10 Worst Ring Names In Wrestling History
2. Kerwin White
Some wrestlers have the worst luck.
Like McGillicutty, Mr. A** and That 70s Guy before him, Guerrero suffered the indignity of more than one horrendous name change.
Guerrero had apparently arrived at the conclusion that his ethnicity was holding him back, and decided that the best way of achieving success in WWE was by renouncing his heritage and adopting the look and cliched disposition of a middle class white American. The name Kerwin was fairly apropos, but the rancidity of the character ensures its place here.
This might have been a cuttingly insightful social commentary by WWE on wrestling's propensity to pigeonhole its ethnic talent into restrictive and offensive stereotypes. Then again, this is the very same company who, among countless other highly dubious creative decisions, had an Arabic American (played by an Italian American) terrorist sympathiser choke the Undertaker with razor wire in reference to the barbaric kidnapping footage so unsettlingly prevalent at the time.
On his debut, White acknowledged imaginary chants of "Chavo" by saying that "Chavo has left the building - he's probably trying to get a job at a taco stand, like the rest of the unemployed hispanics".
This laid to rest any hopeful idea that the character was to be a subtle attempt at critique of racial profiling within wrestling.