10 Rejected Wrestler Names WWE ACTUALLY Pitched
1. Space Corps Holly (Bob Holly)
It just f*cking rhymes man.
Explaining away a long absence from television when Hardcore Holly returned to television in 2006, somebody within WWE apparently thought a change might be in order to help the Attitude Era hanger-on blend in more with this new Sci-Fi C-brand. This itself is laughable - Holly was returning to Extreme Championship Wrestling, a brand that suited his old gimmick perfectly even if the show was a mutated version of Paul Heyman's legendary brainchild.
But mutated it was, and as evidenced by the zombie that got battered by The Sandman and various rumours about aliens landing in an ECW ring one week. From this strange, strange time, Space Corps Holly snuck out as a possible next move for the hard-as-nails Alabaman. The backstory had him going to NASA during his long injury break, and returning with his colleague - a f*cking monkey - in a giant astronauts suit.
Presumably he'd take off the gear to wrestle in, but it sadly never made it past the poor, poor drawing board. Whole thing sucked anyway.