11 Awful Names WWE Wrestlers Rejected

by John Bills

1. Stone Cold Steve Austin - Ice Dagger, Fang McFrost, Otto Von Ruthless...

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The Big Daddy of awful names pitched to iconic professional wrestlers. Steve Austin was floundering somewhat in the World Wrestling Federation as The Ringmaster, and a change was needed. The hair went, and after watching a documentary on a serial killer dubbed 'The Iceman', Austin decided that the way was forward was as cold-hearted butt-kicker. The SOB needed a name.

Taking the chilly nature of the gimmick a little too far, Austin was pitched some absolute doozies before settling on the moniker that would make him hugely famous. Whilst 'Chilly McFreeze' has since turned out to be fake, the same can't be said of 'Ice Dagger', 'Fang McFrost' and 'Otto von Ruthless'. It is a clear indication of Austin's position in the company that such names were legitimate possibilities.

Once more, all three sound like the ideas of children. Fang McFrost must rank as one of the most ridiculous names given to a serious anything ever, a confusing mixture of vampire imagery and McDonald's desserts. It took Austin's wife warning him that his coffee would soon be stone cold to turn on the lightbulb in the Texas Rattlesnake's head, saving both him and the wrestling world from a wrestling blood-thirsty McFlurry.

Fang McFrost? I despair...

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.