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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."
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