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Wrestling names can be hard to come up with. The name should ideally sound tough or cool without being cheesy. It’s a fine line to walk. Ideally, the name has to fit the person playing the character. However, even bad or bland wrestling names sometimes work. After all, Steve Austin shares the same name as the lead character from a campy 70’s show, all-time great Buddy Rogers doesn’t sound all that menacing, and The Rock is…well, a rock.
While none of those ring names may sound that great upon hearing them for the first time, they’re at least not offensive, and make you question the sanity of whoever came up with it. That’s not always the case though.
Professional wrestling is usually years behind the times when it comes to political correctness. Over the past 15 years alone, we’ve had Billy and Chuck,...
Wrestling names can be hard to come up with. The name should ideally sound tough or cool without being cheesy. It’s a fine line to walk. Ideally, the name has to fit the person playing the character. However, even bad or bland wrestling names sometimes work. After all, Steve Austin shares the same name as the lead character from a campy 70’s show, all-time great Buddy Rogers doesn’t sound all that menacing, and The Rock is…well, a rock.
While none of those ring names may sound that great upon hearing them for the first time, they’re at least not offensive, and make you question the sanity of whoever came up with it. That’s not always the case though.
Professional wrestling is usually years behind the times when it comes to political correctness. Over the past 15 years alone, we’ve had Billy and Chuck,...
- 11/18/2014
- by Andrew Soucek
- Obsessed with Film
We can say what many from Bruno Sammartino’s era, whether it be fans or performers, can not – we were there when Bruno Sammartino was finally inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame, and one of the most charred bridges in WWE history began its recovery. The night before WrestleMania, we will witness history.
It is a war that waged on for literally decades. Bruno Sammartino and Vince McMahon have traded insults in several formats, through radio interviews, television appearances, books, journalistic editorials, you name it Bruno and McMahon played it. Bruno was commonly on the attack, with McMahon reserving criticism and attempting to keep the peace.
Throughout the late nineties Sammartino, the longest reigning WWE Champion of all-time, heavily criticized the organization, its officials and the product for “selling out,” and abandoning what had made it so great during his era. He has repeatedly called the WWE product vulgar,...
It is a war that waged on for literally decades. Bruno Sammartino and Vince McMahon have traded insults in several formats, through radio interviews, television appearances, books, journalistic editorials, you name it Bruno and McMahon played it. Bruno was commonly on the attack, with McMahon reserving criticism and attempting to keep the peace.
Throughout the late nineties Sammartino, the longest reigning WWE Champion of all-time, heavily criticized the organization, its officials and the product for “selling out,” and abandoning what had made it so great during his era. He has repeatedly called the WWE product vulgar,...
- 2/9/2013
- by Jason Patrick
- Obsessed with Film
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