10 Worst Tough Guy Names in Wrestling
5. Brutus Magnus
Long before he was a TNA World Title holder or GFW Global Champion, Nick Aldis debuted in Total Nonstop Action Wrestling as the modern day gladiator Brutus Magnus. And he looked like a refugee from Xena: Warrior Princess, complete with leather skirt, shoulder pauldron, and a cheap replica helmet straight off the set of Russell Crowe's Gladiator.
A tough-guy gimmick that was virtually dead on arrival, he would drop the "Brutus" and join the British Invasion stable, which no doubt saved his career. After all, how far was he going to go wearing a leather skirt and sounding like a mean-spirited brand of condoms?
Even his finishing maneuver, The Tormentum, sounds like the setup to a bad joke. Tormentum? Damn near killed 'em!