10 Dumbest Wrestling Name Changes
9. Super Giant Ninja
Ron Reis was WCW's The Yeti - an Nepalese Abominable Snowman by way of Ancient Egypt, famed for his terrifying Dry Humping finisher and Tony Schiavone's complete inability to say his name. Or, he reckons, an unwillingness: Schiavone disclosed on Twitter years later that he thought the stupid character deserved a stupid call. An involuntary reaction to hilariously naff material isn't beyond the best character actors, so he's more or less absolved.
There's no way of explaining Big Ron's subsequent name change other than to suspect that an out of touch think tank scrolled through the children's films section at Blockbuster to grasp what the kids were into those days. They shelved the Monster Squad, rented Three Ninjas, and rechristened Reis as 'Super Giant Ninja' which, in fairness, was two thirds correct. Reis was a giant; you can never be too sure in wrestling, and he did wear lifts in his boots, but he was certainly tall, even by industry standards. He was also a ninja, or at least he dressed as one. For a company which had conflated fictional monsters, they at least dressed Reis in somewhat appropriate garb...eventually. He was still billed as The Yeti - or The Yetti, because WCW, when he changed wardrobe on an early '96 edition of Prime Wrestling.
But he definitively wasn't super. He could barely stop himself from falling over when he indulged in some martial arts moves. Even those brats in the films were more intimidating.