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DID RIHANNA STEAL THE COVER ART OF HER NEW SINGLE . . . FROM AN OLD PRO WRESTLING COMPILATION CD???
Friday October 23rd, 2009

If you haven't seen the artwork for RIHANNA'S new single, "Russian Roulette" . . . it's pretty wild.  It features her topless, but with barbed wire tightly wrapped around her whole body.  She's also sporting an unexplainable hairdo.

Well, she's being accused . . . at least semi-seriously, I guess . . . of stealing that idea from an Extreme Championship Wrestling compilation disc that came out in 1998. 

That CD cover features an ECW wrestler named THE SANDMAN, who's also covered in barbed wire.  And like Rihanna, he also has his right arm above his head.

Former ECW boss PAUL HEYMAN tells Britain's "Sun" tabloid, "It's pretty obvious this was copied from, or at least extremely inspired by the ECW album cover.  From the barbed wire and the right arm up in the air to the blood dripping off the logo.

"Hey, I don't blame them.  If you're going to copy someone, copy from the best.  By the way, Rihanna . . . you're welcome!"  (I doubt Rihanna's artistic team was drawing this up while holding a copy of the ECW CD . . . but the similarities are pretty funny.)

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