9 Worst Wrestling Names Of All Time

3. Terra Ryzin

There are some names in the wrestling world, that after a while, you just get used to and forget that they’re actually really bad. Dolph Ziggler would be one of them, another would be Triple H.

Trips hasn’t exactly had the greatest run with wrestling names, being called Hunter Hearst Helmsley prior to the abbreviation, but amazingly, he had an even worse one before that.

Back in his WCW days, a young Paul Levesque genuinely, legitimately, 100% came to the ring, billed as Terra Ryzin.

Now, there are some bad names in history that have bad puns riffing off an actual name, just as Justin Credible. But at least that actually has the name Justin in it. What sort of a name is Terra?

And then you make the laboured pun of terrorizing by sticking Ryzin after it, it’s just…one of the worst names in the history of wrestling.

I think there was a terror that was rising with this name, and that’s Paul Levesque’s terror of using that name. My god.


2. Isaac Yankem DDS

This is a relatively well known one, but still very, very bad nonetheless. Before Glen Jacobs would find success becoming The Devil’s Favourite Demon, he had an appointment to become The Dentist’s Favourite Demon. Wait no, sorry, just…a dentist. Right.

Isaac Yankem DDS was born, and he was just that, a dentist. Crap Gimmick Wrestling, anyone? Bad gimmick or not, the name alone is a crime all on its own.

Yankem, d’you get it? Because he yanks teeth. Because he’s a bad dentist. Ha.

I also like the fact they felt the need to include the DDS in his name, just to emphasise that he is an actual dentist who got his qualifications legitimately… but also wrestles in the WWF in his downtime.

Because a dentist’s wage is of course not enough to make a living off.

Isaac was yanked off our screens after having a surprisingly lengthy run, lasting over a year from 1995 to 1996, before he was thankfully repackaged as Kane.


1. Chilly McFreeze

So this is arguably the worst name on this list, but in fairness to it, it didn’t actually ever materialise. But still, the fact this was even considered is a travesty.

Right, backstory time. Stone Cold Steve Austin had just made his from WCW to WWF, but had been shackled with the objectively not great name of The Ringmaster, and was being managed by Ted DiBiase.

After only a few weeks, Austin suggested his character should be more cold-hearted and ruthless, so he was sent a list of names to choose from, which were all genuinely serious suggestions.

There were a couple of incredible examples in here, such as Baron von Ruthless, Ice Dagger and Fang McFrost, but one above all took the cake.

Chilly McFreeze. Chilly McFreeze. I have no idea what they were thinking. A cold-hearted, ruthless serial killer type of character called…Chilly McFreeze.

It sounds more like the latest option at McDonald’s or a kid’s option you’d buy from an ice cream van, not the name of a ruthless wrestler.

Luckily cooler heads, or in this case, warmer heads prevailed, and the name “Stone Cold” Steve Austin was settled on. Can you imagine? The Rock vs Chilly McFreeze at WrestleMania X-Seven?

CHILLY MCFREEZE.

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2 years ago by Pete Quinnell

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