SECOND TIME LUCKY | Wrestlings Upgraded Gimmicks

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SECOND TIME LUCKY | Wrestlings Upgraded Gimmicks
In a prior video we looked at some of the worst examples of changing up a wrestler’s gimmick, those times when a new persona pushed a performer down the card. But what about when a change of character goes right? Well, that’s exactly what we’re going to be looking at today. So, join us as we take a deep dive into Second Time Lucky: Wrestling’s Upgraded Gimmicks.
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[@BoereViking]

Awesome video as usual. What about a video on the evolution of finishers?

[@master-of-mind5881]

Please do Chris Benoit!!!

[@moxxieIMP]

please do a career documentary for Rhea Ripley or Asuka

[@versansky75]

There’s a correction needed here. Undertaker is only a one-time Hall Of Famer…. Not a two-time

[@kingswitch08]

Please have a series on Japanese Wrestling. New Japan, All Japan, Noah. Also AAA and CMLL

[@GabbyPlaysGames02]

If you do a second part, you really need to include Glenn Jacobs. Dude went from a freaking dentist to an absolute legend

[@johnnymason2460]

Can't argue with that. Kane is a legend. A Hall of Famer. An icon. Although not as good as the Undertaker, he was still badass in his own right.

[@jakewithonions]

Dr. Yankem? No way, THAT'S GOTTA BE KANE

[@dk13_yt]

Agree

[@maccthewrestlemaniac]

Don't count because he was a completely different character, Steve Austin stayed Steve Austin , rocky became rock

[@jakewithonions]

@@maccthewrestlemaniac it's literally a man playing a new gimmick: the title of the video

[@GarrettPDGA]

Hunter Hurst Helmsley becoming Triple H/The Game Mick Foley adding Mankind to his roster was amazing.

[@HansenSebastian]

Except Triple H and Hunter are one and the same gimmick. His biggest change was actually from Jean-Paul in WCW to Hunter/Trips in WWF/E.

[@MrBokLee]

Bradshaw then going onto JBL and main event status was truly legendary

[@ThatGuyChristo474]

King BOOKAH was so underratted.

[@joshuaseverson7186]

As the only redhead in my school, the fact that Undertaker was so unstoppable, cool and a ginger is a big part of the reason I was an immediate fan

[@anjhontongo6945]

Honorable Mentions: *Cody Rhodes - from a Rookie to Legacy to Dashing to Un-Dashing to Stardust to American Nightmare *CM Punk - from being a Straight Edge to Vocie of the Voiceless Best in the World *Mayor Glen Jacobs - from Mad Dentist Dr. Isaac Yankeem DDS to KANE *John Cena - from The Prototype to a Rapper a.k.a Doctor of Thugganomics *Shawn Michaels - from The Rocker to the Heartbreak Kid *Sean Waltman - from The Kid/123 Kid to Sixx to X-Pac *Billy Gunn - from being a Cowboy to Mr. A** to the Chosen One to Daddy A** *JBL - from The Acolyte to the self proclaimed WRESTLING GAWHD *Rikishi - from The Sultan to Rikishi *Dave Batista - from Leviathan to The Animal *Randy Orton - from being a Rookie to The Legend Killer to Apex Predator *Roman Reigns - from being hated Big Dog to lovable heelish Tribal Chief *Becky Lynch - from Irish Lass Kicker to The Man *Sting - from a surfer type face paint to The Crow *Brock Lesnar - from The Next Big Thing to The Beast Incarnate *Dustin Rhodes - from being The Natural to Goldust *Lex Luger - from being a Narcissist to American Hero *Trish Stratus - from being a Model to Women's Champion *Jeff Hardy - from Charismatic Enigma to Willow to Brother Nero *Shane Helms - from being a resident Superhero to the self proclaimed Greatest Cruiserweight Champion in WWE History *William Regal - from being "A Real Man's Man" to a Gentleman Villain

[@markmagician2471]

I mean Cena did almost got fired

[@johnnymason2460]

John Cena. From Prototype to Rapper to Big Match John. Not too shabby.

[@kokotheclown2588]

I can add some from today’s generation and Lucha Libre past *Kenny Omega -From Golden lover to Bout Machine/Wrestling God *Psychosis -From mask luchador to hardcore legend and part of the longest tag team championship reign *Konnan From Massive star in Mexico to NWO Wolfpack member and LAX and becoming AAA chairman and faction leader *El Hijo del Perro Aguayo -From a son of a massive legend to forming the greatest factions in Mexico and CMLL and having the best selling shirt in Lucha history *El Mesias -From Cibernetico lackey to becoming a massive star in Mexico and holding AAA biggest prize in 3 separate occasions *Mistico From Rookie with a bright future to the biggest stars in CMLL after Santo even bringing a boom to the business that hasn’t being replicated since

[@MR_DUALITY]

​@@johnnymason2460 Super Cena

[@RatedJBR]

also Rey Mysterio, from Colibri to the greatest luchador

[@CaosProphet]

KANE is missing here, I mean from Doctor Isaac Yankem to Fake Diesel to KANE ist the epithome of Second Wind

[@dylanmulroe9978]

Broken Matt Hardy was the best thing in professional wrestling in 2016, people forget how good that gimmick really was in TNA

[@dr.loomis4221]

It was god awful

[@Baccanaso]

​@@dr.loomis4221it was the best thing wrestling has had to offer since 2004

[@juandemarko8348]

​@@Baccanaso wrestling hasn't been shite for 20 years 😂

[@HansenSebastian]

@@dr.loomis4221 You would prefer Matt Hardy V1? Because we all prefer *_BROKEN-SLASH-WOKEN MATT HARRRRDYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!_* Matt Hardy Version 1 is fading away and becoming OBSOLETE, it must be *_DELEEEEEETEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAD!_*

[@jpmontero87]

I would also add John Cena. From a regular muscular guy who wears home team colors, he upgraded to the Doctor of Thuganomics which is led him to stardom

[@kadharefinley224]

DELETE DELETE DELETE. Broken Matt Hardy was Wonderful.

[@mo_musashi_284]

I think they needed to remove him asap cuz he was going to delete & assimilate every superstar on the roster eventually.

[@matthewlane518]

Lol so fun! Great stuff!

[@nehemiahpouncey3607]

We even got him in 2k19 and 20. I know it was woken but get got him In a game.

[@nickkozinski4519]

Still no idea why he would change away from that when he was totally over big time with it

[@lavellrobinson1648]

How tho ? I never understood it

[@valorjoz]

Glad to see the APA featured, because they were my favorite tag team of the Era. DAYUM.

[@pwnagraphic690]

That Too Cool team up with the Rock and Mick Foley was one of the best things I had ever seen as a kid lol

[@fingersTitan]

I was already in awe at the goth look and then at 13yrs old and seeing Taker for the 1st time blew my mind and I loved that look.. The only thing Taker was missing was a nice set of New Rock boots.

[@fingersTitan]

So much so that Fingers is due to the fact that I wear full length finger rings and Titan is down to that Taker rode Titan bikes to the ring..

[@AnarkeeSoundVibes]

Can't lie, 2 of my favorite acts of the late 90's and early 00's (98-02 specifically) were 2 Cool and the APA.

[@bendastreetballa]

Who you supporting though in a too cool vs APA match

[@AnarkeeSoundVibes]

@@bendastreetballa unless Vince has his hand in the outcome, APA 7/10 wins because of the brute force, but Too Cool, being very entertaining, they deserve at least 3/10 wins.

[@PatriciaCross]

Austin is really an upgraded gimmick of an upgraded gimmick. The Steve Austin name originally was to tie him to the Six Million Dollar Man. He was originally supposed to be implied to be a cyborg. That was dropped before it was a thingn and he had the "Stunning" Steve Austin and meant to be a pretty boy. This is why his finisher is called the Stunner. Changing from Ringmaster to "Stone Cold" Steve Austin was building on his original idea as a cyborg (Steve Austin was more of an assassin in the novel "Cyborg" that the Six Million Dollar Man series was based off of. So the version he debut as "Stone Cold" was a lot closer to his original gimmick; but he quickly adapted and morphed it into the version we recognized based on his instincts. WCW should have let him do what he wanted rather than force him into the Stunning and the Ringmaster personas, his instincts definitely would have given us something similar to what we got. They take the cake for being terrible at listening to their talent.

[@TheRealKnightRaider]

3:17 The Rock was injured in April 1997

[@JackQSmith]

Yup. Didn't debut in WWF until Survivor Series '96 in November.

[@unclebuddy1040]

The transition between slides of this video is just too smooth 👍🏼👍🏼

[@damionsaintclaire2365]

Love this video. Rocker Shawn Michaels to the Heartbreak Kid is one of my favorite

[@therealmccoy269]

Crazy how parallel Rocks and Roman character shifts were

[@Panwere36]

The problem with Nash was the fact that he spent all of his late 1990s WCW career in desperate need of intensive knee surgery.. and he really never should have gotten that much money. As for "Broken/Woken" Matt Hardy... he single handed resurrected IMPACT.. and the fact that one man was able to do that screams volumes about the fact that both the sale of WWE *_and Vince "retiring" finally!!!_* came a decade later than it should have!

[@miroslavtomic7038]

How huge and significant Festus to Luke Gallows change was shows the fact that virtually nobody realised it is the same guy when Gallows debuted. He lost alot of weight and shaved his head and grew a beard. All of this totally changed his look.

[@hardkoregamer1981]

Just putting the many faces of Foley up there as awesome transitions of gimmick upgrades worth mentioning

[@noobtuber10]

I was hoping he was number 1,, he got 3 gimicks and himself over, Foley is God

[@BMK_KING]

Jim Ross used to kill me when rock was starting out “ that’s him right there blue chipper right there yes right there “ lmfao over the top af

[@MrABM773]

Too Cool was very over and could've had a New Day type of run if really pushed and marketed more

[@miroslavtomic7038]

LA Knight previously performed in WWE during early NXT days as Slate Randall, before going to TNA and becoming Eli Drake. Therefore, he had two successful gimmick changes.

[@thomasmeyer6407]

To me growing up every APA segment on Raw was gold !!! They could do comedy to serious and everything in between and then they just destroyed opponents!!!! Definitely one of my favorite tag teams of all time!

[@domporcelli7298]

Gallows theme is playing on SVR2011 on a ps2 somewhere

[@sabath15]

Man growing up I thought King Booker was so stupid and silly and now days as a adult I wish I saw more characters rise to the top

[@GRIMxREAFER]

I eneded up eith a smile and laughing at the end with Too Cool 😎 "When they had a dance break right in the middlenof it" 😊 That ish was cool

[@1taeok]

Matt hardy in tna made the best of a lack luster situation being broken. He wasn't able to recreate such in wwe or aew. He's a lost cause w/o Jeff willingly wanting him back knowing it risks his sobriety. Matt never had a strong sense of self character wise. AEW direction shows this.

[@farmerroger5416]

Another great upgrade Isaac Yankem to Kane

[@aznpikachu215]

10:58 - That should have been the perfect time to say, 5 time, 5 time, 5 time, 5 time, 5 time, WCW champion. xD

[@jhonduran9424]

Love your content! Keep it up

[@carsonfalk3273]

Here’s a couple of documentary ideas Fade to Black: the Tommy End/ Aleister Black/ Malakai Black story One and only: the Ricochet Story

[@uneedamuracle]

“Stone cold” tea is not how I remember Austin telling the story. 🧐

[@Smiley._.Gaming]

Broken Matt Hardy is such a brilliant character that it’d be very hard that someone will get so over with such a character

[@tyreepowell8367]

Wrestle With Andy Got The Best Videos 📸 Of All Time🐐 Marvelous Job 👍.

[@therealghostboy9670]

Dom Mysterio gimmick change was good too.

[@nixda9326]

one thing, Undertakers Debut wasnt at Survivor Series 90. he already showed up i think in a Dark Match before.

[@randomdude8877]

Yep i was the guy... i was the guy doing the worm in the school corridor while friends and girls were cheering, laughing and being disgusted at me at the same time.

[@RayKoshorek]

I do have full love and respect for you and your videos, Wrestling With Andy🤘😇😎🤓😊🤘

[@kelseydonaldson8795]

6:05 LA Knight is always on tab when he says that

[@jeimairuzu7056]

I was waiting for Kane. That is one of the most successful gimmick upgrade.

[@seaneddy1]

Take a shot when Andy says "hell."

[@xodiaq]

The face flip for Taker was amazing bc, how do you DO that? And clearly it worked!

[@ajreese846]

Me and my friends Rock nWo gear to this day

[@dennislogan6781]

Dwayne Johnson has lately lost some star status due to arguing with Vin Diesel and the failure of Shazam 2 due to Black Adam.

[@miros1]

LOL the failure of Shazam 2? The blame goes to Gunn, WB and that terrible actor Zachary 😂😂

[@dredre1726]

A few more obscure would be nice. Austin,rock,hogan come on man

[@anakinsmith4770]

I remember when broken matt hardy began it became the most over thing in wrestling people who didn't even know impact where deleting

[@JTD2001]

7:25 budget Eugene😂

[@chrisscottjr4124]

This is outta left field but I wanna see a documentary about Shawn "Supermex" Hernandez

[@kidz4p509]

People of the past would think that upgrades and downgrades for wrestlers are all 50-50 occurrences, whereas people of today would believe that downgrades for wrestlers are more common than upgrades.

[@ShockerTopper]

You forgot to mention that Steve Austin won the King of the Ring because Triple H had it taken from him due to the Curtain Call. So had the Kliq not done that, Austin may never have become what he did.

[@caydenrichmond9551]

I had no idea Gallows was Festus

[@stevedave6969]

Bro was glazing the rock 💀💀💀

[@brianthomason5022]

I never realize how far back The Rock's hairline was from the very beginning.. steroids got all wrestlers bald except for mick foley

[@noobieartist3801]

Tht pronounciation of duprieeee 😂😂

[@ItsZX619]

AYooo i was hoping to see "The Godfather" in the list damn

[@tankt13]

The APA segment would’ve been a perfect time to go to Bradshaw’s transformation to JBL

[@HansenSebastian]

But it didn't. Bradshaw became JBL *_ON HIS OWN VOLITION!_* NO FAAROOQ to feud with. The APA have since broken up by the time Acolyte Bradshaw became a wrestling god.

[@markkoops2611]

Team Extreme showed Matt was always a star. He was brought back to WWE as team extreme bec that's how fans knew him, and WWE owned. Matt shone

[@Burnz247]

Teddy long and undertaker go way back I see 😂

[@DeeLuccket2]

Didnt know Luke Gallows was the Biscuts & Gravy dude??

[@RagnarokMic]

Sugar Shane Helms to the Hurricane should be in there too.

[@unluckyone7531]

Can't stop laughing at the narrator. 😂

[@edenromanov]

Ah man the nostalgia 🥲 So many badasses on this list and to think it's a list that will just grow with time is really awesome ya know

[@yadielenielbellecolon982]

Thank For The Video 💞💗👍😍

[@realityorfiction]

Admit it, you released this video because of the new cinematic deletion match that was just announced

[@pieshka4509]

As much as I hate Hulk Hogan, the bright blonde handlebar stash with black stubble is a good look

[@MrXanderthegreat1]

La knight has Mr kennedy written all over him

[@shawnamiller191]

If I ever met The Undertaker I would say "Oh hi Mark!"

[@romeokoroma3341]

Please do the return of the undertaker’s American badass in judgment day 2000.

[@hollaluyah]

HOW ABOUT A VIDEO ON WRESTLERS WHO DIDN'T NEED A MANAGER. OR WHO WE DIDN'T KNOW THEY COULD TALK ON THE MIC.

[@marcohavokkhaos]

Wwe killed Broken Matt. Idk why AEW tried to revive it

[@samuraibeluga3749]

the parallels between the rock and roman reigns are freaky.

[@Platinumshadow_153]

After Acolyte to APA, Bradshaw to JBL too.

[@zanethind]

The Undertaker is easily the greatest character in WWE history. 30 years as the Deadman also Taker is a 1 time Hall of Famer not a two time Hall of Famer

[@6oingnorth]

If you think about it, every successful wrestler has gone through a transformation in order to reach their peak. Rey Mysterio might be the only one who has been consistent his whole career.

[@AnarkeeSoundVibes]

Rey had 2 gimmick changes, he was just never a heel wrestler. First, he was Rey Mysterio Jr. When he lost his mask in a match, (his first change) he began acting as a cholo, a Mexican gangster, in the original LWO. When he joined WWE, he was the high flying luchador/giant killer.

[@6oingnorth]

@@AnarkeeSoundVibes you right. didnt even think about filthy animals. I wasnt around then

[@kamavonender7069]

9:19 now wolfpack maybe

[@milescole7415]

My friends always bashed me for liking Too Cool

[@ajreese846]

Yes too cool was something to see

[@jaxondawson8947]

You could pretty much say this about majority of wrestlers

[@jonathanparker5145]

APA and Too Cool favorites

[@tone-e3358]

I don't see broken matt as a upgrade I'm sorry lol. V1 was just too good

[@iggyg6251]

I thought the rock came in late 96. I might be wrong.

[@avsalinas979]

I missed the biker version of undertaker!

[@julianwhitee]

Your videos are very well produced.

[@zanethind]

Ngl Matt Hardy got done dirty by WWE in the 2000s. They literally fired him for getting mad about the affair but when he came back after his release he then lost to Edge in one match and that was it😢. Also Broken/Woken Matt should've won the WWE Title since he was mega over

[@thebrownbaldy]

In the case of Hulk Hogan, to be fair, him turning heel was the best thing to happen for wrestling and it's also our fault as fans why he turned too 😅. 30 years of Undertaker.....nuff said

[@lewissked8826]

Can honestly say I’ve never used this ugly/cute Pokémon but have a little soft spot for it now! Be interesting to see Granbull! Another class video!

[@berlenius]

7:54, it says "HOLLWOOD" instead of "HOLLYWOOD"

[@orozco1302]

Mysterio Jr to Prison Con Dom

[@RayKoshorek]

Can you do a tier list for Pro-Wrestling Anti-Heroes?

[@DasKrug]

When did Undertaker become a 2 time Hall of Famer?

[@bigbabyinc4347]

You said the rock got hurt in April of of 96 but he didn't debut till November of 96 I think you ment to say 97

[@busridediary]

Young Austin looked a lot like Corey Taylor

[@NoelleGracexo]

CM Punk was my husband in my head lol.

[@shaunbang]

Shouldn’t Husky Harris into Bray Wyatt be on here?

[@dalliswoodson5586]

Yeah!

[@liloiax22]

2 seconds in ...who's that? He looked somewhat familiar to me