Best wrestler name changes
By Scott Keith on 19 November 2024
Greetings,
From time to time, we discuss terrific real life names of wrestlers that could easily have been their character names (Richard Blood springs to mind).
I'd like to throw the inverse question out to you and BoD: Which wrestlers absolutely needed to change their first and/or last names in order to get over?
My example would be Shawn Michaels.. I cannot imagine Howard Finkel on the mic, 'Sexy Boy' playing, announcing MICHEAL HICKENBOTTOM as the NEEWW World Wrestling Federation Champion.
Sylvester Ritter sounded like an accountant rather than a Junkyard Dog. But that being said, Shawn Michaels never worked as anything other than Shawn Michaels. Are we talking about real names that wouldn't work as wrestler names, or wrestler names that sounded like terrible real names? Because NXT had the market cornered on that one for years and still pumps out terrible ones to this day. So I'm a bit unclear on the criteria.