SPIN: What are some of the BEST wrestling ring names ever?

[Art Barr]

Homicide

New jack

Mustafa

Kama

Magnum TA : My second favorite wrassler

MR WONDERFUL PAUL ORNDORF : my first favorite wrassler

Ricky the dragon steamboat
One man gang

The Russian sickle Nikita koloff

Razor Ramon : One of the best gimmick changes with name from big Scott hall in the awa

Diesel: This was a good name an excellent name

Bob backlund : He sounds like a champion

Mr perfect Kurt hennig : Real name and gimmick were excellent. wwf execution to bury him, still makes me mad as fukk
Bret the hit man hart

Chris the crippler Benoit

Dynamite kid tom bullington

the juicer

The human love machine art Barr

Dean malenko : Sounds like the guy who is the son of the strong man at the carnival from back in the day

Syxx : Most annoying fukk'n character ever but great fukk'n name

Lodi : I hate gays but I lol at every west Hollywood blonde match and appearance

The Hollywood blondes
Stuning Steve Austin

Brian pillman

Faaroq
Ron the truth killings

The rock n roll express

Ricky Morton

Bobby eaton

Adrian Adonis

Captain Lou albano : Sounded like an old ring coach from rocky and the use of hin was excellent.
Mean gene okerlund : The iconic name hogun would say to make us all mark out

Hulk Hogan
Thunderlips
Sterling golden : All of hulk hogun's name were fiyah.

Superstar Billy graham : Evangelist swag name

AJ STYLES : first time I read this kid's name I knew he had to be it

The fallen angel Chris Daniels : This guy's name opposite on the card against aj and my first match exposure to him outside the documentary. He lived up to his name via workrate and character plus loom.

Mike modest
Mike awesome
The great muta : I remember when he first showed up and bewt sting and his name and image were just so shockingly scary to me as a kid. He sounded and looked like the guy sting was not gonna ever beat.

Big van Vader : His original puro mask entrance and name are the most intimidating mad max come to life shyt I ever saw. He was literally the scariest guy who was not cowboy bob Orton slave master with it.

Sgt slaughter : We loved this fool, we thought he was the invincible GI Joe and the first ep.
When he debuts and he kicked all the joe's ass was legendary.
To create and further the mythos.

Chris Candido
Sunny

Sharkboy
Taz
Public enemy 911
The eliminators
The lionheart Chris jericho
The all American males
Mark the gentleman Bagwell
Scott steiner
Rick steiner
Riv flair
Ole and arn Anderson
Tully Blanchard : Tully had a great name.
Nick Bockwinkle : He sounded like the guy you were not gonna ever beat
Jj Dillon : Sounded like the guy in charge
Shane McMahon : Shane has a great first name and mixed with the legacy of his family name. He sounds like the guy who could work but would never be a reoccurring star.
Crowbar
Daphne
Woman
Mr Fuji
Sensational sherry
Babydoll
Missy Hyatt : Her name exuded that thing and her look as a shawty lived up to it.
George the animal Steele
Macho man Randy savage
Ms Elizabeth : She sounded as regal as she was before you knew macho was gonna swerve everybody and make her his manager.


Art Barr

Be back with more,...this thread make me feel like posting like its 99 on the hamster.

 

[Momentum]

Pretty much. As soon as the rock and brock left, Vince decided that every time someone got got enough, it's time to cool them down or strip away what got them over in the first place. From 2004/2005 onward, once they got hot enough, you could guarantee they would go on a long losing streak and be taken off tv, be booked like a coward heel and lose clean all the time, spend months with no story, or be fed to John cena several times over. Vince thinks like a pimp does. It means that he punishes anyone who gets over off their own ideas or who makes money independent of him. Look at stories told by Batista, ryback, how they booked Rey after Eddie died, how they booked Christian in 2005 and 2011, how they booked Bryan in 2013, how brock lost his first match back in a way guaranteed to diminish his star power, how they booked the miz when he was champion, how they buried Ryder and Kofi in 2009-14 and 2012-present day, how badly Ambrose was booked once the shield split, and how cesaro was booked once the real Americans split. Vince doesn't want another big star because the ones he still promotes aren't even wrestling anymore so there's no threat of them leaving him. Time and time again he has shown he would rather lose his own way as opposed to winning someone else's way.

Add in Sheamus 2014-2016 and 2016 Reigns.

Edit: And Barrett.

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Add in Sheamus 2014-2016 and 2016 Reigns.

Edit: And Barrett.

Pretty much every member of the roster from 2005 onward. It's a shorter list of people who reached their ceiling. Maybe Bryan and maybe punk. They both likely would have gotten even bigger too if they were booked right. Come to think about t, I'm not sure anyone reached their ceiling in the last 11 years.

 

[GiantGonzalez]

Razor Ramon

Chris Jericho

Bret the Hitman Hart

Earthquake & Typhoon

Savio Vega

 

[Momentum]

Pretty much every member of the roster from 2005 onward. It's a shorter list of people who reached their ceiling. Maybe Bryan and maybe punk. They both likely would have gotten even bigger too if they were booked right. Come to think about t, I'm not sure anyone reached their ceiling in the last 11 years.

Balor's an undefeated former champion who beat the US champ and 2/3 of The Shield upon debut. Pretty sure he can't go anywhere but down.

I've even read rumors of him winning the RR

 

[Mantis Toboggan M.D.]

Balor's an undefeated former champion who beat the US champ and 2/3 of The Shield upon debut. Pretty sure he can't go anywhere but down.

I've even read rumors of him winning the RR

Finn isn't eligible to grade out yet. He's only had 6 weeks on the main roster. Gotta be there longer.

 

[Berniewood Hogan]

Knobbz
Saggz
The Disciple
Brother Bruti
The Zodiac
Horace "Hogan"

 

[Here Comes the Pain]

X-pac/syxx pac
Diamond Dallas Page(DDP)
Sid Vicious
Christian Cage
Rob van Dam (RVD)

 

[TRIPLE M]

dikk the Bruiser

 

[El Guapo]

Ravishing Rick Rude
Macho Man Randy Savage
Psychosis

 

[T'Challa Trillmonger]

"The Notorious 187" Homicide

 

[Playaz Eyez]

The Rock
Stone Cold
Kane
Undertaker
AJ Styles
Nature Boy Ric Flair
Macho Man Randy Savage
Lex Luger
The Sinister Minister
Rey Mysterio
Psycho Sid/Sid Vicious
Ultimate Warrior

 

[GoddamnyamanProf]

what happened to Edge, Batista, Booker T, Sting type names?

Booker and Bautista were lucky enough to have cool-sounding birth names they could use, back when they let guys use their real names. Edge and Sting bit their names from 80's rockers.

 

[Imer]

They prob use their goverment names because I assume they would own the rights to it no?

 

[Riley Escobar]

Ricky Steamboat's real name is Richard Blood