20 True Stories Behind Famous Wrestling Names

8. Hornswoggle

Neville Red Arrow
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Ever since losing the moniker ‘Little Bastard’, Dylan Postl has been named for the obscure English word meaning ‘to get the better of someone by cheating, swindling’.

This perfectly matched up with his gimmick as bizarre, filthy screeching foreign object sidekick for Finley, back when he used to fling himself out from under the ring to bite the rear end of the Belfast Brawler’s opponents when the referee was distracted by something shiny. Since his last gimmick was wearing an animal onesie and backing up whichever tag team was being pushed the least, perhaps they should change his name to ‘Laggard’.

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