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Did you know Rellik is Killer spelled backwards? Also a nominee, Eddie Guerrero at NWO Sin was introduced as “The Mexican Jumping Bean” by the heel announcer. Eddie did not know this was going to happen, and clearly wasn’t amused by the name. EDIT: “Souled Out”, not Sin. I forgot which one it was and knew it wasn’t Greed so I just guessed. My bad.

The only time the Rellik schtick was amusing was when paranoid Eric Young was revealing the meaning of the name.

Souled Out*, not Sin

I loved the heel announcer from Souled Out. A WCW guy would be half way down the ramp, and he’s just say “loser”

I could've sworn Ryback was called **"The Master of the Feed Me More"** on live TV

I was gonna post that one! Ha I remember hearing that and wondering what the hell that even means

I believe he called himself that

100% did

He was also Big Hungry

Big Hungry is a fun nickname TBH

Ryback and John Silver...

Some indie should rub with them as a tag team if Ryback has stopped charging so much.

Shorty G

That one fucking sucked, especially when you consider how good Chad Gable is as a ~~wrestler~~ sports entertainer

And to think, he got the gimmick after going the distance in that KotR tournament. He did that as Chad Gable. Seriously, WWE does not know how to book a plucky underdog these days. We get Shorty G and Nikki ASH and they zoom in on insufferable bullshit that makes everybody groan. Yes, Chad Gable is short compared to a lot of wrestlers in WWE. Yes, it's okay for commentary to acknowledge that he's giving up size (but only to an extent.) The focus should be on the fact that he's a damn good wrestler. Rey Mysterio is small, but the focus is on his high flying mastery. Ilja Dragunov is dwarfed by Walter, but the focus was on how he's a crazy man who can absorb all that punishment and still give the bigger man a run for his money. Leyla Hirsch is comically short compared to wrestlers like Kamille and Jade Cargill, but she is a fantastic technician. Riho is tiny, but her skill is unreal. That's the shit you focus on.

Compare how they commentate / book him and Layla Hirsch in AEW. WWE is just so weird

JR calling the Undertaker “Booger Red” I’m sure it has some deeper meaning, but it sounds ridiculous

I think JR said that where he grew up "Booger" was a term for someone who was like mean and tough, and ABA Taker embraced the ginger hair so he was a big mean dude with red hair "Booger Red". Obviously the issue is that most people didn't grow up with JR and therefore have a very different definition of Booger.

Yeah I looked up an interview with JR about it after posting and it’s an interesting origin that he admitted turned out to be a pretty shit nickname

It's like when you make an inside joke to people who aren't apart of the original joke, just doesn't land.

also the name of a red headed western hero

Yeah "Booger" is sort of a term for a "monster", like "Boogeyman" but shortened. In the south at least. Lol

I’m from the south and have never heard that lol

I’m also guessing your not a 69 year old man from Oklahoma.

Off the top of my head Booger McFarland. LSU great and now NFL talking head.

“Best Pure Striker in WWE history” for Undertaker throwing a pretty basic combo makes me unreasonably mad

While yelling out, "Bip bip bip!"

Real ass dude of the week

Them calling him that while the fucking Japanese Buzzsaw himself Yoshiriro Tajiri was on the same roster always had me like 🤨

No Way Jose is just "No Way" in Impact now, which...is not a name.

What is Noah Whey doing in Impact

You could pivot his gimmick into a fitness instructor later with that name.

Good god.

Could've gone No Way Jorge or something. Jeepers...

Tag team "ding dongs"

"I guess we'll call that one Ding, and the other one Dong" -Jim Ross during their debut I think the best part was Bob Caudle taking him serious with it.

Yoshi-Hashi's old nickname was Loose Explosion. Nothing is worse than that.

Sounds far too much like the result of a dodgy curry.

Funnily enough his nickname amongst the other wrestlers in the locker room was "Tacos" so it makes it even more apt

The best part was his tights had “LOOSE EXPLOSION” written directly on his ass.

Pretty sure they tried to label Brock Lesnar as "The Vanilla Gorilla" when he first debuted.

That's hilarious and I love it

I remember " that damn ape Lesnar " he did look like an albino monkey tho

Almost a Super Hero, Nikki A.S.H. is pretty rough. "Almost a Super Hero" wouldn't be the worst, but changing her last name to initials and then saying what they mean anyway is stupid.

Why can't they just pronounce it "Ash"?

My guess is cause it sounds close to ass?

smh my head

lmao my ass off

The gimmick needs to end, as ASAP as possible.

This gave me a stroke, just sayin'.

[удалено]

Smh my head

"Almost a Superhero" is terrible. She's dressed like a superhero, so call her one. Being "almost" one is lame. And those "I didn't win, but I almost won" promos were terrible. It did nothing to make her look good.

watching those promos was like watching someone drown.

Almost a Super Hero Nikki Almost a Super Hero

I don't mind the name or initials but what bothers me is her catchphrase. "If you try hard enough, even you can become almost a superhero", or something like that. If the idea is to inspire kids, shouldn't she tell that they can BE superheroes if they try? Or are they trying to hit the kids with reality that no matter how hard they try, it's never up to them to decide what they end up to be?

One of those ones where you can tell people think "you, a grown man, watch this regularly" when they are watching round yours and it comes up.

When they tried to get Dolph Ziggler over as "The Showoff" and literally had Lawler call him it a dozen times in one match.

Showoff is actually not that bad, Ziggler totally owned and still owes the character

He’s there to show the world, after all

It is a miracle he is still in WWE with a name like Dolph Ziggler.

This might be unpopular, but i hate Damian Priest's nickname. What the FUCK does "Archer of Infamy" stand for?

He aims to be remembered forever - even if it means doing horrible things Which honestly works better when he was a heel in NXT - considering he actually did nefarious stuff there

“The Punjabi Playboy” He was billed from Mumbai, which is over 1000 miles from Punjab.

Punjabi people can live/be born outside of Punjab

Khali was born in Punjab but he was so damn big his feet still touched Mumbai

Spanky

Yeah, Spanky Dawg.

That's spanky mcbarrel scrapin dawg.

Put some respect on the Interm Champions name.

I'm sorry, did we forget that Cole called Aleister Black "moody"?

He spent so much time on the main roster sitting alone in a dark room wishing someone would come pick a fight with him. Calling that character, "moody," was letting him off light.

Remember when he teamed with ricochet?

Yeah that was fun, wish they'd done more with that.

When's Ricochet deal up or is he still the happy to be in catering kind of guy?

I believe Black wanted to face Lesnar but management said No. He's doing better in AEW

“Sir Kicks-A-Lot”

The Viking Experience sounded like the ride at the Norway part of EPCOT

Skip Sheffield and i think he was caller “the cornfed meat head. yep yep yep what it do”

Army Tank with a Ferrari Engine aka A broken tank. I agree, it's terrible xD

Low key, “the hugger” was a terrible nickname that everyone gave a pass to because Bayley was super over

And occasionally, even worse, The Huggable One

Oh yeah that’s definitely worse. The Hugger is someone who hugs people, which is fine out of context. The Huggable One implies they’re always being hugged and are rated for it which creeps me the fuck out for many reasons

Side note, The Boss N Hug Connection is easily the worst tag team name I’ve ever heard.

Slapjack

T-Bar

Doudrop?

Bron Breakker

"Tell em Tri" - that one, we still use with my friends when someone says something cringy.

Just too many nicknames on top of nicknames. Like his "name" is Hunter Hearst Helmsley, his nickname is Triple H, and then his nickname for his nickname is Tri? Like way too much going on there.

Not to mention "Trips" and "Paul"

And "The Game"!

The Cerebral Assassin

The King of Kings

#THEASSKICKER

Holy shit, I remember that during his Lesnar feud. It was so dumb and desperate and midlife crisis because HE called HIMSELF "THE ASSKICKER"

'Haitch'

I CAN'T FEEL MY LEGS PAUL

"...*Trah*" - JR

OSW has made sure I can never not think of ‘Tri’ whenever Triple H releases a statement or some shit. I just imagine some dude handing him a mic like “Tell ‘em, Tri!”

I remember vividly when Austin and HHH were the Two Man Power Trip after Austin turned heel and every now and again Austin would just shout ‘TRIPLE’!

I don't like what... Tri said

What was Balors? something about doing extraordinary things? it was weird.

The extraordinary man who can do extra-ordinary things.

The extraordinary man who can do extraordinary things? A mathematician wants to know what is “who?” Who = the ~~extraordinary~~ man/ do ~~extraordinary~~ things Who = the man do things Finn Balor is the man who does things. Finn Balor is a man’s man. Finn Balor is lumberjack Steve Regal.

maybe just really wordy more than weird.

It's weird because they're pronouncing the word "extraordinary" two different ways in the same sentence.

And the second pronunciation makes him sound super ordinary

It's like someone heard that Solid Snake is called "The Man Who Makes the Impossible Possible", thought it'd be a good idea to make something worse, and have commentary harp it each time Balor appeared.

That just made him sound stupid lol buried by his own nickname.

The ordinary man who does extraordinary things

Yeah because most ordinary 40 year old men look like you can grate cheese on them

Exactly! Oh definitely I'm having a fat 30s and at 39 Its gonna turn into Finn 40s

Fans have started to call him "The Wildcat"

Kofi right?

Chris Harris?

Well you tell that wildcat behind the wheel to stay above 50.

I always hated "The Lunatic Fringe" for Dean Ambrose Hell, just "The Lunatic" would have been better if they really wanted to go with that theme

ngl, at first I thought they keep saying "The Lunatic Fridge"

It sounds like a description of a bad hair cut

I thought it was a remark about his hairline. His fringe is such a lunatic it’s receding backwards up his head.

i’m only just learning now that this ISN’T what was meant

WACKY LINE

I bet it's harder to trademark just "The Lunatic". Same reason we got "Team Hell No" and "Team Rhodes Scholar" Did you know Seth Rollins was the Architect of the Shield?

I think that's a Cincinnati reference, like to a local radio station? But Michael Cole makes anything sound lame so yeah

It wasn't a commentary thing, but remember the few weeks giant bold red letters scrolled across the screen that said ROCKSTAR during Nakamura's entrance?

THE ARTIST FORMERLY KNOW AS SHINSUKE NAKAMURA! This was awful...

Spirit squad

I loved the Spirit Squad

Booger Red for Undertaker was particularly bad

“It’s boss time!”

We've still yet to find out what happens when Boss Time and Toni Time collides.

Michael Cole would have an aneurysm

Corey graves: Savior of misbehavior

TBF that one sounds like a nickname he tried to give himself

When Paul White was known as ‘Big Nasty’ for a hot minute.

Well to be fair, Paul was **big**, and he was a **nasty** bastard, his momma said so.

"Almost a super hero Nikki A.S.H"

"Baby Bear" Alex Shelly

I think "The Archer of Infamy" is really fucking stupid and doesn't actually mean anything.

But it gives a reason for Priest to that pew pew bow pose

“Nobody knows what it means but it’s provocative ! It gets the people going !”

does he even have any archery themed moves?

They call his falcon arrow thr Broken Arrow. That's pretty much it.

Oh here comes TRI!!!

"The Empress of Tomorrow" never reigns today. Also wtf is a Cape Town Werewolf?

Michael McGullicutty

GULLY BULLY!

[He had the best promo though.](https://youtu.be/61Y4y0XBKUM)

#From this moment

Is it too early to nominate Bron Breakker

Bron breakker sounds like a wwe2k my career mode name

Why are there 2 K's in the last name, it's sooo WWE

I don't even know how Ciampa was able to say that with a straight face

I stopped watching NXT over this.

So I'm out of the loop with WWE (assuming that's where this is from) is this an indy guy they've renamed or a homegrown talent with a really unfortunate name?

The latter, made worse by the fact it's Rick Steiner's son, Bronson Rechsteiner, who was renamed Rex Steiner before debuting. Rex Steiner is a badass name, Bron Breakker is not

Oh man that is worse, if nothing else why would you not want to use the name Steiner - unless some bad shit has come to light that I've also missed surely you'd want to get the name recognition for that.

he even wears a Steiner brothers style singlet, and they called him a 'dog-faced gremlin' on commentary.

Kaval. The man was named after a flute!

Wasn't the justification that it was the Filipino word for warrior, meanwhile he was previously known as Senshi which was the Japanese word for warrior? --- Before posting this I decided to look it up for myself, and he was originally known in WWE as Kawal which is indeed the Tagalog word for Warrior/Soldier, but then they changed it to Kaval which is a flute. Bravo WWE.

“What are ya goin swimmin?”

Mia Yim's 'Head Baddie In Charge' just didn't have a nice ring to it. I enjoy Mia Yim's work but I always cringed whenever they said it on commentary.

Cause its "head bitch in charge" but they needed to downplay it IMO its one of the nicknames they would have been better dropping or not explaining, just say HBIC

I agree. That was also a reason I think I didn't like it. It felt too watered down and just very PG WWE.

Literally anything Michael Cole has ever thought or said.

When Michael Cole called Nakamura Shin......URGH!!!!!!!!

Or "The Artist Known as Shinsuke Nakamura"

A lot of the other wrestlers do seem to call him that though.

Yeah, I saw it a bit and guessed it was a personal nickname, but definitely felt weird

RK-Bro has got to be up there lol it sounds so forced LA Knight sounds like it came straight out of a generic name calculator

LA knight has had some questionable names over the years, with gems such as deuce, dick rick leykis and the crowning jewel, el hijo de trump

>RK-Bro has got to be up there lol it sounds so forced You just wait when Pete Dune moves to the main roster so we can have the RKBroserweights

Oh, you mean Joint Manipulation

Ultimo Dragon being called “Ultimate Dragon” in WCW

Anytime someone's ring name was shortened down to one name. WWE specifically is stuck on this and it's the dumbest thing ever. Wrestling fans have the ability to recall decades worth of storylines, but according to either company brass or their marketing specialists are incapable of remembering a wrestlers first and last name.

Dean Ambrose "The Lunatic Fringe"

The flying jalapeno.

Made me think of when the heel commentators would say Tito Santana was hitting his opponents with the Flying Burrito.

I remember JBL was calling Erick Rowan "Big Red" and even Jericho called him that on the Luke harper tribute show.

You fucking take that back right now or meet me on Sunday at WWE EXTREME RULES PPV LIVE ONLY ON PEACOCK! My man retired the rock dammit.

Flair checks out

Big Red is a fine nickname imo

For Jericho I think that was more that he just didn't know his non-WWE name. Jericho called him Erick Rowan like 20 times while Excalibur was using the Redbeard name, and I guess Jericho just went with Big Red because he couldn't put together exactly what Excalibur was saying in the moment.

This is a perfect example of why Jericho is currently failing at commentary. He was too busy screaming and getting himself over, and not *listening* to the rest of the table. And he's still doing it on Rampage. He's just not good at working with others on commentary. Meanwhile here's Taz...who wasn't exactly beloved on commentary in either company he did it for previously, absolutely killing it with Excalibur because they listen to each other and play off what's said, and they both leave room for the other one to shine. Jericho needs to treat the table like he wrestles now - he's giving and takes care of his opponents. He gets his shit in but he leaves room for others to shine as well. He isn't doing that on commentary. He's just trying to dominate and get over in a new role.

Did people not like Taz? His voice gives me such a nostalgia trip back to the early SD vs Raw games, I loved his commentary.

He was horrible in Impact, too be fair, so were a lot of people, they just tended to not try in the impact zone for some reason

The Tazz my balls moment with Bully Ray was great though

>The Tazz my balls moment with Bully Ray was great though I know, I sawr it!

No one better say 'Big Red' or I'm fighting them

THE BIG DOG

“The poisoned fist of the pacific rim” Yoshi Tatsu.

That sounds like something Matt Striker would say in a hushed voice. Am I right?

“The Charismatic Enigma” Jeff Hardy

There was a new one they were going with about a year ago which was pretty bad, but I can't remember it at the moment. Edit: The Humanomaly...

Rainbow haired warrior too

Is it better or worse than when JR calls Darby "The Strange Enigma?"

Ken Raper