When I saw Drew in 2018 during a house show. I yelled “DREW GALLOWAY!” On the top of my lungs. He looked into the crowd and smiled. I’ll never forget that.
@@roguebanshee That would be the name of the evil real estate developer who wants to bulldoze the nerdy kids’ camp, and the nerdy kids have to win a kayak race or something to save it.
Once met Drew McIntyre's Papa when delivering furniture to his house. Got a good 30 minute convo with the man and I've never seen a man so proud of his grandson. Photos of Drew in a Glasgow Rangers tops everywhere. "Wrestling and Rangers, they've always been his loves"
fun fact: Jericho recounted a tale on WWE Story time (when are getting MORE WWE?) where he wrestled on a late night Lucha show in mexico where an audience poll decided his name should be Leon De Oro (The Golden Lion)....the other options were Chris Power and He-Man
Nope. Moxy is a word that means "courageous spirit and determination; perseverance". Hence, Moxy became Moxley. (The more you know) Today's lesson has been brought to you by the letters A,E &W.
@@bekindtoanimals2189 I like Moxley too but I think Johnny Good sounds like a great name for irony. Plus, his stable names could be clever like the Good Boys or the Good Crew or the Good Brothers... oh wait
Funny story about Drew. “McIntyre” was my great grandma’s maiden name, and so when Drew started wrestling she always joked he was our distant cousin since her side of the family was originally from Ayr, Scotland.
The CM in "CM Punk" isn't an acronym, it's an initialism. An acronym isn't just any old set of initials, it's a set of initials that's pronounced as a word, like NASA or UNICEF. If you did that with CM Punk's name he'd be called... you know what, never mind.
I’ve always wondered how John Cena was able to use his real name even though he didn’t come from a Wrestling Family or had a decorated combat sports background
Based on the interview he gave on Howard Stern many years back where he confirmed that (at least at that time) WWE gets a cut of his earnings in non-WWE projects while using his real name... that's probably how That said, I do like the mental image of him just telling Vince that "John Cena" was the ring name he was considering and Vince liked it
@@Zomburai45 If you would have told me that John Cena was a ring name, I'd believe it. There's something about Cena as a last name that feels very wrestling and made up, despite being real. Same with a few other wrestler names, like Mick Foley and, while they changed the spelling, Rick Rood/Rude.
@@TheRealAhoy The interesting thing about that is John Cena is actually the first ever reverse second generation star. His dad became a promoter after John made it to the WWE.
The very first wrestling show I did involved a tournament that the promoter wanted on the poster with all the wrestlers in it, however only a few of us had ring names already. When he phoned up one of the guys he'd just finished a 12 hour shift and just wanted to go to bed. When asked what he would be called the only thing that immediately came to mind was the film Lethal Weapon which he'd recently watched, however the only name he could properly remember was that of the female lead Rene Russo. So Rene Russo he became.
@@dominoepthat would certainly have been cooler. What made it worse was that he decided to wrestle in Pink Bermuda Shorts too , oh and Wolf from the British version of Gladiators was guest ring announcer and mocked him so much.
To be fair, René is a name of French origin that can be given to males or females. René is the masculine spelling, while Renée is the feminine spelling. A male pro wrestler that comes to mind is former WWE star René Dupree. So I don't see how the mocking from the ring announcer was warranted.
A note about the Awesome Kong one. Aja Kong had left Arsion the year before and Zenjo was "teasing" her return by advertising upcoming matches with an A. Kong on the card. Of course, it turned out to be Amazing Kong and Aja never came back to Zenjo before they closed. Also, they considered Awesome Kong as her name before deciding that it was easier for Japanese people to say Amazing.
Jon Moxley has been Jon Moxley since the beginning of his career. I was there when he won his first ever championship as a tag team in HWA in 2005 and he was Jon Moxley then.
Funny that Christian Cage named himself after Nic Cage considering Nic Cage is an assumed name as well. Nic Coppola started using Cage, named for Luke Cage aka Marvel's Power Man.
Glad to hear Awesome Kong receiving her kudos, she's my favorite female wrestler of all time cause she was the first women i ever saw not as she was "good for a woman" but she was great, period
There was a short time in Chicagoland where the LWF was kind of a big deal even after punk. But like most Indy’s it died of infighting and money issues.
Kia also famously appeared on the one of the first seasons of mtvs tough enough til jim ross told her that she wouldn't fit in wwe as they wanted more eyecandy types . Wwe is known for trademarkumg names for merch n future royalty checks(torrie wilson, stacy kiebler, n many others used their real name) which made it hard when the wrestler was released(warraior n chyna) to perform under they former ring name so they changed their legal names to get around the trademark issue U forget there was a pamela in wrestling, pamela paulshock in wcw. Chyna was the first woman to be a mens title holder(followed by Jacqueline n several others)
My favorite thing about the Steamboat section is that there’s a lot of Japanese Americans in Hawaii so it wouldn’t be impossible for Sammy and Ricky to be related
I recall hearing that Austin was going to use the name Steve Williams, which was his legal name at the time, but that name was already taken by Dr. Death Steve Williams so he had to change it. It’s possible Mantell gave him the Austin name, but I’m pretty sure I heard it originally came from the Six Million Dollar Man show.
@@ErikLarson-l9k I thought the same thing, but I rewatched the Dutch interview, and he claims he came up with Austin because that's the town Steve's from. Personally, I like the six million dollar man story better 👍
Yes, the name "Steve Austin" does come from "The Six Million Dollar Man" TV movies and series, which could have subconsciously influenced Dutch to give Steve the last name "Austin" since the two parts of the name had worked and was recognizable, in the past. But "Williams" was definitely definitely dropped because of "Dr. Death". Also, "Steve Austin" does actually work out best for Mr. Steve Williams ("Stone Cold") considering the fact that he managed to work through injuries and surgeries as his career and popularity grew, making "The Bionic Redneck" nickname as, if not more, popular than the original "Bionic Man". It is funny how things are never deeper than necessity in the moment, become so much more important and serendipitous over time. Yeah, I know it really isn't that deep, but still funny how it feels that way 😂
Hey, hey, hey! If you’re gonna refer to Christian Cage as any of his monikers then you have to include “That Gay With The Blue Dot Over His Face”! Get it right Cultaholic!
yep, Pamela is a name that would only ever suit an old lady. No-one young with that name would ever get over with males aged 18-30. No one. Ever. Definitely no-one I can think of called Pamela that was ever a a pop culture icon or sex symbol.
I love your sarcasm LOL. Ironically you’re thinking of Pamela Anderson and I’m thinking of Pam Grier 😂 two beautiful sexually symbolic Pams for 2 demos.
4:05 - "Pamela is the name of an old lady" ... Wait, what? Literally the only famous "Pamela" I can think of is Pamela Anderson, one of the biggest sex symbols of the 90s lol.
Nope, me and a bunch of mates watched his SmackDown! debut live, we're from the same town and a few of them were in the same year as him at school so we were all well hyped that night.
So Christian choose the name Cage after a guy, who choose this name, cause he wanted to make it on it´s own and not as the cousin of director Francis Ford Coppola, which is also his real name. Nice.. lol.
There’s an extra level to Christian Cage - Nic Cage is a stage name too, his real name is Coppola (he’s Francis Ford Coppola’s nephew). Nic named himself after Marvel’s Luke Cage, as he’s always been a huge comics fan, but it does suggest we could have seen Christian Rogers, Stark, Xavier, etc, etc.
