tafkaga
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Post by tafkaga on Apr 14, 2023 23:32:35 GMT -5
"You knew him as Scott Steiner, BUT... he is known to the nWo as.... WHITE THUNDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
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Post by XIII on Apr 14, 2023 23:53:58 GMT -5
I think that HHH probably us some awful ones that I can’t remember and that didn’t stick.
Didn’t he try to get himself over as the Asskicker? Or was that unofficial? lol
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Post by Red Mage Riot on Apr 14, 2023 23:58:37 GMT -5
I think that HHH probably us some awful ones that I can’t remember and that didn’t stick. Didn’t he try to get himself over as the Asskicker? Or was that unofficial? lol I believe he was "The Ultimate Asskicker" unofficially for like, a month, yeah lol.
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Post by Cry Me a Wiggle on Apr 15, 2023 0:26:53 GMT -5
Wasn’t Creepy Little Bastard just Vince and his inexplicable repulsion by Christian? Like, I think Christian is a fairly handsome dude, but Vince just loathed the sight of him and wouldn’t rest until the entire world agreed.
I know it’s not even in the top 50 things wrong with Vince, but it’s still quintessentially a baffling McMahon foible.
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Post by 67 more on Apr 15, 2023 0:33:42 GMT -5
Wasn't Yoshi Tatsu dubbed the Japanese Stratocaster at one point?
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Apr 15, 2023 2:12:04 GMT -5
Wasn't Yoshi Tatsu dubbed the Japanese Stratocaster at one point? that was a Matt Striker original! He said it once.
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Post by DiBiase is Good on Apr 15, 2023 2:36:13 GMT -5
TRI!
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Post by Mozenrath on Apr 15, 2023 2:54:26 GMT -5
Wasn't that just recycling what he called Yoshitatsu? ("The Poison Fist of the Pacific Rim") I remember him calling Yoshi the Neon Genesis at least once. Also, claiming that the "4-UP" on Elijah Burke's taped hands was a Super Mario reference, rather than the actual origin of "4 upside your head" in reference to his knuckles, but that one was probably meant to be taken as a joke on Striker's part, anyway.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Apr 15, 2023 3:05:53 GMT -5
"You knew him as Scott Steiner, BUT... he is known to the nWo as.... WHITE THUNDER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" Steiner went through several nicknames post heel turn before Big Poppa Pump stuck. There was also a brief period where he was "Superstar" Scott Steiner.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Apr 15, 2023 3:08:15 GMT -5
"The Big Nasty" Paul Wight. After a couple of weeks they realized that sounded stupid and dropped it in favor of the slightly less stupid sounding Big Show which he then ended up being for the next twenty years.
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Post by Gunhaver on Apr 15, 2023 5:15:28 GMT -5
"The Big Nasty" Paul Wight. After a couple of weeks they realized that sounded stupid and dropped it in favor of the slightly less stupid sounding Big Show which he then ended up being for the next twenty years. Am I misremembering a promo where he called himself Big Nasty Bastard? Might have been just for the Bossman feud. Also: Hogan's use of "nWoites" surely qualifies.
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Post by CMWaters on Apr 15, 2023 5:18:38 GMT -5
Triple H as "The One True Destroyer".
Guy REALLY wanted to get away from his Jean-Paul Levesque/Hunter Hearst Helmsley days.
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Post by karl100589 on Apr 15, 2023 5:34:08 GMT -5
"The Big Nasty" Paul Wight. After a couple of weeks they realized that sounded stupid and dropped it in favor of the slightly less stupid sounding Big Show which he then ended up being for the next twenty years. Wasn't that because WCW filed a lawsuit claiming it was a rib on "Big Sexy" Kevin Nash?
I also seem to remember show going as Paul "the great" Wight for a short time.
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Post by Red Mage Riot on Apr 15, 2023 5:41:37 GMT -5
"The Big Nasty" Paul Wight. After a couple of weeks they realized that sounded stupid and dropped it in favor of the slightly less stupid sounding Big Show which he then ended up being for the next twenty years. Wasn't that because WCW filed a lawsuit claiming it was a rib on "Big Sexy" Kevin Nash?
I also seem to remember show going as Paul "the great" Wight for a short time.
I also remember someone claiming, eons ago, that the name was a small rib itself on WCW. "The Big Show=TBS", WCW's network, which always felt like a LEAP to me.
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Post by ThankGodForSidJustice on Apr 15, 2023 5:48:37 GMT -5
"The Big Nasty" Paul Wight. After a couple of weeks they realized that sounded stupid and dropped it in favor of the slightly less stupid sounding Big Show which he then ended up being for the next twenty years. Am I misremembering a promo where he called himself Big Nasty Bastard? Might have been just for the Bossman feud. Also: Hogan's use of "nWoites" surely qualifies. Bossman called him that during that feud. It was the after the segment where he went to Big Show's mother's house and got her to admit that Big Show was illegitimate with him then yelling "YA HEAR THAT PAUL WIGHT YOUR A BIG NASTY BASTURD AND YOUR MAMA SAID SO!". Big Nasty was real early in his run when he was in the Corporation where I believe Vince kept referring to him as that during promos.
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Post by Burst on Apr 15, 2023 6:04:14 GMT -5
"The Great White" for Sheamus was the first one that popped in my head. I bet Sheamus was thrilled when they finally dropped it. Yeah, I have a feeling he's probably desensitized to it by now, but MAN, the sheer number of "lol he needs a tan" nicknames and finisher names he's had in his career just feel 100% like the typical WWE "your gimmick and marketing is entirely based off of Vince's first impression of you" sort of thing. Finisher names and not nicknames, but "White Noise" and "Pale Justice" are just their own sort of eye-rolling. It's like, you have that, and then you had the periods of time when it felt like HHH and Undertaker were getting new nicknames every Wrestlemania season (with the usual WWE subtlety for pushing new nicknames) that were immediately forgotten right after.
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Post by Cvslfc123 on Apr 15, 2023 6:26:10 GMT -5
They tried to call Undertaker The Red Devil for a few weeks in 2002.
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Post by BorneAgain on Apr 15, 2023 6:41:27 GMT -5
They tried to call Undertaker The Red Devil for a few weeks in 2002. "Big Evil Red Devil" was strongly pushed for a while, though the first half seemed to catch on more than the second.
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Post by Mid-Carder on Apr 15, 2023 6:52:47 GMT -5
It wasn't a nickname as such but they tried to get Mr Ziggles for Ziggler over as an insult through John Morrison. Thankfully it didn't catch on. He was supposed to be the face, too.
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Post by sdoyle7798 on Apr 15, 2023 7:15:50 GMT -5
Those nicknames that Jim Ross tried giving to Triple H during the first episode of the return of Saturday Nights Main Event.
I remember two, but there may have been more:
The Wrestling Aristocrat
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The Monarch of the Mat
He hit those two hard that night, then never again.
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