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15 Times WWE Lied About Wrestlers' Nationalities | partsFUNknown
Why do you lie to us WWE? Why? In this case, why do you lie about where people come from? Tempest is back with this list of 15 times WWE lied about wrestlers' nationalities because WWE is a very normal company.
00:00 - Start
02:21 - Honourable Mention
03:00 - 15
03:29 - 14
03:51 - 13
04:19 - 12
04:38 - 11
05:07 - 10
05:46 - 9
06:08 - 8
06:52 - 7
07:18 - 6
07:45 - 5
08:21 - 4
08:46 - 3
09:56 - 2
10:50 - 1
10 Times WWE LIED In Documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOgDLodhJeg&t=61s
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15 Times WWE Lied About Wrestlers' Nationalities | partsFUNknown
Why do you lie to us WWE? Why? In this case, why do you lie about where people come from? Tempest is back with this list of 15 times WWE lied about wrestlers' nationalities because WWE is a very normal company.
00:00 - Start
02:21 - Honourable Mention
03:00 - 15
03:29 - 14
03:51 - 13
04:19 - 12
04:38 - 11
05:07 - 10
05:46 - 9
06:08 - 8
06:52 - 7
07:18 - 6
07:45 - 5
08:21 - 4
08:46 - 3
09:56 - 2
10:50 - 1
10 Times WWE LIED In Documentaries: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IOgDLodhJeg&t=61s
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Transcript
00:00I've just been informed by Mr. Davis that because Canadians can't be babyfaces that
00:04I am now officially from the United Kingdom.
00:06This might sound bizarre, especially because everyone knows this masked man only hails
00:10from parts fun known, copyright trademark, but this is one of the many reasons why WWE
00:14has chosen to lie about where their wrestlers come from because they're a totally normal
00:18company.
00:19This has never been limited to just WWE, with the carny business of wrestling having always
00:22been built on lies and deception, with Americans portraying German Nazis following the end
00:26of World War II for heat, Koreans being billed from Japan whilst in the country to get sympathy,
00:31or Monster Heels being billed from jungles and other assorted offensive things.
00:35Fiddling with a wrestler's country of origin is as ingrained in wrestling as maple syrup
00:39is to Canada and oh, what's this?
00:41I've just been handed a piece of paper and I'm being told maple syrup is now contractually
00:45from America because it'll get over this way.
00:48Well, sh**.
00:49I'm Tempest Hailing from Parts Fun Known, and these are 15 Times WWE Lied About Their
00:53Wrestlers' Nationality.
00:55And of course, if you have yet to subscribe to Parts Fun Known, make sure that you subscribe
00:59so you don't miss out on any fun list just like this one, and if you want another list
01:02about times WWE have lied to you, you can check out one of our latest lists, that being
01:07the 10 Times WWE Lied in Documentaries.
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02:21Honorable Mention, Le Triple H
02:23An honorable mention because it isn't WWE, but how could I not include Triple H dressed
02:28like this, using the worst accent known to dude love, and prancing around WCW as a Frenchman
02:35named Jean-Paul Levesque.
02:37And if you think for a moment there is more to that name than Ric Flair seeing the name
02:40Paul Levesque and thinking, yeah, French guy, well, I'm sorry to disappoint.
02:46Also worth mentioning that this list will be about nationalities, so while there is
02:49a great deal of lying being done in the case of noted not-Cuban-American Scott Hall and
02:53especially not-Arab-American Muhammad Hassan, they were still technically from the country
02:59they were being billed from.
03:00Number 15.
03:01Kofi Kingston This is one of the ones people will expect
03:04to see on this list, and as many people already know, Kofi Kingston's Jamaican gimmick was
03:08not the creation of WWE themselves.
03:10Kofi worked the indie scene under his Jamaican character prior to signing with WWE, where
03:14he went about two years on the main roster as a man from Kingston, Jamaica.
03:18A big fan of noted WWE star Sean San Antonio, Kofi's transition from man from Jamaica to
03:23the more accurate man from Ghana was pretty seamless until Triple Greenwich asked him
03:28what happened to his accent.
03:29Number 14.
03:30Lana It is one thing for Rusev of Bulgaria to fight
03:34for Russia.
03:35It is another thing entirely for the ravishing Russian to be from Florida.
03:39Granted, Lana spent much of her formative years growing up in Latvia, but a Russian
03:43that does not make.
03:44It also doesn't help when out of nowhere her accent went the way of Elizabeth Olsen
03:48of Scarlet Witch and Halle Beria's Storm.
03:51Number 13.
03:52Aldo Montoya In WWE's tradition of learning one thing about
03:55a guy and basing his whole character around it, they heard that PJ Palaka was of Portuguese
03:59heritage and thus bestowed upon him the character of Aldo Montoya, Portuguese Man O' War.
04:05A Man O' War with a jockstrap on his face.
04:08Christ, what is that mask?
04:10He was originally going to be a Portuguese soccer player, but that didn't fly because
04:14Justin Credible didn't like soccer.
04:16As if you needed confirmation that a Portuguese native, he was not.
04:20Number 12.
04:21Quang Hey you, yeah you listening to this.
04:24Do you have a racially insensitive character but no one of that race available to play
04:27the character?
04:28Well fear not, all you need is a mask and you too can dub a Puerto Rican man like Savio
04:33Vega Quang, a man from the Orient.
04:36How handy is that?
04:38Number 11.
04:39The Mild Lies Some of these are rather tricky.
04:43I don't really want to put folks like Jinder Mahal, The Bollywood Boys and Santino Marella
04:47on this list because while those lads are all from Canada and not the places WWE says
04:52they are, calling someone a liar for saying Jinder Mahal is Indian feels very off.
04:58So they will get this entry to satisfy the fans that would have been angry at their exclusion,
05:02but that will be all for now.
05:04Santino Marella being a fan from Milan, that's a full on lie however.
05:08Number 10.
05:09Canadians Can't Be Babyfaces But Tempest, we just had an entry of
05:12Canadians who aren't portrayed as Canadians.
05:15Well dear viewer you are correct, but WWE's relationship with the land of moose and beavers
05:19has been a very odd one.
05:21One of Vince McMahon's many quirks in the mid 2000s was that he thought Canadians can't
05:25be babyfaces because quote, no one would cheer a Canadian, forgetting of course the half
05:30decade he spent riding Bret Hart as his top babyface.
05:33So if you ever wondered why Chris Jericho was no longer from Winnipeg you idiot and
05:37Chris Benoit was no longer from Edmonton, it's because the one sentence the ring announcer
05:41says during their entrances were the entire crux of their popularity and it had to be
05:45adjusted.
05:46Number 9.
05:47Apollo Crews While this could certainly fall into the same
05:49category as the likes of Jinder Mahal, the category of I'm not going to tell anyone
05:54not to display their heritage, when Apollo Crews gains and loses an accent before coming
05:59out on TV and saying he didn't feel like himself, I certainly will feel lied to in
06:03some form.
06:04And I want Apollo Crews to feel like himself because Apollo Crews is wonderful.
06:08Number 8.
06:09The Sultan Poor Rikishi.
06:11If you've seen Adam's list of terrible gimmicks for Hall of Fame wrestlers, you'd have seen
06:15Rikishi play a head shrinker, an attempted murderer and make a difference fatu.
06:19All of which saw him build from the Isle of Samoa and while that's not true, as Rikishi
06:23is from California, I'm not going to tell all the Samoan wrestlers that they're not
06:27from Samoa.
06:28I'd like to keep my heart inside my chest, thank you very much.
06:31But those are not the only shit gimmicks Rikishi had and my my, this one sure is a truckload
06:36of bullshit.
06:37Originally packaged as The Sultan in 1996, he was built from the Middle East and dressed
06:43as a perverted Bane cosplayer.
06:45Where exactly was he from?
06:47Why I just told you.
06:48The Middle East.
06:49All of it, apparently.
06:51Christ almighty.
06:52Number 7.
06:53Ricky the Dragon Steamboat.
06:55Hawaii is the 50th US state now but when Ricky Steamboat was born, it was merely a territory.
07:00Thus I shall count it because despite being built from the island for his entire career,
07:04the dragon actually has no ties to the place.
07:06Rather, Ricky Steamboat was actually born in West Point, New York in 1953 to an American
07:11father and a Japanese mother but I guess they don't have dragons in New York.
07:15Not sure they do in Hawaii either for that matter but hey ho.
07:18Number 6.
07:19The Boogeyman.
07:20Some of these entries could honestly be chalked up to a clerical error if need be.
07:24You hit the wrong answer on the drop down menu during your WWE job application happens
07:28to everyone.
07:29But I'm almost positive there is no option in that menu for the Boogeyman's hometown.
07:34The Bottomless Pit.
07:36As in some form of purgatory from the bible or Greek mythology.
07:40No that one certainly is a creative decision.
07:43You could just call it New Jersey.
07:45Number 5.
07:46Wrestling in Space.
07:50In the true story of Wrestlemania DVD, former XFL president Basil DeVito said that he thought
07:55one day WWE would hold Wrestlemania on the moon.
07:59Well if that is the case, there will be at least a few WWE stars that can feel a little
08:02closer to home.
08:03Max Moon was famously billed from outer space while having the world's shittiest jetpack
08:07ever.
08:08Just look at the f***ing state of that thing.
08:11While notoriously shittiest Brodus Clay was packaged as a dancing buffoon who hailed from
08:15Planet Funk.
08:16Where exactly is Planet Funk you ask?
08:18About half way from here to blips and chits.
08:21Number 4.
08:22Stardust.
08:23For when space itself isn't quite enough.
08:25Cody Rhodes now infamous Stardust character wasn't exactly the most relatable character
08:29in history except for all those beings in the 5th dimension where Stardust apparently
08:33learned to read, write, and hiss at the camera.
08:36Not many who have stepped foot in the ring can lay claim to being a 5th dimensional being
08:39of corporeal form.
08:40But maybe when Matthew McConaughey finally makes his WWE debut they can have something
08:44to talk about.
08:45Spoilers for Interstellar I guess.
08:47Number 3.
08:48Yokozuna.
08:49The 90's really were the days of WWE deciding we have enough people from Samoa on this roster.
08:54Let's just say they're Asian.
08:55Because while some of these are very light-hearted joke entries, some of these ain't even close.
09:01Definitely one of the more heavily pushed stars to feature such a fib, Rodney Anawaye
09:05was a member of the Anawaye wrestling family and certainly wasn't from Japan as WWE led
09:10fans to believe.
09:11His name, Yokozuna, was even directly taken from the Japanese word signifying the highest
09:16rank in sumo wrestling.
09:18The Usos watching on perplexed at home, wondering why their uncle was waving the Japanese flag.
09:23That's a real thing that happened by the way, detailed in full by Jimmy and Jay at
09:26the 2012 WWE Hall of Fame ceremony.
09:29Yeah dude, I would be confused too.
09:31Can I just say that WWE's fantasticalization of Asia is really f***ing strange?
09:37Everywhere that wasn't populated by white folk really was just the Land of the Rising
09:42Sun or the Orient instead of just saying Japan or Korea.
09:48But again, this company has proven itself to be about as culturally sensitive as Borat
09:53and about 1% as funny.
09:55Speaking of which...
09:562.
09:57Akeem The African Dream As previously mentioned, WWE is a company
10:02built on lies and deception, sitting on the mountaintop of a business built on lies and
10:06deception.
10:07But I don't think there has ever been a bigger lie told in the history of pro wrestling than
10:11the first time white-as-cream-cheese one-man gang walked out to the ring being announced
10:16from quote, deepest, darkest, Africa.
10:20What the f*** does that even mean?
10:22Grab me a map Vince and you point to deepest, darkest, Africa.
10:26Announcing anyone from such a tagline would probably be greatly offensive to anyone who
10:31would view it, but may I just repeat that this was reportedly the birthplace of career
10:36Chicago biker one-man gang, all to poke fun at the American Dream, Dusty Rhodes.
10:43Genuinely, I think this might be the biggest lie in all of WWE history outside of the statement
10:48World Heavyweight Champion Jack Swagger.
10:51And
10:521.
10:53Hailing from Parts Unknown I mean when else are we going to be able to
10:56put our namesake in the top spot of a list?
10:59Parts Unknown really is whatever you want it to be and it has produced some very memorable
11:03stars apparently.
11:04Outside of WWE you had Abyss and Suicide and TNA, the Dungeon of Doom and WCW and in WWE
11:11you had The Missing Link, the most memorable star of all.
11:14Oh and also a guy called The Ultimate Warrior.
11:16One of the biggest stars of the late 80s and early 90s was from this wacky little place
11:20that the Pro Wrestling Wiki defines as a popular kayfabe location that wrestlers give to create
11:24an allure of mystique to their characters.
11:27Really The Ultimate Warrior was from Crawfordsville, Indiana and yeah I don't think that really
11:31has the same intimidating ring to it that Parts Unknown does.
11:35Sorry to the people of Crawfordsville, Indiana.
11:37If you ever want an apology I will buy anyone from Crawfordsville a pint with a valid proof
11:41of residence.
11:42Until then, I'm just going to sign off from the actual and factual best location in all
11:46of wrestling, thanking Parts Unknown for making our stupid little pun possible, I'm Tempest
11:52Hailing from PartsFUNknown and Canadians make excellent babyfaces.
11:55And that's our list, I'm signing this off again apparently because I wrote it in the
11:58script and this is just the way we do things.
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12:07of them.