10 Wrestlers Who Ditched Their Terrible Ring Names

8. The Hybrid - Goldberg

Bringing up the hat-trick of wrestlers who reverted to the name with which they were born is former world champion Bill Goldberg.

To the majority of fans, Bill Goldberg is an awesome enough name as it is, but for whatever reason the man himself didn’t think so. Instead, he had wanted to be named "the Hybrid".

Much like the Prototype, a name like the Hybrid suffered from the out-dated connotations of years gone by, and that was only exacerbated by the fact that guys like Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, who’d recently arrived in WCW, were now going by their own real names.

Ultimately, and thankfully, it was the aforementioned Hall who talked Goldberg out of using the Hybrid. On a recent episode of the Tomorrow Show, Sean Waltman revealed that Goldberg had initially run the idea past Hall before noting that he didn’t think his own name was cool enough. Hall’s reply essentially ended the debate, stating that "it is cool if you make it cool."

Roughly two decades later, Goldberg is now a multi-time world champion, and weeks away from main eventing WrestleMania 33 at the ripe old age of 50.

Safe to say, the name Goldberg was cool enough.