10 Wrestlers Who Ditched Their Terrible Ring Names

The mid-90s were a strange old time in the World Wrestling Federation.

With business stalling, the company were stuck in something of a creative rut in which wrestlers apparently need some kind of extra-curricular profession that they used to earn some money on the side.

There was Irwin R. Shyster the tax collector, Duke “the Dumpster” Drose the garbage man, as well as the completely unimaginatively-dubbed Repo Man (FYI, he was a repo man). And in the summer of 1995, a new name was added to this list of professionals, that of Jerry Lawler’s personal denitist, Isaac Yankem, DDS.

Yes, years before being given the awesome Kane gimmick, Glenn Jacobs was doomed to be a seven-foot dentist who for some reason spent his weekends performing for the biggest wrestling company in the entire world.

As if that juxtaposition of a dentist as a wrestler wasn’t hilarious enough, remember that this name could be abbreviated to simply I. Yankem, because the only thing funnier than a wrestling dentist is a wrestling dentist who name is a pun of his very profession.

Genius.