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Post by BlackoutCreature on Aug 13, 2023 16:26:19 GMT -5
So am I like in the minority with this? I always just found them really lazy. I'm just curious what other peoples opinions on the topic are?
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Post by Natural Born Farmer on Aug 13, 2023 16:29:12 GMT -5
If you didn't like Jerishow, or Steenerico, I don't know what to tell you.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Aug 13, 2023 16:44:04 GMT -5
If you didn't like Jerishow, or Steenerico, I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, I really hate those. |
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Post by "Playboy" Don Douglas on Aug 13, 2023 16:51:43 GMT -5
My favorite was when Big Show and Billy Gunn told Vince they had decided to call their team “ShowGunn” and Vince said, “Quite frankly, I don’t give a damn what you call it,” and walked away.
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Aug 13, 2023 16:57:40 GMT -5
Credit where credit is due: in 1996, the Pug teamed with Bob Holly and defeated the Smoking Gunns in a non-title match on Raw. Though the following week the Gunns got their win back by defeating Holly and Alex Pourteau. So, you win some, you lose some.
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Post by tirtefaa on Aug 13, 2023 17:10:55 GMT -5
Credit where credit is due: in 1996, the Pug teamed with Bob Holly and defeated the Smoking Gunns in a non-title match on Raw. Though the following week the Gunns got their win back by defeating Holly and Alex Pourteau. So, you win some, you lose some. They missed the opportunity to call them Pug 'n' Plug. |
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Post by "Cane Dewey" Johnson on Aug 13, 2023 17:20:34 GMT -5
Credit where credit is due: in 1996, the Pug teamed with Bob Holly and defeated the Smoking Gunns in a non-title match on Raw. Though the following week the Gunns got their win back by defeating Holly and Alex Pourteau. So, you win some, you lose some. They missed the opportunity to call them Pug 'n' Plug. Bob Holly: "Big Alex, my muffler fell out..." |
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Post by lildude8218 on Aug 13, 2023 17:22:58 GMT -5
Portmanteau is the Alex Porteau/Mantaur tag team
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Post by ace on Aug 13, 2023 17:42:39 GMT -5
What about names where they use one word from each name separately to form a team name? Because Lethal Consequences was a great name
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Post by El Pollo Guerrera on Aug 13, 2023 18:04:27 GMT -5
BookerDust.
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Post by Aceorton on Aug 13, 2023 18:13:16 GMT -5
Yeah, those are almost always terrible.
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Post by karl100589 on Aug 13, 2023 23:04:48 GMT -5
My favorite was when Big Show and Billy Gunn told Vince they had decided to call their team “ShowGunn” and Vince said, “Quite frankly, I don’t give a damn what you call it,” and walked away. Either could’ve worked. The Shoguns since it’s a type of Japanese warrior or The Gunn Show since it’s a term for someone showing off their muscles. |
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Aug 13, 2023 23:24:36 GMT -5
What about the early ECW tag team people were afraid to talk about: Taboo!? |
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Post by Lance Uppercut on Aug 13, 2023 23:28:33 GMT -5
My favorite was when Big Show and Billy Gunn told Vince they had decided to call their team “ShowGunn” and Vince said, “Quite frankly, I don’t give a damn what you call it,” and walked away. Double trouble crap on a stick would have been Gold |
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Post by Jonathan Michaels on Aug 13, 2023 23:34:24 GMT -5
I always wanted Lance Storm and Al Snow to team up and call themselves SnowStorm.
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Post by carp (SPC, Itoh Respect Army) on Aug 13, 2023 23:41:35 GMT -5
If you didn't like Jerishow, or Steenerico, I don't know what to tell you. Those work (the former especially) because the syllables smushed together actually sound alike. But stuff like Laycool and ShowMiz? Just lazy. |
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Post by Oh Cry Me a Screwball on Aug 14, 2023 0:06:24 GMT -5
If you didn't like Jerishow, or Steenerico, I don't know what to tell you. Those work (the former especially) because the syllables smushed together actually sound alike. But stuff like Laycool and ShowMiz? Just lazy. ShowMiz is a play on Showbiz. It makes more sense than most of them. |
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Aug 14, 2023 0:07:13 GMT -5
What was the very first instance of this phenomenon? Can't think of anything less recent than mid '00s.
Instead of Strike Force / Girls in Cars... imagine 1987 tag team champs: Martana and their rivals: Smax.
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Aug 14, 2023 0:20:05 GMT -5
Those work (the former especially) because the syllables smushed together actually sound alike. But stuff like Laycool and ShowMiz? Just lazy. ShowMiz is a play on Showbiz. It makes more sense than most of them. I'm pretty sure Laycool was meant to sound vaguely French. |
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Post by ace on Aug 14, 2023 1:01:52 GMT -5
I would like Matt Cardona to return to WWE under his old WWE name and team with the former Eli Drake so that they can be called Night Ryder
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