12 Greatest Fictional Hometowns In Wrestling History
For these grapplers, there's literally no place like home.
In the hallowed ritual of pro wrestling ring announcing, few things tell you more about a competitor than their hometown (all you'll learn when they tell you height and weight is that he's definitely shorter and lighter than that). But a hometown offers all sorts of character-establishing shortcuts. Rich snob? He's from Connecticut. Rough-and-tumble brawler? Texas. Asian of any stripe? Tokyo. Stereotyping is easy!
It can also be a major part of a gimmick; Razor Ramon's Miami consciously evokes Scarface, for example, while Hulk Hogan's bleached hair and disconcertingly deep tan make sense given his origins in Venice Beach. Sometimes, however, a gimmick requires a hometown to be invented. To say that the Boogeyman is from Ysplsnti, Michigan or whatever is less believable than the existence of a bottomless pit filled with worms.
The following hometowns were chosen because of their overwhelming fictitiousness. There's invented cities, vague metaphysical abstractions, and even a few nouns that are not even place names. The single unifying theme among them is that you won't find them on any map, and planning a trip is out of the question.
Well, even if you could go, you probably shouldn't, because they're inhabited almost exclusively by violent weirdos, but, you know.
13. The Cosmos
AAA's astronaut luchador Aerostar hails from wrestling's least specific hometown: "The Cosmos." It's technically correct, but spectacularly unhelpful. You can't NOT be from the Cosmos, it literally encompasses all of existence. He's from the entirety of the Universe as an abstract concept, great, but where do they send his checks? Do they just leave his payment out on the curb in cash, and it just gets pulled up in a tractor beam overnight? Do they use pesos in space, or does he have to change them over to spaceos?
AAA, if you're reading this, any and all complaints about Aerostar using the Cosmos as if it's a distinct location would immediately be forgotten if he were managed by Neil DeGrasse Tyson. We've got a bad-ass over here, indeed.