in a major promotion (so WWE/AEW/TNA/etc.)?
Royce Keys probably. Imagine going from Powerhouse Hobbs to such a boring name generator tier ring name. And his shoot name is William Hobson, that alone could've worked better as Big Bill Hobson or "Bruiser" Bill Hobson or anything like that. No, Royce Keys that sounds like some jabroni trying to run for mayor in some rural town in Nebraska.
Callum Newman
>>20822772Bron Breakker is a stupid fucking name
>>20822772Roman Reigns is a stupid fucking name
Blake Christian
>>20822772Jeff Cobb
>>20822880Corn “On The” Cobb
>>20822868>>20822870I’ve always thought Dolph Ziggler, Seth Rollins and Dean Ambrose were stupid names desu
Not that guy, but Buddy.
>>20822782Royce Keyes is a name for a low grade Atlanta rapper who releases one good song about booty clapping that goes viral and get 20 years no parole for blasting a guy in a concert after-party 5 months later. Free Royce! He dindunuffin
>>20822772Alex Shelley. You can't tell if it's a man or a woman, there's no gimmick and it's a name more suited to a porn star than a wrestler.
>>20822953This also applies to Shiloh Hill.
>>20822874sounds like a country singer
we need gimmicked names back
>>20822953Arianna Grace sounds like a porn actress who based her stage name on Ariana Grande, the 2000s were full of names like that (Codi Bryant, Nikki Sexx, etc.)
>>20822956Anon,world aint ready for the Thunder Kek
>>20822874That guy is the total nonpackage. Everything you wouldn’t want in a wrestler.
>>20822923Kek this is what I thought too. Some d-grade rapper no as ever heard of who gets shot and killed in the mall parking lot after flexing their foot locker haul on Instagram
>>20822923>>20823002fucking KEK
>>20822986Maybe she named herself after Ariana Marie.Marie = Mary = Mary Full Of Grace
>>20822772For me it's Tavion Heightsit makes me think of low income housing projects
>>20822772Ricky Saints is up there with Dolph Ziggler in terms of anti dimes
>>20823056nigga sounds like the tutorial zone for a shitty eastern european rpg
>>20823056sounds like the name some rich jew would use for a housing project that is a money laundering scam and the houses are built with the cheapest material and collapse if you sneeze
>>20823079many people are saying this
the local fed where I live had some truly anti-dimes names like Chris Dice, R.P. Tyson, Dover, Kid Nitro (later literally just Nitro)
>>20822868Especially when you consider the fact that Steiner was a cool enough name already. Even Rechsteiner, their actual last names, is also cool. WWE is like a shitty gimmick fountain. Where maybe 1/100 of those cooked up by creative actually are cool.
Tatum paxley
Tavion Heights. Try to imagine anyone chanting that.
>>20822772Rollins.He was never an architect. He was never a “ViSiOnArY”. These are for shirt sales and hashtags and nothing else. They don’t suit him. There are no short buzzwords that could describe the world’s most boring very athletic guy.
>>20823079It has "mid card ceiling" written over it
>>20823162I’m convinced they are using some very old name generator that’s installed on someone’s old laptop so why everyone in NXT is called some townie NPC from the Sims 3
Adam Cole. Like it’s so boring and generic. It’s Jake Taylor or Ricky Smith tier of generic. Also the barista in our local café was called Adam Cole
Shaquon Shugars or however the fuck you write it, it sounds like if they tried to give Sufferin Succotash as a ring name to him
>>20822772>"Give it up for Bayley"
Action Andretti
>>20822772The thread hasn't produced any good answers, so I'll do it. The absolute worst one (at least in WWE since I'm not really acquainted with TNA or other promotions) has got to be EK Prosper. That shit is the most jobber, never-touching-a-title fucking name ever. The "Prosper" part is okay, but the "EK" is fucking stupid. Attach "Prosper" to something else and axe the "EK", entirely. It's one thing for a name to not only sound stupid, but look stupid in text, too. It doubly stings since I actually think the wrestler attached to the name isn't bad, either.
>>20823177I've heard the Tavion chants, which is why he might consider calling himself just Tavion, The Tavion, Tavion The Gifted or something like that
>>20823307He was called Eli Knight, hence EK. It's still a stupid change.
Wheeler Yuta is a really bizarre one.The name would fit if he was in some jobber biker gimmick stable or something, but how is his current character related to wheels?
>>20823307>The thread hasn't produced any good answers, so I'll do it.You aren't special you faceless jobber
Liv Morgan under the only reason that "Gionna Daddio" is her real name and quite possibly the most dimes name you could ever want in a wrestler.
>>20823348I think it's meant to sound like one of those early 2000s Japanese freelancer names, where they were all called shit like "SPLASH Toshimoto" or "GARGOYLE Hoshini". Doesn't make it any better, admittedly.
>>20822782Apparently "Keys" is his mother's maiden name (wow, a black guy without a positive father figure in his life... crazy...) and "Royce" is his middle son's name.Despite the logic (rather than Firsty McLastName NXT name generator), Powerhouse Hobbs is still so much better. "Royce" is 100% a "I am naming my black son something that evokes class (Rolls Royce) in order to try to contribute to his self-esteem and how people will treat him in this unjust America" thing. Horseshit.
>>20823348I only know "Wheeler" as the dumb American stereotype from Captain Planet.
>>20823162The Steiners have a claim to the name outside of WWE. They don't want their fucking slaves to have any kind of autonomy.
>>20823056I like Tavion but yeah his name AND his theme song are pretty damn shit.
>>20823236This one is particularly bad
>>20822772sareee
>>20823473Thank you for reminding me of my hate of Ricky Steamboat. Love the wrestler but the steamboat in the name was always terrible. Ricky Dragon would have been ace
>>20822782>>20823507>picks one name to honor his son and the other to honor a family memberi guarantee neither of these worked obese smarks pretended to be this "offended" when kevin owens did it. however, i do understand why you would be more forgiving of someone who (used to) look more like a fat slob like yourself instead of keys, who looks far more physically impressive than you ever will. it's even better because owens is canadian and, given the clear morbid obesity of both posters and the race fetishism shared by the 2nd quoted slob, it is clear that these are americans working up a shit fit. truly embarrassing. many such cases.
>>20823980>typing all this bitching outwho raped you, anon?
>>20823512Cash Wheeler is prominent gay tag team wrestler
Cameron Grimes and CJ Parker were truly anti-dimes names
>>20822772e drones really think a guy named SAQUON SHUGARS will be a big star
>>20822772I can't believe WWE hasn't changed this dude's name yet. Flip Gordon is dumb as well. I don't necessarily dislike flips but those names suck
Cappuccino Jones is one name that is so bad it actually comes full circle and turns into kinda good especially how his current gimmick is he drinks coffee all the time
>>20826504He'll main event WrestleMania, Ospreay will main event Chipotle parking lot
>>20826514That is example of a good name. Jakku rolls of the tongues and is the stock english name used everywhere. And the dude does cartwheels.It's up there with Big Andre and Junkyard Dog in simplicity and effectiviness.
>>20826525Cappuccino Jones is an excellent gimmick name
>>20826795>Wembley Stadium is 'Chipotle parking lot'damn u seething hard bruv
>>20823980>the Great Wall of Seethe
>>20824459>i have absolutely no argumentconcession accepted>>20828077>the great wall of projectionconcession accepted
>>20827725Webley stadium might as well be a Chipotle with how many tickets Tony gives away to seat fillers and for free lmao
>>20822880JC Mateo is also really bad
>>20828746It's bad because phonetically "JC" is the name of a woman on your roster and it's pretty generic but it's better than Jeff Cobb. At least Mateo sounds islandy.
>>20828833yeah i know, but it’s still bad, it’s like if you changed John Taylor to Johnny T., an upgrade but still ass
>>20828101>WebleyKEK WHAT A RETARD
Alex RileyNash CarterScott DawsonBobby Fish
right now there are names in WWE that feel like were borrowed from the porn industry like Lash Legend, Ariana Grace, Lola Vice, Kiana Jamesand vice versa there are porn names that wouldnt sound alien in NXT like Cadey Mercury, Jia Lissa, Rissa May or Karlee Grey
>>20832370There is a wrestler called Skye Blue and a porn whore called Skye Blue lmao. Also Dakota Kai was oddly too similar to Dakota Sky (especially how kai means sky in Samoan iirc)
>>20823259100% was spelled like this so thirdies wouldn't pronounce it "Balley"
>>20823980Damn you sound absolutely butt blasted
>>20832498maybe he is Royce Keys himself lmao
>>20823162>>20823539>. Where maybe 1/100 of those cooked up by creative actually are cool.>They don't want their fucking slaves to have any kind of autonomy.bron picked his own name, they would have let him use steiner but he didn't want to
>>20832370kendal grey is literally just a porn name, it's awesome
The name Jake Something pisses me off for no particular reason
>>20823352Never said I was. You all just suck at this.
>>20832609>Jacob Doyle is an American professional wrestler signed to All Elite Wrestling where he performs under his real name as Jake Doyle. He is best known for his two tenures in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling under the ring name Jake Somethinglmao I didnt know about this
>>20832581Kendal Grey is some kind of Mandela effect shit to me because every time I see or hear her name I could swear there was a porn actress with that exact same name in the early 2010s
>>20832370>Britney Amber (c) vs Sheena Shaw, Danica Dillon and Veruca Jamesthis shit really wouldn't look out of place on an NXT ppv match card
>>20823177>>20823056everything about tavion and his presentation pisses me offhis name is stupid and so clearly caps his ceiling, his usual gears are kinda dumb, his character is all over the placehis shoot name is "tracy g'angelo hancock" which i think even that would be a better nameit's crazy cause then you can watch him in a segment as myles borne's (another stupid ass name) young boy when he's not randomly turning heel or just jobbing to anybody, then you watch him work and all of a sudden he's the most athletic male wrestler in NXT
>>20832370Jia is over with me
>>20822772I can not get over how much I truly dislike hearing Adam Copeland or "Cope" on a national broadcast.I get you can't use Edge and I'm not full on advocating for Dalton Hardcastle or Damon Striker, but fuck me I just take his shoot name seriously in a wrestling sense. It screams "old actor" to me.
>>20832992Anon absolutely coping and seething
>>20833016Idk I always found his surname weird. Not to the point like Anon, but I always thought there was a reason he went simply as Edge, because Adam Copeland just sounds weird by a merchandise point of view, like imagine a T-shirt with Adam Copeland, or Copeland, or some shit like Cope Like Copeland or We The Copelanders
>>20832720T.G. Hancock could've worked fine, he is a good example how they give them jabroni tier ring names in NXT more than likely on purpose
>>20822772A lot of their names are really fucking dumb. Not a single one even remotely comes close to having a bad ass persona name like undertaker, stone cold, edge, the rock, mankind, kane, sting.All these niggas trying to become a name like cena or jeff hardy.
>>20833387Cena worked because it was unique due to his surname having Italian originothers had fairly simple names like Kurt Angle or Steve Austin without any monikersthe problem isn't with simplicity but how retarded lot of these names sound, like Je'Von Evans, Tavion Heights, Shiloh Hill, Ricky Saints, or just dead on generic and boring like Scott Dawson or Alex Riley
Justin Gabriel was one truly anti-dimes ring names
