I used to be a big wrestling fan back in the mid-80s.  In those days they wrestled more and talked less.  Professional wrestling nowadays is like a talk show where wrestling occasionally breaks out.  There were some great wrestling names in the 80s: Rowdy Roddy Piper, Tito Santana, Jake the Snake, 'Macho Man' Randy Savage, Gorilla Monsoon, The Iron Sheik, even Irving R. Shyster.  But there have been some awful names over the years, too.

Presented for your consideration is my list of the top 12 worst wrestling names of all time:

12. Bastion Booger

11. Cham-Pain

10. The New anything--The New One Man Gang, The New Diesel, The New Razor Ramon, etc. The idea is always to make you forget the old one but the new one is never as good as the old one so why not make up a name. How hard is that?

9. anyone with a roman numeral in their name--Villano IV, Villano V. Making up a name must be harder than I thought.

8. Bo Dacious

7. Prince of Polyester

6. Lightning Rod

5. Notorious Norm

4. Buggsy Sluggliano

3. The Great Warrior   This one should have a regular name in front of "the Great Warrior" part. It could be Kryton the Great Warrior or Bruce the Great Warrior. If he is such a great warrior why doesn't anyone know his name?

2. Guy Incognito    Bastion Booger might strike a little terror into an opponent's heart. Even Notorious Norm might make an opponent think a little ("Notorious, huh? He must be notorious for something...it could be wrestling.") But this name wouldn't scare anyone. ("Incognito, huh? He must be incognito for some reason.")

1. Battle Monkey    Even a toy company would reject this name for an action figure. Even the Pokemon people who thought up Jigglypuff and Psi-duck would reject this name.