#ring names

[sevenxskyy]

if you could pick your own professional wrestling ring name , what would it be ?

mine would be TJ Banks .... boring but yeah .

[bubbly-alien]

Alright, I need help once again. I'm going into wrestling soon, but I need help with ring names. I'm veering to using my first name, Katie, or my middle name Renee. But I need some suggestions

[kennythecamguy]

5 Bad Ring Names that nobody seems to think about.

In the world of pro-wrestling having a catchy name is fairly important to put things mildly. After all who wants to sound like they're supporting an idiot? While occasionally talented performers can make up for bad names (Samoa Joe, Dolph Ziggler and Bam Bam Bigelow spring to mind) sometimes a bad name is just too crippling(The Red Rooster). There are plenty of lists for bad ring names out there(WWE.com themselves have even done two) but there are still some that seem to slip through the cracks and rarely(or never) get mentioned.

A few rules here. First the names here are at best rarely mentioned. There might very well be some lists out there with these names but they seem to slip most people's minds for whatever reason. Second to be on this list the guy has to be at least somewhat mainstream, that's WWF/E, NWA/WCW, AWA, World Class, ECW, TNA, or a regular ROH member. I'm also avoiding comedy names of course Hornswoggle, The Blue Meanie and Fandango have stupid names, they're supposed to make you laugh. This list is about people who are supposed to be taken seriously.

5.Woman

Now this isn't meant as any disrespect toward the late Nancy Benoit as she was an attractive woman who played her role as a valet over the years fairly successfully, and perhaps not wanting to speak ill of the dead or just remind people of the Benoit family tragedy is why this name is rarely mentioned on lists like these, but let's be honest anybody who simply names themselves after their gender isn't doing much good.

Most modern divas get a bad rap because even those with last names(AJ Lee, Candice Michelle and Jillian Hall spring to mind) go by nothing but their first on most occasions(even if that first name is something as generic as Paige), but at least those are names.

4.Cheeseburger

Cheeseburger is ROH's current "star jobber" which is a little different than a jobber to the stars. Think Heath Slater; he's featured he's somewhat hyped but you know he's going down for the count when he steps in that ring, and he plays that role very well. It's easy to get behind a guy who's small even by indy standards.

That ring name though...while it undoubtedly has origins from his training time in the ROH dojo and might have been worth a chuckle there as a permanent ring name it's pretty damn lame. It might be less terrible if he were a joke wrestler but he's not. I mean can you imagine this guy catching on with that name? "My favorite wrestler is Cheeseburger!" Can you picture anybody saying that with a straight face?

3.Kelly Kelly

When she debuted she was just "Kelly" an exhibitionist who couldn't quite seem to manage taking her clothes off. Soon however WWE realized that the name Kelly was just too generic(shocking I know) and decided to dubb her "Kelly Kelly." 

The joke(at least I think it was supposed to be a joke) being that her parents decided to name her Kelly even though their last name was Kelly. Surprisingly despite not being charismatic, a good talker, good in the ring, nor really being good at anything other than being attractive she got over with a name that bad, eventually (for some reason) becoming an integral part of WWE's Diva's division. 

2.Big E

His original name of Big E Langston was a fine; a little cheesey sure but it was distinct and Langston was just a touch sounding name. Unless you're Vince McMahon who decided that Langston(as well as Antonio) didn't sound "tough enough" so dropped it from the man's monkier making him "Big E".

The world can only wait for TNA's Robbie E to start a feud with him over the letter E in what is sure to be a money making reprise of the stellar Booker T vs Harlem Heat 2000 WCW feud.

1.Generation Me

New Japan and Indy wrestling senastions The Young Bucks are a polarizing pair. Many Indy fans love the tandem's exciting highspots, athleticism and the odd mixture of arrogance and goofiness they play their characters with, others view them as trying too hard to be an "ironic Indy team" and thus as another part of why they dislike Indy wrestling. One thing is for sure the duo had no chance in TNA.

Aside from the horrid booking TNA decided that Nick and Matt Jackson were not marketable names, okay no problem there. Those names are fairly generic. TNA then decided that the name "The Young Bucks" also wasn't going to work...again no problem it wouldn't matter what they were called as long as it wasn't stupid...and there lies the problem. We're talking about TNA here, of course it was going to be stupid. TNA renamed the brothers to Max and Jeremy Buck, horridly fake sounding and goofy names for the pair then named the team Generation Me. While you could make the argument that the duo's pseudo-hipster vibe is very "Generation Me" as a tag team name it sounded silly and weak. No wonder they accomplished next to nothing before TNA split them up but didn't bother giving either brother a new gimmick.

[edgingmyworth]

For the ones who hates Sami Callihan's new ring name, Solomon Crowe, shush because it could have been so much worse. Remember Joey Splashwater?

It's gonna be weird calling Sami "Solomon" but it ain't bad at all. It sounds cool actually and hell, his new ring name has the same initials as his former ring name.

[heyjohnnyblog]

Throwback Thursday - Bad wrestling ring names

Keeping in the theme of wrestling for the day, we are going to take a look back on ring names that current superstars and divas have used in the past. To be fair, some of the current ones are just as awful but that wouldn’t be keeping in the theme of Throwback Thursday to make fun of them…but we might anyway.

Wrestler R Truth made his debut in WWF in 2000 and has since been known by many aliases which include K. Malik Shabazz, K-Krush, and K-Kwik. The latter two sound like they should be crappy 24 hour convenience stores. He has also gone by his given name, Ron Killings, as well as The Truth since R Truth wasn’t cool enough for him at the time.

Current WWE Champ John Cena once thought the need to emulate a rapper was necessary and called himself Mr. P. I realize it’s Master P but close enough, and we all know John white boy raps. Oh, and he also went by The Prototype. This seems about right for the image they have grown him into.

Legend Triple H has had a few, uh, creative names as well. First off he doesn’t have a name with three ‘h’s in them aside from the character Hunter Hearst Helmsley which he once was known as. He’s also gone with Frenchman themed Jean-Paul Levesque, Terror Risin’, and a more hip version of that one Terra Ryzing.

As for the divas, they pretty much all use not so crazy versions of their real names. Kind of boring, sure. This does make it easier for us to keep track of them though since their matches are all about how little clothing they can wear anyway, why worry about a fancy name. (Keep in mind I’m not dissing their athletic ability, I’m just saying they’re there for eye candy.)

And the current awful ring name goes to Curtis Axel. He was on NXT and also joined Nexus in 2010 (remember that?) under the name Michael McGuillicutty. This name isn’t much better but at least it’s not an automotive part.

If there’s any good ones we missed, let us know! Reply to this post, tweet us @heyjohnnyblog or shoot us an email [email protected].