20 Dumbest Wrestler Names EVER (...That We Absolutely LOVE)
3. Battle Kat
When a wrestler happens upon a promotion who possesses cat-like reflexes and athleticism, what do they do? Promote them to the head of a new Cruiserweight division that plays to their strengths? Put them in matches against similarly-athletic workers? If you answered, literally name them after a cat and take "cat-like reflexes" too far, then congratulations.
You win.
Brady Boone sure can't have felt like much of a winner when he was handed Battle Kat in May 1990. One could've forgiven the man for thinking it was a practical joke at his expense when the fed showed him what kind of mask he'd be wearing under the gimmick too. It wasn't flashy or threatening. If anything, Battle Kat looked like he wanted to curl up on your lap after a big bowl full of milk and some Dreamies.
The WWF had scrapped Kat by October, unsurprisingly. On the plus side, he's in this article, so every situation has an upside. Sort of. Check out Brady in one of his only official company photoshoots above. That isn't a feline about to attack, it's one clawing the kitchen door because he's been stuck out in the rain all day whilst everyone's at work.
Boone's slightly sad facial expression only adds to it, but what a name he was given. Battle Kat rolls off the tongue neatly, and it has given sarcastic internet writers like this one countless laughs ever since. In fact, perhaps the internet was exclusively invented to talk about BK and what might've been.