Terrible Wrestling Names of Late

[Fox]

WWE has been coming up with some pretty horrible fucking names for their new wrestlers. Like, really really bad names, and frankly, I do not understand why they do this sort of shit. Before they would just add extra letters to people's names (RhYno, TazZ), now they're just coming up with horrible names all together.

Take Jack Swagger for instance. How can I take a guy seriously whose last name is apparently "Swagger," who is also not a pirate, and is not a black rapper. It's just a terrible name for someone who you want to push to the main event. It's like the name itself is trying too hard to be cool. The guy's real name is Jake Hager, which in my opinion is a perfectly acceptable name for a professional wrestler. But no, they call him Jack Swagger instead.

And then there's "Sheamus," which is just about the least intimidating Irish name I've ever heard. I'm not saying it's a completely awful name like Jack Swagger, but they certainly could've done better than Sheamus.

R-Truth. The guy's name is RON KILLINGS! Just about the greatest God given professional wrestling name you could ever possibly ask for, and they decide to take away the dude's last name all together and call him R-Truth instead. How in the fuck is "R-Truth" better than Ron "The Truth" Killings?! Fuck! He'd probably be a main event by now if they had called him Ron Killings instead of R-Truth!

Dolph Ziggler is a pretty horrendous name for a wrestler. How can a guy with the last name "Ziggler" ever headline a WrestleMania? It's just ridiculous. And the dude's real name is "Nick Nemeth;" not a GREAT wrestling name, but definitely a million times better than Dolph Ziggler. Hell, Anything Ziggler! Dolph isn't even that terrible of a first name for a wrestler, but Ziggler?! It sounds like that computer game where you make the worm eat through the dirt without hitting any walls.

And flipping Bryan Danielson's name into Daniel Bryan... I just don't even know where to go with that. What a pointless exercise in pointless exercises, changing a guy's last name with his first name because... why? What sense does that make? None. That's what sense it makes.

Enough with the terrible names already, WWE, for fuck's sake.

[Lock Jaw]

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Is an Awesome Picture.

Anyways, I love the names Jack Swagger and Dolph Ziggler. Neither is really more ridiculous than "The Big Show".

I agree with R-Truth.

Don't care about the whole Bryan Danielson/Daniel Bryan thing. Its all the same. (Except one they can copyright).

[FourFifty]

I'm not a fan of most wrestlers, male or female, that are only known by a first name. There are one or two people who escape this rule, but the Tiffany's and Maria's and Layla's are just.... bland.

[Mr. Nerfect]

Sheamus is one I actually have grown to like. He's got the unique spelling of it. I dunno, something about it works. I decided I liked it when JR referred to him as "the man simply known as Sheamus" in one of his blogs. It's like the dude is so bad-ass he doesn't need a last name. Like Omar from The Wire (although he had one). He's just Omar to people.

Jack Swagger has grown on me, too. At first I thought it was stupid compared to "Jake Hager," especially when they try to put over his real-life accomplishments. The same goes for Nick Nemeth. It's all about trademarking. Although I think the wrestler becomes bigger than the name, especially when it is just a name and not so much a moniker owned by the performer, I can understand why the WWE doesn't want "Jake Hager" to be a household name before he goes to TNA. Even though Hager is the star and not "Swagger," if that makes sense.

I think it would benefit the WWE to hold back on renaming some wrestlers. Especially considering I think Nick Nemeth is quite a bad-ass real name for a wrestler to have. I think Dolph Ziggler was meant to be a joke that got elevated due to Nemeth's work. I could one day see him dumping the Dolph Ziggler name, ala John Morrison getting rid of "Johnny Nitro."

[TazFTW86]

Dunno why WWE just give Daniel Bryan his real name after that promo he had when he was eliminated weeks ago. And i agree w/ R-Truth and the Ziggler names....But at least R-Truth is better then K Kwik, lol..

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[Droford]

Jack Swagger should be pitching me Old Spice Body Wash.

Im in the ring. Now I hit my finishing move. You just got pinned. Now Im in the back banging your GF. Thats Swagger.

or something like that.

[The Franchise]

I like Jack Swagger :$

[Ruien]

It is a common name...... Maybe only 1 in wrestling, but about 20 in my school.

[Evil Vito]

And flipping Bryan Danielson's name into Daniel Bryan... I just don't even know where to go with that. What a pointless exercise in pointless exercises, changing a guy's last name with his first name because... why? What sense does that make? None. That's what sense it makes.

<font color=goldenrod>You can't copyright someone's real name, and WWE likes to hold copyrights in the event that the person ends up becoming a huge success and then later gets future endeavored, so they can't use that name anymore. Very rarely do WWE bring somebody in and allow them to use their real name unless they were already highly established by working under their real name (Benwho, Guerrero, etc.) and despite what you might say, no, Bryan Danielson was in no way, shape, or form as established as those guys were to warrant such a treatment.

That promo when Daniel Bryan was eliminated from NXT about "well Daniel Bryan may be done, but Bryan Danielson has a ways to go" was more or less a cocktease. NXT seems to be geared towards the IWC anyway, so referencing his real name is sort of just a "tip of the cap". Yeah I'd love to see him continue his worked shoot promos about how he "wasn't made by the WWE machine" and decide to use his real name, but it's not going to happen.

This practice of re-naming guys so that they hold the copyright seems to have come into effect in the past few years. Cena and Batista debuted under their real names, but Swagger and Ziggler didn't. It makes you wonder - if Cena were to debut nowadays, he may have been given a new name by default.</font>

[Hornicane]

There was only one Maria as far as i remember,
There is only one Tiffany right now AND OH YES
There is only one Layla also

So that isn't really bland since the names are different in each case, had all the divas been called Maria then i would see your point. Dumbass

Kid can't be serious right now.

[BollywoodSingh]

<font color=goldenrod>You can't copyright someone's real name, and WWE likes to hold copyrights in the event that the person ends up becoming a huge success and then later gets future endeavored, so they can't use that name anymore. Very rarely do WWE bring somebody in and allow them to use their real name unless they were already highly established by working under their real name (Benwho, Guerrero, etc.) and despite what you might say, no, Bryan Danielson was in no way, shape, or form as established as those guys were to warrant such a treatment.

That promo when Daniel Bryan was eliminated from NXT about "well Daniel Bryan may be done, but Bryan Danielson has a ways to go" was more or less a cocktease. NXT seems to be geared towards the IWC anyway, so referencing his real name is sort of just a "tip of the cap". Yeah I'd love to see him continue his worked shoot promos about how he "wasn't made by the WWE machine" and decide to use his real name, but it's not going to happen.

This practice of re-naming guys so that they hold the copyright seems to have come into effect in the past few years. Cena and Batista debuted under their real names, but Swagger and Ziggler didn't. It makes you wonder - if Cena were to debut nowadays, he may have been given a new name by default.</font>

Ya I think they only started this policy of not using real names a few years ago. I remember a bunch of developmental guys all of a sudden getting their names changed at once. When these guys get released, why can't WWE just allow them to use the names they got over with outside WWE? WWE has such a monopoly on wrestling, do they really need to worry about Ken Anderson using Mr. Kennedy in TNA and such?

I remember Billy Kidman not being allowed to use that name outside. Give these guys a break, let them earn some money.

I also don't like how the young Dibiase is called Ted Dibiase, instead of Ted Dibiase Jr. I think the junior adds a bit to the character. I thought the same when Rey Mysterio Jr. simply became Rey Mysterio once he came to WWE.

[PorkSoda]

I don't really like R-Truth. I'd rather be it Ron Killings, or R-Killings or something. Maybe cause WWE is PG now so they cant say the word KILLINGS!

And if WWE is PG, how can there be a Rated R Superstar?

[Xero]

Ron Truth

[XCaliber]

I'm so with you on Swagger but his real name is not much better it's a big part of the reason I haven't bought into him he should have randomly changed it like Morrison.

As for Sheamus I can't help but wonder why they dropped his last name that he used in FCW which was O'Shaunessey to me that is a very celtic souding name.

R-Truth well I don't mind this name but I like his character more when he was K-Kwik his entrance and music was so much better GET ROWDY!

Dolph Ziggler I think is a great name for midcarder but i'd have to agree that in the main event scene it doesn't seem very imposing but then again I could go back to the first guy mentioned.

Alright lastly Daniel Bryan I have to agree with this one was almost under the impression that they simply didn't to use his real name and wanted to at least go with something close to it.

[FearedSanctity]

WWE has been coming up with some pretty horrible fucking names for their new wrestlers. Like, really really bad names, and frankly, I do not understand why they do this sort of shit. Before they would just add extra letters to people's names (RhYno, TazZ), now they're just coming up with horrible names all together.

It all comes down copyright. I think I remember reading/hearing somewhere that at some point Heyman offered ECW guys the chance to buy the rights to their names. When Taz and Rhino went to WWE, they obviously didn't wanna hand over the rights to Vince, so since they were decently popular with those names already, they just altered them slightly and copyrighted it as their own.

And as Vito said, real names aren't copyrightable. So unless you were already well known with it, you're getting slapped with a new name that'll be owned by WWE

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>The participants for NXT Season 2 is just even more proof that WWE doesn't want guys to come up with their real names at this point.

Two second generation guys - Joe Hennig and one of the Rotundos. It was acknowledged on air that they were both second generation. And yet, Hennig's son is inexplicably named Michael McGillicutty, and Rotundo is Husky Harris.

I think the only reason Rhodes and DiBiase got to use their real names coming up is because they came in with their dads introducing them.</font>

[BollywoodSingh]

Oh my, they are calling Joe Hennig as Michael McGillicutty yet still acknowledging him as Curt Hennig`s son. That is just stupid.

[Droford]

Well its obvious to the non smart fan that Curt Hennig's real name was Curt McGillicutty!

/obvious

[Lock Jaw]

Ok, now it is getting a bit ridiculous. Next generation wrestlers should definitely be allowed to keep their names at the very least. Instantly gets them the slightest bit over.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Lucky Cannon might just be the worst name I've ever heard. I mean, Johnny Prime seemed like a good wrestling name. He could have kept that and still allowed him to have a "lucky" gimmick.

I dunno. Season 2 will at least rule because of Kaval</font>

[Droford]

I wonder if Palmer Cannon is any relation to Lucky Cannon? hmm..

[Damian Rey]

<font color=goldenrod>The participants for NXT Season 2 is just even more proof that WWE doesn't want guys to come up with their real names at this point.

Two second generation guys - Joe Hennig and one of the Rotundos. It was acknowledged on air that they were both second generation. And yet, Hennig's son is inexplicably named Michael McGillicutty, and Rotundo is Husky Harris.

I think the only reason Rhodes and DiBiase got to use their real names coming up is because they came in with their dads introducing them.</font>

My God Hennig's name is horrible. Who's fucking idea was that? I was hoping he would get a "Perfect Son" moniker to go with Ted's "Fortunate Son" themed stable thats was rumored.

Husky Harris? Lucky Cannon? Fuck me I hate creative. They want to create new stars and they give them shit names.

[.44 Magdalene]

Husky Rotundo

[Damian Rey]

Husky Rotundo

Husky is just a terrble name period. Rotundo doesn't exactly roll of the tongue either. But it's miles better than "Husky".

I'm hoping they run with this only to have it planned for Teddy Jr. to intervene after their run on NXT and have them drop the WWE names and reclaim their family's lineage.

[Aguakate]

...If you have Mr Perfect Curt Henning's son...and you actually ACKNOWLEDGE he is "Mr Perfect's son"...why name him "Michael McGillicutty"?...I mean...why not name him "Michael Henning"? What's the logic behind mentioning he is Curt Henning's son but not having the last name?

[teamXtremist]

...If you have Mr Perfect Curt Henning's son...and you actually ACKNOWLEDGE he is "Mr Perfect's son"...why name him "Michael McGillicutty"?...I mean...why not name him "Michael Henning"? What's the logic behind mentioning he is Curt Henning's son but not having the last name?


indeed

[Corporate CockSnogger]

Even if they just named him Joe Perfect or something would have been better.

[Evil Vito]

<font color=goldenrod>Watched the intros for all the NXT rookies over again - for what it's worth, when introducing his rookie, Kofi Kingston makes it clear that "Although he is the son of WWE Hall of Famer Mr. Perfect, this man is going to make his own mark" so I guess we're meant to assume that he purposely changed his name so as to not immediately get saddled with the family name.

If there are still plans for The Fortunate Sons stable once Brett DiBiase heals up, he'll probably simply write off "Michael McGillicutty" as a stage name and go back to Joe Hennig, or Michael Hennig, or something.</font>

[Fox]

I didn't even know about this Michael McGullicutty business until just now. I mean, that should really be my prime example for this thread. Mr. Perfect's son, Joe Hennig, has all the aspects of an awesome professional wrestler (great look, 6'3", 235 lbs, can actually wrestle and a GREAT NAME.) All they need to do is give him a cool nickname to go with his third-generation star name "Joe Hennig," and they've got a built in main eventer.

But that's too easy. No. They have to change his name to Michael McGuillicutty. I mean what the fuck? This is essentially WWE creative shooting a guy in the dick. And you don't shoot a guy in the dick. Ever.

I mean fuck. What if Randy Orton had come in as Gary Greenhorn? Or Ted DiBiase came in as Billy Blabberwood? It's the most retarded thing I've ever seen in regards to WWE naming their wrestlers. Cody Rhodes and Ted DiBiase were allowed to come in with their own names not that long ago; what's different about Joe Hennig?

[Corporate CockSnogger]

WWE probably want people believing Mr. Perfect was his real name and they've never heard of anybody with the name Hennig... oh except that one redneck guy that was in WCW.

[Razzamajazz]

...If you have Mr Perfect Curt Henning's son...and you actually ACKNOWLEDGE he is "Mr Perfect's son"...why name him "Michael McGillicutty"?...I mean...why not name him "Michael Henning"? What's the logic behind mentioning he is Curt Henning's son but not having the last name?


It's obvious that he's the bastard son of curt hennig and beulah mcgillicutty

[Aguakate]

It's obvious that he's the bastard son of curt hennig and beulah mcgillicutty


...so maybe we'll see the return of Tommy Dreamer and he'll feud with Michael, defending Beulah's "honor".

Yesss!

[NoRoolz]

Agree 100%, the names are terrible. Also, why was Jonny Nitro changed to John Morrison?

[Sixx]

It's like the dude is so bad-ass he doesn't need a last name.


Sorry, but I fail to see any logic in that. You need a last name only if you're weak?

[Cool King]

The names are all for Copyright reasons. I'm sure the WWE doesn't want another Kurt Angle moment.

When I first heard Dolph Ziggler's name, I hated it. I just couldn't get use to "Ziggler" and always thought it sounded like a Pokemon's name. But now, It's actually grown on me. Though if in the future the "Ziggler" part gets dropped for something else, then I'd be fine with that.

Jack Swagger is a name I actually really like and R-Truth doesn't really bother me. I will say that I like it better than "K-Kwik" though.

As for Sheamus, I'm use to it, but I still think a better name could have been thought up. Sheamus is just such a stereotypical Irish name that I just couldn't take him seriously at first. I thought he was destined to go the same way as the majority of the stereotyped wrestlers in the past. Though I'm happy to say I was wrong.

But the names I just don't like are the NXT Season 2 Rookies. Maybe it's because they're new to me and I'll get use to them all later, but we'll see. The NXT Season 1 names I had no problem with and I actually like them, but names like Husky Harris and Lucky Cannon are just stupid.

If they officially called him Jason "Lucky" Cannon or just Jason Cannon, then yes, that wouldn't be as bad, and as for Harris, how are we suppose to buy the story that Husky's parents named him "Husky"? No parent in the world would name there child "Husky". I just hope Husky turns out to be just a nickname.

But the name that gets me the most is Eli Cottonwood. I just don't like it at all. It's a terrible name. They could have mixed his actual name with his NXT name and came up with something like "Kip Cottonson".

[BillyBonez]

Whats wrong with Eli Cottonwood? I think it sounds good like a lumber jack country boy name and fits what he looks like. But wrestling names that sound like realnames are almost always awful. It was better when wrestler had "nicknames" like Goldust, Rock, Stone Cold etc...

[J Dogg Funk]

There is something about how the WWE hands out names that has been annoying me.

I know this has been discussed on the board before with regard to Joe Hening (Michael McGillicuty), but I was watching NXT on Wed (DVRd) and saw Alex Riley cut an awesome promo. So I googled him to see who his father was etc, and saw his REAL name is Kevin Kiley. That's fine (Alex Riley actually sounds better), but don't sit there and tell me that "Alex Riley" played at BC and his father was a Jet.

Even more insulting was having Michael McGillicuty cut an entire promo about how his father is Curt Henning, and so on. So why change the last name?

You can take is further, nobody named Jack Swasgger ever played football at OU, Jake Hager did.

Kofi Kingston - why is he billed from Ghana? Where did the accent go? Why the Jamaica Titantron?

The list goes on. I know the intitial reaction is, they are actors and the names dont mean anything, however, its not like you hear Charlie Harper claiming to be Martin Sheen's son on 2 1/2 Men.

Just a Rant, but something that has been bugging me.

[Razzamajazz]

why is he named the big show? he isn't a show, he's a wrestler!

[James Steele]

Wrestling is different.

[BigCrippyZ]

I agree with you man, sometimes their name choices bug me too. I think some of it has to do with the characters evolving over time, but sometimes the name choices just plain don't make any sense.

[J Dogg Funk]

why is he named the big show? he isn't a show, he's a wrestler!

That's a nickname - doesn't count.

[J Dogg Funk]

I agree with you man, sometimes their name choices bug me too. I think some of it has to do with the characters evolving over time, but sometimes the name choices just plain don't make any sense.

At least when the Rock broke in, he used Maivia (his mothers name). Was Curt's Henning's wife's last name McGillicuty?

[BigCrippyZ]

At least when the Rock broke in, he used Maivia (his mothers name). Was Curt's Henning's wife's last name McGillicuty?

Exactly, sometimes I just don't get it. Maybe they think their 1st or 2nd generation wrestlers weren't big enough to make a difference when it comes to naming the 2nd or 3rd gen wrestlers, especially with the younger demographic they're targeting now.

As far as Henning's wife, I don't know what her last name was, but I doubt that's the case anyway.

[thedamndest]

"The Heartbreak Kid" Michael Hickenbottom
"Stone Cold" Steve Williams
Hunter Hearst Levesque
The Ultimate Hellwig
Mark "Undertaker" Calaway
CM Phil

[Cuse8]

There is something about how the WWE hands out names that has been annoying me.

I know this has been discussed on the board before with regard to Joe Hening (Michael McGillicuty), but I was watching NXT on Wed (DVRd) and saw Alex Riley cut an awesome promo. So I googled him to see who his father was etc, and saw his REAL name is Kevin Kiley. That's fine (Alex Riley actually sounds better), but don't sit there and tell me that "Alex Riley" played at BC and his father was a Jet.

Even more insulting was having Michael McGillicuty cut an entire promo about how his father is Curt Henning, and so on. So why change the last name?

You can take is further, nobody named Jack Swasgger ever played football at OU, Jake Hager did.

Kofi Kingston - why is he billed from Ghana? Where did the accent go? Why the Jamaica Titantron?

The list goes on. I know the intitial reaction is, they are actors and the names dont mean anything, however, its not like you hear Charlie Harper claiming to be Martin Sheen's son on 2 1/2 Men.

Just a Rant, but something that has been bugging me.


:y::y:

[thedamndest]

Marilyn Monroe wasn't really named Marilyn Monroe. Now that was fucking annoying.

[J Dogg Funk]

"The Heartbreak Kid" Michael Hickenbottom
"Stone Cold" Steve Williams
Hunter Hearst Levesque
The Ultimate Hellwig
Mark "Undertaker" Calaway
CM Phil


You're missing the point. Shawn Michaels does not claim to be some past football star.

I know that wrestlers are usually given an alias. What bothers me is that they are given an alias and then try to use their real background to create a character.

[Razzamajazz]

like goldust being used as cody rhodes brother, yet they call him goldust

[thedamndest]

Are you aware that the morning star and the evening star are both names for Venus? Does this change any of Venus' accomplishments? Can Venus no longer say that it played for Notre Dame if someone calls it The Morning Star?

[J Dogg Funk]

Are you aware that the morning star and the evening star are both names for Venus? Does this change any of Venus' accomplishments? Can Venus no longer say that it played for Notre Dame if someone calls it The Morning Star?

Again - those are nicknames. You would be okay with Venus being called Mars and still saying he played at ND?

[Razzamajazz]

i thought all wrestling, or stage names, WERE nicknames

your logic is invalid

[thedamndest]

If you called Venus "Mars" you would be making it a different character. Jack Swagger isn't an entirely different character from Jack Hager. Marilyn Monroe still went to the same high school that Norma Jeane Mortenson did.

The only time it would be weird if if you made Swagger's character into like Max Moon where the guy is from Parts Unknown. Then it isn't even logical to say that the guy went to OU. But for all other purposes there is nothing inherently contradictory with saying the same man went to that school because he did.

[J Dogg Funk]

If you called Venus "Mars" you would be making it a different character. Jack Swagger isn't an entirely different character from Jack Hager. Marilyn Monroe still went to the same high school that Norma Jeane Mortenson did.

The only time it would be weird if if you made Swagger's character into like Max Moon where the guy is from Parts Unknown. Then it isn't even logical to say that the guy went to OU. But for all other purposes there is nothing inherently contradictory with saying the same man went to that school because he did.

I don't know why you cant get my point. Marilyn Monroe was not trying to "sell" things she may have accomplished as Norma Jean and call her self Marylin Monroe. Jack Swagger claims that he is a real life All-American. No "Jack Swagger" was ever a an All-American.

Its as if Norma Jean had once won a Miss Universe contest and "Marilyn Monroe" had claimed to win that title. Michael McGillicuty claims to be Curt Hennig's son. Curt Henning has no son named Michael McGillicuty.

[jskinnyg]

:rofl::y:"The Heartbreak Kid" Michael Hickenbottom
"Stone Cold" Steve Williams
Hunter Hearst Levesque
The Ultimate Hellwig
Mark "Undertaker" Calaway
CM Phil

[Kane Knight]

Its as if Norma Jean had once won a Miss Universe contest and "Marilyn Monroe" had claimed to win that title.

No, it's nothing like that. Especially since Monroe didn't make any pretense to hide her past.

What you're trying to compare would be closer to an actor playing a role in which the character claims the accomplishments of the actor as his own. I couldn't even think of an example, but that's what's going on and that's what you have a problem with.

In that light, should they make up awards? Pretend accomplishments? Ignore them altogether? I'm curious.

[DrCrawford]

"The Heartbreak Kid" Michael Hickenbottom
"Stone Cold" Steve Williams
Hunter Hearst Levesque
The Ultimate Hellwig
Mark "Undertaker" Calaway
CM Phil

right, those names don't sound good.

neither does mcgillicutty. and thats a given name. doesnt make sense.

[Kane Knight]

Follwup: Do you have a problem when David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, or Frank Black talk (Or have talked, in the case of Mercury) about their pasts?

[Kane Knight]

right, those names don't sound good.

neither does mcgillicutty. and thats a given name. doesnt make sense.
This much, I can relate to. Shawn Michaels and Steve Austin are changes for the better. McGillicutty sounds like he's trying to get into Ricky's show. Hunter Hearst Helmsley sounds kind of dumb for the character, but since he primarily goes by Triple H, it's mitigated (and it worked for his blue blood character).

It's not as bad as Kenny Dykstra, but....

[thedamndest]

I don't know why you cant get my point. Marilyn Monroe was not trying to "sell" things she may have accomplished as Norma Jean and call her self Marylin Monroe. Jack Swagger claims that he is a real life All-American. No "Jack Swagger" was ever a an All-American.

Its as if Norma Jean had once won a Miss Universe contest and "Marilyn Monroe" had claimed to win that title. Michael McGillicuty claims to be Curt Hennig's son. Curt Henning has no son named Michael McGillicuty.

Emilio Estavez can no longer be Martin Sheen's son. Or maybe Martin Sheen shouldn't be the father since Estavez is the given name. Either way, they are no longer related.

[Ultra Mantis]

Daniel Faraday's mother is Eloise Hawkins and his father is Charles Widmore!?!? This is ridiculous, I mean smoke monsters, time travel and frozen donkey wheels I can believe but I'm supposed to buy that his last name is Faraday just because it sounds cool?

[Kane Knight]

Daniel Faraday's mother is Eloise Hawkins and his father is Charles Widmore!?!? This is ridiculous, I mean smoke monsters, time travel and frozen donkey wheels I can believe but I'm supposed to buy that his last name is Faraday just because it sounds cool?
Why, I bet your name isn't really Ultra Mantis.

[KIRA]

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* Goodman Ace — Goodman Aiskowitz
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* Eddie Albert — Edward Albert Heimberger
* Edward Albert — Edward Laurence Heimberger
* Bernard Albrecht — Bernard Sumner (Albrecht has used several aliases over the years, including Bernard Dicken)
* Chx Alcala — Chiqui Llamaso Alcala
* Ogie Alcasid — Herminio Alcasid, Jr.
* Alan Alda — Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo
* Frances Alda — Fanny Jane Davis
* Robert Alda — Alphonso Giuseppe Giovanni Roberto D'Abruzzo
* Rutanya Alda — Rutanya Skrastiņa
* Theoni V. Aldredge — Theoni Athanasiou Vachlioti
* Ben Alexander — Nicholas Benton Alexander, IV
* Flex Alexander — Mark Alexander Knox
* Sir George Alexander — George Alexander Gibb Samson



* Jane Alexander — Jane Quigley
* Jason Alexander — Jason Scott Greenspan
* Peter Alexander — Peter Alexander Ferdinand Maximilian Neumayer
* Ross Alexander — Alexander Ross Smith
* Alexia (Cypriot singer) — Alexia Vassiliou
* Alexia (Italian singer) — Alessia Aquilani
* Alexis & Fido — Raúl Alexis Ortíz & Joel Martínez
* Johnny Alf — Alfredo Jos da Silva
* Alfalfa — Carl Dean Switzer
* Algebra - Algebra Felicia Blessett
* Rashied Ali — Robert Patterson
* Mary Alice — Mary Alice Smith
* Byron Allen — Byron Allen Folks
* Corey Allen — Alan Cohen
* Dave Allen — David Tynan O'Mahoney
* Elizabeth Allen — Elizabeth Ellen Gillease
* Fred Allen — John Florence Sullivan
* Rae Allen — Raffaella Julia Theresa Abruzzo
* Red Allen — Henry James Allen
* Sheila Allen — Sheila Mathews
* Tim Allen — Timothy Alan Dick
* Woody Allen — Allen Stewart Konigsberg
* June Allyson — Eleanor Geisman
* María Conchita Alonso — María Concepción Alonso Bustillo
* Bea Alonzo — Phylbert Angellie Ranollo Alonzo
* Say Alonzo — Sherylle Ann Alonzo-Yutadco
* Bobby Alto — Robert Altomare
* Don Alvarado — José Paige
* Kirk Alyn — John Feggo, Jr.

Am–Az

* The Amazing Jonathon — John Edward Szeles
* Lauren Ambrose — Lauren Anne D'Ambruoso
* Don Ameche — Dominic Felix Amici
* Leon Ames — Leon Wycoff
* Ana-Alicia — Ana Alicia Ortíz
* June Allyson — Eleanor Geisman
* Amina — Amina Annabi
* Tori Amos — Myra Ellen Amos
* Anasol — Anasol Escobar
* Trey Anastasio — Ernest Joseph Anastasio, III
* Merry Anders — Mary Helen Anderson
* Thomas Anders — Bernd Weidung
* Arn Anderson — Martin Anthony Lunde
* Broncho Billy Anderson — Max Aronson
* Eddie "Rochester" Anderson — Edmund Lincoln Anderson
* Dame Judith Anderson — Frances Margaret Anderson-Anderson (or Frances Margaret Anderson, varying sources)
* Juliet Anderson — Judith Carr
* Mary Anderson — Bebe Anderson
* Ole Anderson — Alan Robert Rogowski
* Keith Andes — John Charles Andes
* Fern Andra — Vernal Edna Andrews
* Lona Andre — Launa Anderson
* André 3000 — André Benjamin
* André the Giant — André René Roussimoff
* Tony Andruzzi (akas: Tom Palmer, Masklyn ye Mage, Daemon Ecks) — Antonio Andruzzi (name legally changed to Thomas S. Palmer)
* Bob Andy — Keith Anderson
* Horace Andy — Horace Hinds
* Angel y Khriz — Angel Rivera Guzmán and Christian Colón
* Criss Angel — Criss Sarantakos
* Pier Angeli — Anna Maria Pierangeli
* Angélica — Angélica Ksyvickis
* Jennifer Aniston — Jennifer Joanna Anastassakis
* John Aniston — Ioannis Anastassakis
* Morris Ankrum — Morris Nussbaum
* Julia Ann — Julia Ann Tavella
* Ann-Margret — Ann-Margret Olsson



* ANT — Anthony Steven Kalloniatis
* Adam Ant — Stuart Leslie Goddard
* Ant & Dec — Anthony David McPartlin and Declan Joseph Oliver Donnelly
* Gerald Anthony — Gerald Anthony Bucchiarelli
* Little Anthony — Jerome Anthony Gourdine
* Lysette Anthony — Lysette Chodzko
* Marc Anthony — Marco Antonio Muñiz
* Michael Anthony — Michael Anthony Sobolewski
* Ray Anthony — Raymond Antonioni
* Steve Anthony — Steve Gomes
* Alan Anton — Alan Alizojvodic
* Apache (rapper) — Anthony Peaks
* Apache Indian — Steven Kapur
* Aphex Twin — Richard D. James
* apl.de.ap (Black Eyed Peas) — Allen Pineda Lindo
* Apollonia — Patricia Kotero
* Fiona Apple — Fiona Apple McAfee Maggart
* Jeremy Applegate — Paul Andrew Boyce
* Beni Arashiro — Arashiro Beni
* Fatty Arbuckle — Roscoe Conkling Arbuckle
* Eve Arden — Eunice Quedens
* Don Arden — Harry Levy
* Jann Arden — Jann Arden Richards
* Toni Arden — Antoinette Ardizzone
* Tina Arena — Filippina Lydia Arena
* Imperio Argentina — Magdalena Nile del Río
* Victor Argo — Victor Jimenez
* Harold Arlen — Chaim Arlook or Hyman Arluck (varying sources)
* Richard Arlen — Cornelius Richard Van Mattimore
* George Arliss — George Augustus Andrews
* Lil Armstrong — Lillian Hardin
* Desi Arnaz — Desiderio Alberto Arnaz y de Acha, III
* Desi Arnaz, Jr. — Desiderio Alberto Arnaz, IV
* James Arness — James Aurness
* Sig Arno — Siegfried Aron
* Danny Arnold — Arnold Rothmann
* Edward Arnold — Gunther Edward Arnold Schneider
* Kokomo Arnold — James Arnold
* Antonin Artaud — Antoine Marie Joseph Artaud
* Bea Arthur — Bernice Frankel



* Jean Arthur — Gladys Georgianna Greene
* Julia Arthur — Ida Lewis
* Asala — Asala Mostafa Nasri (aka Assala Nasry; aka Assalah)
* Ashanti — Ashanti Shaquoya Douglas
* Dorothy Ashby — Dorothy Jeanne Thompson
* Annaleigh Ashford — Annaleigh Swanson
* Brooke Ashley — Anne Marie Ballowe
* Sylvia Ashley — Edith Louisa Hawkes
* Edward Ashley — Edward Montague Hussey Cooper (or Edward Montagu Ashley Cooper, varying sources)
* Beata Asimakopoulou — Evdokia Asimakopoulou
* Lys Assia — Rosa Mina Schärer
* Adele Astaire — Adele Marie Austerlitz
* Fred Astaire — Frederick Austerlitz
* Mary Astor — Lucile Vasconcellos Langhanke
* Astro — Terence Wilson
* Rich Asuncion — Richell Pacaldo Angalot
* Barry Atwater — Garrett Atwater
* Jeanne Aubert — Marguerite Perrinot
* Isabelle Aubret — Thérèse Coquerelle
* James Aubrey — James Aubrey Tregidgo
* Cécile Aubry — Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard
* Pascale Audret — Pascale Aiguionne Louise Jacqueline Marie Auffray
* Mischa Auer — Mikhail Semyonovich Unskovsky (some sources indicate Ounskowsky)
* Hugues Aufray — Hugues Jean Marie Auffray
* Jean-Pierre Aumont — Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons
* Aunt Jemima — Therese "Tess" Gardella
* Gene Austin — Lemeul Eugene Lucas
* Lovie Austin — Cora Calhoun
* Stone Cold Steve Austin — Steven James Anderson, later Steven James Williams (legally changed to Steve Austin)
* Amy Austria — Esmeralda Dizon Tuazon
* Frankie Avalon — Francis Thomas Avallone
* Chucho Avellanet — Armando Hipólito Avellanet González
* Patricia Avery — Elizabeth Anderson Avery
* Tex Avery — Frederick Bean Avery
* Val Avery — Sebouh Der Abrahamian
* Jane Avril — Jeanne Beaudon
* John Ayldon — John Arnold
* Ayọ — Joy Olasunmibo Ogunmakin
* Agnes Ayres — Agnes Eyre Henkel
* AZ — Anthony Cruz
* Trey Azagthoth — George Emmanuel III
* Charles Aznavour — Shahnour Aznavurjan

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Ba-Bd

* Derek B — Derek Bolland
* Eric B — Eric Barrier
* Jazzie B — Beresford Romeo
* Jon B. — Jonathan David Buck
* Mel B — Melanie Janine Brown
* B-Real — Louis Freese
* Baaziz (more detailed article in French) — Abdelazziz Bakhti, Algerian-born Berber singer
* Babyface — Kenneth Brian Edmonds
* Baby Marie — Helen Alice Myres
* Baby Peggy — Peggy-Jean Montgomery (later known as Diana Serra Cary)
* Lauren Bacall — Betty Joan Perske
* Barbara Bach — Barbara Goldbach
* Catherine Bach — Catherine Bachman
* Sebastian Bach — Sebastian Philip Bierk
* Badly Drawn Boy — Damon Gough
* Angela Baddeley — Madeline Angela Clinton-Baddeley
* Hermione Baddeley — Hermione Youlanda Ruby Clinton-Baddeley
* Erykah Badu — Erica Wright
* Buff Bagwell — Marcus Alexander Bagwell
* Benny Bailey — Ernest Harold Bailey
* Mildred Bailey — Mildred Rinker
* Barbara Bain — Millicent Fogel
* Cheryl Baker — Rita Maria Crudgington
* George Baker — Johannes Bouwens
* Ginger Baker — Peter Edward Baker
* Josephine Baker — Freda Josephine McDonald
* LaVern Baker — Delores Williams
* Nick Baker — Seth Bushman




How dare they use fake names!

[thedamndest]

Using a similar logic as in the initial post, wrestler who have won championships with different names within the WWE wouldn't be recognized as having captured the championship. The 1-2-3 Kid won the tag team championship with Marty Jannetty. That reign is recognized despite him becoming X-Pac.

Obviously there could be kayfabe exceptions to this. I doubt they are going to acknowledge Dolph Ziggler won tag gold in the Spirit Squad any time soon, but that is because the character is a supposed to be an entirely different person.