TGM
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Post by TGM on Jan 29, 2019 15:53:19 GMT -5
Ice Dagger, Chilly McFreeze, Mason the Muilator. These are so much more terrible than those we actually got. Are there anymore near misses like this?
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Post by Manute Bol on Jan 29, 2019 19:30:04 GMT -5
Daniel Bryan was originally pitched Buddy Peacock.
Vader going by simply The Mastadon in WWE.
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Post by thegatewaydrug on Jan 29, 2019 22:49:35 GMT -5
Lloyd Boner
Blyler Tack
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 29, 2019 23:00:53 GMT -5
Ric Flair wanted to be Dusty Rhodes' relative Ricky Rhodes when he first started. The booker told him no.
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Post by KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!! on Jan 29, 2019 23:14:39 GMT -5
Ricky Steamboat was told his real name Richard Blood was a great wrestling name...for a heel. Since Ricky is a natural face he instead went by Ricky Steamboat, a fake relative of Sam Steamboat, an older wrestler.
Also, Dick Blood would’ve been short for Richard Blood. Remember. Ricky Steamboat. Dick Blood. Remember.
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Post by Joe Neglia on Jan 29, 2019 23:22:46 GMT -5
Ricky Steamboat was told his real name Richard Blood was a great wrestling name...for a heel. Since Ricky is a natural face he instead went by Ricky Steamboat, a fake relative of Sam Steamboat, an older wrestler. Also, Dick Blood would’ve been short for Richard Blood. Remember. Ricky Steamboat. Dick Blood. Remember. Yeah, but then the same promotion gave babyface Merced Solis - the future Tito Santana - the name instead. |
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 30, 2019 1:24:51 GMT -5
Undertaker claims that he could’ve gotten a gimmick called “The Eggman”...
Dolph Ziggler almost became Kurt Angle’s protege once and I think he would’ve used his real name Nick Nemeth.
Jericho wanted to be called Jack Action until he was told that the name was f***ing awful.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 7:54:43 GMT -5
Lloyd Boner (pronounced BON-YAY) would have been a classic nickname if it wasn’t for the fact that it was pitched to Bryan f***ing Danielson.
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Post by Venti on Jan 30, 2019 8:27:35 GMT -5
Cheating because it's a name he actually used, but imagine if Dwayne Johnson debuted in the WWF as Flex Kavana..
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Post by Spider2024 on Jan 30, 2019 10:52:49 GMT -5
Cheating because it's a name he actually used, but imagine if Dwayne Johnson debuted in the WWF as Flex Kavana.. On that note, I read some trivia that could be a secret meaning to two other wrestler names: Christopher Columbus (the most famous one throughout history) had 2 sons named Diego and Fernando. To make things more interesting, at some point in both of their lives, they went by the last name "Colón". |
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Post by OVO 40 hunched over like he 80 on Jan 30, 2019 10:54:12 GMT -5
Lloyd Boner (pronounced BON-YAY) would have been a classic nickname if it wasn’t for the fact that it was pitched to Bryan f***ing Danielson. Bryan’s the one who pitched it lol. He also pitched the name “Buddy Peacock”. |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 30, 2019 11:33:13 GMT -5
Bill Goldberg wrestled a hand full of dark matches as Bill Gold.
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Futureraven: Beelzebruv
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Post by Futureraven: Beelzebruv on Jan 30, 2019 13:58:47 GMT -5
Cheating because it's a name he actually used, but imagine if Dwayne Johnson debuted in the WWF as Flex Kavana.. Or Edge as Sexton Hardcastle |
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Jan 30, 2019 14:42:11 GMT -5
I believe Chris Jericho was offered the Goon or the Pug in 1996.
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Post by 2coldMack is even more baffled on Jan 30, 2019 14:45:04 GMT -5
I think he's since denied that this was real, but remember Sami Callihan being rumored to be given a surfer gimmick as "Joey Splashwater"?
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Post by SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts on Jan 30, 2019 15:09:19 GMT -5
The band W.A.S.P. has a song titled Jack Action. I assume thats where Jericho got the name from.
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Post by BlackoutCreature on Jan 30, 2019 15:22:06 GMT -5
"Jack Action" is the kind of name that would've been horrible in the 90's, but I think would really get over nowadays, especially on the indies.
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Post by Hypnosis on Jan 30, 2019 17:11:14 GMT -5
Undertaker claims that he could’ve gotten a gimmick called “The Eggman”... So he'd eventually feud with this guy on the right, then:  |
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Post by Cranjis McBasketball on Jan 30, 2019 18:38:49 GMT -5
Undertaker claims that he could’ve gotten a gimmick called “The Eggman”... Dolph Ziggler almost became Kurt Angle’s protege once and I think he would’ve used his real name Nick Nemeth. Jericho wanted to be called Jack Action until he was told that the name was f***ing awful. Yeah it was Lance Storm who told him. Jericho played it off like he was just messing around and wasn’t really gonna use it. Worth noting Jericho was practicing his autograph at the time. |
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Post by The Dark Order Inferno on Jan 31, 2019 2:37:31 GMT -5
Cheating because it's a name he actually used, but imagine if Dwayne Johnson debuted in the WWF as Flex Kavana.. To be fair, is it really that much worse than Rocky Maivia? |
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