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9* Countless wrestlers have "Dragon" in their names or nicknames. It's universally a sign of respect.
10** Dragón Rojo in 1970s Wrestling/{{CMLL}}. His son would later take up the mask after trying other gimmicks.
11** [[Wrestling/RickySteamboat Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat]], one of the few non Japanese people to get the honor in Japan (Wrestling/AllJapanProWrestling). In fact, he took it a step further in 1991, by coming to the ring dressed in a dragon costume and breathing fire (as illustrated by the current page image).
12** Conversely AJPW's Kazuharu Sonoda was known as "Magic Dragon" in the Americas
13** Wrestling/UltimoDragon.
14** Super Dragon
15** Rie Tamada and GAMI, the {{tag team}} known as [=ReDragon=] in Wrestling/AjaKong's ARSION.(and later, Wrestling/KyleOReilly and Wrestling/BobbyFish, Wrestling/{{Redragon}} in Wrestling/RingOfHonor)
16** Big Japan's Death Match Dragon, Ryuji Ito
17** "American Dragon" Wrestling/BryanDanielson, one of the few non-Japanese to ever win that honor in Japan.
18** Dragon Kid and his nemesis Darkness Dragon
19** Dark Dragon, who fought the "King Of Monsters" Blue Dragon [[LegacyCharacter and later]], Ultimo Dragon (came before Blue Dragon but [[SevenYearRule sort of]] inherited his nemesis, sort of not as [[LegacyCharacter one of]] his Dark Dragons turned out to be [[HijackedByGanon long time foe]] Hajime Ohara)
20** There's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JMeKSjBYQY Dragon Dragon.]]
21** Chilean Dragon Gustav EXE in Xplosion Nacional de Lucha Libre
22** The Chinese Dragon Yosuke (loves) Santa Maria(he's from Japan, but whatever)
23** Dragon Shynron in Wrestling/{{Chikara}} and Beyond. His Fusion Dance partner ACH has been compared to Bruce Leroy and thus called ''Film/TheLastDragon'' sometimes.
24** Lady Dragon in IWRG
25** The Lucha Dragons, a tag team composed of [[Wrestling/{{Hunico}} Sin Cara]] and Kalisto.
26* Cats are popular, unsurprisingly
27** Big Cat Ernie Ladd, one of the more well known crossovers from American football to pro wrestling.
28** Curtis "The Cat" Hughes, [[TheGiant an infamously slow]] but [[HiddenDepths very dexterous]] grappler.
29** Masked Luchador Blue Panther and his many successors
30** Masked Luchador Bengala for white tigers.
31** El Pantera for black panthers and El Pantera Jr. for white panthers
32** In Japan and Japanese-influenced promotions, up-and-coming wrestlers are called "young lions." Ex Wrestling/MasahiroChono, Wrestling/SatoshiKojima, Wrestling/HiroshiTanahashi, Wrestling/ChrisHero, Ryusuke Taguchi
33** Puerto Rican legend of the Wrestling/{{A|mericanWrestlingAssociation}}WA and Wrestling/AllJapanWomensProWrestling "La Tigresa" Irma Acevedo, as well as her more terrifying successor simply known as La Tigresa in WWC and IWA Puerto Rico (not to be confused with Mexican Tigresa del Norte).
34** [[Wrestling/SatoruSayama Tiger Mask]] and his many successors such as Tiger Dream and Extreme Tiger as well as evil knockoffs, such as Black Tiger and Masked Tiger.
35** Wrestling/JushinThunderLiger, two cat motifs for the price of one.
36** Early on his career Wrestling/ChrisJericho had a number of lion-based names and nicknames, which fit well with his long blond hair. He hasn't gone by any of those names in years, even since before he [[ImportantHaircut cut his mane short]]...but his version of the springboard moonsault is still called the [[TheArtifact "Lionsault"]].
37** Tigre Universitario and Mini Tigre Universitario in IWRG
38** The late Wrestling/EddieGuerrero donned the aforementioned Black Tiger LegacyCharacter in his career.
39** Wrestling/{{WCW}} Power Plant graduate [[Wrestling/ErnestMiller Ernest "The Cat" Miller]].
40** The Queen Of Cats, masked luchadora [[Wrestling/GailKim La Felina]].
41** The lion Ryukyu, Super Shisa
42** Wrestling/StacyCarter wrestled as "Ms. Kitty" and later "The Kat".
43** Cat Power obviously, as well as Croatian Panther in Wrestling/{{SHIMMER}}
44** Killer Kat, another terrifying Puerto Rican continuing what La Tigresa started
45** Wrestling/{{Chikara}} wrestler Lince Dorado for house cats.
46** Wrestling/KofiKingston started being referred to as a "Wildcat" in WWE.
47** Wrestling/{{Sable}} has a leopard screeching on her entrance theme.
48** Wrestling/NatalyaNeidhart starts donning cat headbands towards the late 2010s. She's even christened with an unofficial monicker dubbed "the Catty Diva".
49** Wrestling/TheGreatKhali's titantron displays a Tiger with burning eyes.
50** Wrestling/VickieGuerrero is dubbed "the Cougar" and mostly wears leopard-printed clothes.
51** Wrestling/EnzoAndCass as well as their valet Wrestling/{{Carmella}} commonly wear leopard-printed clothes. Their "Certified G" logo is entirely in leopard print.
52** Wrestling/JinderMahal's entrance theme song is titled "Sher", which is Punjab for "Lion".
53** Wrestling/TrevorMann went by Prince Puma in ''Wrestling/LuchaUnderground''.
54** The Sexy Purple Thunder Sisters, Mio and Wrestling/IoShirai, wears cat-like luchador masks when they wrestled in Mexico. Io carried the mask in her entrances during her first few years in Wrestling/{{WWE}}.
55* Canines tend to be for {{tag team}}s and trios, due to being social animals
56** Bulldog Mallory back in the 1930s
57** Chief Little Wolf, innovator of TheDreaded ''Indian Death Lock''.
58** Butcher and Mad Dog Vachon in the 1950s
59** Legendary Wrestling/{{CMLL}} luchador Perro Auagayo. Perro Auagayo Jr. would go on to found the CardCarryingVillain stable Los Perros Del Mal, which would causes mischief in CMLL, splinter fed Wrestling/{{AAA}} and then start [[VillainBasedFranchise its very own promotion]] with its own "evil" title belts.
60** Wrestling/TheMoonDogs, Max, Rex, Rover, Spot, Splat, Spike, King and Cujo (and Black Moondog, and [[DistaffCounterpart Moondog Fifi]], and their trainee Moonpuppy [[TheLongList and...]])
61** Wrestling/JunkyardDog, who would later train Redd Dogg, who would later form the Dogg Pound with [[Wrestling/TheWorldsGreatestTagTeam Shelton Benjamin]].
62** The British Bulldogs, the TagTeam formed by Wrestling/DynamiteKid and Wrestling/DaveyBoySmith who earned the moniker for him alone in singles. They had actual bulldogs (Matilda first, and then Winston) which they bought to the ring with them.
63** [[Wrestling/UltimateWarrior The Dingo Warrior]] was this at first until he got his better known ring-name, whose imagery was associated now with a mythical bird.
64** The Marine Wolves, Akira Hokuto and Suzuka Minami in AJW
65** Shark Tsuchiya's Mad Dog Military in Wrestling/{{FMW}}
66** The Pitbulls of the Tri-State Wrestling Alliance and Wrestling/{{ECW}}
67** The Wrestling/{{n|ewWorldorder}}Wo Wolfpac splinter faction in Wrestling/{{WCW}}.
68** The Havana Pitbulls Ricky Reyes and Rocky Romero, starting in Ultimate Pro Wrestling, who were in turn part of the Rottweiler [[PowerStable stable.]]
69** "Wrestling/RoadDogg" Jesse James' logo are pitbulls.
70** Foxes for 21st Century Fox, obviously.
71** Bolo The Red Bull Dog of New Wrestling Generation, WWC and IWA Puerto Rico
72** Jesse Neal is known as "The Dog Of War", which is an old nickname for the USA Army soldiers, which he was.
73** Belgian and Netherlands promotions such as Free-Style Championship Wrestling have Amsterdam Bulldogs Vito Toscani and Wesley Croton.
74** The Wrestling/RingOfHonor tag team of Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards call themselves "The American Wolves," referencing their ferocity and team mentality. AR Fox (which might be enough to count on its own) formed the African American Wolves with ACH in Wrestling/ProWrestlingGuerilla.
75** Raven Hiroka, Princesa Blanca and Princesa Sugeith: Las Zorras of CMLL.
76** Mexican {{tag team}} Los Perros del Infierno, Perro Salvaje and Demonio Azteca out of Cuernavaca, Morelos.
77** Wrestling/TheShield are collectively known as "The Hounds of Justice" and dogs feature prominently on their gear.
78*** Wrestling/RomanReigns was referred to as "The Big Dog" in Wrestling/TheShield, which has carried over to his singles career.
79** "The Lone Wolf" Wrestling/BaronCorbin
80** Mecha Wolf 450, when Mr. 450 decided to turn his playstation tag into a gimmick
81** The Samoan Werewolf Jacob Fatu
82* Snakes are a natural, at least when one remembers wrestling is supposed to be a grappling sport. Areas that train Usefulnotes/CatchAsCatchCan tend to be known as snake pits.
83** African Wrestler(specifically, Democratic Republic Of Congo) Bob Elandon, also known as N'boa the snakeman in the 1950s.
84** ''"Whatcha gonna do, brother, when Wrestling/HulkHogan wraps his 24 inch pythons around you?"''
85*** ...[[{{Irony}} ironically]] he's often more associated with tigers, since Music/{{Survivor|Band}}'s "Eye of the Tiger" was his first known theme, and he'd later be called "The rare, white bengal tiger" by King Curtis Iaukea.
86** [[Wrestling/JakeRoberts Jake "The Snake" Roberts]] was named such for his serpentine movements, [[ReptilesAreAbhorrent generally villainous nature]] and tendency to bring live snakes to the ring to frighten his opponent.
87** EMLL has had a couple luchadoras with a {{Medusa}} gimmick, which naturally came with a snake motif as well.
88** Snake Williams, who was NWA Canadian Heavyweight Title in Vancouver during 1983.
89** Wrestling/{{New Japan|ProWrestling}}'s Wrestling/HiroyoshiTenzan with his Anaconda Cross and Anaconda Vice, the latter of which would be made famous in the USA by [[Wrestling/CMPunk CM "I'm Still A Snake!" Punk]].(Tenzan is more associated with Bison and Buffalo in Japan though)
90** Wrestling/StoneColdSteveAustin's nickname "The Rattlesnake" emphasized his untrustworthy temperament and habit of [[NinetiesAntiHero striking out at anyone, friend or foe, with little reason]].
91** Sangre Azteca's gimmick is based on Coatlicue, which naturally brings a lot of snake imagery.
92** Green clad Belgium born wrestler Lucky Sabiti, The Krypton Pyton (though he mainly wrestles in Canadian northern Championship wrestling).
93** Wrestling/RandyOrton's later nickname "The Viper" refers both to the speed with which he can strike with his FinishingMove and his callous disregard for others.
94** Wrestling/SantinoMarella's FinishingMove is called the Cobra. Before he performs it, he will wear an animated cobra sock puppet.
95** Wrestling/JackSwagger, [[Wrestling/ClaudioCastagnoli Antonio Cesaro]] and Zeb Colter by way of the Gadsden flag as the Real Americans. "Don't tread on me."
96** The Scottish Brute Viper, another one not to trust(although betraying Oedo~tai for Queen's Quest was [[PayEvilUntoEvil considered a good thing]])
97** One of Melissa Cervantes' ring names is "Kobra Moon".
98* Bears
99** 1930s wrestler Chief Chewacki was nicknamed "Bearclaw"
100** 1960s-70s territorial tag team specialist Chief Little Bear
101** Wrestling/IvanKoloff was known as "The Russian Bear"
102** Wrestling/{{Kamala}} had a bear motif before he started wrestling in face paint, and has actually wrestled bears!
103** Zenjo tag team specialist Grizzly Iwamoto
104** Wrestling/{{FMW}} mainstay Hideki Hosaka was known as "Darkside Panda"
105** Stiff "Griz" Jackson of Wrestling/HarleyRace's World League Wrestling
106** The Mexican wrestler Pandita, whose gimmick has been borrowed by many, including Flying Kid Ichihara in FMW.
107** [[Wrestling/ProWrestlingZero1 Zero 1]] wrestler The Predator Wrestling/SylvesterTerkay is also known as "The Man Bear".
108** Alex Shelley has been nicknamed "Baby Bear"
109** Wrestling/BigShow's merchandise took up a bear motif midway through his career
110* Fish
111** The Legendary Masked Luchador Fishman and his son, Black Fish.
112** Wrestling/JohnTenta as the Shark of the Wrestling/DungeonOfDoom.
113** Wrestling/SharkBoy from Wrestling/{{WCW}}'s Heartland Wrestling Association Farm league, originally known as El Piranha. He'd go on to inspire many successors, starting with [[Wrestling/DaffneyUnger Shark Girl]].
114** Catfish for [[Wrestling/TakuyaSugi Namazu Man]]
115** Tiger Shark in Real Japan Pro Wrestling
116** Kimberly ([[FirstNameBasis Maddox]]) in World Xtreme Wrestling with her shark tattoos.
117** Wrestling/{{Sheamus}} would come to be known as "The Great White" in Wrestling/{{WWE}}.
118** Jawsolyn, or is that Film/{{JAWs}}olyn?
119** Wrestling/BobbyFish of Wrestling/{{Redragon}} and Wrestling/TheUndisputedEra. It's even his real name to boot! Heck, one of his [[FinishingMove finishers]] is a heel hook called the "''Fish'' Hook".
120* Birds
121** Indio Yaqui was sometimes known as "Chief Lone Eagle" and his wife Bonita wore many feathers, though she might have had them [[BraidsBeadsAndBuckskins for another reason]].
122** Eagles for EMLL's El Nazi, [[GratuitousNazis obviously]]
123** Michael "P.S." Hayes, Terry "Bam Bam" Gordy, and Buddy "Jack" Roberts, The Fabulous Freebirds.
124*** Jessie The Latin Freebird
125** The Black Birds Brickhouse Brown and Iceman Parsons in WCCW, USWA and others in the 1980s. Los Black Birds (#s 1 and 2) of Luchu Libre Internacional (UWA), Jersey All Pro and IWRG later.
126** If you never wondered what the middle initial of Wrestling/KokoBWare standed for, well... is for "The Birdman".
127** The late 80's WWF Women's Champion, Rockin' Robin.
128** Tag team partner of Wrestling/LionessAsuka (who can also go under cats) and later, Wrestling/AmazingKong, Eagle Sawai.
129** [[Wrestling/DelWilkes The Patriot]] sported a big golden eagle on his mask.
130** When the MaskedLuchador Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr began his wrestling career he used the name "Colibri," which is Spanish for "hummingbird." It's fitting for someone so agile and small. Also, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huitzilopochtli Huitzilopochtli]] (aka [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot The Left-Handed Hummingbird Wizard]]) was the patron god of Tenochtitlan. Hijo De Rey Misterio has a bird themed mask too.
131** The American Eagles Tony Anthony and Danny Davis
132** Wrestling/{{Raven}}, quote it, nevermore
133** Thunderbird of Los Dioses del Trueno in Wrestling/{{AAA}}
134** Back in TheNineties, Wrestling/TheUndertaker has crows and condors associated with him.
135** The Fabulous Fire Bird [[Wrestling/BethPhoenix Phoenix]]
136** [[Wrestling/TakuyaSugi El Blazer]], sort of [[ThePhoenix phoenix]], mostly [[TheStoner stoner]].
137** The masked Scott seen in Three Count Wrestling(3CW), The Bird Of Prey Falcon
138** Cherry Bomb favors bird themed ring gear
139** Jack Evans and his Vulture Squad
140** Wrestling/AllysinKay with her {{peacock|Girl}} feathers. Slightly more appropriately, [[AgentPeacock Peacock Party Boy]] Wrestling/DaltonCastle.
141** Infamously, Terry Taylor wrestled as the Red Rooster.
142** Another infamous one is the Turkey called Wrestling/TheGobbledyGooker
143** Wrestling/{{Paige}} is [[RedBaron dubbed]] as "The Enchanting/Mysterious Raven-Haired Lady". Her entrance theme is even preceded with a bird screech.
144** Wrestling/MartyScurll comes to the ring in a jagged beaked bird mask, to remind everyone [[FinishingMove he likes to]] "[[BigWordShout CHICKEN WING]]!"
145** After it's purchase and makeover by Anthem in 2017, [[Wrestling/{{TNA}} Impact Wrestling]] [[http://www.wrestlezone.com/news/791677-first-look-at-brand-new-impact-wrestling-logo-feat-new-anthem-sports-branding has adopted Owls as one]]. They've even held a contest to name the "Anthem Owl".
146** [=LuFisto=]'s third gimmick, "the wounded owl", complete with an entrance mask
147* Cows and bulls
148** Emil "Bull" Firpo back in the 1930s, along with Bull Montana
149** El Enmascarado Rojo in EMLL, later known as The Bull Miguel Torres
150** South African Wrestler Johann "Bull" [[PunnyName Hefer]]
151** Wrestling/DustyRhodes was known as "Bull Of The Woods"
152** Wrestling/{{Vader}} used to be associated with bulls before he got his more famous gimmick associated with elephants.
153** The Boss Of The World Wrestling/BullNakano
154** Big Bad Bull Pain in USWA and W*ING
155** Ed "The Bull" Gantner on [[Wrestling/NationalWrestlingAlliance Championship Wrestling From Florida]]
156** One of [[Wrestling/DwayneJohnson The Rock's]] many, many nicknames is "The Blue Brahma Bull."
157** Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli of WCW, which was sadly the first and only good gimmick the man would ever be given.
158** Former SHIN FMW and IWA Japan wrestler Keisuke Yamada turned Black Buffalo in Osaka Pro.
159** Bull Buchanan in Wrestling/RightToCensor
160** ARSION's cow Bullfight Sora, later joined by GAMI and Toshi Uematsu in Pro Wrestling WAVE
161** Moohammed, the terrorist cow
162** Bull Armor TAKUYA in Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam, Wrestling/DragonGate, Osaka Pro and others.
163** Moscow The Communist Bovine of Wrestling/{{Chikara}}
164** Wrestling/TitoSantana, who has a matador gimmick.
165** The Los Matadores TagTeam have a mini dressed as a bull as their mascot, El Torrito.
166* Spiders
167** During the 1980s, Dr. Zhivago wrestled for two years in the Canadian based All-Star Wrestling as Spider Web, or sometimes [[InconsistentSpelling Spider Webb]], winning the NWA Canadian TagTeam Titles with Bruiser Costa in 1984.
168** Penny Mitchell, who briefly wrestled under a mask as The Spider Lady before her manager, Wrestling/TheFabulousMoolah, stole it.
169** Infamous WCW wrestler Arachnaman
170** Black Man of Los Tres Fantasticos had previously wrestled as Spider Man and La Gacela. The Spider Man gimmick in particular was [[LegacyCharacter taken up by many]] after he phased it out due to Fantasticos' runaway success, the Gacela gimmick had a much more dramatic end when the mask was taken by Super Dolphin in a wager match, and as such wasn't as widely adopted.
171** Mariko Yoshida, after phasing out her high flying in Arsion but keeping the exotic submission holds of lucha libre, as well as adopting catch as catch can tactics, took up a spider web motif to drive it home.
172** Football player turned pro wrestler Nate Webb, for a different kind of "[[VisualPun catch]]".
173** Tommy Saturday, otherwise known as The [=SpiderBaby=]
174** A spider is one of Portuguese Princess Ariel's symbols
175** Wrestling/LisaMarieVaron's FinishingMove in the Wrestling/{{WWE}} is called the Widow's Peak. Since she came to Wrestling/{{TNA}}, she is named Tara and has taken after Wrestling/JakeRoberts and started bringing a tarantula to the ring.
176** The Red, Blue and Yellow Devil Spiders of Wrestling/FightingOperaHUSTLE.
177** Wrestling/AJLee has developed a black widow spider motif. Some of her shirts are even cut in such a way as to bring to mind a spider's web.
178* Scorpions
179** El 1970s [[TagTeam pareja]] enmascarada Los Escorpiones
180** Another 70s team operating much further North than the former, Les Scorpiones Claude Johnson and Jerry Christy
181** Wrestling/RikiChoshu, innovator of the Sasori-gatame(scorpion hold)
182** Wrestling/{{Sting}} and his most infamous nemesis, The Black Scorpion [[spoiler: Wrestling/RicFlair]]
183** Wrestling/TooColdScorpio(unless you know him as Flash Funk)
184** Dedicated EMLL mid carder Alacrán de Durango
185** Wrestling/MercedesMartinez usually has scorpions on her tights
186** The Los Angeles based Scorpio Sky, especially when he still had his mask
187** Rey Escorpión of Rush's Los Ingobernables, and his brother Black Scorpió
188* Lepidoptera
189** Wrestling/ExoticAdrianStreet. Not called as one himself but great part of his imagery was based around butterflies.
190** Princesa Sugeith was given a butterfly mask as encouragement from her trainer. She may have been small but he correctly predicted she would reach great heights in the industry.
191** In WCW, Skull Von Krush became Big Vito, a tough brute with a thing for butterflies. And in WWE he dropped ''that'' to become "the toughest man to wear a dress". BadassDecay set in both times. He was able to soar back to his old heights in WCW by tagging with Johnny The Bull and got some pushes on the independent circuit after leaving WWE.
192** AAA exotico luchador Butterfly, a less successful SpearCounterpart to Sugeith.
193** Mothman, who unexpectedly wrestled in the UK rather than the USA
194** "Session Moth" Wrestling/{{Kazza}} G, another UK/Ireland case and another "promising rookie" though didn't quite reach the heights of Sugeith. Also, in her region "Session Moth" is slang for "drunken Irish".
195** Marti "The Moth" Martinez, who in a subversion of the usual symbolism is a {{jobber}} on Wrestling/LuchaUnderground
196** Another Lucha Underground case is [[Wrestling/CheerleaderMelissa Mariposa]], the evil evil butterfly, who is also another case [[{{expy}} obviously inspired by]] Sugeith.
197** The WWE Divas' Championship had a butterfly design.
198** [[Wrestling/NikkiCross Nikki Storm]] became Nikki A.S.H. in WWE, yet another Sugeith {{expy}} four years removed from Sugeith's own WWE appearances, taking inspiration from Sugeith's insect superhero gear set specifically.
199* Crustaceans
200** Vancouver junior heavyweight and tag team specialist Bruiser Costa had a lobster on his singlet and would sometimes come to the ring wearing lobster pincer gloves.
201** Black Diamond Wrestling has Rock Lobster, who was a tag team champion with The Bouncer
202** Wrestling/DramaticDreamTeam has Kani K*ING, kani as in crab sushi, and Iseebi Kamen, the later of which also worked Osaka Pro.
203** The Chikara stable Creatures Of The Deep include Hermit Crab and Cajun Crawdad
204* Equids
205** Wrestling/TheFourHorsemen of wrestling.
206** Wrestling/ChrisBenoit once wrestled as The Pegasus Kid.
207** Team PMA is made up of Malia Hosaka, Syren and their personal referee, Evil Zebra
208** Roy Knight is also known as Zebra Kid.
209** Before she was unmasked by Angélica, Hailey Hatred Wrestled in LLF, FILL, LL VIP, LLU and Wrestling/{{AAA}} as Dark Unicorn
210** Laynie Luck occasionally comes to the ring in a giant unicorn mask
211** Wrestling/{{Kaitlyn}} has mentioned her fondness for unicorns.
212** Wrestling/TheNewDay has a unicorn motif.
213** One of Wrestling/AdamPage's monikers is "The Iron Horse", which coincides with his NewOldWest gimmick.
214* Lagomorphs
215** Bunny Rogers, one of the sillier Wrestling/BuddyRogers knockoffs Jack Pfefer promoted, this time in the Colorado territory.
216** TagTeam specialist Paul Christy was managed by and eventually married Bunny Love, who wrestled herself on occasion
217** Dominican wrestler Rafael Reyes was given ''a lot'' of silly gimmicks in Mexico, Súper Rabbit during his 1990s Wrestling/{{AAA}} run being relevant to this trope. He was also the more racially charged "Bunny Black"
218** Caribbean (IWA Puerto Rico, Dominican Wrestling Entertainment, etc) wrestler La Morina has a recurring bunny theme in her ring gear.
219** Wrestling/{{Chikara}}'s Wrestling/ColtCabana {{parody}}, Colt [=CaBunny=]
220** During the early 2010s, "Bunny" was one of the featured junior heavyweights of Chile's Xplosion Nacional de Lucha Libre
221** JWP's Junior Champion Miyuki Shiota, more commonly known as Rabbit Miyu
222** "Wrestling Machine" Jennifer Thomas became a "Snow Bunny" in The Empire Wrestling Federation
223** Wrestling/AdamRose was inexplicably managed by a man in a bunny suit in WWE
224** The Rabbit Tribe of Wrestling/LuchaUnderground.
225** Ice Ribbon's Triangle Champion Bunny Oikawa
226** TJP's Tokyo Princess Tag Team Champions The Magical Sugar Rabbits Yuka Sakazaki and MIZUKI
227** One of the twelve lost Aztec tribes that regrouped in the Wrestling/LuchaUnderground temple is the rabbit tribe. Given this is an ''Aztec'' tribe in the Lucha Underground temple, they of course practice HumanSacrifice.
228** Laura Dennis dubs herself The Bunny and has a SuperpoweredEvilSide named Dark Bunny.
229* Wrestling/{{Vader}}'s most famous gimmick is associated with elephants.
230* Wrestling/ChrisBenoit was known as the Rabid Wolverine.
231* A famous TagTeam composed by Jim Brunzell and B. Brian Blair, called The Killer Bees.
232* Back in TheNineties, Wrestling/TheUndertaker had bats associated with him in addition to the crow and condor mentioned above.
233* [[Wrestling/{{Rhyno}} Rhino/Rhyno]] is powerfully built and fights by charging at his opponents.
234* Wrestling/BlackRose is associated with scorpions and has a fondness for coqui.
235* Wrestling/IvelisseVelez is associated with leopards and scorpions.
236* Ants for The Colony, as well as their adversaries, [[PsychoRangers The Swarm]] and [[EvilKnockoff Colony Extreme Force]].
237* Wrestling/SinnBodhi has stuffed dog shin guards and teddy bear hip guards.
238* He may not like it, but the goat has become [[Wrestling/BryanDanielson Daniel Bryan]]'s motif. Before that, he and [[Wrestling/LondonAndKendrick Paul London]] were the Hybrid Dolphins, marine mammals with bee stings! Before that, New Japan decided to turn his "American Dragon" RedBaron into [[MaskedLuchador a gimmick]] and he also once known for a severely delayed butterfly suplex, which was passed onto trainee Wrestling/SaraDelRey, Queen Of Wrestling, as "The Royal Butterfly" (and Del Rey also has a scorpion tattoo).
239* Sheep for Wrestling/TheWyattFamily, especially Wrestling/ErickRowan, who wears a sheep mask.
240* Wrestling/SoloDarling had feline allusions, then became a [[LegacyCharacter shark girl]], then a squirrel, then a bee with Travis Huckabee and Willow Nightingale.
241* [[Wrestling/QuinnOjinnaka Moose]] was known as such in football before he became a professional wrestler, so it only makes sense that it would stick.
242* Wrestling/OrangeCassidy is often compared to a sloth since his main gimmick is that he is really lazy.

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