Celexa Bliss
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Post by Celexa Bliss on Feb 19, 2024 22:17:46 GMT -5
WWE has always had shitty tag team names. Remember when they called Kofi and Evan Bourne "Air Boom" or when they lazily just spliced the two wrestlers names together--- Jerishow, ShowMiz, LayCool Or the period when they were too lazy to think of names so it was just London & Kendrick and Deuce N Domino and Cade and Murdoch and Regal and Taylor. Worst part of that is, each of those teams HAD a name, but WWE didn't use them: Hooliganz, Throwbacks OR Untouchables, Redneck Wrecking Crew, and Blue Bloods.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Feb 19, 2024 23:06:56 GMT -5
WWE has always had shitty tag team names. Remember when they called Kofi and Evan Bourne "Air Boom" or when they lazily just spliced the two wrestlers names together--- Jerishow, ShowMiz, LayCool Or the period when they were too lazy to think of names so it was just London & Kendrick and Deuce N Domino and Cade and Murdoch and Regal and Taylor. Worst part of that is, each of those teams HAD a name, but WWE didn't use them: Hooliganz, Throwbacks OR Untouchables, Redneck Wrecking Crew, and Blue Bloods. I don't remember RWC and Blue Bloods were ever more than just Fan names. Hooliganz were what London and Kendrick wanted to be called and had it on all of their gear and even made a logo for it... But WWE said no for some reason.
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Feb 19, 2024 23:09:12 GMT -5
WWE definitely used Redneck Wrecking Crew, but I think it was kind of only ever really as an alias for a team that had no actual name for some idiot reason.
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Post by Rave on Feb 20, 2024 1:55:30 GMT -5
Sadly, not a problem unique to WWE. UWN debuted a team calling themselves Krusty Krew this week.
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Post by Tea & Crumpets on Feb 20, 2024 7:21:21 GMT -5
Worst part of that is, each of those teams HAD a name, but WWE didn't use them: Hooliganz, Throwbacks OR Untouchables, Redneck Wrecking Crew, and Blue Bloods. I don't remember RWC and Blue Bloods were ever more than just Fan names. Hooliganz were what London and Kendrick wanted to be called and had it on all of their gear and even made a logo for it... But WWE said no for some reason. Blue Bloods was their WCW team name
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Post by callmekc on Feb 21, 2024 5:10:37 GMT -5
LayCool WWE created, but I'm fairly certain the other names were picked by the fans. Like, I think there was actually an online poll to decide the name of Kofi and Evan Bourne's team, and I'm sure the names ShowMiz and JeriShow came from online fans joking Boy im glad they didn't name Jericho and Miz Mizicho.
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Post by XIII on Feb 21, 2024 6:11:08 GMT -5
Straight Edge Xpress (SEX)vs. the Drug Enthusiasts of America(DEA)
Give me the book, bro! It’s time to go full Russo!
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Post by Moppy on Feb 21, 2024 9:44:06 GMT -5
Was just browsing the wiki for Elimination Chamber and had to come back here the second I saw Dunne and Bate referred to as New Catch Republic
...wut
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Post by Dave at the Movies on Feb 22, 2024 10:18:25 GMT -5
No Quarter Catch Crew isn't bad but I'm sure most people don't know what No Quarter means so it isn't great for branding.
I like their group, especially Charlie Dempsey who has a ton of potential.
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Post by clc on Feb 22, 2024 14:17:00 GMT -5
No Quarter Catch Crew isn't bad but I'm sure most people don't know what No Quarter means so it isn't great for branding. I like their group, especially Charlie Dempsey who has a ton of potential. No means No. Quarters are those $0.25 coins. Catch is what you do when someone throws something at you. Crew is a group of fellas.
So this is a group of fellas opposed to grabbing coins being thrown at them.
Or they are some sort of Led Zeppelin loving softball team.
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Post by darbus alan on Feb 22, 2024 14:28:49 GMT -5
No quarter is basically a term for "no mercy, take no prisoners" in war. It's been considered a war crime for over a century. And "catch wrestling" is the old fashioned name for the kind of wrestling that's the basis for pro wrestling.
It's still a clumsy, bad name for a team imo.
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Feb 22, 2024 18:51:53 GMT -5
No quarter is basically a term for "no mercy, take no prisoners" in war. It's been considered a war crime for over a century. And "catch wrestling" is the old fashioned name for the kind of wrestling that's the basis for pro wrestling. It's still a clumsy, bad name for a team imo. These guys fighting with Noam Dar for the Heritage Cup feels like a war crime.
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