10 Real Wrestler Names 100% Cooler Than Their Ring Names
2. Ricky Steamboat (Richard Blood)
As the tagline says, who looks at a smiling baby boy and decrees that calling him Richard Blood is the right decision? Richard often gets shortened to "Dick", which only makes it even more tragic. Put that together and you get something that'd make some out there cross their legs and wince a bit.
Then, there's the flip side to such thinking.
Dick Blood would've been a killer wrestling ring name. It'd defo stand out for a start, and again (like Ron Killings) immediately comes across as somebody you'd do anything to avoid. You wouldn't want to meet Dick Blood in a dark alleyway, would you?!
Actually, probably best not to answer that. All jokes aside, having Blood as your surname is way more badass than Steamboat. Richard Blood went with Ricky Steamboat though; had he not stuck 'The Dragon' in between that, then he'd sound more like a cartoon character from the 1950s than a celebrated wrestling hero.
No wonder he was a babyface for life.