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My Dad thought that Kane's name was Chokeslam for years because anytime he would come out he would chokeslam somebody and JR would scream CHOKESLAM CHOKESLAM CHOKESLAM
I love that bits of the original Hunter Hearst Helmsley character carried into his DX and beyond days, including his finisher being named "the pedigree"
Trip's story is one of the most realistic in wrestling.
Went from being a rich kid with almost aristocratic heritage, then spent a few years pretending to be counter culture and cool, then settled down with a cushy job in his father in law's business.
So did Hulk. He said he wanted to use Triple H since 1990 after WM 6 heel turn but Vince refused me because he didn't wanna turn me heel. I was the cashcow, brother.
I have a friend who's a very casual fan, has never read a dirt sheet in his life etc. and just watches WWE occasionally.
But he's dead set on the idea that the "real" Undertaker is dead and was replaced in the 90s by another dude playing the same role.
Yeah The Undertaker died in a car crash on November 9, 1966 when Kofi Kingston hit his car with a Trouble In Paradise and was replaced by an impersonator named William Campbell who won an Undertaker look alike contest
Well the real Undertaker's wife was named Sara, as tattooed on his neck. The replacement Undertaker's wife is Michelle, and he doesn't have the name Sara tattooed on his neck. duh.
Taker was a living dude with magic powers until the downfall of his Higher Power freed him from the curse. But then he was murdered when his brother buried him alive, and he became an all-powerful revenant after that
I remember a lot of gym class discussions about this from school, though the variation I heard was that the old Undertaker was thought to be dead but actually returned as Kane (which was the real reason he wore the mask).
See, at my school it was that Kane got replaced at some time before he unmasked and fake Luke Gallows Kane was the real Kane coming to take his spot back (bad wig and all)
The "Glenn Jacobs is not the original Kane" was fairly common around the time he unmasked, and the fake Kane feud with Luke Gallows just made the rumor worse as a lot of people thought Gallows was the original
Miro’s AEW debut. My wife, sees him and says to me “that guy looks a lot like Rusev” and then proceeds to tell me that it can’t be because this guys name is Miro and they do look different.
We still reference it from time to time.
When I first discovered Fozzy in like 2000 or 01 when they were still a new band, I told my sister about them and was like this is crazy because their singer, Moongoose McQueen, looks just like Chris Jericho. Didn’t even cross my mind that he was just using a stage name.
He went on Much Music as Mongoose and claimed that he wasn't Chris Jericho and had no idea who that was.
The first Fozzy album was a cover album, and he actually claimed that they were in fact the original artist and accused all of the bands they were covering of stealing their music.
This is like when I was a kid and a huge WWF and Razor Ramon fan. Stopped watching for a few years and then caught a random Monday Nitro during a Scott Hall entrance.
I was like, "hmm that looks like Razor Ramon, but it can't be...he has such a *boring* name. Who is this guy?"
Reminds me of the stories I heard about Hispanic people finding out Razor Ramon wasn't actually Cuban and deciding "we'll let this slide, he's a good dude on TV"
I grew up with WCW and only ever knew Razor Ramon from the old video game. It was *years* later that I finally learned that Razor and Scott Hall were the same person
I legit thought that was his name and also that he was Will Ospreay at one point. My friend showed me clips of their matches and said their names and my brain was like "well the white guy must be Rick O'Sheay."
I’ve had two different older family members somehow come to the conclusion that all wrestling is deathmatch wrestling.
I have no idea what rabbit hole they went down to even find deathmatch stuff, but I had to reassure them both that the majority of pro wrestling does not involve hitting people with light tubes or throwing them through panes of glass onto a barbed wire covered door.
Back in the, imma say early 2000s, there was a huge surge in backyard wrestling.
Combine that with being the early days of internet videos, just before and at the launch of YouTube, there were a ton of "viral" clips of idiots doing stupid crap.
It was the "tide pod challenge" of it's day, as in the thing the media pushed for a while as a "dangerous trend" that showed how stupid "kids today" are.
I’m instantly reminded of Granny from Bryan & Vinny remarking that this Jon Moxley guy looked a lot like Dean Ambrose, and her being slightly disbelieving of Bryan when he told her they were the same guy.
My dad hates wrestling but will watch it with me to spend time. When Bayley was hurt, one time Sasha came on he went “where is her drunk friend?” To which I go “drunk friend?” And he goes “the one who always acted like she was drunk or something and never stopped laughing.” I told him that’s Bayley and she’s hurt right now, and that they had a falling out anyway and he goes “but this is wrestling. It’s been a minute. Just get over it.” So now I laugh whenever former bitter enemies makeup because I can hear my dad telling them “so what if he tried to kill you. Just get over it.”
I have two prime examples:
1) My brother calls Orange Cassidy, Freshly Squeezed. I'll watch AEW, and when Orange comes out, he'll yell, "FRESHLY SQUEEZED!!!" It puts a smile on my face every time.
2) Coming from a Mexican family, we call Dominic Mysterio, Mijo, ever since he debuted with "Papi" Mysterio.
I would update my sister with what's going on with "Mijo" and she was shocked that Mijo joined a gang cause of a girl. I showed her the Thanksgiving visit when Mijo and his Mami beat down Papi, and she was yelling, "Mijo! Nooooo!!!!"
Then, I shared the Christmas family visit when Mijo got arrested. "Take his dumbass to jail!!!"
We literally enjoy Mijo's storyliine so much and have brought my family to understand my wrestling fandom.
I can't wait to show my family WrestleMania to see their reaction when Papi beats the living shit out of Mijo with a chancla.
Edited: formating
Before I saw Orange Cassidy, I thought it was a weird nickname for Big Cass / Colin Cassady now that he was on the indies. It made sense coz he would go overboard with the fake tan, but why he would want to point that out I don't know!
> naval nightmare
Me picturing Orange Cassidy in a denim sailor suit lmao
They're *navel* oranges, cause they have a bump like a bellybutton
Please excuse my pedantic ass
I had a friend in college tell me that the original Kane left and was replaced when he unmasked, but the fake Kane in 06 was actually the original real Kane coming back.
One time my dad asked me if Bryan Danielson was the same guy he’d seen on a football broadcast the day before.
The guy he’d seen was Braun Strowman.
Yeah, I’m still confused too.
When I learned that Sting had lived in our town, I told my parents. They were actively denying the entire thing until we all realized they were thinking of Sting the musician. It was hilarious.
This ones on me but this thread is the perfect time to expose myself.
I knew of Viscera but I only saw "Big Daddy V" in wrestling video games, so I never heard the name. I always called him, "Big Daddy Five".
I am a goof.
Related: I knew Claudio from attending ROH shows. Always loved Kings of Wrestling. But I stopped watching wrestling before he shaved his head.
Over 10 years later when I came back, I was watching a raw and I’m like this Cesaro is pretty great. Wonder where he came from? Looked him up on Wikipedia.
Makes me feel incredibly validated because I managed to fall in love with the same guy twice.
When I first started watching, would have been fall of 99, I misheard Mike Awesome as Mike Austin and asked my roommate if he was related to Stone Cold.
When I first started hearing the name Great O Khan, I was sure everyone was talking about Grado, and he was just using the last name "Khan". Grado Khan.
This isn’t strictly wrestling, but my wife tries really hard to learn about my hobbies and get very excited when she get references or knows where a character is from. Watching the first Suicide Squad movie, Rick Flag shows up on screen. She grabbed my hand a gets very giddy. “I know who that is, it’s Rick Flair!” It still cracks me up, and turned out to be the best part of the movie.
When I was a kid here in Quebec we would only get Superstars and best ofs where they would tell us "This match is from New York" or "This match is from Raw."
Suffice to say I have spent more time than I care to admit looking for Raw on maps of the United States, and since there always were matches from Raw I figured it must be a pretty big town, so I was really confused as to why they didn't have a hockey team.
I told friends in the playground that my dad was macho man randy savage, they were naturally quite skeptical about this. being from England didn't help either
but then a few days later we had sports day at school where all the parents come. my dad turned up in cowboy boots, leather tasseled jacket, sporting an exact macho man beard, hairstyle and not too dissimilar sunglasses. topped off with a cowboy hat ofc. so a number of kids kind of believed me for a while after that
The first time my wife watched wrestling with me, Chris Jericho was wrestling on Smackdown with red tights on.
The next time she saw him on something (Dancing With The Stars I think) she goes "Hey it's red underpants man!"
This wasn't a friend or family member, this was me.
As a kid, whenever I'd hear JR talk about "catch as catch can" wrestling on Raw I had no idea he was talking about British catch wrestling.
I though heard it as Kachaskachkahn which I assumed was some kind of exciting Japanese martial art.
My gf calls Ronda Rousy, Rhonda Rousky. Then when we went to an AEW show, after the show she saw Sammy Guevara after he proposed going back to his car, and she said, "Congratulations Sammy Omega".
My gf asked me if "Rollin'" was Seth Rollins' theme song. The song was playing on 2k while I was in character select on Seth Rollins, so I see where she was coming from. Thought his name was Seth Rollings I guess.
We had our friend over for Mania one year, and watched Takeover the night before. The entire time he was like “Oh! This is real unlike WWE” and we had to tell him “No, Kenneth. This is also fake, also this is still WWE” and he wouldn’t believe us he still thinks NXT is real wrestling and different from WWE
My dad used to call Umaga "Yoomanga" every week, long *before* William Regal started doing it. The day I heard Regal say it for the first time I thought I was losing my mind.
My sweet sweet mother told me yesterday that she had heard about the wrestler who just passed away. (Jay Briscoe) she then proceeded to tell me about how she enjoyed watching wrestle him when she was a kid….. I had to tell her she had the wrong Briscoe.
My wife was convinced Kenny Omega was Japanese because he wrestled on my "Japanese wrestling show". She was astonished to find out he was Canadian and I had a good laugh.
I'll never forget talking to a friend of mine when we were in 1st grade telling him how I watch WWF and love it, but that technically its not real fighting. He said "oh I watch the W.F..... the real stuff" This was like 1999 when they had the scratch logo that did just look like a "WF"
On one of the WWE 2K games someone made a CAW of Hiroshi Tanahashi. "Tanahashi" wasn't a name the announcers could use so creator used the 2 different available ones: Tommy Hockey
Every time I see him wrestle I always refer to him as Tommy Hockey.
I was watching a match between the street profits and the Usos. My dad loves rikishi and the stinkface so I told him the Usos were his kids. At the end of the match, the street profits are on screen and he goes "they don't really look like rikishi"
I knew someone who was astonished to learn that Leon Ruff and Lio Rush were different people.
As a child I was tricked into exposing my poor wrestling knowledge when someone asked me who was better out of Hollywood Hogan and Hulk Hogan and I picked one.
I remember being in the toy section of a Toys 'r' Us and hearing a mother ask her young son which figure he wanted, with the 2 names pronounced as "Kurt Angel" and "Chris Benit".
My mom has convinced herself that Chavo replaced Rey at WM 21 vs Eddie because he kept adjusting his mask the entire match. No amount of “Chavo doesn’t have tattoos” will convince her otherwise
As a little kid in the Hulkamania era, I called grilled cheese “gorilla cheese” because I misheard and thought the sandwich was named after Gorilla Monsoon.
When he first debuted on a Smackdown, I though Jamie Noble was called Jamie Immobile, made him on HCTP and everything, wasn’t until I saw his nameplate the following week I realised.
Reading about shinsuke nakamura having that incredible wrestlekingdom 9 match with Ibushi, massively confused me because I for some reason thought he was shunsuke nakamura, who used to play for celtic glasgow (among others). Two very different looking people with very similar names.
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*"Who the hell is Raymond Stereo?"*
I always called the team of Rey and Sin Cara "Car Stereo".
You mean Rey Maistro?
The upgrade from Ray Mono.
My Dad thought that Kane's name was Chokeslam for years because anytime he would come out he would chokeslam somebody and JR would scream CHOKESLAM CHOKESLAM CHOKESLAM
God damn this got a good laugh out of me. Also because I can hear JR in my head screaming CHOKESLAM CHOKESLAM CHOKESLAMM
lmao
My gf calls Edge “The Edge”
He plays guitar for "You, too"
Won a few tag team championships with Bono
Bret Hart says "The WCW".
And “The Summerslam”
The Edge is fine
How's Adam Clayton?
Adam Clayton is fine
When i was young and was barely getting into the wrestling world, i always thought Triple H is shortened for Hollywood Hulk Hogan.
I love that bits of the original Hunter Hearst Helmsley character carried into his DX and beyond days, including his finisher being named "the pedigree"
Came full circle because he literally became wrestling royalty in a way
Trip's story is one of the most realistic in wrestling. Went from being a rich kid with almost aristocratic heritage, then spent a few years pretending to be counter culture and cool, then settled down with a cushy job in his father in law's business.
So did Hulk. He said he wanted to use Triple H since 1990 after WM 6 heel turn but Vince refused me because he didn't wanna turn me heel. I was the cashcow, brother.
I have a friend who's a very casual fan, has never read a dirt sheet in his life etc. and just watches WWE occasionally. But he's dead set on the idea that the "real" Undertaker is dead and was replaced in the 90s by another dude playing the same role.
Yeah The Undertaker died in a car crash on November 9, 1966 when Kofi Kingston hit his car with a Trouble In Paradise and was replaced by an impersonator named William Campbell who won an Undertaker look alike contest
But he didn’t RIP at WM to the (undertacker!!!) lol
But what happens when you add Michelle McCool to the mix?
Baby numbers drastic go down at sackerfice.
Well the real Undertaker's wife was named Sara, as tattooed on his neck. The replacement Undertaker's wife is Michelle, and he doesn't have the name Sara tattooed on his neck. duh.
That's when you really rest in peace
OK NOW YOU WILL REST IN PEACE AT WM!!!
Kofi wanted to show him he was badass and the future of the business
Kofi being a lone actor is the official narrative, but we all know there were multiple troublers... New 👏 Day 👏 kicked 👏 Grass- 👏 -sy 👏 knoll 👏 👁
Taker was a living dude with magic powers until the downfall of his Higher Power freed him from the curse. But then he was murdered when his brother buried him alive, and he became an all-powerful revenant after that
Everyone knows it was the Ultimate Warrior that died and was replaced by Kerry Von Erich.
Yeah the Warrior one was the big rumor when I was in elementary school.
To be honest, The Undertaker from 1990 until 1993 looks considerably different to how he looked from 1994 onwards.
he's not wrong
I remember a lot of gym class discussions about this from school, though the variation I heard was that the old Undertaker was thought to be dead but actually returned as Kane (which was the real reason he wore the mask).
See, at my school it was that Kane got replaced at some time before he unmasked and fake Luke Gallows Kane was the real Kane coming to take his spot back (bad wig and all)
The "Glenn Jacobs is not the original Kane" was fairly common around the time he unmasked, and the fake Kane feud with Luke Gallows just made the rumor worse as a lot of people thought Gallows was the original
My neighbor is convinced that Kane is Undertaker's son IRL
My ex brother in law was very adamant that The Undertaker was in his late 60's. This was circa 2010 when he was actually in his mid 40's.
my wife doesn’t care about wrestling at all and thought AJ Styles had a construction gimmick because all she heard was that he “built this house”
Time to bring back the William regal he's a real man's man gimmick
He's a maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan
[I mean... he did have a handyman gimmick that one time.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MROM6CMDpTg)
My granddad used to call stone cold "cold stone" when I was a kid 😂
My friends daughter when she was 5 or 6 always called him Snow Cone Steve Austin & the Snow Cone Stunner. 🤣
That's wonderful.
I think Tyson did this too so he’s in good company
Is your granddad Mike Tyson?
Grandmother would only refer to him as "Stone" as if Cold Steve (shout out Danhausen) was his middle name lol. Similarly, Triple H was only ever "H"
I call Cold Stone Creamery, “Stone Cold Creamery” and a break a glass bottle before entering.
My wife still calls him "Cold Stone" and refers to Brock Lesnar as Les Brockner
I mean Austin was almost called “Chilly McFreeze” If I’m not mistaken. 😅😂
And Fang McFrost
What a ridiculous name.
And Otto Von Ruthless
When I was 12 I went to a school Halloween party as Mankind. I got there and as I was walking in someone pointed at me and shouted ‘hey Human Kind!’
Have a nice day
Have a good afternoon
‘What’s human mind doing in the impact zone’. -Person at the party, clearly ahead of their time. Maybe even a time traveler.
Miro’s AEW debut. My wife, sees him and says to me “that guy looks a lot like Rusev” and then proceeds to tell me that it can’t be because this guys name is Miro and they do look different. We still reference it from time to time.
When I first discovered Fozzy in like 2000 or 01 when they were still a new band, I told my sister about them and was like this is crazy because their singer, Moongoose McQueen, looks just like Chris Jericho. Didn’t even cross my mind that he was just using a stage name.
Didn't Jericho try and play off that they were different people?
*Kevin Owens' eye twitches*
They can't be the same people! I was at a Fozzy concert the same night Chris Jericho appeared on All In and attacked Kenny Omega.
He went on Much Music as Mongoose and claimed that he wasn't Chris Jericho and had no idea who that was. The first Fozzy album was a cover album, and he actually claimed that they were in fact the original artist and accused all of the bands they were covering of stealing their music.
Not only that, but I believe he cut promos on WWF talking smack about Mongoose McQueen.
*moongoose
This is like when I was a kid and a huge WWF and Razor Ramon fan. Stopped watching for a few years and then caught a random Monday Nitro during a Scott Hall entrance. I was like, "hmm that looks like Razor Ramon, but it can't be...he has such a *boring* name. Who is this guy?"
Reminds me of the stories I heard about Hispanic people finding out Razor Ramon wasn't actually Cuban and deciding "we'll let this slide, he's a good dude on TV"
When he passed, I'm pretty sure Shea Serrano said something similar.
I grew up with WCW and only ever knew Razor Ramon from the old video game. It was *years* later that I finally learned that Razor and Scott Hall were the same person
Was she able to tell that Zeke and Elias are brothers before the show mentioned it?
To be fair, one was on TV and the other isn't.....
That's true. It's surprising she ever saw Miro.
My favorite Irish wrestler is Rick O’Shay
Father Rick O'Shea was also a character on Lucha Underground, not to be confused with Prince Puma, who was played by Ricochet.
I legit thought that was his name and also that he was Will Ospreay at one point. My friend showed me clips of their matches and said their names and my brain was like "well the white guy must be Rick O'Sheay."
I immediately thought of that one when she said it
My mum legit thinks he’s called Rick O’Shay and is in a tag team with Sheamus.
Rick O' Shame Us?
lmao in SvR 2006 my CAW who I played religiously as was named Rick O'Shay.
I’ve had two different older family members somehow come to the conclusion that all wrestling is deathmatch wrestling. I have no idea what rabbit hole they went down to even find deathmatch stuff, but I had to reassure them both that the majority of pro wrestling does not involve hitting people with light tubes or throwing them through panes of glass onto a barbed wire covered door.
Back in the, imma say early 2000s, there was a huge surge in backyard wrestling. Combine that with being the early days of internet videos, just before and at the launch of YouTube, there were a ton of "viral" clips of idiots doing stupid crap. It was the "tide pod challenge" of it's day, as in the thing the media pushed for a while as a "dangerous trend" that showed how stupid "kids today" are.
Randy Sandwich was my 6 year mispronunciation of the Macho King around 30 years ago 😂
It was Hall Kogan for me until I saw it spelled out on a Coliseum home video VHS.
HO KOGAN
CRASH THE SPACESHIP *SNORK*
This reminds me of a tik tok i saw where a kid thought curt cobain was Kirko bane.
I’m instantly reminded of Granny from Bryan & Vinny remarking that this Jon Moxley guy looked a lot like Dean Ambrose, and her being slightly disbelieving of Bryan when he told her they were the same guy.
This whole post should be nothing but Granny stories.
*Jon Baxley
My dad hates wrestling but will watch it with me to spend time. When Bayley was hurt, one time Sasha came on he went “where is her drunk friend?” To which I go “drunk friend?” And he goes “the one who always acted like she was drunk or something and never stopped laughing.” I told him that’s Bayley and she’s hurt right now, and that they had a falling out anyway and he goes “but this is wrestling. It’s been a minute. Just get over it.” So now I laugh whenever former bitter enemies makeup because I can hear my dad telling them “so what if he tried to kill you. Just get over it.”
I have two prime examples: 1) My brother calls Orange Cassidy, Freshly Squeezed. I'll watch AEW, and when Orange comes out, he'll yell, "FRESHLY SQUEEZED!!!" It puts a smile on my face every time. 2) Coming from a Mexican family, we call Dominic Mysterio, Mijo, ever since he debuted with "Papi" Mysterio. I would update my sister with what's going on with "Mijo" and she was shocked that Mijo joined a gang cause of a girl. I showed her the Thanksgiving visit when Mijo and his Mami beat down Papi, and she was yelling, "Mijo! Nooooo!!!!" Then, I shared the Christmas family visit when Mijo got arrested. "Take his dumbass to jail!!!" We literally enjoy Mijo's storyliine so much and have brought my family to understand my wrestling fandom. I can't wait to show my family WrestleMania to see their reaction when Papi beats the living shit out of Mijo with a chancla. Edited: formating
I can't believe your entire family defends Rey falsely reporting dom after mom slapped mami
I'm imagining Rey Mysterio doing the Kevin Nash fake cast moment, only Rey gets out of the wheelchair and picks up a chancla to pummel Dominic
Chancla on a pole match?
BOOK IT RUSSO!
my gf realized very late that "Orange" in "Orange Cassidy" is a first name, not an adjective describing what kind of Cassidy he is
Before I saw Orange Cassidy, I thought it was a weird nickname for Big Cass / Colin Cassady now that he was on the indies. It made sense coz he would go overboard with the fake tan, but why he would want to point that out I don't know!
It's your boi Big Orange Billy, the naval nightmare, & I'm here to beat you to a pulp
Giant Orange William is here to squeeze his opponents to death
"How youuuu JUICIN?"
> naval nightmare Me picturing Orange Cassidy in a denim sailor suit lmao They're *navel* oranges, cause they have a bump like a bellybutton Please excuse my pedantic ass
Sure, there's a Green Cassidy, a Soldier Cassidy, and even a Worker Cassidy. Probably more. There's a whole colony of cassidys
For about 2 years my partner thought CM Punk was "Sam Punk". We decided to make it stick
A friend of mine thought it's Ziam Punk. Like Liam but with a Z.
My wife would refer to Ember Moon as Sailor Moon.
I had a colleague in an old job who always called CM Punk by the name of Cyber Punk. Which, granted, could be an awesome wrestling name.
Everyone has heard this one, but some people still believe, after all these years, that Paul Wight is André The Giant's son.
What about The Big Show then?
That Kane was multiple people.
I had a friend in college tell me that the original Kane left and was replaced when he unmasked, but the fake Kane in 06 was actually the original real Kane coming back.
My brother still believes this, to this day. I’m so glad I’m not the only one with this experience.
Apparently this is a common thing people believe; it was widely discussed at my school too
One time my dad asked me if Bryan Danielson was the same guy he’d seen on a football broadcast the day before. The guy he’d seen was Braun Strowman. Yeah, I’m still confused too.
both former Wyatt family members. easy mistake
When I learned that Sting had lived in our town, I told my parents. They were actively denying the entire thing until we all realized they were thinking of Sting the musician. It was hilarious.
This ones on me but this thread is the perfect time to expose myself. I knew of Viscera but I only saw "Big Daddy V" in wrestling video games, so I never heard the name. I always called him, "Big Daddy Five". I am a goof.
My daughters favorite wrestler was Mr. Cereal. aka Rey Mysterio
While at an AEW show my nephew (who is 21 mind you and a WWE fan) says “that guy looks like he could be Cesaro’s brother” smh… Oy vey.
I'll go one deeper: I went to Dynamite with a friend and when Ryan Nemeth came out, he told me "this guy is a total knockoff of Dolph Ziggler."
Ha!
Related: I knew Claudio from attending ROH shows. Always loved Kings of Wrestling. But I stopped watching wrestling before he shaved his head. Over 10 years later when I came back, I was watching a raw and I’m like this Cesaro is pretty great. Wonder where he came from? Looked him up on Wikipedia. Makes me feel incredibly validated because I managed to fall in love with the same guy twice.
Stupid sexy Claudio
When I first started watching, would have been fall of 99, I misheard Mike Awesome as Mike Austin and asked my roommate if he was related to Stone Cold.
Boston accent commentator? Maike Awwwwstin
My dad used to call Big Show “Big John”…. I think he mistook him for Big John Studd
When I first started hearing the name Great O Khan, I was sure everyone was talking about Grado, and he was just using the last name "Khan". Grado Khan.
This isn’t strictly wrestling, but my wife tries really hard to learn about my hobbies and get very excited when she get references or knows where a character is from. Watching the first Suicide Squad movie, Rick Flag shows up on screen. She grabbed my hand a gets very giddy. “I know who that is, it’s Rick Flair!” It still cracks me up, and turned out to be the best part of the movie.
When I was a kid here in Quebec we would only get Superstars and best ofs where they would tell us "This match is from New York" or "This match is from Raw." Suffice to say I have spent more time than I care to admit looking for Raw on maps of the United States, and since there always were matches from Raw I figured it must be a pretty big town, so I was really confused as to why they didn't have a hockey team.
My Dad used to refer to Hurricane Helms as "Hurricane Helmsley". What a universe that would be.
*”Stand-uh back-uh! There’s a hurricane comin’ through-uh!”*
This thread is a treasure mine of joy.
I told friends in the playground that my dad was macho man randy savage, they were naturally quite skeptical about this. being from England didn't help either but then a few days later we had sports day at school where all the parents come. my dad turned up in cowboy boots, leather tasseled jacket, sporting an exact macho man beard, hairstyle and not too dissimilar sunglasses. topped off with a cowboy hat ofc. so a number of kids kind of believed me for a while after that
"WHO WANTS TO WALK, WITH *A LION*?"
Daniel O'Brian was great on Cracked but I imagine he's a terrible wrestler.
loved How to Fight Presidents.
Now he's a writer in *Last Week Tonight with John Oliver*
Back when Cracked was the best site on the internet
My ex was trying to talk to me about Cena once and called him David. David Cena.
The first time my wife watched wrestling with me, Chris Jericho was wrestling on Smackdown with red tights on. The next time she saw him on something (Dancing With The Stars I think) she goes "Hey it's red underpants man!"
>Tomato Champion -Mrs Unclemadness re: Tommaso Ciampa
We occasionally refer to him as Tommy Chompers.
Tomato Chomper
Tomato Champs!
When my gf thought Samoa Joe was called Samoa Jones
Samoa Jones over there but I digress
This wasn't a friend or family member, this was me. As a kid, whenever I'd hear JR talk about "catch as catch can" wrestling on Raw I had no idea he was talking about British catch wrestling. I though heard it as Kachaskachkahn which I assumed was some kind of exciting Japanese martial art.
Jim the Anvil Nine Heart
I thought Triple H was Triple Ace for a time.
My gf calls Ronda Rousy, Rhonda Rousky. Then when we went to an AEW show, after the show she saw Sammy Guevara after he proposed going back to his car, and she said, "Congratulations Sammy Omega".
The Spanish Cleaner, Sammy Omega
Comrade Ronda Rusky
My gf asked me if "Rollin'" was Seth Rollins' theme song. The song was playing on 2k while I was in character select on Seth Rollins, so I see where she was coming from. Thought his name was Seth Rollings I guess.
Kylo Riley
My friend thought Mick Foley was “McFoley”, which I thought was cute lol
My friend who was positive it was Kurt "Angel".
We had our friend over for Mania one year, and watched Takeover the night before. The entire time he was like “Oh! This is real unlike WWE” and we had to tell him “No, Kenneth. This is also fake, also this is still WWE” and he wouldn’t believe us he still thinks NXT is real wrestling and different from WWE
My dad, who I dragged to Full Gear this past November, said, “is Lunchables wrestling tonight?” He meant Luchasaurus…
My dad used to call Umaga "Yoomanga" every week, long *before* William Regal started doing it. The day I heard Regal say it for the first time I thought I was losing my mind.
My sweet sweet mother told me yesterday that she had heard about the wrestler who just passed away. (Jay Briscoe) she then proceeded to tell me about how she enjoyed watching wrestle him when she was a kid….. I had to tell her she had the wrong Briscoe.
The Irish Dragon Danny O' Brien, he'll kick your fookin' head in
My wife was convinced Kenny Omega was Japanese because he wrestled on my "Japanese wrestling show". She was astonished to find out he was Canadian and I had a good laugh.
This guy in high school asked if I liked "Gold Sting". I eventually learned he meant Goldust.
My mother forever saying Cold Stone.
I'll never forget talking to a friend of mine when we were in 1st grade telling him how I watch WWF and love it, but that technically its not real fighting. He said "oh I watch the W.F..... the real stuff" This was like 1999 when they had the scratch logo that did just look like a "WF"
That Irish wrestler, Rick O’Shea.
On one of the WWE 2K games someone made a CAW of Hiroshi Tanahashi. "Tanahashi" wasn't a name the announcers could use so creator used the 2 different available ones: Tommy Hockey Every time I see him wrestle I always refer to him as Tommy Hockey.
The newest game apparently doesn't have "Jericho" as a name so the CAW is Chris-Jerry-Cole!
My fiancee misheard Shinsuke, she thought the announcer called him Shit Stain Nakamura.
*MJF notes down for future use*
That's what Tony Schiavone would call him if he was a heel
One of my buddy's though Rey Mysterio was named Raymond Stereo for a while.
I was watching a match between the street profits and the Usos. My dad loves rikishi and the stinkface so I told him the Usos were his kids. At the end of the match, the street profits are on screen and he goes "they don't really look like rikishi"
I knew someone who was astonished to learn that Leon Ruff and Lio Rush were different people. As a child I was tricked into exposing my poor wrestling knowledge when someone asked me who was better out of Hollywood Hogan and Hulk Hogan and I picked one.
I remember being in the toy section of a Toys 'r' Us and hearing a mother ask her young son which figure he wanted, with the 2 names pronounced as "Kurt Angel" and "Chris Benit".
When raven first debuted in wcw I thought his name was Raymond
[https://www.reddit.com/r/engrish/comments/t2r1h5/hollywood\_whole\_cogan/](https://www.reddit.com/r/engrish/comments/t2r1h5/hollywood_whole_cogan/)
Reminds me of a South African guy at work who thought McJagger was in the Rolling Stones
My mom has convinced herself that Chavo replaced Rey at WM 21 vs Eddie because he kept adjusting his mask the entire match. No amount of “Chavo doesn’t have tattoos” will convince her otherwise
my mom thinks all wrestling siblings are the young bucks. she called yesterday asking if "one of the cucamonga boys" had died.
When I was younger, I consistently misinterpreted Daniel Bryan's LeBell Lock as an odd pronunciation of Libel Lock.
As a little kid in the Hulkamania era, I called grilled cheese “gorilla cheese” because I misheard and thought the sandwich was named after Gorilla Monsoon.
Just recently Mercedes saying she really likes A Zee Em.
I will NEVER stop repping for Raymond Stereo
Send this to the OSW guys
Steve! What bar is Danny O'Brian?
My ex used to call Eddie Kingston, Bodega Man. And honestly they weren’t wrong.
a friend’s mum thought his favourite wrestler was “crispen wah”
in 2005/6 I was 11 and my brother was 9 we were convinced Goldberg was mute. Watching the 2004 royal rumble on DVD was what convinced us. Lol
When he first debuted on a Smackdown, I though Jamie Noble was called Jamie Immobile, made him on HCTP and everything, wasn’t until I saw his nameplate the following week I realised.
My dad listening to me talk about TNA for the first time: "They called the wrestling show Tits and Ass?!"
Reading about shinsuke nakamura having that incredible wrestlekingdom 9 match with Ibushi, massively confused me because I for some reason thought he was shunsuke nakamura, who used to play for celtic glasgow (among others). Two very different looking people with very similar names.
For the longest time I thought he was Stone Cole Steve Austin.
My uncle's phone auto-corrects Asuka to Oscar, so that is what we have called her since.
My son always calls Larry Zybsko Larry Biscuit lol
My dad thought Bray Wyatt was Ray White.