10 Things WWE Fans Need To Know About Bobby Roode

10. His First Wrestling Name Was 'Total' Lee Awesome

There is almost a naive childlike comedy about the names that wrestlers choose at the beginning of their careers.

In a ham-fisted attempt to sound menacing and intimidating, this often gets lost in wonderful puns and wordplays that don't have a place in the squared circle, but are too glorious to forget.

Bobby Roode's contribution to this club is the frankly stunning moniker 'Lee Awesome'. Okay, not so stunning, but throw an adjective before it and you get a whole different kettle of fish: 'Total' Lee Awesome. 

Totally awesome indeed.

Roode made his wrestling debut in the summer of 1998, billed as 'Total' Lee Awesome' and going up against the slightly more menacing-sounding Pete Rock (no, not CL Smooth's partner-in-crime).

Who won this battle of the titans? Not even the most cursory of searches gives me an answer to that question, unfortunately.