10 Worst Ring Names In Wrestling History

3. Kelly Kelly

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Kelly Kelly's ring name must've been a rib - she was hardly so good that they named her twice.

In fact, she was arguably one of the very worst performers to ever step between the WWE ropes, which she never did learn how to run properly. Her only vaguely passable outings saw her being fed generously by the part time baggage carrier Beth Phoenix - who in retrospect was born a few years too early. Her talents were wasted in the execrable Divas division which polluted the airwaves earlier this decade.

Her selling was even more galling than her inability to grasp the basic skill of running the ropes. As a perma-face, she'd inevitably have a body part worked on throughout any given match - before forgetting the pain she'd purportedly suffered as soon as it was over. It was as if she though the bell ring was the wrestling equivalent of a film director yelling 'Cut!'

Thankfully, the nascent renaissance in women's wrestling hopefully means that we won't see her abjectly untalented like again, but halfway through writing that sentence I remembered that Eva Marie still exists.

Kelly's real name, Barbara Blank, was somehow even more revealing of her airheadedness in the squared circle.

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