Motown Saint Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 Erik and Ivar are weird names. I saw someone on Reddit say they should have went by "Erik Rowe" and "Ivar Hanson" Those sound a lot better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushy. Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 It does sound better. The one name rule in WWE is stupid lol. I still call Andrade, Almas. The Cien was cool too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEGION Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 People having a Surname? Ridiculous! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counting Lights Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 It does sound better. The one name rule in WWE is stupid lol. I still call Andrade, Almas. The Cien was cool too. One name names are ok in certain cases, but more often than not they suck. Andrade and Ali are particularly bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monkey D. Jiggy Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 It only worked for *censored*ing Elias. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generations Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 It only worked for *censored*ing Elias. Mainly because he's a musician, and that's a common thing with egotistical musicians. I don't mind the Viking Raiders single names too much...because, it also kinda goes with brutes...like Hawk and Animal, Axe and Smash. Realistically, big savage vikings probably would have only one name. That said, they should have gone with something closer to the aforementioned classic teams. It almost feels like they went "half-cheese" when they should have just gone full cheese. If you're going to dumb something down in pro wrestling...it's always better to dumb it all the way down, IMO. Having names like Erik and Ivar humanizes them, when their group name of Viking Raiders makes them sound the opposite of that. If they had super corny names like Hammer and Fist, or Blood and Guts, I might like them more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEGION Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 My main issue with "Ivar" comes from there being a different character on the TV show "Vikings" with that name and the only way Hanson and him could look anymore different, would be if one of them had boobs Also..."Hanson. Rowe. War Raiders" was already perfectly fine for what Gen mentioned Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King RyderFan Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 TBH, I kinda wish they changed Hanson's name to "Rowe" and Rowe's name to "Hanson" just to *Censored* with people. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generations Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 TBH, I kinda wish they changed Hanson's name to "Rowe" and Rowe's name to "Hanson" just to *Censored* with people. And I wish they'd change Ryder's named to Free Agent. But we can't always get what we want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
King RyderFan Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 TBH, I kinda wish they changed Hanson's name to "Rowe" and Rowe's name to "Hanson" just to *Censored* with people. And I wish they'd change Ryder's named to Free Agent. But we can't always get what we want. To be fair, he shows up so rarely is there a difference? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creepia Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 It only worked for *censored*ing Elias. I would say it worked for Cesaro, Rusev and Sheamus too Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Generations Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 Not sure how I feel about Cesaro, Rusev, and Sheamus... There's always that weird gray area of "are the names actually better shortened, or have we all just grown used to them that way?"...I mean, if they still had their full names, you would be calling them Cesaro, Rusev, or Sheamus anyway. Just for the sake of convenience. People have always shortened the names naturally just to save time. But, it's not a bad thing to have longer names, just to mix the commentary up. For example...there was a recent Andrade match the other week, and I was almost ready to mute it from the number of times I heard "Andrade" by the commentary. If he still had Andrade Cien Almas as his full name, they could mix up the commentary with any of the three names, and wouldn't need to say Andrade 30 times in 50 seconds. They could have said "Almas hits the headscissors" [...] "Andrade now going to the top rope" [...] "Cien Almas is on fire!" and so on. Instead, it was like "Andrade hits the dropkick! Andrade to the corner! Andrade showing no signs of slowing down. Andrade, Andrade, Andrade..." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEGION Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 TJ Perkins to TJ Pee was another bad shortening in recent memory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted August 13, 2019 Report Share Posted August 13, 2019 TJ Perkins to TJ Pee was another bad shortening in recent memory. I think he personally requested that after he turned heel. Cause he still uses TJP since returning to Impact recently, tho commentary will refer to him by both names. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunchbox Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 He used TJP on the indies quite a bit too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LEGION Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 I stand corrected. Still awful tho Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Counting Lights Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 It only worked for *censored*ing Elias. I would say it worked for Cesaro, Rusev and Sheamus too I'll agree with Sheamus, as Sheamus O'Shaunnesy was a damn mouthful, but I really like Antonio Cesaro and Alexander Rusev. Like, just Rusev worked fine when he was doing his dude-bro thing with English, but whenever he was more of a brute, Alexander had this sense of regalness to it that kind of made him seem more dimensional. It's weird to explain. And Antonio Cesaro was just an all around great name. Nothing else to say there. I'll say that it worked for Neville, specifically when he turned heel. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Motown Saint Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 The ones that made no sense was Andrade "Cien" Almas and Mustafa Ali. I mean, you could market those names to a wide variety. Heck, Rusev should come back with his first name. It would be like hitting the reset button on his career. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Oresama Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 Otis and Tucker being shortened was lame but with them being in a tag team it isn't too bad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Creepia Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 It only worked for *censored*ing Elias. I would say it worked for Cesaro, Rusev and Sheamus too I'll agree with Sheamus, as Sheamus O'Shaunnesy was a damn mouthful, but I really like Antonio Cesaro and Alexander Rusev. Like, just Rusev worked fine when he was doing his dude-bro thing with English, but whenever he was more of a brute, Alexander had this sense of regalness to it that kind of made him seem more dimensional. It's weird to explain. And Antonio Cesaro was just an all around great name. Nothing else to say there. I'll say that it worked for Neville, specifically when he turned heel. I like Antonio and Alexander too, but it still worked for them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bushy. Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 Im fine with most of them, but like others said, Almas and Ali are dumb. I type Ali into google and the first thing that pops up is the movie lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St★rstruck Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 I would have preferred Ali to be called "Mustafa" instead lol. Almas' name being shortened pisses me off the most. "Andrade 'Cien' Almas" sounded cool as *Censored*. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPC Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 I liked when Charlotte was just Charlotte. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
St★rstruck Posted August 14, 2019 Report Share Posted August 14, 2019 I prefer Charlotte Flair. The last name obviously just adds to her aura so much more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lunchbox Posted August 15, 2019 Report Share Posted August 15, 2019 Banks only returned cause noone outside of WWE showed interest in booking her. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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