The Great Muta Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Wrestling for me is all about the larger than life characters. To add something extra to a wrestler they sometimes get given a nickname to describe their character more clearly. Â Normally they are self explanatory like Jake 'The Snake' Roberts, Bret 'The Hitman' Hart, and the Heart Break Kid Shawn Michaels. Sometimes though, I struggle to grasp what the nicknames are trying to describe. Â Here are a few examples which I struggle with... Â 'The Game' HHH: Game as in what? Monopoly? Or is it Game as in what Hunters go after? I assume that this is referring to how dominant he is in the business and therefore personifies the whole 'game'...could be wrong though. How that goes hand in hand with looking like Sean Bean from Lord of the Rings is questionable though. (The Cerebral Assassin nickname is mint) Â 'Nature Boy' Ric Flair: I know that this nickname is iconic and now stuff of legend but I have always had a problem understanding what it's trying to say. Why would the character of an egotistical, millionaire playboy, have a nickname that would be better suited to somebody like David Attenborough? Â (The Bionic Redneck) Stone Cold Steve Austin: The Rattlesnake I get, Stone Cold I get, Beer Swilling Redneck I get... but Bionic Redneck? Is he a cyborg or something? Suggestions please! Â (The Brahma Bull) The Rock: Rock has awesome nicknames but I don't get this one. Yes I get the 'bull' bit and what it's suggesting but what the hell is Brahma? Â There are a few more but I'll leave it there for now. If you can help me out with further explanations of these I would much appreciate it. Â I also think it would be interesting to hear if anyone else has some suggestions of weird nicknames on here. Â Haven't seen a post like this so thought it could be fun. Â Discuss... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 5, 2011 Moderators Share Posted August 5, 2011 Steve Austin from the Six Million Dollar Man was the "Bionic Man", so Steve Austin the wrestler is a Bionic Redneck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
d-d-d-dAz Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 I'm constantly amazed by the amount of people stumped by Triple H's nickname. It's a fairly regular thing to claim ownership of, say, a whole sport as a boast isn't it? Â So, someone says 'oh, you're pretty good at football you are...', to which a prick could reply 'good at football? I AM football!' Â And, 'the game' is a fairly common generic phrase to describe anything. So 'wrestling' is The Game, and rather than just 'good at wrestling' he is wrestling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Your Fight Site Posted August 5, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted August 5, 2011 Is 'Brahma' not Hawaiian for 'Cool' or 'Rad' something? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopper Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 'The Game' HHH: Game as in what? Monopoly? Or is it Game as in what Hunters go after? I assume that this is referring to how dominant he is in the business and therefore personifies the whole 'game'...could be wrong though. Â Yeah, it all started with that angry promo he did with JR in 1999. Â When referring to people "at the top of their game" and expressions like the WWF Title being "the biggest prize in the game", he claimed he is more important and above all those things. He IS the game. Â Also, didn't Austin get some steel pins in his spine during his neck operation? That could tie in with being referred to as a Bionic Redneck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moofasa Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 HHH is the game as in don't hat the player hate the game. The game they're playing is wrestling. He is wrestling. Or soon will be. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members seph Posted August 5, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted August 5, 2011 "Booger Red", Undertaker's Nu-heel run, 2002/3(?). Explain that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopper Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 In what way is Heath Slater a "One Man Rock Band"? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pinc Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Also, didn't Austin get some steel pins in his spine during his neck operation? That could tie in with being referred to as a Bionic Redneck. Yeah I always thought 'Bionic Redneck' was a reference to Austin having been surgically 'rebuilt' like his namesake the '6-Million Dollar Man'. I'm quite sure that nickname wasn't used until he returned from his neck surgery towards the tail-end of 2000. Â 'The Game' is a boss nickname. Â 'Nature Boy' has always confused me as well, maybe one of the more historically knowledgable posters on the board could explain it's origin. I know Flair took the moniker from Buddy Landell who took it from Buddy Rogers before him. Did the two Buddys have flamboyant playboy gimmicks too? If so - what the fuck? Is it anything to do with the old Jazz song of the same name? You wouldn't necessarily think so from the lyrics - 'There was a boy, a very strange enchanted boy. They say he wandered very far.' Â I always thought Brahma Bull was a quasi-religious thing, 'Brahman' being the name of the sacred cow of Hinduism. It doesn't explain why The Rock would refer to himself as one though, since his only flirtation with any kind of religious gimmick (until his weird references to God in some of his Cena promos this year) was the N.O.D, which obviously began as an allusion to the Nation of Islam. Â Y2J has been a lame nickname since about the 2nd of January 2000. Jericho should've shifted to something else once the countdown entrance was no longer relevant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moderators PowerButchi Posted August 5, 2011 Moderators Share Posted August 5, 2011 I know Flair took the moniker from Buddy Landell  Other way around. Flair was Naitch before Landell had debuted as a wrestler. Landell is surprisingly young, to be honest. He's always looked about 60. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dopper Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 Flair copied the nickname from Buddy Rogers, not Landell. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members JNLister Posted August 5, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted August 5, 2011 Yep, Rogers took it from the song, which was big early in his career. I'm not sure if it was anything to do with the lyrics: it may just have been because the name sounded good as "Nature Boy Buddy Rogers" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Paid Members Teedy Kay Posted August 5, 2011 Paid Members Share Posted August 5, 2011 I always thought Brahma Bull was a quasi-religious thing, 'Brahman' being the name of the sacred cow of Hinduism. It doesn't explain why The Rock would refer to himself as one though, since his only flirtation with any kind of religious gimmick (until his weird references to God in some of his Cena promos this year) was the N.O.D, which obviously began as an allusion to the Nation of Islam. Â Isn't it as basic as the fact he's had a Tattoo of a Brahma Bull on his arm for donkeys years? And he once referred to it in a promo? Â Either that or it's because the Brahma Bull is one of the most impressive of bulls, as well as sounding cool. These cows are found all over America after being imported in from India Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Great Muta Posted August 5, 2011 Author Share Posted August 5, 2011 Ahh that's explained some of them! Thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moofasa Posted August 5, 2011 Share Posted August 5, 2011 [quote name) I know Flair took the moniker from Buddy Landell who took it from Buddy Rogers before him. Flair would love to hear this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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