Edge did a lot of neet things.

@@MrGhosta5 yeah

Honestly, Edge kind of just fits every gimmick he had.

@@dexenationgracey1979 Yeah, that's incredibly cool and I'd never noticed that. He was a Blade knockoff - the blade's edge, he was...okay the zany era doesn't fit...then he was constantly on edge, then he was an edgy edgelord.

RiC David That era of Edge is the only time it may be a stretch, but I guess you could say that his zany personality kept others on edge because no matter how goofy he and Christian were, there was still a hint of danger to them.

Fair point

Shane Annigans When I was 4 I thought the beer Sandman was drinking was wet sand and that’s why they called him the Sandman. I was a weird kid.

Same xD

@@henrythemuthafuckineighth LOL!! 🤣

Same.

Monty Sopp would only ever be a comedy jobber.

Mmmmn yess

His name is kip sopp

NVR mnd we're both right monty "kip" sopp

As he's my second favorite wrestler you'd like to think I'd remember his first name...so yeah....my bad

Oh shit you watch whatculture

lol u that fella that reads Wikipedia entomologys of languages u dont speak lol. thus making loads of mistakes 90 odd percent of ur audience wouldnt catch coz all they speak is english lol ya i know u.

You know family guy did a hhh thing. A hug a handshake and a high five.

It would be amazing to have an episode dedicated to some wrestling etymologies

this guy's channel is also great

A-Train

Still better than the "Shave your back!" chants from back in the day.

@Lujack Shaw he still got Aj Lee though. Wears her shirts at almost every interview.

Clearly it sands for Cookie Monster

@LeCoolFace Ah, gotcha.

Ffinally someone said it. I legit thought that they're using Johnny Sins' image and the fans just riding along with it, turns out not. hahahaha

Ffinally someone said it. I legit thought that they're using Johnny Sins' image and the fans just riding along with it, turns out not. hahahaha

Bill Goldberg's son

Goldberg Jr.

Cannot for the life of me remember who but a tv/ppv reviewer from the old wrestlemaniacs website would refer to each of them as HHH and HBK for short almost a full year before Shawn refer to themselves that way during a promo on Raw. I even remember reading that shows tv report from said reviewer where he puts in parenthesis (I blame myself) as a joke to claim credit.

Curt Hennig also suggested "Heart Break Kid" name

GametimeUKyo even after that. He was more magician than dead man for a while loool

John Lorton But it does make sense it outlasted his Deadman gimmick and was used when he was Big Evil The American Badass gimmick so it does apply.

@John Lorton you just a hater Lol it makes sense even after he retires people in the locker room are going to say hey the undertaker

I remember there being only one difference in his name when he returned as the American Badass. If you check out his entrance as biker Taker, the name card just read "Undertaker" instead of "The Undertaker". Kinda odd.

This is why it's best to just use your own name, unless it's really long or hard to pronounce. Then there's no confusion; as Butch in PULP FICTION put it, "Our names don't mean s**t."

Kasumi Ryona that's because he wrestled under that name in WCW.

'Jean-Paul Levesque' as he was in WCW worked as a 'European Aristocrat'... Hunter Hearst Helmsley (as evidenced by the Real life inspirations cited) is more East Coast 'Old Money' and was Meant as such to be a dig against Vince's Connecticut Neighbors, who he felt were quick to remind him that he was 'New Money' and not the same kind of rich as they were

True but as I said, he used Paul Levesque in WCW and Vince was not going to bring him in and use a name used by WCW. This is why wrestlers like Ron Simmons were brought in as Farooq or Kevin Nash was Diesel and not Vinny Vegas.

He was also called Terror Risen for a short while in wcw.

That's Terra Ryzing

Who is going to play you in the movie adaption?

And that was a cool story.

Pls suppott me

She didnt mind? Good teacher then

Not without hair...

@Le Tigidou Bah, give him a wig, make him pretend its his real hair, and we have a smug superior sob who everyone loves to hate. We arent turning him into papa shango here. He is just a smug executive with muscles. Thats not exactly a huge stretch. Macmahonism is apparently a communicable disease, possibly an std. :D

Uhm...he already IS that pompous as a businessman in a suit.

Le Tigidou you're right technically the only one with a real gimmick in Wwe is Elias or Broken Matt even though his career is over now

@@chrishubbard64 at the risk of invoking Politics ( as I'd suggest the same if it were 2014) It'd have to be something that looks 'Trump-ian" rather than a 'Young HHH' Long hair/Pony tail...

Yeah, where did the Jason part come from? That's like me calling myself Ric David in 2018 because I went by ViolentRiC 17 years earlier and my middle name's David.

@@RiC_David His Middle name IS Jason... My guess since he was an On Air Character for NXT, AND PC Trainer he wanted a Kayfabe Name to keep the 'personae' distinct... w/o fans confusing announcer character Jason Albert (admitted to be the former Prince Albert) with 'the Real' Matt Bloom who was teaching them

Zach Helton I totally agree too bad they got screwed in that invasion run they were great in wcw though

the Problem was that Kronik was essentially depicted an APA knock off with Pot reference for a name instead of a love of Beer...

It's puzzling that they didn't give him some kind of Latin name.

Yea i got it when i was a kid. Not sure how adults do not get it

Brainiac Prime exactly, I agree.

whaduzitmatr no, no it’s not. Adams was actually from Hawaii. Your comparison sucks and makes zero sense. Go sit down somewhere kid.

Brainiac Prime I didn't get it as a kid but I definitely do as an adult lol

Yes like Michael Hickenbottom

Isn't that slightly absurd? If Mark Calaway was about to be hit by a car, would you in all seriousness yell "UNDERTAKER, LOOK OUT!"?

I'm sure exceptions are made in life or death situations.

I'd only be comfortable calling them by their ring name, unless they say otherwise.

I also get way more of a kick than I should out of move names transcending gimmicks and promotions, like the Tombstone Piledriver and the DDT being called that no matter how far removed the performer is from Undertaker or Jake Roberts. Even cooler is when far lesser known wrestlers like Amazing Red or Petey Williams have their move names grandfathered into the mainstream wrestling parlance with the Code Red or Canadian Destroyer. Oh shit, I forgot the best one of all that only dawned on me recently - Sgt Slaughter's Cobra Clutch is called that because he was made into a character in G.I. Joe with the evil terrorist faction being C.O.B.R.A. Doubly cool considering he was a patriotic babyface for most of his WWF tenure. It'd be like Kurt Angle having the Taliban Twist as an All American hero.

@@RiC_David That's a brilliant bit of trivia re the Cobra Clutch. Had never connected it with COBRA for some reason despite knowing of Sarge's connection with GI Joe. Like most, I suspect, I've never really considered the logic of the name and just assumed it referred to the way the Clutch constricts and chokes the victim in the way that a cobra... er, doesn't. 😕

It wasn't that WWE just didn't want him to keep the song, they would have to give Metallica a huge payment in order to use as often as they would have used it and we know how Metallica can get when it comes to paying for use of their music.

Mettallica would have charged them a fortune to use it. They are greedy dicks that love money

The Men In Tights Podcast I know I know, yet ECW got away with it god knows how😂

God only knows how. I can't believe they didn't sue ECW out of existance

Amber Smith say what you want about Heymans business acumen, but the guy knew how to blag his way in or out of any situation

You can't BECOME a blue blood. You have to be born one. That's why the word "blood" is in there.

😂 lol what

He was indeed from Greenwich Connecticut. Rich kid who had a personal gym at home during his teenage years.

What about his time as a biker? Undertaker works well for all 4 of his gimmicks

But then they changed his name to Big Daddy V

They absolutely changed their character. It was done without a hard reset, except in the case of...ugh...'The One' Billy Gunn, but the buttocks obsessed ne'er-do-well of the New Age Outlaws was clearly a different character to the made-for-TV mid 90s cowboy from the Smoking Gunns. Triple H is an especially cool example of radical character changes with fluid transitions. He still wore dress shirts at the start of his D-X phase, still wore the rebellious leather jacket in his megalomaniac McMahon-Helmsley years, and so on. In that way it's one long continuation but they were quite unequivocally different characters.

@@RiC_David I'm pretty sure you dress differently now compered to how you did 20 years ago. An no Billy Gunn wasn't different, he evolved and changed as he got older like we all do, from cowboy to rockabilly to outlaw it's a natural progression. Consider the situation in real life, for example (and it's true) i met a Carpenter this year who used to be a head school teacher. now his the same person, but and at the same time we're never the same person during our our lives.

It's not like Kane - Dentist - fake diesel which are clearly separate, or papa shango and Kama or rikishi and the Sultan.. But all 'versions' of Gunn, Road dogg and Hunter are not and never were separate

Funny thing is I actually thought Zeb Colter was Moondog Spot!!!!!!

Sting's is a funny one because if I'm not mistaken, people only started referring to it as "Surfer Sting" in post-Crow years to differentiate. I don't believe he was ever supposed to be a surfer per se, it was just that bleach blond beach dude look. Or as I called it in 1990, "a wrestler".

RiC David yeah I never understood why they referred to him as surfer sting I remember 2 cold scorpio saying him and sting got into an argument over the scorpion logo they settled it and Scorpio just went with putting "2 cold" on his tights not sure which guy actually used the logo first I assume sting did

Sting was just kind of a wild, weird dude, really. I guess he was supposed to be WCW's version of the Ultimate Warrior; they came along at the same time, so I'm not sure who wore the paint first. Fans probably thought he was called "Sting" because he looked like the rock star with the same name. Didn't the leader of the Police have a flattop at one point?

Also, Tasmanians are NOT related to Australian Aborigines.

@@SeasideDetective2 what? the original tasmanians migrated to the island when it was still connected to australia 40k years ago. they didn't share that much in common with them, but they were closer to the australian aborigines than any other group. it is a shame, and arguably a genocide, that they were essentially wiped out by the british.

Yeh because he only has one head 😉😂

@@leaf742 Even so, to say that a "Tasmanian" gimmick is disrespectful to Australian Aborigines is a little like saying that making fun of Hungarians is disrespectful to Russians. They look and talk a lot like each other, so who cares if THEY see themselves as different?

I thought he was Taz because he looked like the cartoon character?

Gavin says: wasn't Matt A-train, Albert, Tensai, Giant Bernard, Sweet daddy T always a trademark?!!!

Gilmore Guirao From what I've heard it was Shawn Michaels who started that as he felt Hunter Hearst Helmsley was too long.

Yes

Inception

Spoilers: he was. :(

Same dude same

SpenceDaFence yep he went by his real name BG James in tna I believe

Great point Opee: "Internal Organs - The World's Largest Love Machine" wasn't a happy combination, was it? 'Big Daddy V' would've worked much better with that gimmick... but he didn't adopt that name until he'd dropped the 'love machine' gimmick. Poor Vis, always one step out of sync.

but plenty of 'Bikers'* tend to have nick names/aliases/club names *(at least in Pop culture, as I have no first hand knowledge of 'Biker-Gang' Bikers)

i think that's why he had the lawsuit.

Punk has told assorted stories about the initials, and the people he's told those stories to have amended them as well... so there probably was a time when 'Chicago Made' was circulated as 'canon'

Besides venom and punk, Somewhere out there is a CM Dudley.

In his documentary in 2012 Punk said it could mean either one Chick Magnet or Chicago Made I guess it's up to interruption.

I prefer the "Chicago Made" explanation, because Chicago is a big part of Punk's life. "Chick Magnet" SORT OF makes sense in a WWE context because almost immediately after he arrived Kelly Kelly developed an interest in him. Then, six years later, it was AJ Lee (who is of course his wife in real life). John Morrison once jokingly claimed that the initials stood for "Cookie Monster," and I can't help wondering if THAT might be the best nickname. Punk doesn't smoke, drink, or do drugs; he's got to have SOME vice. Maybe it's cookies!

Did Brett die

@@xivwords5448 If you're referring to Bret Hart, no. He still lives. He is on a legends contract for WWE. He even sometimes accompanies Nattie Neidhart to the ring on occasion

@@xivwords5448 wrong family there

Not better than the Harts

@@BigWilt2000 well that's your opinion but I don't think the Hart's compare to the von Erichs on their best day

I really don't count The Rock just because his kayfabe name had to stay the same in order for his character to work. Other wrestlers on this list all had a point where they could've just changed their names because they were basically repackaged. "The Rock" was a response to the audience's unanticipated hatred of Rocky Maivia. It never got to a point where it no longer made sense that he was Rocky Maivia. The Rock is an evolution of Rocky Maivia, whereas the Cerebral Assassin we'd come to know seems like a completely different character than the "Connecticut Blue Blood."

Crush being from Hawai'i helps in this case.

They have more than orange

@Nich Hodge No, you're British. All English are British, but not all British are English. And no, in overall terms, it's more like calling a citizen of New York (Scotland) a Texan (Wales). They're both Americans (British). Words - they're wacky.

@Nich Hodge England sits on Britain along with Wales and Scotland. So yeah we are british even tho im from Manchester and ultimatly prefer to be regocnised as English nobody is wrong when calling me british. Nobody is wrong calling you british either cos yaknow were from britain. Its almost like saying an American is from America and they stupidly argue that they are from New York instead.

@@danielthorneley8363 Yeah, as much as I like being snotty about Americans insisting on calling us "Briddish" 100% of the time (doubly snotty if they trot out the "Briddish axe scent" line), you destroy out high ground when you wrongly assert that they're mutually exclusive. And yes, to most of us, an accurate knowledge of gun terminology is like close familiarity with poisons or explosives - we don't have much of a clue and feel almost proud of that innocent ignorance. That said, I know that .38 and .45 are ammo types because I've played videogames and heard Arnold Schwarzenegger quotes.

Brits don't know shit about guns.

This guy is not so smart

And The Rock