10 Wrestling Moments Everyone Misunderstood As Kids

2. Why Didn't I Get That Pun?

Maybe this is just the subjective stupidity of your writer, but the not-so-elegant wordplay of 'Paul Bearer' was completely lost - probably because most parents wish to shield their children from the grim prospect of death at all costs, what with it utterly ruining of that carefree thing we called life.

Paul Bearer/Pallbearer. Get it? We didn't.

We just thought it was some guy named Paul because, at that point in time, our early learning grief hamster was still happily exercising in his wheel. It seems so obvious in retrospect, and that's because it was, but also because wrestling is absolutely laden with puns. So many finishing moves are plays on words. The Bank Statement (which made sense when NXT deemed her of any worth); Twisted Bliss (because Alexa Bliss twists in midair); the Big Ending (the worst of the bloody lot, surely); the Edgecator (no, that's significantly worse, come to think of it).

'Taker's previous manager, Brother Love, was another play on words too. Until he turned face a couple of years ago, everybody loved his brother and hated the sight of him.