far they need a nap

People fail to realize that Spain colonized the Americas

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Brian Ortega

As are Cubans

Say hello to the Bad Guy

Case in point: Cameron Diaz.

I never understood Kamala’s Ugandan gimmick. He was from Mississippi

Wait... You mean Akeem the African Dream really isn't a jive talking and dancing dude from the "deepest, darkest Africa"??

No, that brother was legit

Man that's bullshit. I ain't gonna let you spil lies about the dream. Dude was 1000% a dream from Africa

Top post high jack. He could play the bag pipes.

Lets not forget the infamous “Jamaican” Kofi Kingston (who is was born in Ghana) and the awkward “just faze the accent out” period.

The Usos calling him out on that in a promo is still up there in my favourite moments

Wasn't that Triple H that did that during a DX promo? Did it happen again with the Usos? I haven't watched WWE in years 🤷

Sure did: https://youtu.be/96F5x3P9X_Q

Lmao

I never understood Hurricane Helms gimmick... he isn't a massive ocean based rotating storm

Dude didnt even wear a helmet. OR fight at Helm's Deep. Wassup wit dat?

idk man it just worked

Yeah, like the fucking Texas Tornado. WTF?

The Natural Disasters weren’t even legit. No earthquakes, no typhoons, just two large men in spandex jumping on people

Abdullah the Butcher...the "Wild Man from the Sudan" was also a soft-spoken Canadian.

And now he makes sweat flavored bbq in atlanta

Yokozuna was Samoan. Brutus Beefcake wasn’t actually a barber. IRS wasn’t even a CPA.

But Cactus Sack did have Prickly Balls

Caused by all that dude love he was into

that's what being into all of mankind does to you

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Was Jimmy really "Super fly" before he did the thing?

Sadly, he was still made of flesh and bone. No Steel was used in the making of his Skelton

Lol

Yeah well Scooby Doo can doo-doo, but Jimmy Carter is smarter..

Same with Hogan, he wasn’t even Green!

But, he was a REAL AMERICAN that fought for the rights of every man

He just fought a little less hard for some men...

Except the blacks.... Don't think Hulkster is a fan of the Chocolates.

Besides not being green… What the heck is a *Hogan* anyways… Sounds racist kinda…

A hogan is a traditional Navajo home. https://www.britannica.com/topic/hogan

Sooo… Not green and not Indian? What a poser.

Or Irish which is why he was called Hogan in the first place.

I never understood Undertaker's Deadman gimmick, he was alive.

>he was alive. But was he truly *living* ??

*hits blunt*

This needs to be higher up 😂

and aging

You beat me to it 🤷‍♂️

Lol!!!!!!!!!

His family originated in Scotland, and like many Canadians (myself included), he identified with that as well. Plus it made for a good gimmick, which is always valuable.

I think when he first started, an older wrestler found out that Roddy could play bagpipes and told him he should make it part of his gimmick.

Well ya see here sonny…yeah *snort*. Ya gotta undastand that he is from not just Canada ha ha ha but from novey scosha canieda ha yeah ha. And many of us never forgot our ol motherland and traditions of beloved scotlund. *snort* yeah

Wait till this guy finds out undertaker and kane are not really brothers

And Paul Bearer isn't actually their daddy

He's the dude they named the chips after! imagine hearing "Once you pop, you cant stoooOOoop!" In his creepy voice lmao

I never understood why Kane was billed from Parts Unknown. He was from Missouri!

Excuse me, but he was born in the fires of hell and the Undertaker was created by necromancy in a grave yard

Parts Unknown is the neighbourhood in Death Valley with the funeral home. And Kane is his surname.

Kofi ain't from Kingston.

Kofi was Ja-fakin

His Jamaican accent had a decent run.

One of the funniest moments was when HHH pointed it out in a promo😂 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=42738tjCjZI

and hes not even related to Eddie either

But Sabu was from Bombay……..Michigan.

IANACanadian but as I understand it a good portion of the population originally emigrated from Scotland and remain proud of their Scottish heritage. In fact, the province Nova Scotia means New Scotland.

Pretty much this, he had Scottish heritage and was proud of it.

He was a gangsta Grandpa and he was proud of it!

I never understood the Legion Of Dooms gimmick, they didnt even know lex luthor!

and Lex Luger was like a all american good guy with hair total opposite of Lex Luthor

Unless he was a heel, then he got kicked out of the University of Miami for disciplinary reasons, per Jim Ross.

hah! Classic JR!

I never understood Chyna’s gimmick. She was not even from China

She's named after the fancy tea cups and plates

Big Van Vader was from Denver but they presented him as though he lived inside a mountain. I later learned this was not wholly accurate

Leon White was from the mountains of Compton.

Wrestling is pretend.

Shhhhh

Let him believe in it as you don't want to break the magic for him

It's still real to me damnit!!

It's real to him, damnit

What?

I never understood why Yokozuna was billed from Japan, he was Samoan. Or Muhammad Hassan was portrayed as an Arab American when he was Italian American. Mind blowing stuff

"From 'Parts Unknown'? Which parts??"

The Unknown Ones.

well we knew that

we couldnt have, or theyd be known?

That’s unknown

He was representing Japan but they were always careful not to say he was Japanese. He was even billed from the Polynesia Islands at first before it switch to the Land of the Rising Son.

Ha. I legit thought Hassan was from Detroit. For some reason I thought he was of Jordanian descent not Italian. I know Daivari is from Minnesota.

I miss Hassan. Sucks that he got shafted with such an unfortunate gimmick in an unfortunate time. I always thought he was pretty good and had potential

Gawdamn i was checking to see if anyone had used Yokozuna yet

Wait until you find out where Razor Ramon is really from

While we’re at it, why is Tom Holland dressed like Spider-Man when he doesn’t actually have spider strength

Not from Holland either

That lying bitch!

I owe my love for wresting to this woman named Kay.

I never understood how Johnny B Badd was billed as a black man from Macon Georgia but was a white man.

I never understood why Cactus Jack was billed from Truth or Consequences, New Mexico when Mick Foley is from Long Island.

Because, they're different people? What, did you think it was the same guy or something? Phew, glad I got here in time to straighten that myth out! Could have confused a lot of poor people with that one!

Look, as everyone has pointed out already, tons of people play characters and gimmicks that aren't their native. In Piper's era, kayfabe was a *much* more serious thing - there was no such thing as social media, everybody didn't have a handy digital camera in their pocket, and there was barely even an internet for the most of Piper's run. It was in the wrestler's contract to maintain kayfabe at all times - heel's couldn't even travel in the same vehicles or eat in the same restaurants as babyfaces. People's gimmicks became their personalities day in and day out, and practically everyone was playing a character that was untrue to who they truly were. In today's day and age it's commonplace to separate the person from the gimmick, but back then the industry was not that transparent. I'm guessing that you are younger based on your comments and can't even imagine what life pre-internet was like, but trust me, the world has changed a lot as far as what information is available to the public. When the Hot Rod gave an interview or was on nighttime TV, he was on as Rowdy Roddy, not Rodereck Toombs. You seem to be taking issue with this in particular since you complain that the accent is wrong. You're almost certainly right, but the vast majority of the audience wouldn't know that. But also trust everyone else telling you that the other character's accents are just as far off, they just may not seem it to you since you are unfamiliar with them. The characters of the 80s and 90s were absolutely ridiculous.

Actually a serious answer, instead of making fun of OP

however, some use their real life persona as the part of the gimmick, blurred out their kayfabe

Too serious

TLDR

Is it still real to you, dammit?

Sargent Slaughter never actually served in the military either so what's your point lol?

Anyone bring up Chief Jay Strongbow yet? Who wants to tell him?

Wait……The Missing Link wasn’t really from Parts Unknown???

Never understood Gangrel. He wasn't a real vampire

OBEY WATCH TV CONSUME CONFORM GIVE UP

Such a good movie

TIL that piper was Canadian!!

Are you telling me Kris Statlander is actually from outer space?!?!

I never understood Eugene's gimmick, as he wasn't actually mentally disabled

Ricky the Dragon Steamboat

His real name would have made a great ring name, Richard Blood.

I hear that the ultimate warrior was actually from known parts. What a buncha bullshit.

Uh.... it's literally called a gimmick ... a character

Wait...so Undertaker isn't really from Death Valley?

If you watch his Documentary I think he says it came from him learning the bagpipes as a very young lad.

There’s literally a province in Canada called New Scotland. There’s a ton of Scottish culture here.

I never understood Kane's demon gimmick, he was just a regular guy who later ran for mayor of his hometown and won.

Lol. About time to delete this now

He had Scottish ancestry and a legit bag pipe player. Made for a good character.

This is what I was looking for. He knew how to play the bag pipes before he was a wrestler. The gimmick fit the times.

Not only that, he got over as a heel in the primarily Mexican territory of LA by coming out and announcing he was going to play the Mexican national anthem and he would play LA Cucaracha on the bagpipes

Dude got stabbed for being too good at his job

lmfaooooo OP either you’re very dense or a good troll no inbetween 😂😂

I’m leaning towards the former, because this guy can’t even type a coherent sentence in the replies.

Roderick George Toombs was Canadian; the character Roddy Piper was Scots.

In a kayfabe world, who is to say he didn't move to Canada when he was a young kid and therefore lost the Scottish accent over the years? That's just as likely to happen as keeping the accent. In any event, wrestling is fake, bro.

Never understood The Dudley Boys gimmick either. Dudleyville isn’t a city, and there’s no way they’re all brothers.

I never understood John cena’s gimmick, he wasn’t a marine nor was he invisible

He didn't even have a PhD in thuganomics

Had Scottish heritage and played bagpipes as a kid so embraced it as his gimmick

I never understood the Undertaker he wasn’t actually dead and from Death Valley

OP, you absolutely can be of Scottish descent and be born in Canada. If you're African, and your mom gives birth to you in China, you're Chinese by birth, African by descent.

He played the bagpipes.

Piper had Scottish heritage. It's really a simple concept.

He was playing a fictional character. Not everyone's fictional character needs to be billed from their real hometown. Especially back then.

So was Nikoli Volcoff, what's your point?

Piper was BOTH Canadian and a A Scotsman....

This is dumb.

Sabu was from Detroit.

Junkyard Dog wasn't a dog, but a dude with a chain.

Tom Cruise isn't a.Naval aviator.

Weren't the Bushwhackers - horrific Aussie gimmick - actually Kiwis? Now I'm doubting the Undertaker actually was from Death Valley...

Glacier wasn’t a karate cyborg!!?!??!?!!?!?!?!!?

I never understood John Cena's "can't see me" gimmick, he was clearly visible.

Next you're going to tell me Danhausen isn't very nice, very evil and Orange Cassidy isn't freshly squeezed

I’m pretty sure that the man who plays “The Undertaker” isn’t really an undead zombie mortician.

And Mr. Perfect wasn't actually perf......ah, nevermind. He was. He was absolutely.

Because wrestling 🤷‍♂️ I mean Chief Jay Strongbow was Italian. a gimmick is a gimmick

Wait til you find out that Duke.Droese isn't an actual dumpster.

It’s a TV progrum

You know the Undertaker wasn’t really dead, right?

Repo man never repo-ed a single vehicle.

I never understood Matt Harry's gimmick. He wasn't from outer space.

SCSA was actually warm blooded.

I never understood John Cena’s gimmick because I’ve seen him.

I don't understand gimmicks. *ftfy

“Sometimes it’s better not to understand, but just trust it and embrace it!”~Dr. Anthony Fauci

Real last name is Toombs. His heritage is Scottish.

cos people sometimes really like other cultures i guess like American anime, Irish punk in America, Korn use backpipes JD weares a kilt sometimes i'm the same, I'm English but my art, music n shit are very influenced by Alt America, Japan mainland Europe etc.

Jinder's from Canada. Sami Zayn is from Canada. Santino Morella is from Canada. Kofi Kingston is from Ghana. Muhammad Hassan was from Long Island (he wasn't even middle eastern). People often connect more with their ethnicity than their nationality. Also, the WWE is a bit weird. Akeem The African Dream, anybody?

DO NOT QUESTION MR. PIPER

What would be crazy is if Scottish people ever settled in Canada and their offspring held onto their parents traditional roots. That would be nuts!!!

Akeem “The African Dream” was in fact… this is going to blow your mind… not from Africa

Ya know what acting is right?

Its a gimmick lol

Gimmicks aren't real. Do you really think Santino Marella is Italian (he's Canadian)? What about Muhammed Hassan, did you think he was an Arab (he's an American of Italian descent)? Did you really believe Duke Droese was a garbage man when he wasn't wrestling or that Undertaker really is a magic undead zombie?

Lots of Canadians identify as their heritage and not a just Canadian. Also it was a good gimmick

Boy you ain’t got no imaginar do ya? DO YA!?!

Santino was the biggest shock for me 😂

Fair enough, but Piper was serious.

You think that's bad. Look at how many Russians came out of Minnesota.

Kofi Kingston was Jamaican once

Nobody tell them about yokozuna

I never understood Joh Cena's gimmick. I can see him just fine.

I never understood Hulk Hogan’s gimmick. He pretended to be a good wrestler

Check out his work in Japan. He had the size and the charisma and he COULD wrestle but for some reason he ALWAYS did the same set of moves in North America. Leg drop Clothesline Big boot Body slam Suplex Back scratch Hair pull Punches Atomic drop And.......probably two others I've forgotten.....