Band names get taken from songs and films all the time, just look at Radiohead, Death Cab For Cutie or Black Sabbath, but taking your wrestling name from a band's film? Only The Blue Meanie would be that obscure. The Blue Meanie took his name and appearance from the chief villain in the Beatles' film Yellow Submarine. While he was rarely mean, the Blue Meanie was most certainly blue. He sported blue hair, a blue beard and even formed the a parody of the nWo, the Blue World Order, with Stevie Richards and Nova. It's a highly chantable name, but it's downright weird and that's why it belongs on this list.
6. Hugh Morrus
Hugh Morrus, humourous, get it? Of course you do. Do you care? Of course you don't. The big, tough and intimidating Bill DeMott got his start in WCW as part of the bizarre Dungeon of Doom. Kevin Sullivan "gave" Hugh Morrus as a gift to Kevin's on-screen father The Master, calling him the gift of laughter and the "man from the isle of nowhere". A suitably weird introduction for a man with a suitably weird name. The Hugh Morrus name came to a temporary end when he formed the Misfits in Action with Chavo Guerrero Jr and Booker T. He took on the name General Hugh G. Rection which quite frankly is a crime against comedy and against wrestling.
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Band names get taken from songs and films all the time, just look at Radiohead, Death Cab For Cutie or Black Sabbath, but taking your wrestling name from a band's film? Only The Blue Meanie would be that obscure. The Blue Meanie took his name and appearance from the chief villain in the Beatles' film Yellow Submarine. While he was rarely mean, the Blue Meanie was most certainly blue. He sported blue hair, a blue beard and even formed the a parody of the nWo, the Blue World Order, with Stevie Richards and Nova. It's a highly chantable name, but it's downright weird and that's why it belongs on this list. 