10 Best Ring Names In WWE History
8. Mr. Perfect
'Perfect' is the only suitable word; instantly, the WWF conditioned its fanbase to accept the technical marvel as the bastion of greatness.
It worked; the legacy of Mr. Perfect is one of unprecedented brilliance. What's curious is that Perfect missed long stretches of in-ring action via injury throughout his initial eight-year tenure, ending it entirely inactive. He was in the onset of physical decline, resulting from his innovative big-bumping style, when he put pen to paper in the first place. None of that matters; when he was great, he was untouchable - and that name alone elevates a body of work arguably inferior to his AWA output as among the best in Federation history. In retrospect, it obscures the relatively short shelf life of the act profoundly. It was a true work.
Obviously, Curt Hennig himself was up to the task. Indirectly helped by the basic power game of his peers, it wasn't merely his mechanical brilliance that cemented his legend; as a man capable of catching his own gum with a sh*t-eating grin on his face, he did wrestling psychology, as he promised in those incredible vignettes, absolutely perfectly.