10 Worst Ring Names In Wrestling History
8. Tugboat
As we'll be reminded, the WWF in the early 90s was unexplainably fond of packaging its wrestlers into occupational gimmicks.
To be charitable, one can almost see the logic - by squinting. The Federation was marketed towards children, and the brightly-coloured attire adorned by the likes of Sparky Plugg may well have appealed to them more than the wrasslin' likes of Brad Armstrong.
That said - what did these fellas do, really? Did they work part time as wrestlers? Or did they retire from these mundane jobs in order to fulfil their dreams of being pro wrestlers, and in that case, why did they insist on keeping their work garb? Shouldn't they have wanted to get away from the drudgery of their old, unfulfilling lives?
Before this sh*tstorm became a deluge, Fred Ottman had the misfortune of being named after an inanimate object. Originally Tugboat Thomas, this was shortened, nonsensically, to simply 'Tugboat'. It comes to something when even the unimaginative and inexplicable 'Tugboat Captain' would have been an improvement.
Ottman fared better as Typhoon, as whom he achieved mild success with the underrated Earthquake as the Natural Disasters, before entering into wrestling lore forever as The Shockmaster...