How did The Nasty Boys get their name? A popular guess is that their wrestling ability is beyond terrible. Its downright nasty. It wasnt good in 1990, and it was God-awful in 2010. But when Hulk Hogan is your friend, good things happen. You get employment! Isnt it strange that TNA went eight years without ever bringing in The Nasty Boys and then Hogans first night on TV they magically appear? Strange. Well, the Boys had five matches in TNA before Brian Knobbs apparently embarrassed the company at a corporate outing and was canned. Did anyone expect anything else? Seeing these two guys on the huge January 4, 2010 show sent a huge mixed message. Just weeks earlier, the exciting and talented Young Bucks were given a tryout, then we got the lazy, out of shape Nasty Boys who hadn't wrestled on TV since the late 90s showing up. Had the team lasted longer, they would have been higher up on the list, but due to their short (yet horribly painful) run, theyll still flop into 10th place.
As Rust Cohle from True Detective said "Life's barely long enough to get good at one thing. So be careful what you're good at."
Sadly, I can't solve a murder like Rust...or change a tire, or even tie a tie. But I do know all the lyrics to Hulk Hogan's "Real American" theme song and can easily name every Natural Born Thriller from the dying days of WCW. I was once ranked 21st in the United States in Tetris...on the Playstation 3 version...for about a week.
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