Mozenrath
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Post by Mozenrath on Aug 14, 2023 1:18:56 GMT -5
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. As in like Le Cool? Makes sense, if so, but it also kind of works for the tendency of tabloids to talk about twosomes with names like "Bennifer", "Brangenlina", etc, rather obnoxiously.
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Post by The Foreigner™ in Playoff Mode on Aug 14, 2023 1:23:25 GMT -5
There are bad ones out there for sure but I'll take a mediocre portmanteau over "Wrestler 1 and Wrestler 2" being a permanent team name.
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Post by Hit Girl on Aug 14, 2023 1:45:31 GMT -5
Lazy writing. Takes less effort than creating dedicated team identities. Even the "Mega Powers" had more thought put into it.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Aug 14, 2023 12:04:22 GMT -5
In baseball they just take the guy's name and add a 'Y'.
Smith? Smithy. Jones? Jonesy. Ohtani? Ohtani-y
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Post by Cyno on Aug 14, 2023 12:17:26 GMT -5
It depends on the portmanteau. Jerishow and ShowMiz have wordplay that makes it work.
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Post by XIII on Aug 14, 2023 12:35:35 GMT -5
Why were Billy Gunn and Big Show not Show Ass or Ass Show?
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Aug 14, 2023 14:32:23 GMT -5
Why were Billy Gunn and Big Show not Show Ass or Ass Show? Because Billy Gunn wasn't Mr. Ass at the time. He was "The One" Billy Gunn.
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Post by Mike Bockwinkel on Aug 15, 2023 11:54:29 GMT -5
It depends on the portmanteau. Jerishow and ShowMiz have wordplay that makes it work. However, the team of Jericho and Miz did not last long dude to lack of q portmanteau name.
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tirtefaa
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Post by tirtefaa on Aug 15, 2023 12:18:39 GMT -5
Why were Billy Gunn and Big Show not Show Ass or Ass Show? Because Billy Gunn wasn't Mr. Ass at the time. He was "The One" Billy Gunn. "Big One"
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Post by YAKMAN is ICHIBAN on Aug 15, 2023 12:23:07 GMT -5
Because Billy Gunn wasn't Mr. Ass at the time. He was "The One" Billy Gunn. "Big One" Still pulling for Baron Corbin to have a team or stable called The Lone Wolves
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Post by Hypnosis on Aug 15, 2023 12:56:20 GMT -5
Still pulling for Baron Corbin to have a team or stable called The Lone Wolves Corbin and PAC would be "Wolf PAC".
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Post by Bob Schlapowitz on Aug 15, 2023 16:08:36 GMT -5
Still pulling for Baron Corbin to have a team or stable called The Lone Wolves "There's three of you! You're not exactly lone!"
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Post by discoelysium on Aug 15, 2023 16:28:22 GMT -5
Y2AJ is the absolute worst as far as I'm concerned
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Post by Deleted on Aug 15, 2023 16:36:58 GMT -5
I feel like this started as tabloids started to popularize the naming mashups among Hollywood's couples as well...
Before then we had awesome ideas like "Death and Taxes" thrown around on bbs
Today they would be the UnderSchysters instead
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Aug 15, 2023 19:29:04 GMT -5
Y2AJ is the absolute worst as far as I'm concerned YEah but that was meant to be cheap and disposable. Since it lasted like a month.
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AdamAFL was sooooo wrong
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Post by AdamAFL was sooooo wrong on Aug 15, 2023 19:38:16 GMT -5
If you didn't like Jerishow, or Steenerico, I don't know what to tell you. Yeah, I really hate those. Hating Steenerico as a name should be punishable in the Hague
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kidkamikaze10
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Post by kidkamikaze10 on Aug 15, 2023 19:39:17 GMT -5
The only one I liked is Steenerico. But that's because they used it for so long.
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Eunös ✈
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Post by Eunös ✈ on Aug 19, 2023 10:46:39 GMT -5
I dislike when their themes are mashed up more.
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clifford
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Post by clifford on Aug 19, 2023 10:56:29 GMT -5
I hate it when two singles stars start tagging together as a tag team and they don't get either matching gear or at the very least colour coordinated. Drives me insane.
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Post by Hypnosis on Aug 19, 2023 11:14:23 GMT -5
I hate it when two singles stars start tagging together as a tag team and they don't get either matching gear or at the very least colour coordinated. Drives me insane. I hate when wrestlers wear the same colors when they're opponents. Those idiots just need to tag up!
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