http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HIReklrm8CU Lance Storm isn't a bad name on it's own but it is a terrible wrestling name. Lance himself has spoken before about the difficulties that come with monosyllabic names: the chief one amongst them being that a crowd cannot chant it which means they can't get behind you and that stops a wrestler getting over. This is why whenever you see someone come up from NXT to the main roster they'll have a chantable name: Bray Wyatt, Roman Reigns, Big E, Alexander Rusev. "Lance Storm" just isn't ever going to get over with a crowd, no matter how good a wrestler he was. These days Lance trains wrestlers of the future at his school in Canada. Let's hope he teaches them to pick a good ring name too.
8. Dr Isaac Yankem D.D.S.
Puns. The last bastion of the uncreative. Naming a wrestling dentist "Yankem" was about as on the nose a pun can get. Yankem was brought in as a hired gun for Jerry Lawler in a feud with Bret Hart but incredibly the gimmick lasted for over a year before he was quietly removed from television. Isaac Yankem is of course better known these days as Kane, itself a pretty bad wrestling name but nothing on Yankem, or any of his other former names: The Christmas Creature, Unabomb or Doomsday. Poor Kane really has had more than his fair share of terrible wrestling names.
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