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10. Meat
Not a lot of thought put into Shawn Stasiak's more famous ring name. He's kind of a meaty guy, so maybe that's what they were going with.
His dad went with the name Stan Stasiak. What did he think of son being named after a section in the grocery store?
Shawn's other name was Planet Stasiak. At least that name tried to be something.
9. Shaggy 2 Dope
When you can make Scotty 2 Hotty sound good, you know you've created a terrible name. Shaggy 2 Dope sounds like the worst rapper name ever. Take a listen to his music as a member of the Insane Clown Posse and you may still agree with that assessment.
Mr. Dope is a sometimes wrestler on top of his musical duties. If you can reference Scooby Doo and use a slang that is no longer cool at the same time, you have to do it, right? When it comes to names for rappers or wrestlers, there's no time limit during the creation process.You are not forced to stick with the first thing you blurt out.
Otherwise, every wrestling card would be filled with names like this one.
8. Shark Boy
There's nothing wrong with a shark-related name. Sharks are vicious, tough and dominate their territory.You want a wrestler's name to carry all those connotations.
Adding the 'boy' part of Dean Roll's ring name weakens this severely. He sounds like a kid that got attacked by a shark and survived whose story of bravery caught fire in the media.Roll clearly wasn't going for something serious with that outfit and name, but goofy names like these only work in small-time tongue in cheek promotions.
7. Henry O. Godwinn and Phinias I. Godwinn
One of the worst cases of forced acronyms was the Godwinns. WWE wanted so badly to have the two tag team partners names spell 'hog' and 'pig' that they named a guy Phinias, spelled awkwardly at that.
Essentially having guys named Hog and Pig was a failed joke.They're dirty, like pigs, get it? They are plenty of other animal names that would have worked better.
Even if a pig would be tough to take in a fight, it's not an intimidating or cool name at all.
6. Ze Gangsta
Going from the Father of the Gods to Ze Gangsta is a painful tumble.Tiny Lister's brief stint with WCW had him abandon his name, Zeus from the movie, No Holds Barred and his WWE days for an ill-advised moniker.
Why wasn't he simply The Gangsta or even Da Gangsta? Is it supposed to be French? It’s a name that's hard to believe was real, almost as hard to believe that five other wrestling names have been worse.
5. Isaac Yankem D.D.S.
Luckily for Glenn Jacobs, WWE eventually gave him a great character in Kane. Before that he was forced to play a demented dentist with a joke name. The heavy-handed moniker is laughable.
It came at a time when WWE was still trying to push gimmick-heavy cartoony characters and was running out of ones that worked. They got weird like in Yankem's case. The only this ring name could have been worse if they'd given him a name with more of a Bart Simpson prank call feel like Ivan A. Yankem.
4. Beaver Cleavage
Sitcoms from the '50s are not a great source for fighter's names. Adding tactless innuendo doesn't help.This character was an incestual version of "The Beaver" from Leave it to Beaver. How did that idea get approved?
One of WWE's worst missteps, Charles Warrington went nowhere with the career-killing gimmick and name he ended up with. He's now only remembered as a laughingstock. Had he wrestled as Mosh of the Headbangers for his entire career, what could have become of him?
3. Curry Man
Sure, Christopher Daniel’s ring name is a joke on purpose, a supposedly funny gimmick that isn't to be taken seriously, but when a wrestler named Curry Man is competing in a major wrestling promotion, what do you do with him?The name looks misplaced next to AJ Styles or Samoa Joe.
It sounds like a failed comic book hero. It's a limiting gimmick and name. Had he only wrestled under that name, what's the best Daniels could have hope for, mid-card novelty?
How many Hall of Famers are there named after food?
2. The Blue Meanie
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Take the ineffectiveness of the Mean Mark ring name, cover it in cheesiness and you have created the horrendous ring name for wrestler Brian Heffron. The Yellow Submarine may be a mighty entertaining film, but it's not a great source for wrestling names.
Heffron made it work the best he could, but how hard must it have been for the WWE commentators call the action when they repeatedly had to say the childish "meanie."The Blue Meanie belongs in a Roald Dahl book having a confrontation with the Big Friendly Giant, not a wrestling ring.
1. Ding Dongs
The tag team of Jim Evans and Richard Sartain was a failure on multiple levels.
They were forced to endure a laughable gimmick and some of the worst outfits in wrestling history. Their names were atrocious jokes. WCW management in the late '80s misfired big time here. Only one with no understanding of wrestling would think the Ding Dongs concept would work.
The tag team looked like penises and their names didn't help. And if fans allowed themselves to see past that, they could realize the names referred to bells. But why bells? In a sport filled with dragons and vipers, anvils and giants, where exactly do a pair of bells fit?
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