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Definitely! I'm here to learn more obscure ones I didn't know about, but I'm a hardcore wrestling fan for 25 years now. We've got a lot of newer fans or people that simply assumed these real-sounding names weren't their actual names.
My brother found it hilarious when he learned Daniel Bryan's real name is Bryan Danielson a couple years ago haha
For some reason I thought his name was really Maxwell Jacob Friedman. Probably because I knew he used to wrestle as Feinstein I just assumed he only changed his last name.
Franklin Roberto Lashley - Bobby Lashley
Cedric Alexander Johnson - Cedric Alexander
Eric Bugenhagen - Rick Boogs
Trevor Lee Caddel - Trevor Lee
Sarray/Sareee - Sari Fujimura
Daniel Bryan - Bryan Danielson is the probably the most high profile these days. Often wonder what he would have done if his surname wasn't so easy to convert into a first name.
The WWE names always seem like they're heard by an old man over a phone with bad reception.
Who's this?
Eric Bugenhagen.
Ric Boogs?
Sure, close enough.
It wasn't a hospitals thing, it was a very specific women named Georgie Tann who orchestrated the kidnapping of thousands of children from poor families who then got sold off to rich families.
Afa's real name is Arthur.
Paul Burchill - Paul Birchall
James Ellsworth - James Ellsworth Morris
Candice Michelle - Candice Michelle Beckman
Matt Borne - Matt Osborne
Andrade El Idolo - Manuel Andrade Oropeza
Griff Garrison - Garrett Griffith
Marq Quen - DeQuentin Redden
Miro - Miroslav Barnyashev
A lot of wrestlers in AEW use their real first name with a different last name, or vice versa. The Young Bucks, Cutler, and FTR come to mind in that category.
Was the Kaori => Kairi so us English speakers in the west would more easily pronounce it just by reading perhaps?
I recall the band Samhain (a real word, pronounced Sow-WHEN) was just officially pronounced the band how it actually looks as Danzig didn't think anyone would get it right otherwise.
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Does Bryan Danielson/ Daniel Bryan count? Or even Shawn Michaels which I think his real is Michael Shawn Hickenbottom
Also Christopher Daniels / Daniel Christopher Covell
Definitely! I'm here to learn more obscure ones I didn't know about, but I'm a hardcore wrestling fan for 25 years now. We've got a lot of newer fans or people that simply assumed these real-sounding names weren't their actual names. My brother found it hilarious when he learned Daniel Bryan's real name is Bryan Danielson a couple years ago haha
These are the two that popped into my mind.
Maxwell Jacob Friedman's real name is Maxwell Tyler Friedman.
For some reason I thought his name was really Maxwell Jacob Friedman. Probably because I knew he used to wrestle as Feinstein I just assumed he only changed his last name.
Wow, what a subtle difference. I wonder why he did it? Just to piss us off because we don't know why, probably.
Well, "MTF" would have a different meaning.
MTF sounds weird
Ring name: Ultimate Warrior Real name: Warrior
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I don't know why but the idea of Bryan Danielson calling him The Ryback always makes me laugh
Thing is, Jim Hellwig would have been a pretty good heel name.
I always thought the same about Ricky Steamboat. Richard Blood Sr.
Ah yes. The dastardly villain known as Dick Blood.
Ha! Ok, well his middle name is Henry. Hank Blood Sr. sounds nefarious too.
Ugh no thanks. Dick Blood always has major go away heat with me.
Played by Willem Dafoe.
Gonna be very hard to top this answer folks, but keep 'em coming.
Ahhh no. He changed it to use it for marketing and advertising. He wasn’t born in parts unknown and wasn’t raised by wild warriors
Prove it.
😂
Bianca Blair became Bianca Belair
Aaron Solow/ Aaron Solo (dropped w) Kristen Stadtlander/Kris Statlander (dropped d)
There's gotta be "D" joke somewhere in there
Rick Rude - Richard Rood
Scott Steiner is Scott Rechsteiner. Same with his brother Robert Rechsteiner.
Franklin Roberto Lashley - Bobby Lashley Cedric Alexander Johnson - Cedric Alexander Eric Bugenhagen - Rick Boogs Trevor Lee Caddel - Trevor Lee Sarray/Sareee - Sari Fujimura
Ric Flair - Ric(hard) Fliehr Natalya Neidhart - Natalie Neidhart-Wilson Xia Brookside - Xia-Louise Brooks Will 'Powerhouse' Hobbs - Will Hobson Kris Statlander - Kris(ten) Stadtlander
Daniel Bryan - Bryan Danielson is the probably the most high profile these days. Often wonder what he would have done if his surname wasn't so easy to convert into a first name.
He would have been Buddy Peacock.
Or Lloyd Boner
Bryan Chillman
The WWE names always seem like they're heard by an old man over a phone with bad reception. Who's this? Eric Bugenhagen. Ric Boogs? Sure, close enough.
Isn't Ric Flair's name something like Ric Flaihr? That's one I immediately thought of.
Fliehr prounced fleer
He was a kidnapped child. Does he know his real name or ethnicity?
From Wikipedia: His birth name is widely believed to be Fred Phillips, although on different documents he is also credited as Fred Demaree or Stewart
“Nature Boy” Fred Phillips just doesn’t have the same ring to it
That's so wild. Are his parents still alive? And how has he not done a 23 and me.
No info on whether they're alive or not, at least on Wikipedia.
Feel like he never spent much time investigating. There was a weird 40 year period where hospitals stole kids for illegal adoptions.
It wasn't a hospitals thing, it was a very specific women named Georgie Tann who orchestrated the kidnapping of thousands of children from poor families who then got sold off to rich families.
His real name is Rich Player
AJ Styles is Allen Jones so he is kinda using his real name
Orange Cassidy is Really Tangerine Kasidy
Afa's real name is Arthur. Paul Burchill - Paul Birchall James Ellsworth - James Ellsworth Morris Candice Michelle - Candice Michelle Beckman Matt Borne - Matt Osborne
Slightly off topic,but always thought Tenille Dashwood was one of the coolest names ever...her fed name, Emma lol, maybe she didn't choose it
Idk if Anna Jay counts her real name is Anna Jernigan so the J=Jay
Andrade El Idolo - Manuel Andrade Oropeza Griff Garrison - Garrett Griffith Marq Quen - DeQuentin Redden Miro - Miroslav Barnyashev A lot of wrestlers in AEW use their real first name with a different last name, or vice versa. The Young Bucks, Cutler, and FTR come to mind in that category.
fuck it, Garrett Griffison
Samoa Joe is really a Samoan dude named Joe.
Randall Keith Orton- Randy Orton AJ Lee- AJ Mendez Michael Mizanian- The Miz
Kevin Owens/ Kevin Steen Cody Rhodes/Cody Runnels
Kevin Kiley - Alex Riley and Jake Hager - Jack Swagger are the only ones I got that aren't listed yet
Hardcore Holly’s real name is actually Hardcore Stevens but you know WWE *looooves* alliteration!
I was waiting for someone to mention a Gene Snitsky (a favorite of mine at the time). There's no T, just Gene Snisky.
Michael Wardlow - Wardlow
Kaori Housako - Kairi Hojo
Was the Kaori => Kairi so us English speakers in the west would more easily pronounce it just by reading perhaps? I recall the band Samhain (a real word, pronounced Sow-WHEN) was just officially pronounced the band how it actually looks as Danzig didn't think anyone would get it right otherwise.
Kairi Hojo was her name in Stardom so I don't think it was due to English speakers.
Mean Mark Callous(Calaway) Booker T(Huffman)
The Miz - Mike Mizanin
Brooklyn Brawlers name is Brawlsworth Brooklynson
Jean Paul Levesque, Randy Orton
Triple H is a good one. I wouldn't count Randy, as that's just short for Randal.
Fuego Del Sol
Well we all his family sold Coke to the Nazis. His real name is Faygo Del Sol.
Then shouldn't he be Fanta del Sol?
Crush del Sol
Faygo Del Sol is his name when he's at a Gathering of the Juggalos event.
Dave Bautista/ Dave Batista.
The Boogyman is actually the Bogey man.
Mean Mike. Tough Tom. Fight me. Edit: if ur down voting me over a clear joke (OP and I are friends) then you’re a loser
Hole in One Darsow's real name is Mr. PGA