Played
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Daffney Unger sometimes wrestled in a shirt reading "your advertisement here" and played it straight, one of her moves being known as "Leggo My Eggos".
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Abe "Knuckleball" Schwartz, a wrestling baseball star sometimes known as MVP (possibly a rib at Randy Savage who both wrestled (as The Spider) and played baseball in his early days).
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In 1996, Japanese wrestler Jushin Thunder Liger, who traditionally played the role of a face, unveiled his "Kishin Liger" heel persona, when he wrestled heel wrestler the Great Muta, who mid-match ripped Liger's mask off, revealing his "oni face".
Source: Super-Powered Evil Side
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