5. Thurman "Sparky" Plugg
In the 90s, the then WWF liked their wrestlers to seemingly have other jobs beyond just being a wrestler; Thurman "Sparky" Plugg was supposedly a Nascar driver turned wrestler and he just so happened to have a surname that was like a car part. Yes, that makes no sense, but this was the 90s where garbage men, accountants and farmers patrolled the ring. A truly horrible name, Thurman was later rechristened Bob "Spark Plug" Holly, then just Bob Holly, then Hardcore Holly. All major improvements on having to try and get through your career with people calling you Thurman Plugg. 4. Red Rooster
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nogudt0dNLc Lots of wrestlers have animal based names: Hawk, Jake The Snake Roberts, Junk Yard Dog. But they all use big, butch animals or at least ones that are dangerous in some way. Not so for Terry Taylor, for he was to be named after a small farmyard bird. It wasn't just the name that Taylor took on, oh no, he also started wearing his hair in some kind of proto-mohawk designed and dyed red to look like a rooster's comb and he did a sort of chicken walk around the ring. Poor man. Thankfully Taylor started going by his own name once he went to WCW a couple of years later and is now training the next generation of wrestlers in NXT.
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