Fan Nickname / Professional Wrestling

Wrestlers

• Ahmed Johnson
  • Punchy/The Sand Rippah - Taken from his gibberish promos in the WWF Warzone video game, where he shouts at the player, "IF YOU WANNA STAMP UP TO PUNCHY, BRINGUM TOYS! COZ THERE AIN'T NUFFIN' ON THIS URF THAT CAN SAVE YOU FROM THE SAND RIPPAH!"
• Alberto Del Rio
  • Juan Bradshaw Layfield - His initial gimmick is essentially the same as JBL's, complete with coming out to the ring in fancy car, as portrayed by a Mexican. Lampshaded by Christian shortly after Del Rio's debut.
  • Albert of the River - His name literally translated to English.
  • Latin No Heat - IWC nickname, referring to Del Rio's inability to generate heat.
  • El Cokehead del Knife Fight - Another, more derogatory IWC nickname, referring to Del Rio's often insane antics outside the wrestling ring.
• Anthony Nese
  • Mini-Masters as he looks like he's a twin of Chris Masters' who was separated at birth. Both have acknowledged the resemblance.
• Antonio Inoki
  • Chinoki, due to his famously prominent chin.
• Ashley Massaro
  • Trashley: Because of her punk rocker look.
• Asuka
  • Girlberg: Due to her long undefeated streak in NXT, which ended up surpassing Goldberg's.
• Baron Corbin
  • Borin(g) Corbin: Due to his simplistic style and dry personality.
  • Baldin(g) Corbin: he is noticeably balding on top.
  • Banter Corbin: Because he's fond of trash talk.
• Batista
  • Basketball Jones: Because "basketballs don't hold grudges". Coined by a WrestleCrap induction, and was forced by Triple Kelly, one of the website's writers.
  • Bluetista - After his all-blue attire, which was doubly noticeable because it clashed with his tag team's gear, at Payback 2014.
  • Bootista - Frequently all but booed out of the arena during his 2014 run for winning the Royal Rumble, not being Daniel Bryan, being pushed as a face when Daniel Bryan fans desperately to boo him for the previous (he quickly got a Heel Turn and the boos became a bit more good-natured), and being out of ring shape.
  • Botchtista - Had a reputation for botching a lot, especially during his 2014 run.
  • Dapper Dave - His first name is Dave and he often wears sharp pinstripe suits.
  • More commonly, simply "Big Dave", although that's more an in-character nickname bestowed upon him by Ric Flair. This can be confirmed as having taken root among the fandom, as famed wrestling reporter "Big" Dave Meltzer has been known to receive…interesting…e-mails and radio show calls from sadly confused Batista fangirls.
  • Douchetista: Heel Batista from 2009-2010, when he started acting like a colossal douche. Not exactly a bad thing, as fans found it very entertaining and were heard to remark that "Douchetista is the Bestista."
    • For some fans, Batista was like this for a lot of his face run, and only now he was targeting the good guys instead and turning the negative aspects that already existed up a notch.
• Big Bossman
  • WORST PERSON EVER - After his feuds in 1999 with Big Show and Al Snow.
• Big E. Langston
  • Ryblack - due to the similarities between him and Ryback.
  • Choc Lesnar - Langston's nickname coined by an unnamed fan coined it. Big E applauded that fan was being FAR more creative and original than the "Ryblack" crowd, as he thinks the latter is too on the nose and boring.
  • Some fans affectionately call him Titsuo, as a combo nod to his love of anime, (his Twitter address used to be @ShinigamE), and his rather.... prominent pectoral muscles.
  • To a lesser extent, Soulberg, due to his similarity to... you know who...
• Big Show
  • Big Slow / Pig Slow: Used whenever he is a heel, or particularly out of shape—Paul Wight's weight has fluctuated quite significantly over his career, and when he's at his heavier weights he tends to be noticeably slower; this has not been helped by his advancing age. Sometimes used in-canon by The Rock.
• Bill DeMott
  • Flying Warthog - Owing to his use of the moonsault as a finish and, um, unique appearance.
• Bobby Lashley
  • Blackberg, due to his physical similarities to Goldberg and usage of the Spear.
  • Similarly, Black Lesnar and Choc Lesnar, due to his physical similarities and oddly similar career path with Brock Lesnar. A less racially-charged variant was Brock Lashley or Brocky Lashley.
  • Smiling Bob - His name is Bob and he spent a lot of time on his 2018 WWE run smiling and being the same generic babyface he was on his first run with the company, much to the chagrin of those who enjoyed his indie run between WWE runs.
• Darren Young
  • Black Cena, due to his physical resemblance to John Cena. Became an Ascended Meme when Cena mentioned it on an episode of Raw.
• Bobby Roode
  • Bobby Rooooooo - According to the ring announcers. Popularized by Botchamania.
• Bret Hart
  • Bret "Hitman" Clark - See, Michael Buffer didn't really prepare for his WCW announcing gigs....
• Brian Lee
  • Though better known for his work in Tennessee and ECW as "Primetime"/"Bulldozer" Brian Lee, Lee might have achieved his highest level of exposure as "the Underfaker", for his portrayal of the fake Undertaker that The Undertaker fought at the 1994 SummerSlam.
• Brock Lesnar
  • Bane Lesnar, after getting his biggest victories over The Undertaker, Cena, and Reigns in their respective matches.
  • DIO Lesnar for being an Arch-Enemy of Cena and Reigns, his bad habit of using cheap tactics, blonde hair, sadism, and heelish actions in his second WWE run.
  • Eddie Brock Lesnar, not only for his appearance resembling the original Venom, Eddie Brock, but his real name is almost the same as the latter.
  • Bork Laser; this name was coined by Ebenezer Mittelsdorf (AKA sillySUPERPOP, kidlockdmh, or Grim) in GTS Wrestling as a parody of Brock Lesnar, complete with Western accent and a few catchphrases, now used to bypass copyrights on YouTube.
  • Brockberg, due to their similar physical abilities and that many fans felt he was being booked as just another Goldberg-style wrestler.
  • Vanilla Gorilla, particularly during his first few months in WWE since he never talked. Became ascended thanks to John Cena.
• Hardcore Holly
  • Bobcore Holly. Why? Well, his first name is Bob, and he wasn't hardcore (though he was renowned for stiffing and sandbagging rookies)—until he proved otherwise.
  • Baldcore Holly - Coined by Chris Jericho, due to Holly's noticeably receding hairline.
• Cesaro
  • King of Swing, for his freakish strength and duration when using the Giant Swing.
• Chris Benoit
  • Crispin WAH - A reference to the way Howard Finkel would pronounce his name.
  • He Who Must Not Be Named, You-Know-Who, Lord Voldemort, Tioneb Sirhc, Chr*s B*n**t, Chris [Redacted] - Referring to WWE's unwritten rule of avoiding naming or referencing him by any means possible since the Benoit tragedy.
    • As for the guy this nickname was originally for, oddly enough, he has his own, half-page entry in the recent WWE Encyclopedia. This became, by far, the most notable feature of the encyclopedia.
    • Further subverted when this statement appeared in a History of WWE magazine: "What about the Chris Benoit tragedy? We're two years removed - will there ever be a time when we can acknowledge him as part of WWE history?" Vince's response: "It's not right to pretend he didn't exist. It's one thing to include him as part of a historical perspective, which I believe is OK, and it's another thing to promote him, which is not OK. The situation is very similar to that of O.J. Simpson - despite his controversy, O.J. was still a part of the NFL scene. You can't deny that he existed."
    • Benoit footage can now be seen on WWE's streaming video service, the WWE Network, uncut, although it's preceded by a very prominent disclaimer, and his matches cannot he searched manually.
• Carlito Colón
  • The Body Guy\Bodyguylito - he's a very good looking man and early in his career he wore a wifebeater that he would tear off during matches. Commentators at Family Wrestling Entertainment and House Of Hardcore made these official.
• Cody Rhodes
  • Cody Von Doom, in his psycho gimmick where he felt his "dashing" face has been disfigured (despite that clearly not being the case) and wore a mask and hood to compensate. In other words, he became Doctor Doom. The mask even looked like Doom's, if Doom's were made of clear plastic—presumably by design, as Rhodes is a known comic book fan.
• Crash Holly
  • Elroy: After Chris Jericho repeatedly called him that due to his resemblance to Elroy Jetson. He was originally annoyed when fans chanted "El-Roy" at him, but he eventually embraced it.
    • Ascended. After Crash left the promotion, his signature taunts remained in the WWF Smackdown series for a few generations. Unwilling to continue using his name on them, the taunts were renamed "EL ROI 01" and such like.
• Daniel Bryan
  • Daniel Bryan Danielson or DBD - A portmanteau of the American Dragon's real and current WWE ring name due to his renaming ending up better than most.
  • AmDrag - His shorthand name, also from his time in the Indies, based off his original moniker "The American Dragon".
  • Bryan Dancingson - DBD has some awesome dance moves, as he demonstrated on Raw one week.
  • Fred Fredburger - YES!
  • Dirk Dickbutt - Before Danielson debuted as Daniel Bryan, there was a host of speculation as to what WWE would rename him. Somebody suggested this, and it snowballed from there.
  • GoatFace - Due to an insult by CM Punk on the June 11, 2012 episode of Raw which became an instant meme on Twitter. WWE took this and ran with it to the max, to the point where goats have become Bryan's Animal Motif and his diving headbutt, for example, has been nicknamed "The Flying Goat."
  • Mr. Small Package - Due to his tendency to get the winning pin with a Small Package roll-up.
• David Otunga
  • Carlton, due to his uncanny resemblance to a beefier Carlton Banks from The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air.
  • The Macchiato Mauler - A nickname given since he is often seen with a coffee thermos.
  • Also, "Attorney At Raw," and "Folgers Soldier".
  • Some have noted the connection with John Laurinaitis (the former Johnny Ace) and deemed him Ace's Attorney.
  • "Jennifer Hudsband", as coined by Corey Graves during the 2016 Survivor Series 5-on-5 traditional elimination tag team match between Team Raw and Team SmackDown Live while he was observing Seth Rollins' half-and-half t-shirt consisting of his own personal t-shirt on one half and Team RAW's t-shirt on the other. This is a reference to Otunga formerly being engaged to Jennifer Hudson.
• Drew McIntyre
  • D-Mac.
• Dusty Rhodes, "The American Dream"
  • Da Dweem / Duthhh-tay - Due to his speech impediment, if you weeel.
• E-jects - The various wrestlers who departed WWE (sometimes against their will) for TNA, and who are, for the most part, very vocal and bitter about their time spent in WWE (some of them justifiably so, some of them not).
• Eric Bischoff
  • Easy-E: Also Sleazy-E, owing both to his slimy on-air character and the alleged incident where he and his wife picked up a stripper for a threesome.
  • Uncle Eric: Coined by Mick Foley.
  • ATM Eric: Due to his lavish spending habits during his time in WCW, thanks to Ted Turner's money.
• Edge
  • SPEARSPEARSPEAR - Used to refer to his "ultimate opportunist" gimmick, which usually consists of Edge showing up when an opponent is weakened, looking deranged and ultimately using his finishing move, Spear, on the opponent. What really kickstarted the name was when he suffixed all of his sentences with "spear" in a promo with Chris Jericho. Spearspearspear.
• Evan Bourne
  • Evan Braun - Ozzy Osbourne's uniquely muddled pronunciation of Evan's name was adopted by many fans.
• Eve Torres
  • Hoeski: Coined by John Cena when calling her out on leading Zack Ryder to ruin and planning to do the same with him with her feminine wiles. It has become a popular crowd chant.
    John Cena: I lost a Broski for a Hoeski!
• Fandango
  • Tango Inferno - For his lower card treatment similar to Disco Inferno.
• Finn Bálor
  • Irish Fonzie - Just for his leather jacket.
• Heath Slater
  • The Ginger Ninja - Used by those who don't want to call him…
  • Wendy's Chick - A nickname coined by John Cena on an episode of Raw; a photoshop of Slater in the Wendy's logo accompanied it.
• Hulk Hogan
  • Hoke Hogan/Hoak Hogan/Ho Kogan - From the Ultimate Warrior's odd pronunciation of the Hulkster's ring name during promos.
  • The Orange Goblin - Coined by Inside Pulse's Scott Keith, in reference to the odd tone his skin takes on when he tans (which is all the time).
  • He was also fondly called "Immortal", thanks to his massive mainstream crossover popularity.
  • The Japanese took to calling him Ichiban, Japanese for "Number One" because of his impressive combination of size, strength, and ability.
• Ivory
  • The Schoolmarm Of Doom, during her stint with Right To Censor.
• Jack Swagger
  • Jack Thwagger: Jack hath a very notitheable lithp.
• Jeff Hardy
  • Chef Hardy, due to ring announcer Justin Roberts, and his bad habit of dragging out the pronunciation of Hardy's name a little too long.
  • Meth Hardy - Inspired by his well-known drug abuse issues; possibly coined by GTS Wrestling (see Bork Laser, above).
  • Jeff Harvey - One of the many, many screw-ups by former announcer Mike Adamle.
  • Skittles - Owing to his usually multi-coloured hair (and, in recent years, body paint).
  • Brother Nero - Apart from 'Nero' being his middle name, this nickname has been coined by #BROKEN Matt Hardy. Now he's an OBSOLETE MULE. This later transitioned into being his official ring name when he teamed with his brother.
• Jeff Jarrett
  • StupidStar: From an incident in WCW when he mispronounced "superstar" and described himself as "the StupidStar".
  • Triple J: A play on his self-given nickname of "Double J". This one became far more prevalent during his time in TNA, where he is often compared to WWE's Triple H. Not helped by the fact that he's been doing Triple H's finisher, The Pedigree, on a semi-regular basis since his in-ring return, and his father basically created the promotion as a starring vehicle for Jeff.
• Jinder Mahal
  • Jinder Anabol: During his world title push and since, his suddenly vascular physique lead many to suspect him of abusing steroids. "Juicy Jinder" and "Anabol Mahal" are others.
• Joey Ryan
  • "The King of Dong Style", playing off his porn star gimmick, complete with using his... manhood to attack his opponents.
• John "Bradshaw" Layfield
  • Jables, Jibbles - It helps to know he was most commonly and officially called JBL...and that he had gotten slightly out of shape during the end of his WWE run (when the JBL name started) and was quite jiggly in his ring attire.
• John Cena
  • ABC: Anyone (or Anybody) But Cena, referring to when the fans (mainly the older male fans) were getting tired of John Cena, especially in late 2005-2006.
  • Shawn Cena - Justin Roberts strikes again!
  • Cena Christ Superstar, what with his being all but unbeatable and being pushed like he's the Messiah of wrestling. Was also sort-of crucified during an I Quit match.
  • John Cena Joestar, due to his "You Can't See Me!" gesture being suspiciously similar to Jonathan Joestar's pose.
  • Stone Clone, during his Dr. of Thuganomics days for being a "Stone Cold" Steve Austin expy-of-sorts.
  • Super Cena, for having his own version of "Hulkamania" (named as "Cenation"), being an Invincible Hero for the most part, and being a military-esque Expy of Superman.
  • The CenaTaker for Cena imitating The Undertaker's sit-up and Slashed Throat gesture before performing a chokeslam on Kane at the 3/26/18 edition of RAW.
  • Big Match John - coined after his US Title reigns in 2015 and really cam into use after his return injury in 2016 which kicked off his Rescue From The Scrappy Heap.
• John Laurinaitis
  • John Laryngitis, the Executive Vice President of Talent Relations and Interim RAW General Manager, for his rather rough voice.
    • Has become an Ascended Meme as well, with WWE working it in through one of Santino Marella's funnier Malaproper moments.
  • Laurinaitis's old ring name, "Johnny Ace"; is commonly used as well for people who have trouble spelling and/or pronouncing his last name or are just more used to it.
• John Morrison
  • JoMo. It seems this one might have ascended. If his Facebook is authentic, then he signs his post as JoMo.
    • Melina has used it as a nickname in Twitter posts, so ascension has been confirmed.
  • J-Mo - the original version which Morrison himself coined on his "Mizfits and MOFOs" rap video with The Miz when they were mocking Cryme Tyme.
  • JoMo in SloMo - his slow-motion entrance.
• Justin Gabriel
  • The Dark Angel - Justin Gabriel as a member of The Nexus. It's a play of his last name Gabriel, which is a reference to the Archangel Gabriel.
  • And the fact that his original FCW name was Justin Angel, which is probably where his WWE TV name came from.
  • Before FCW he used to be called PJ Black. This may or may not also be relevant to the "Dark" part.
• Justin King, the African-American referee who was formerly responsible for most women's matches in WWE, is sometimes just called the Black Ref by fans.
• Kane
  • Glenn the Libertarian/Libertarian Glenn - Kane's unmasked, sharp-dressed appearance from Oct. 2013-May 2014, due to him looking as he did in his personal life and at various political gatherings. The real Glenn Jacobs is a libertarian.
  • The Red-State Machine (as he is from deeply conservative Tennessee) and Well-Read Machine are not terribly uncommon either. (Out of character, Glenn Jacobs is quite prolific in writing opinions on politics, mostly libertarian-leaning—making his long-running comedy tag-team with real-life liberal-leaning Daniel Bryan even funnier in hindsight). In any case, Corporate Kane or Korporate Kane ended up becoming Ascended Fanon.
  • After his re-masking in 2014, fans occasionally call him THEDEMONKANE because of the Authority and commentators' odd tendency to refer to him as "The Demon Kane" almost exclusively since then.
  • Another more hilarious nickname thrown around with Kane's metamorphosis to a slacks-wrestling lackey has been Angry Accountant.
• Kazuchika Okada
  • Lil' Kazu - a literal translation of Kazu-chan, used whenever Okada is pictured doing something silly.
• Kevin Nash
  • Big Poochie (or Big Lazy) - Nash (nicknamed "Big Sexy" more officially), in his days as a WCW booker during the nWo era, wrote himself into a one-man Spotlight-Stealing Squad. Taken from the appropriate Simpsons episode, especially from Homer's suggestion that "when Poochie isn't around, the other characters should look sad and say, 'Where's Poochie?'" which is what many people thought WCW might as well be when he booked.
• Kevin Owens
  • Murderbear - Due to both his build and his Ax-Crazy Berserker Rage.
• Kofi Kingston
  • Kobe Johnston, after two separate Raw guest hosts managed to mangle his first and last name.
• Kurt Angle
  • The Dumbest Man In Professional Wrestling - Though first earned by Sting (see below), was also applied to Kurt Angle in 2012/2013 after he unknowingly mentored two members of the Aces & Eights (and was responsible for one getting into TNA in the first place) and failed to reveal who the Vice President of the faction was in time for anyone to do anything. It also "helps" that in 2011 he believed an obvious con from Hulk Hogan about Dixie Carter and the Jarretts (who are members of the conspiracy Hogan formed to overthrow Carter!) which convinced him to screw over Sting for the TNA world title (and to join forces with the same conspiracy the Jarretts are a part of which Hogan formed to overthrow Carter!).
  • Perc Angle: the period from 2006 to 2013 (or longer), from his final days with the WWE to his time in TNA/Impact Wrestling, when he became addicted to painkillers (Percocet, among others).
• Lacey Von Erich
  • Lacey Von Botch for her apparent lack of any wrestling ability, despite her family pedigree.
• Low Ki
  • The Belt Bitch: After NXT Rookie Kaval (indy star Low Ki) was stuck with WWE Divas Michelle McCool and Layla El (who proclaimed themselves "co-Women's Champions") as his Pros, he got stuck carrying around their belts a number of times, leading to him getting this nickname.
• Mark Henry
  • The KoolAid Man, due to the bright red ring attire he wore for some time, considerable girth and very deep voice. Coined by Cedric the Entertainer during his stint as guest host of RAW in 2009.
    • Used on Raw by Batista. "You'll be alright, KoolAid!"
    • Referenced by Henry himself sometime later. "My heart don't pump KoolAid!"
  • Rick Ross - Due to his resemblance to Ross after he shaved his head. He also dressed as him for Halloween.
• Masato Yoshino
  • Sexy Tarzan. Coined by female fans because he's very attractive and muscular, and he used to have a jungle-man gimmick.
  • Speed Star, since he's very, very fast. Has since become a Red Baron.
• Mason Ryan
  • Batistwo: New recruit for The Nexus Mason Ryan due to his remarkable resemblance to former WWE superstar Batista. Coined by Chris Jericho.
  • Backtista: His similarities with Batista actually fooled some fans to believe Dave was back when Mason first appeared.
  • Also, Welshtista. (He's Welsh.) You’ll be hard-pressed to find a nickname for Mason Ryan that isn’t related to Batista.
  • The People's Choice - Probably the only fan-nickname for Ryan that has nothing to do with Batista. After the incident where, due to an extremely slow vote counting system during a viewer's choice episode of Raw, he was accidentally voted into a match with Evan Bourne over the overwhelming favorite Sin Cara.
• Matt Hardy
  • Cow Blood / Cow Wood - "Cold Blood" Matt Hardy, due to this unfortunate choice of font in this TNA T-shirt.◊
  • Fat(t) Hardy/Lardy: Due to his weight gain.
    • Ascended in 2013 as Hardy went as Fatt Hardy for Halloween.
  • Midd Cardy: Due to his inability to get high-profile matches.
• Melina
  • The Human Scream - due to her habit of screaming loudly during matches.
  • The Splits - Because she always did a split on the ring apron during her entrance.
• Michael Cole
  • Cole Miners: His fans. Yes, he has fans. Ascended, as Cole himself has used the phrase at least once.
  • Maggle/Maggle Cole: JBL has a...unique way of pronouncing Cole's name.
• Michael Tarver
  • Terry Tate, due to his resemblance to the Reebok advertising character.
• Michelle McCool
  • McRib for her extremely skinny figure.
  • Twiggy - Same reason.
  • Skelator - Same reason
• Mickie James
  • Piggie James - due to the fact that she's a bit larger in the middle than she used to be. Coined by Michelle McCool during their feud during late 2009-early 2010. Has since turned into a detractor nickname.
  • Hardcore Cuntry (alternatively spelled cunt-tree) - a play on her TNA nickname "Hardcore Country"
• Montel Vontavious Porter
  • The Power Ranger, owing to his unusual ring attire, which was designed to cover up a sizeable chest tattoo of Malcolm X. Coined by then-color commentator of Smackdown, John "Bradshaw" Layfield (at 2006's No Mercy PPV) and later adopted by the live crowds at Smackdown events:
    JBL: I wanna slap that smile right off his face. He hasn't busted a grape. He comes here, calling himself MVP, dressed like a Bud Light can, stole that outfit from a damn Power Ranger, and he walks around strutting IN A RING THAT I'VE BLED, SWEAT, AND BUSTED MY ASS IN!
    • The ironic thing is that the outfit's pretty clearly supposed to be based off the UnderArmor line of athletic apparel, making it literally the most practical wrestling costume in history—something he would eventually gleefully lampshade on Twitter:
    "I always found it odd that people find MY wrestling attire "odd" but men wrestling in PANTIES is just fine."
• Orange Cassidy
  • "The King of Sloth Style", riffing on his in-ring slacker persona and his slow-paced style (at least for most of a match).
• Orlando Jordan
  • Buckwheat - In WWE, due to his noticeable hairstyle.
  • Whoopi - Jordan grew out his hair prior to joining TNA. Coined by D'Angelo Dinero.
• President Ramu, aka Kaicho Ramu
  • La hija del Undertaker - A little girl with superhuman strength (she is capable of chokeslamming and suplexing adults) and dark powers led some fans to joke that she was The Undertaker's long lost daughter. This became Ascended Fanon later.
• Randy Orton
  • As with Hogan above, Orton has his own nickname on Inside Pulse, coined by Penny Sautereau after his second Wellness Policy violation, "Two Strikes".
  • Randal, after CM Punk started derogatorily calling him that on tv. (In an odd inversion, Randy's real name actually is "Randal.", so it's a case of a guy's ring name being a close derivative of his legal name and his Fan Nickname of his ring name being his legal name.)
  • Blandy Snoreton, among detractors who are not excited to see him.
• Randy Savage
  • Similar to Chris Benoit (above), "You Know Who" and such, given how Vince McMahon had, for all intents and purposes, completely written him out of WWE history. (And let's not get started on an urban legend that turned into somewhat of a meme. Most IWC members know the one.) However, they are doing a little better including Savage on DVDs - he appeared on the Best of Saturday Night's Main Event and the Intercontinental Championship sets, and got a three-disc best-of collection called Macho Madness, and he appeared in an online promo for WWE All Stars. Also, Savage was inducted in the 2015 WWE HoF class.
    • For those not in the know, the urban legend is that Randy Savage allegedly committed statutory rape on an underage Stephanie McMahon.
• Ricky "The Dragon" Steamboat
  • Arm-Dragon: Ricky Steamboat when, following an exaggerated lucha libre psychology, he would use arm drags constantly throughout a match.
• The Rock
  • The Dwayne - His real name Dwayne Johnson, and Johnson moved away from having "The Rock" being included in his name for his acting credits, inspiring the nickname.
• Roman Reigns
  • Reigns is called "BatRoman" among the more rational WWE fans due to his Broken Base reputation, being Cena's successor as WWE's franchise player, and being an Expy of Batman. Ironically, Reigns' signature move is called "Superman Punch".
• Ryback
  • Ryberg / Goldback, due to his striking resemblance to Goldberg, as well as the early part of his run as Ryback featuring an "undefeated streak" gimmick very similar to Goldberg's.
  • Rybotch: Due to the fact that he botched a lot in his early career.
• Santino Marella
  • Mario, due to his outrageous-a stereotypical-a Italian-a accent-a (he's actually Canadian-born, with some Italian blood).
• Sara Del Rey
  • Death Rey
• Scott Steiner has been nicknamed Steroid Steiner (or alternatively Scott Steroid) for obvious reasons.
• Seth Rollins
  • Eater of Shit^note To "eat shit" is an idiom here - thankfully - meaning 'to take a hard fall': He has the bad habit of being the member of The Shield to perform the highest spots and take the sickest bumps, a habit which even as a somewhat cowardly but skilled heel, he still couldn't get away from. (A play on Bray Wyatt's official nom de guerre of "Eater of Worlds".)
  • Crossfit Jesus, due to his love of Crossfit and his uncanny resemblance to, well, Jesus.
  • Mr. Small Package II, because... well, the IWC was not kind when they discovered his leaked dick pics...
  • Monday Night Rollins: A wordplay of Monday Night RAW, which later becomes an Ascended Meme.
    • Sunday Night Rollins: His back-to-back title matches against Cena and Sting at Night of Champions 2015.
  • Spider Rollins: After taking over Reigns' role as The Hero as of late-2018. Being a Combat Pragmatist like Spider-Man also helps.
  • Additions to his -Slayer nickname:
    • Vigilanteslayer, Iconslayer, Manslayer - Defeating and retiring The Man Called Sting after their match at Night of Champions 2015.
    • Demonslayer - Defeating Demon Kane at Hell in a Cell 2015.
• Shaniqua
  • Linda "Miss a Missile Dropkick By" Miles. Real name Linda Miles, Shaniqua once attempted a missile dropkick and aimed about four feet wide.
• Sheamus
  • (The) Albino Warrior: Because he's really, really pale, this is a play on his usual nickname, The Celtic Warrior.^note Because he wears very strong sunblock at all times to keep his pale complexion, he has to get his Vitamin D levels regularly checked. The nickname is also a swipe at the Ultimate Warrior, another performer that WWE fans felt was pushed far beyond his wrestling abilities.
  • Fans have also taken to calling him the Ginger Giant for obvious reasons.
  • Also Lobsterhead, taken from a Memetic Mutation of his original entrance music: "It's a shameful thing, lobsterhead".
  • Being a ginger with spiky hair does not help his cause here either, and is why his finisher (more commonly called the Razor's Edge) is known to some as the Ginger's Edge.
  • Beaker, thanks to Edge. Later, this was canonized during a show featuring the Muppets, where it's revealed Beaker and Sheamus are cousins.
• Shinsuke Nakamura
  • Swagsuke, due to his look, odd and spastic movements, Confusion Fu in-ring style, and overall "give no fucks" attitude. Despite his having that nickname before his WWE debut, he was called this once or twice in passing on commentary during one of his first few matches in NXT.
  • The King of Low Blow Style: A play on his "The King of Strong Style" title, after pulling a Face–Heel Turn and repeatedly sneaking up on AJ Styles to punch him in the nuts.
    • A lot of fans also started using "The King of Dong Style" (though Joey Ryan was the first to receive that nickname).
• Sin Cara
  • Botch Cara, due to his tendency to botch a lot.
• Stephanie McMahon
  • Nipple H - Stacked like pancakes (to say nothing of when she was pregnant). Term coined by WrestleCrap... and if you look for "Stephanie McMahon" on a certain site that parodies The Other Wiki, the title changes before your eyes to "Nipple H".
  • The Emasculator: Due to her tendency to slap or dress down male superstars, who, thanks to a) WWE no longer allowing man-on-woman violence and b) the fact that she's the boss, aren't allowed to retaliate. The best that you can hope for is that she gets owned by a good comeback.
• Sting
  • The Dumbest Man in Professional Wrestling earned this nickname by literally being booked as the single most Stupid Good face ever.
  • Surfer Sting - Referring to Sting in his initial run in the NWA and WCW, where he had short bleached-blonde hair and colorful facepaint/trunks.
  • Crow Sting - Sting's nWo-inspired transformation, and the look he's retained ever since, which was obviously inspired by the film adaptation of The Crow (and allegedly suggested to Sting by Scott Hall). Also referred to as "Sad Mime Sting" by 411Mania's Arnold Furious.
    • Lobster Sting - an unfortunate side effect of the above, as after Sting joined the nWo Wolfpac, he changed the white on his outfit to red... including the scorpions, which due to the brightness of the red used made him look like a mascot for a seafood restaurant.
    • Wolfpac Sting is also sometimes called Chessman, after a AAA luchador with a very similar look (red facepaint w/black accents and long, stringy black hair)
  • Post-Crow Sting: Sting's character in TNA. Differs from Crow Sting in that, while Crow Sting was completely silent, Post-Crow Sting never shuts up.
    • Post-Lobster Sting: Sting's brief stint with The Band, in which he brought back his black-and-red getup.
  • AnderSting: Mr. Anderson's (May-June 2011) gimmick of dressing up like an odd combination of Surfer Sting and Post-Crow Sting.
  • Joker Sting: Sting's 2011 gimmick for acting really, really similar to Heath Ledger's performance in The Dark Knight.
  • Real Estate Steve: Nickname for Sting's suit-wearing, make-up less appearance in the Main Event Mafia. Coined by MMA fighter Frank Trigg due to Sting's numerous properties in Trigg's neighborhood. Introduced by Dave Meltzer after reporting Trigg's meeting of Sting at a TNA pay-per-view.
  • Steve: Nickname for Sting that came from a dirtsheet typo that referred to him as Steve "Steve" Borden and posted on 420chan's wrestling board, /wooo/, where it was popularized. When used, it's often accompanied by a picture of Sting sans facepaint.
• Tazz
  • The Orange Midget: For being short and having orange in most of his outfits.
• Teddy Long
  • Peanuthead - Fairly self-explanatory, almost always used affectionately.
• Tommy Dreamer
  • Nommy Dreamer, because of his slightly overweight build. A cross of his name and the OM NOM NOM onomatopoeia for loud eating.
  • Similarly, "Fatty Dreamer", which came about because of a bit from a shoot interview with Scott "Raven" Levy where he out-and-out called Dreamer fat.
• Triple H
  • Trips. Similarly Tripsy.
  • Cripple H - Mainly used for the 2001-2005 period when he seemed to suffer a muscle tear every other week and was much less agile in the ring than he used to be.
  • (Triple) Haitch: Due to William Regal's very English pronunciation of the letter "H". Given that it's very similar to "Naitch," the nickname he coined for his idol Ric Flair, Hunter would probably be pretty happy with that one.
  • (HH)HGH: spawned during his year-long injury hiatus, when it became known that his type of quad tear is almost never seen outside of heavy steroid users. The fact that he came back more buff than ever did nothing to quell this. (And, after coming back from the second of such quad tears, he looked considerably slimmed down and hasn't had such any injury since.)
  • The McMahon-in-Law, after his longtime real life relationship with and eventual marriage to Stephanie McMahon
  • Shao Kahn for his more recent entrance costumes for WrestleMania, notably WrestleManias 27 and 30.
  • tHHHor: Given for a combination of reasons: his preferred weapon of a sledgehammer, the way he's seen by other characters as a sort of minor god of wrestling, how he no-sells most attacks, etc.
    • Not to mention a passing resemblance to the comic book version of Thor, which was played with in his now-infamous WrestleMania 22 entrance. Triple H was once in the running for the role of Thor in the Marvel movie, as well.
  • Speaking of his WrestleMania 22 entrance, Triple H has also gained the nickname "Gonad The Barbarian" thanks to WrestleCrap.
  • The sledgehammer itself has correspondingly been referred to as "Mjolnir."
  • "Shovel", another from his detractors, which should be pretty easy to figure out by this point.
  • The man with three H's, coined by "Broken" Matt Hardy.
  • Eater Of Minutes; coined when it was noticed that though he no longer wrestles regularly, his matches tend to take up large spots on the card (for example, he's had the longest match on all but one of the past 8 Wrestlemanias, as of Wrestlemania 34)
  • Papa H - a more affectionate nickname toward Helmsley as many see the NXT supserstar(as well as his other hires) as his kids. Has seen increasing use as Triple H took over creative.
• Tyler Breeze
  • Prince Purrty/Purtty/Purdy, Breeze's habit of dressing like women including an old lady, Nikki Bella, Renee Young.
• Ultimate Warrior
  • The Anabolic Warrior - Dave Meltzer's nickname for the Ultimate Warrior.
• Umaga
  • Youmanga - Much like the previous "Haitch" example, William Regal's very unique pronunciation of Umaga's name led to fans - especially smarks - embracing "Youmanga" wholeheartedly.
• The Undertaker
  • BikerTaker, during his "American Badass" / "Big Evil" runs, where he was most known for riding a motorcycle out to the ring.
    • "Mean" Mark Callous, since he once wrestled under this name and it fits the biker image.
  • The Neverjobber, The Underseller, Nosell McNeverjob - Smark nicknames, particularly when he's gone a long time without jobbing cleanly (which is most of the time).
  • Undertaker's Dong: The tolling bell at the beginning of Undertaker's theme song. If you want to know why, check the link.
• Vince McMahon
  • MeekMahan - from #Broken Matt Hardy's mispronunciation of his last name.
• Willie Mack
  • Lucha Ron Funches - As he bears more than a passing resemblance to comedian Ron Funches. Coined by Matt Striker, and has been acknowledged by both Mack and Funches himself.

Tag Teams, Stables, and Groups

• Absolution and/or The Riott Squad: The She-ild - Both trios debuted in the same week, almost exactly to the five-year anniversary of the Shield's debut, and displayed a penchant for backstage ambushes and ganging up on their opponents, even having a similar composition—one tougher-looking bruiser (Sonya Deville and Sarah Logan; essentially an analogue to Roman Reigns), one Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette alt girl who led the group (Paige and Ruby Riott; the analogue to Seth Rollins), and one blonde (Mandy Rose and Liv Morgan; the analogue to Dean Ambrose).
• Air Boom: (Evan Bourne & Kofi Kingston)
  • Altitude Era, Flight Club, Sonic Boom, and other speed and altitude puns were tossed around by fans; "Air Boom" itself became the offical name as a result of a naming contest on Twitter
• A.J. Lee & Tamina Snuka:
  • HBAJ and Shesel, as a reference to HBK and Diesel
• America's Most Wanted: TNA actually adopted this fan nickname for the team of James Storm and Chris Harris.
• Asuka and The Miz (Mixed Match Challenge): Awesuka (a play on the Miz’s catchphrase and Asuka’s name)
• The Authority
  • AuTHORity, an extension of Triple H's nickname of tHHHor.
  • Idiot and Doofus: Stephanie McMahon and Hunter respectively, following CM Punk's infamous Worked Shoot in the Summer of 2011.
• Awesome Truth (R-Truth and The Miz)
  • Truth and Reality
  • Truthfully Awesome
  • The What-Busters
  • Awesome Truth was itself a fan nickname that was officially adopted.
• The Bella Twins
  • The Belly Twins, coined by LayCool.
    • Brie Danielson or Brie Bryan for Brie Bella, due to her marriage to Daniel Bryan.
    • Nikki Cena (or Nikki Sheena) for Nikki Bella since she was John Cena's girlfriend and due to her status as a Creator's Pet during her time as Divas Champion from November 2014 to September 2015.
• The Big Show & Kane
  • The Local Men (specifically referring to their teaming up while part of The Authority, though the nickname has continued to follow both around since then), due to their status as Scrappies and a growing belief among fans that they ruin everything they're involved with.
• Bobby Roode and Chad Gable
  • Ready Willing and Glorious: a combination of their catchphrases.
• Booker T & Goldust
  • Black Gold. Some people also used Book Dust.
• Chris Jericho & AJ Styles
  • Y2AJ.
• Chris Jericho & Christian
  • Vitamin C; Jericho himself used the name at least once, though it was never made official.
• Chris Jericho & Chris Benoit
  • Canadian Violence Connection, a name coined by Scott Keith due to Keith referring to chops thrown by Canadians as Canadian violence.
• Chris Jericho & Kevin Owens
  • Jeri-KO.
• The Class of 2002: The five major superstars who made their WWF/WWE debut in the aforementioned year, namely: Brock Lesnar, Randy Orton, Batista, John Cena and Rey Mysterio. Shelton Benjamin gets thrown in occasionally.
• Cody Rhodes and Goldust:
  • Their original team, before Cody adopted the Stardust gimmick, was nicknamed Rhodeblock, a reference to Goldust's affinity for blocking people on Twitter for seemingly any reason.
• CM Punk & Daniel Bryan
  • A very short lived team of two of the best and most popular talents of their era netted them the name "The Giga Powers." (It's like the Mega Powers, only a thousand times more talented.)
• The Corre
  • Againstus: As a splinter from from The Nexus after that group told John Cena that "You're either Nexus, or you're against us", well... This nickname was first given when Cena debuted the team of Raw superstars that he would lead into battle against Nexus at SummerSlam 2010.
  • The Nexus Wolfpac: A reference to when the nWo split, with the defectors who were known as the nWo Wolfpac.
• Curtis Axel & David Otunga
  • After they got away from New Nexus association, Mike McGillicutty and David Otunga have become known in some circles as The Borre.
• The Dashing Ones ("Dashing" Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre)
  • Before the Dashing Ones was picked up, fans thought of Dashed Dreams, Broken Mirrors, Dashingly Sinister (as coined by Matt Striker)...
  • Chosen Rhodes
• Disco Inferno, Alex Wright, & Tokyo Magnum
  • The Dancing Axis Powers - Disco Inferno was of Italian descent, Alex Wright was a German national, and Tokyo Magnum was Japanese. (Disco and Wright were referred to, on-screen, as "The Dancing Fools" and/or "The Boogie Knights". Or, based on a Tony Schiavone slip of the tongue, the "Dancing Dildos," when he supposedly meant to just say "Dodos")
• Edge and Christian: "E & C", "Suicide Blondes" (they had actually used this name in the independents, as Sexton Hardcastle and Christian Cage, prior to coming to WWE.)
• Evan Bourne & Mark Henry: "Bourne Strong"
• Los Reyes del Aire for El Sagrado, La Sombra, Volador Jr. and Místico's version of Super Sky Team, after the CMLL event of the same name.
• Fourtune/Fortune
  • SIXtune: TNA stable Fourtune, which at its peak consisted of Ric Flair, AJ Styles, Frankie Kazarian, Desmond Wolfe, and Beer Money (James Storm and Robert Roode).
  • Later on, the faction would consist of Styles, Kazarian, Storm, Roode, Matt Morgan, and Douglas Williams, with Flair managing, all while being part of a Super Power Stable with Immortal.
  • FIVEtune: Fortune would later drop Williams and Morgan and then Heel–Face Turn away from Immortal, bring the group down to the Four that the name and logo would indicate. This being TNA, they would add Christopher Daniels to the fold anyway just to ensure that Fortune can't actually have four people in it.
  • Fortunately, they tweaked the spelling from "Fourtune" to "Fortune" even before dropping Williams, Morgan, and Immortal so that it wouldn't be such a big elephant in the room, though they failed to change their theme music in which a prominent lyric was "Fortune four".
• "Genesis": The "group" that seemed to have formed on the final episode of season 2 of WWE NXT. After Kaval's victory, the other seven NXT rookies attacked Kaval and the pros (minus Lay-Cool). The attacked invoked similarities to The Nexus, so many people thought they would be forming another stable similar to the faction terrorizing Raw at the time, presumably to take over SmackDown. The name "Genesis" came from a promo by Michael McGillicutty, who was the runner-up that season and supposed leader of the new group.
• The Godfather & Val Venis
  • Supply and Demand; the Godfather was a pimp and Val Venis was a porn star. This was later occasionally used on screen.
• The Hardy Boyz (Matt Hardy and Jeff Hardy)
  • Though it comes years after they stop tagging as a regular team, "The Food and Drug Administration", given Matt's out-of-shape build and Jeff's numerous drug problems.
• JeriShow (Chris Jericho and The Big Show)
  • Though eventually used as the official team name, JeriShow started out as a fan nickname; it was first used by John Morrison in a web video as "The Big JeriShow"; Jericho used the shortened form shortly afterward.
• The Kick-Me Squad, The B-Team: The gang of second-string wrestlers that joined the nWo after they'd been around for a while; the most "notable" ones included Stevie Ray (Booker T's brother), Scott Norton, Horace Hogan (Hulk Hogan's nephew), and Brian Adams.
• Legacy (Randy Orton, Cody Rhodes, and Ted DiBiase Jr.)
  • The Baby Oil Boy's Club, always used insultingly, and eventually used onscreen by John Cena.
  • Another one was "The Ambiguously Gay Trio" (named after a Batman parody on Saturday Night Live, due to the Ho Yay and constant inability to wear pants).
• Miz & Jericho
  • Team Ex: Both are Big Show's ex-tag partners, and for those versed in subtext, both act suspiciously like ex-boyfriends.
  • An alternative fan nickname for the duo is "Jiz".
  • Also, "Jeri-Miz", from "Jeri-Show" and "Show-Miz."
• Miz & Morrison
  • "MizMo", "The In Crowd", "The Dirt Sheet Duo" (a reference to their web show), "Mizorrison", and "M&M" (in reference to Morrison's previous tag team, MNM) were all fan names
• "Moore Wang": The team of Jimmy Wang Yang (an Asian wrestler dressed up as a stereotpyical cowboy) and Shannon Moore. Supposedly, WWE didn't just ignore this but actively discouraged fans from using it.
• MVP & Mark Henry
  • Team KoolAid, due to their trademark red ring attire and Henry's KoolAid Man nickname (see above)
  • Team Blackronyms is also applicable to MVP and Henry aka the World's Strongest Man (WSM)
  • Also Ball Sweat, for MVP's "Ballin'!" taunt and because Mark Henry is rather, well, sweaty.
  • World's Strongest Tag Team was occasionally used by WWE to refer them.
  • They themselves eventually coined Power Ballin', though it was long after MVP had left the company.
• The New Day
  • The Three Faces of Fun, a reference to the WCW stable Three Faces of Fear.
• Nexus
  • CeNexus - The Nexus after Cena was forced to join.
  • NexSES - After CM Punk took it over. A reference to Punk's old stable, the Straight Edge Society (SES).
• nXt - Coined by members of the WrestleCrap forums as well as a Michael Tarver shirt, this nickname plays on the supposed similarities between the season one NXT rookies (now officially Nexus) and the New World Order (typeset as nWo).
  • (The) NXT Five - As a Shout-Out to the "Smackdown Six" of the Ruthless Aggression Era, this references a group of highly-touted independent and/or puroresu superstars that WWE stockpiled into NXT. The 'group' came into being when Adrian Neville (formerly PAC; British) and Sami Zayn (the former El Generico; Canadian with Syrian ancestry) were joined in 2014 by Kevin Steen (renamed Kevin Owens; French-Canadian), KENTA (renamed Hideo Itami; Japanese) and Fergal Devitt (renamed Finn Bálor; Irish). Occasionally Solomon Crowe is thrown in to make it six.
    • The NXT Five is also developing a healthy habit of circulating as members move up to the main roster and new stars get signed, per Triple H's strategy of turning NXT into its own brand as a blend of indie/developmental. Once Neville moved up to the main roster, Samoa Joe took his spot. Once Kevin Owens got called up, former Dragon Gate star Uhaa Nation took his place as Apollo Crews.
  • The Four Horsewomen: A name for the Distaff Counterpart group to the former NXT Five that is gaining some traction on the internet. These are the four female wrestlers formerly in NXT who are considered by fans to be top-notch wrestlers as opposed to just eye candy and expected to be the 'next generation' of the WWE Divas' division: Charlotte, Sasha Banks, Bayley, and Becky Lynch. The name likely comes from Charlotte being the daughter of Ric Flair, thus sharing a namesake with a group of female MMA fighters led by Ronda Rousey who first took the name with the blessing of Flair and his original Four Horsemen enforcer Arn Anderson.
    • Recently in photoshoots and house show appearances the NXT Horsewomen have been seen throwing up the Four together. More recently, three of them debuted on the July 13, 2015 episode of WWE Raw to side with either Paige (Charlotte and Becky) or Naomi and Tamina (Banks) in the three-way war for control against Team Bella. Even more recently, after Bayley finally defeated Sasha for the Women's Championship at Takeover: Brooklyn in arguably one of the greatest and most significant women's matches in history, the four celebrated together in the ring and threw up the symbol together with the approval of the entire crowd. Safe to say it's become an Ascended Meme.
  • The FCW Four - The NXT Five's predecessor group back when it was Florida Championship Wrestling, which consisted of (Antonio) Cesaro, Seth Rollins, Dean Ambrose, and Kassius Ohno. The group slowly evolved into the modern NXT Five/Six.
• Orlando Jordan & Eric Young
  • The team of the flamboyant omnisexual and the brain-damaged funny man is fairly frequently referred to as Bi/Curious.
• Paul London & Brian Kendrick: Sometimes nicknamed "Londrick" and "The Hooliganz". The team also had "The Hooliganz" printed on their ring attire, but were never officially referred by that name until they worked for Europe based Insane Championship Wrestling.
• R-Truth & Kofi Kingston
  • R-Boom, a reference to Kingston's former team "Air Boom".
  • Two and a Half Men, for Truth's former gimmick that was based on him having an imaginary friend.
• Rated RKO (Randy Orton and Edge): An ascended fan nickname.
  • Sometimes also called Ordge.
• Rated Y2J (Chris Jericho and Edge)
  • Before being given their official name, sometimes referred to as "Team Ego"
• Rey Mysterio Jr. & Sin Cara
  • Team M.A.S.K.
• Rhodes Scholars (Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow)
  • The official name started as a fan name. Then they split up. But then they got back together. A resultant fan nickname for them is "It's Complicated" after the term used to refer to volatile relationships on Facebook.
• Sara Del Rey & Daizee Haze
  • Though not a permanent tag team, the two of them frequently team together, especially in Chikara, and are often called Death Haze after Sara's nickname (Death Rey) and Daizee's last name.
• Sarita & Taylor Wilde
  • "Las Luchas", presumably short for Las Luchadoras.
• "Sexodus": The Season 3 rookies of NXT. With the Season 1 rookies forming The Nexus and the Season 2 rookies quite possibly forming a stable called Genesis, it seems likely that the all-Diva season could do the same. A Portmanteau of Sex and Exodus, picked due to phonetic similarities to "Nexus" and a shared Biblical link to Genesis: Exodus was the second book of The Bible (Genesis was the first)
• ShoMiz (The Miz and The Big Show)
  • Similarly to JeriShow, this team was occasionally referred to as The Miz Show and Show-Miz by fans for a few weeks, and both were brought up by them as possible team names on Raw.
• "The SmackDown Six"
  • In 2002, three tag teams (Eddie & Chavo, Edge & Rey Mysterio Jr., and Chris Benoit & Kurt Angle) delivered tag team matches (as well as singles matches) of such a consistently high caliber that they were given this unofficial nickname to indicate their importance to the SmackDown! brand that year. They were the top three teams in the tournament to crown the first-ever WWE SmackDown Tag Team Champions.
  • "The New SmackDown Six" has been used to refer to Edge, Mysterio, Jeff Hardy, CM Punk, John Morrison and Chris Jericho. Since then, Edge (temporarily), Punk, and Morrison have moved to Raw, and Hardy's gone to TNA.
  • The 2016 brand split inspired a new SmackDown Six, only this time it was for the women: Becky Lynch, Alexa Bliss, Natalya Neidhart, Carmella, Naomi and Nikki Bella. All six feuded with each other and were considered to greatly outperform the women of Raw - who had bigger stars. Eva Marie and Maryse who were also part of Smackdown were not included in this.^note Eva was suspended only a month after her Smackdown debut and thus not in the division. Maryse meanwhile was an acting valet for The Miz rather than a wrestler.
• Team Hell No (Kane and Daniel Bryan)
  • Though official, the team name was chosen by the WWE Universe.
  • Other options were FRIENDSHIP and Team Teamwork.
• "Vanilla Midgets": Originally referring to Chris Benoit, Dean Malenko, Eddie Guerrero, and Perry Saturn in WCW, because of their short stature (by wrestling standards) and their supposed lack of charisma. Coined by Kevin Nash.
• Ron Killings ("R-Truth") & John Morrison
  • "Truth and Wisdom", for Morrison's Dirt Sheet Catchphrase "We don't allow [x] in the Palace of Wisdom").
• The team of Paige, Charlotte, and Becky Lynch (since Submission Sorority was already, embarrassingly, taken):
  • Sisters of Submission^note The guy who suggested that one on a podcast and caused it to catch fire had looked it up first to see if it was taken similarly to Submission Sorority; it wasn't, The Tapout Trio, Submission Commission, Body Breakers, 3 woMan Band, PussyCat Babes
  • Due to a video comparing the trio to The Powerpuff Girls (as the team consisted of a orange-head, a raven-haired who refused to conform to girly stereotypes, and a blonde who usually wore blue), they were sometimes called 'The Power Buff Girls' before they were officially named.
• Sami Zayn and Kevin Owens
  • "Fightcloud". Referring to the cartoon and comic strip method of demonstrating a fight by having there be a rolling cloud with limbs sticking out of it. For obvious reasons.
• Sasha Banks and Bayley (Boss 'n' Hug Connection/The Golden Role Models)
  • "Two-Woman Power Trip" after comparing to the 2001 tag team of heel Stone Cold Steve Austin and Triple H, especially after they won all the titles.

Promotions and Companies

• All Elite Wrestling
  • "Jacksonville" - Due to its offices and home arena Daily's Place based out of the Jacksonville Jaguars' home stadium.
• All Japan Women's Pro-Wrestling
  • Zenjo ("Zen Nihon Joshi Puroresu'')
• Lucha Libre Internacional
  • "Lucha Libre from El Toreo de Naucalpan", the area where most of its major events took place.
• "The Big Three"
  • In the '80s, WWF, the NWA, and AWA.
  • In the '90s, WWF, WCW, and ECW.
  • In the '00s, WWE, TNA, and ROH.
  • In the '10s, WWE, NJPW, and Lucha Underground(never mind the latter group have significantly different relations than the previous listings)
  • In the '20s, WWE, NJPW, and AEW.
• ECW
  • "South Philly", where ECW grew up from.
• Ring of Honor
  • Smoky Mountain Of Honor while Smoky Mountain founder Jim Cornette was commissioner. Originally coined by Austin Aries as an insult but later used in a more matter of fact manner when Cornette left and some vocal fans argued he wasn't that bad.
  • The Honorable Ring.
• TNA
  • WWE Lite / Diet WWE: Due to TNA's tendency to push former WWE (or WCW or ECW) wrestlers more and to recycle angles or gimmicks from WWE ("Black Machismo" Jay Lethal, Stone Cold Shark Boy, etc.), despite their motto, "We Are Wrestling". (This motto has since been changed to "Cross the Line". )
  • "Orlando" after the Impact Zone, where the show is shot. Also "Down South", as the company itself is headquartered in Tennessee.
  • Total Nonstop Angle - When Kurt Angle was nearly-guaranteed to appear at least once per segment on their programs for a long stretch of their history.
  • Total Nonstop Angles - Referring to their (somewhat diminished since they've moved to two hours) tendency to fill their shows up with enough storyline and angles to take up three shows.
  • Total Nonstop Talking - Ripping on TNA's tendency to have very little wrestling on a show and concentrate on backstage promos and video packages.
  • Total Nonstop Aggravation - referring to the mental state of anyone unfortunate enough to try to sit through one of their shows.
  • TNMMA: Shown up a few times mid-2013, thanks to TNA hiring several current and former MMA fighters (King Mo, Rampage Jackson, Tito Ortiz) and being forced to shill the hell out of Bellator MMA thanks to a deal between that company and Spike TV.
  • WCW 2: Electric Boogaloo - Referring to how, in many ways, it has gone and done many of the same things and brought in the same people WCW once did.
• WCW
  • "Down South"; WCW was based in Atlanta. Contrasts with WWE's "Up North".
  • Also called "Atlanta" (in contrast to WWE's "New York")
  • "Turner" due to Ted Turner's ownership of the company.
  • Not the company itself, but its logo◊ from 1999-2001 is often referred to as the "Exploding Vagina".
• WEW
  • Women's Erotic Wrestling, as the fed was very fanservice reliant. The E "officially" stands for "extreme" but it doesn't really matter, as the initialism is really just a reference to the original garbage promotion FMW, specifically it's Lighter and Softer late 1990s "World Entertainment Wrestling" era.^note Given WEW was not only regarded as an Audience-Alienating Era but quickly killed FMW's women's division, a women's company wanting to invoke it is very strange.
• WWE
  • WSEF: World Sports Entertainment Federation. This was an insult (usually during the Attitude and InVasion time periods) from people who felt in-ring ability was being ignored in favor of charisma and showmanship.
  • WWECW - The WWE-owned and controlled Revival of ECW.
  • W/WWF/E: A way some fans to refer to WWE's entire existence. It's a portmanteau of WWWF (World Wide Wrestling Federation), WWF (World Wrestling Federation), and WWE (World Wrestling Entertainment/WWE, Inc.).
  • "Up North": WWE, which is based in Connecticut. Its opposite number in the '90s, WCW, was often referred to as "Down South". It's also sometimes called "New York" or "Stamford". Ironically, come the 2020s, the WWE Performance Center (in Orlando) is south of its main rival AEW's headquarters in Jacksonville.
  • The 'E
  • Also known for a short time as "The Ent" by analogy with its nickname prior to its boneheaded lawsuit-induced name change, "The Fed." Or the "Wweeeee", as analogy to the "Whiff" (try to pronounce "WWF" as a word)
    • Notably, it's not the WWE. It's just WWE. Or 'E, I guess. The reason for this, if you don't know what the E stands for, was prominent in one reprint of Foley Is Good, where it seemed like Mick Foley had written "the World Wrestling Federation" a lot and an editor had hastily gone through the book with Find->Replace in a word processing program to substitute Entertainment for Federation. Hence, a lot of references to "the" World Wrestling Entertainment.
  • Cheese Souffle - An old copyright bypass on YouTube. Often paired with Bork Laser above.
  • NXTNA - named after Eric Young and Bobby Roode made their debuts for the brand shortly after the arrivals of Samoa Joe and Austin Aries.

Moves

• American Dream-stroyer - Dustin Rhodes version of the Canadian Destroyer.
• Bounce to the Ounce - Naomi's Split-Legged Moonsault
• Double Underhook What-the-fuck-was-that? - The botched attempt at a double underhook suplex by Scott Steiner to Triple H at Royal Rumble 2003.
• RELEASE THE DOVES! - Randy Orton's signature stance/taunt, which usually should be accompanied by Disturbed Doves.
  • Even funnier since WWE released a PPV poster that featured both him and a dove.
• The Reign of Terror, the Reigns Supreme - The unofficial name for Luther Reigns' finishing move, a modified neckbreaker.
  • Many finishing moves that aren't named by the commentators pick up Fan Nicknames.
  • This particular move also picked up the name "The Indy Neckbreaker" after dozens upon dozens of independent wrestlers and WWE midcarders adopted it as a finisher.
• Ambrosia - Dean Ambrose's headlock Driver got this name before WWE provided it with one, Dirty Deeds.
• Cena-Can't-Rana/Self-Powerbomb: John Cena's hurricanrana in a 2013 match against CM Punk.
• Code Black - The Shield's three man Powerbomb.
• Complete Shit - Eva Marie's second finisher (a Complete Shot), a rare example of a "Detractor Nickname", as she is widely considered to be a terrible wrestler and her execution of the movie is considered very sloppy.
• Crews' Control - Apollo Crews' Spin-out powerbomb as coined by commentator Mauro Ranallo.
• Dead Man's Curse, Cemetery Gates - The Undertaker's Hell's Gate.
• Fate DELETED! - Any tag team finisher involving a variation of the Twist of Fate between partners Woken Matt Hardy and Bray Wyatt.
• Fuckbuster - The Shockmaster's finisher, the Squeeze Slam, due to how unfortunate it looks.
• Game Over, The Burial - Triple H's Pedigree; the former a reference to his nickname "The Game" and the latter a reference for his penchant of "burying" wrestlers.
• The Hug of Death, Running Hug - Edge's Spear. Named by critics who mock it, saying it looks like he's just running up and hugging his opponent, and that it doesn't even look like it hurts.
• Kryptonite Punch - Roman Reigns' Superman Punch, in reference to one of the first victims, John "Super" Cena, and that "Kryptonite" is literally the weakness of the move's namesake.
• Meteor Crash - Adrian Neville's Red Arrow
• The Ninja Spot - The moment at the 2011 Royal Rumble where William Regal pushed John Morrison off the apron and Morrison saved himself from elimination by hooking himself on the barricade surrounding the ring, tight-rope walked it to the steel steps and then jumped onto to the steps and then kicked William Regal (who just got eliminated himself) right in the head.
  • Sometimes called the "Spider-Man" spot because of a comment by Matt Striker.
  • Since then, at least one high-flyer (usually Kofi Kingston, since Morrison's release) does a similar improbable avoidance of elimination once per Royal Rumble.
• Nope! - When Samoa Joe casually walks out of the way of someone attempting a high-flying move, causing them to crash.
• Ponyride Of Doom - The Big Show's version of the Camel Clutch, where he is on one knee instead of sitting on the opponent's back. Needless to say, The Iron Sheik would not be amused.
  • He calls it the Colossal Clutch. At least the cobra clutch backbreaker only sounded bad...
    • Yep, Sheiky Baby should make that seven foot jabroni humble...
    • And how Scott Steiner's Steiner Recliner, which often looked...just wrong? Especially the one time he put two people in it at once.
• The K.O. Bomb - Kevin Owens' Pop-Up Powerbomb
• Knee Plus - Daniel Bryan's running knee, named in reference to Stephanie McMahon's "Solid B+" comment towards Bryan. This one sits in a gray area, as it's apparently the name Bryan picked for it via fan vote but has never been invoked by WWE announcers - or even Bryan himself - on television. So it's somewhere between Fan Nickname and Word of God.
  • It's alternatively called "The Move That Beat John Cena", in reference to Bryan first using said move on Cena at SummerSlam 2013. As of early 2015 it's only been kicked out of twice.
• The Shooting StaRKO - named for Randy Orton's counter of Evan Bourne's Finishing Move, the Shooting Star Press, into Orton's Finishing Move, the RKO on a July 2010 episode of Raw. Also termed AiR-KO (in reference to "Air Bourne", Bourne's custom name for the SSP), which is also pretty badass.
• Seth Rollins
  • Phoenix Arrow - Rollins' Superplex into a Falcon Arrow, name related to his Phoenix Splash
• Randy Orton's Punt - Viper's Venom
• Roman Reigns
  • Reigning (Raining) Victims - Roman's Splash Mountain Powerbomb.
• Straitjacket - A.J. Lee's Octopus Stretch
• Si To Destiny - Alberto Del Rio's cross armbreaker. Sort of ascended, as on the independent circuits as El Patrón Alberto it would be called Rompe Destinos (which literally translates from Spanish to "Destiny Breaker").
• The Spot With The Glass - Shane McMahon and Kurt Angle's (in)famous glass incident at the 2001 running of King of the Ring, where the glass doesn't break upon immediate impact of Shane's body with the glass because someone accidentally ordered plexiglass instead of sugar glass.
• WadeSlam: When WWE taped a few shows in Mexico, some badly translated spoilers came out with Wade Barrett's Wasteland finisher being misheard as the WadeSlam.
• Y/Yes Factor - Brie Bella's version of the X Factor. (Brie is married to Daniel Bryan, he of the Yes! chants and Yes! movement.)
• You Can't Powerbomb Kidman! - Billy Kidman's Sitout Facebuster to counter a Powerbomb attempt.

Eras, Regions, and Recurring Events

• A to Z - When a freelance wrestler successfully touring through just about every possible Japanese promotion in a single continuous run, in reference to a list of Japanese promotions often reading like spilled bowls of alphabet soup to those unfamiliar with them. "A" in this case can be anything from All Japan to Hyper Visual Fighting ARSION, while Z can be anything from the other All Japan, Zenjo, to Pro Wrestling ZERO1. Incidentally after Yumiko Hotta became the booker for ARSION it was retooled and renamed AtoZ, partially in reference to an ARSION to Zenjo "run".
• Bizarro World - The Canadian wrestling fans (and Canada in general), due to them frequently cheering for the heels and booing the faces, and almost always for any Canadian wrestler, whether they're a face or a heel. Coined by WWE Raw color commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler when Edge, at the time a heel, got a massive ovation during a Canadian show. Conversely, Edge, despite being a face at the time, was booed at SummerSlam 2004, which took place at Toronto.
• ECW Sloppy Seconds / ECW So Are We Dating Or What - the second ECW One Night Stand Pay-Per-View.
• Eddiesploitation - The period of time from his death to WrestleMania 22 that Eddie Guerrero's death was made such a big deal on WWE programming that a wrestling manager who used to know him actually thought it might've been a work. Also applied to whenever Eddie is used as a posthumous plot point.
• Heck in a Deck: Hell in a Cell post-TV-PG, moreso after it became its own pay-per-view event which destroyed its reputation as a feud-ending match stipulation of last resort.
• Honor The Troops Thing - WWE's Tribute To The Troops shows. The name came about when Florida Georgia Line did guest commentary at Night of Champions in 2014 to promote their then-upcoming album, Anything Goes. The band announced during their appearance they'd be performing at Tribute To The Troops later that year, but stumbled over the name of the show, simply calling it "WWE's 'honor the troops' thing." It's stuck for some fans.
• Playboy Push - For a number of years, WWE would heavily push a female wrestler who was set to appear nude on the pages of Playboy (especially if that issue's release happened to fall within a couple of months of WrestleMania). The most notable women to receive such pushes are Sable, Chyna, Torrie Wilson, Candice Michelle, Christy Hemme and Ashley Massaro. Also applies to TNA, with Traci Brooks' return to television coinciding with her confirmation that she will be appearing in Playboy. Until it was revealed that she wouldn't be in the magazine itself, but on the online version. After the reveal, her push died completely and she once again disappeared from TV.
  • Strangely, it might be said that there is also a Playboy Curse, because every woman who has done so thus far has either been future endeavoured, left the company (since most of them attempt to use Playboy to get some mainstream recognition, this isn't exactly mysterious) or became lost in the shuffle.
• Reign Of Terror (or Reign of Terra), a nickname in reference to Triple H's seemingly-perpetual 2002-2005 title reigns, no-selling while his own moves were sold like death, burial of other stars, and never jobbing to anyone. (The alternate spelling is a play on his first gimmick, Terra Ryzing.)
• Royal Fumble: a term applied both to the 2014 and 2015 Royal Rumble matches, due to their very negative reactions.
• Smark Central - The northeastern United States, particularly Philadelphia, PA and New York City, as the region has the highest concentration of Smarks.
  • Also, to some extent, southeastern Canada.
• Spring Cleaning - The period in March and April right around WrestleMania when there's usually a mass firing of lower and mid-card superstars to make way for upcoming talent. There was no such firings in 2015, but it returned in 2016, albeit in May. Happened again in 2020 amidst the COVID-19 pandemic.
• Summer of Suck - WCW in the Summer of 1999 produced some of the worst shows in the history of the business on a weekly basis, courtesy of the Kevin Nash booking regime. To elaborate, Nash believed that the actual wrestling aspect of professional wrestling was passe and regularly presented shows consisting primarily of pre-taped skits. The low point was a particular Nitro where their opening uncontested hour was nothing but skits and segments.
  • As summer turned into fall, Eric Bischoff was sent home from the company and would essentially be replaced by Vince Russo and Ed Ferrera. Normally, this is where we'd say things went From Bad to Worse, but it is debatable that Russo's inaugural run with the company was better (or at least more fun to watch) than the extremely dull shows from the Summer of Suck.
• Summerfest - SummerSlam, as Jeremy Piven called it while guest hosting Raw.
• Sweet Saudi Money - WWE's Saudi Arabia-based Pay Per Views. "Sweet Saudi Money 1" was the Greatest Royal Rumble, "Sweet Saudi Money 2" was Crown Jewel, and "Sweet Saudi Money 3" was Super Showdown 2019.
• TNA That Phil Collins Song/TNA Sussudio - A derisive nickname for the TNA/Impact Wrestling PPV "Against All Odds", which is also the name of a song by Phil Collins.
• Wednesday Night War - On October 2, 2019, AEW Dynamite debuted on TNT, airing opposite Wrestling/WWENXT, which had debuted on the USA Network two weeks prior, moving from the WWE Network. Despite the name, NXT and AEW are more Friendly Fandoms, with both having large Smark fanbases who appreciate good wrestling no matter which promotion it is for, and many fans watch one show live and the other via timeshifting.
• WrestleMania Play (Button), WrestleMania Star, WrestleMania Sun, WrestleMania Fleur-de-lis/Saint - named for logo elements of WrestleManias 31, 32, 33 and 34 after Vince Stopped Numbering Sequels as part of the logo designs. Fans took this as well as you can expect.
  • InjuryMania - WrestleMania 32, after a rash of injuries starting in late-2015 completely gutted the roster (especially its main event talent) and changed plans dramatically. Among the number was all six champions who walked out of WrestleMania 31 with their titles^note Including Divas Champ Nikki Bella who was in a non-title tag team match. At one point during the build to the event, there was only one active full-time main event talent on the entire roster (Dean Ambrose, who ended up having to start a mini-feud with part-timer Triple H in the interim just so fans would have a reason to watch RAW).
  • "New Orleans Screwjob" for the WrestleMania 34 main event version of the Montreal Screwjob due to the fans' negative reaction towards Reigns and Lesnar. Some just wanted Lesnar to go away, seeing his gimmick as becoming stale and self-indulgent; some just wanted Reigns to go away because he'd been overexposed and had been floundering with fans for over three years; some wanted WWE to stop pussyfooting around, pull the trigger on Reigns, and let him sink or swim as champion; some thought the match's blood was over the top disgusting for the so-called PG era product aimed at children; some thought the match's finish was nonsensical booking; and some theorized that Vince had decided at the last minute to either put off Lesnar's defeat until he broke CM Punk's record or have him drop it at the Greatest Royal Rumble PPV in Saudi Arabia where Roman would be unlikely to be booed in victory. Regardless, very few people were happy at what seemed like the storyline's natural and intended conclusion getting put off again.
  • WrestleMania Infinity War and Endgame - Used to refer to the combination of WrestleManias 39 and XL and/or the two nights of XL what have many viewed as the Grand Finale of multiple storylines including Roman Reigns's 1300+ Universal Championship reign, Cody Rhodes story to finally win it all in the name of his family and the dangerous encroachment of the Rock's reentry to WWE complete with "on your left" coming in the form of Jey Uso, John Cena and the Undertaker. Also combined with the "This is Cinema" meme and adding to it, the event itself also debuted a brand new WWE Signature that resembled the Marvel Studios opening and Endgame's purple posters.
• WWE Blood Money - A name given to any WWE event set in Saudi Arabia for WWE's million deal with Saudi Arabia even with Arabia's controversial laws and allegations.

Belts & Titles

• WWC Universal Title
  • The Carlos Colon/Ray Gonzalez Title, after the belt's most frequent holders
• WWE Divas Championship
  • The Barbie Belt, due to it looking like a Barbie doll accessory.
  • Also called the Butterfly Belt, because of the large butterfly adorned on it. Also for this reason, the Tramp Stamp Title.
• The redesigned WWE ECW Heavyweight Championship
  • The Platinum Phoenix, given the nickname due to its silver plating and the phoenix-like graphic shown prior to title matches.
• The WWE Tag Team Titles got the nickname "The Pennies," since they're perfectly round, coppery, and have faces in profile on them, and because of WWE's perceived low opinion of the Tag Team division as of late.
• After the brand split introduced the Smackdown tag titles' blue leather and silver plates variant (and later changed Raw's to red leather and silver plates) they been called "The Nickels".
• WWE World Heavyweight Championship
  • Big Green belt - The WWF title from 1982 to 1984. Named so for its size and green-colored strap.
  • Hogan '84 belt - The WWF title belt used by Hulk Hogan in 1984.
  • Hogan '85 belt - The revised version of the above used by Hogan in 1985.
  • Hogan '86 belt - The WWF title belt used by Hogan from 1985 to 1988 (despite, you know, being called '86 belt).
  • Winged Eagle - The WWF title belt from 1988 to 1998 and the first one in years to be held by someone other than Hogan (although Hogan did have plenty of reigns with this belt as well). This name was semi-canonized when WWE began selling replicas through Figures Inc. It's the longest tenured belt and arguably the most beloved design the WWF/WWE ever had. Since the return of the classic Intercontinental Championship belt design, some of called for the return of this design for the World title as well.
  • Big Eagle - The revised version from 1998 to 2002.
  • Smoking Skull belt - The custom WWF championship used by "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. Named for the skull design with smoke coming from its eyeholes.
  • Undisputed Championship - The version used from 2002 to 2005. Named so because it was introduced after the WWF and WCW world titles were unified into the Undisputed WWF/E Championship.
  • Spinner Belt - The WWE title belt from 2005 to 2013. Named so due to the WWE logo in the middle being able to spin (at least until 2007, when it became fixed).
  • The belt design that debuted in 2013 is called The Class Ring and The Super Bowl Ring due to its resemblance to such rings. Big Logo has been used as well. The redesigned version with the Network WWE logo replacing the scratch logo is sometimes called the Network Logo belt.
• Big Gold (Belt) - The Long Running championship belt design^note Though it has been modified slightly over the years used to represent the NWA World Heavyweight Championship, WCW International World Heavyweight Championship, WCW World Heavyweight Championship and WWE's secondary World Heavyweight Championship used from 2002 to 2013.
  • Crumrine Big Gold - The original Big Gold made by Crumrine Jewelers used in NWA, WCW (until it was replaced by a cast copy in early 2001) and briefly in the WWF during Ric Flair's run in the early '90s. Also known as the "Ric Flair Big Gold" or "Ric Flair Belt" due to Flair being the most frequent holder of this belt (He pretty much had a stranglehold on this belt until 1992).
  • AFX Big Gold - refers to the cast copies made by AFX Studios used to replace the original Big Gold during WCW's final days, which would also appear during the WWF InVasion angle and as the WWE World Heavyweight Championship until early 2003.
  • Vegas Big Gold◊ - a knockoff version briefly used by Flair in WWF after NWA/WCW sued WWF for using the real Big Gold on their programming.
  • 3D Big Gold - refers to the WWE redesign of the Big Gold introduced in early 2003, of which there were several different versions throughout the years (one of which was actually a 2-D etched version used on house shows, but was briefly used by Randy Orton on TV in 2011). Named for its 3-D style machine engraving as opposed to the hand engraving of the original. It's also referred to as "The Average Gold" or "Small Gold" belt due to it being smaller than the original and its cast copies.
• The NWA World Heavyweight Championship belt used before and after the Big Gold is known as either the "Domed Globe" belt or the "Ten Pounds of Gold", the latter being the name of the offical biography of the belt's history.
• The Jolly Ranchers: The current color-coded top championship belt, the WWE Universal Championship (red), as well as the women's belts for each brand (red for Raw, blue for Smackdown). The initial reveal was met with mockery when the Universal Championship was unveiled; the crowd even chanted "that belt sucks" during the match to determine the inaugural champion.
  • Another name for the Universal title is the Fruit Roll-Up.
• The UwU Championship - The Undisputed WWE Universal Championship after some pointed out the accidental acronym.
• The WWF/E Intercontinental Championship belt used from 1998 to 2011 is called "the oval belt" or "oval Intercontinental Championship" due to its oval-shaped main plate.

Other

• Bucky Beaver Teeth - Kevin Dunn, one of the most despised men backstage in wrestling by fans, wrestlers and creative figures alike, for everything from sucking up to Vince to blatant sexism to not even being a big fan of wrestling; the only thing most people are willing to give him is that he can direct a TV show very well. Named as such for his prominent buck teeth as noted by Jim Cornette.
• Chikarmy for Chikara's dedicated fan base.
• The Citadel Of Lucha Libre - Arena Mexico, which became been the main venue of EMLL from 1956 onward.
• The Forbidden Door - coined by then-AEW Champion Chris Jericho during the build-up for his Wrestle Kingdom match with his Hiroshi Tanahashi stating that he would give Tanahashi a AEW title shot if the Ace beat him, the opening the aforementioned door between the two companies. Since then, it has been a nickname thrown around at any hint of a formal New Japan/All Elite crossover. It has also been used with for AEW's 2020-21 crossover with Impact Wrestling.
• Future Endeavored - What happens to someone in WWE when they have been fired. Taken from WWE.com's boilerplate for reporting these events: "WWE has come to terms on the release of {Insert Name Here}. We wish him the best in his future endeavors."
  • It's gotten to the point where Good Ol' JR himself used the term to discuss Charlie Sheen's firing from Two and a Half Men.
  • WWE has now started to sell this shirt,◊ and it's been worn on programming on one occasion by John Laurinaitis, who is the on- and off-screen man responsible for those roster decisions.
• Lemmings/Sheep - Semi-derogatory Nicknames for WCW and WWE loyalists, respectively; coined during the Monday Night Wars era. WCW "lemmings" were willing to follow Bishoff, Hogan and co. off a cliff. Sheep followed whatever insanity Vince McMahon threw onto WWE programming without question. Large chunks of both fanbases wore said nicknames with defiant pride.
• Muta Scale - A ranking on how bloody a match gets. Named after puroresu legend The Great Muta, who was known for grievously bloody matches. Specifically, "1 Muta" is defined as the amount Muta bled during a 1992 match against Hiroshi Hase. Because very rarely is a match bloody enough to warrant a full point, the ratings are typically 0.x Muta.
  • Chris Jericho hit 1.0 Muta in the Thrillseekers (Jericho/Lance Storm) vs. the Heavenly Bodies ("The Doctor of Desire" Tom Prichard and "Gigolo" Jimmy Del Ray) match at SMW Night of the Legends, August 5, 1994, which was the bloodiest match in SMW history.
  • Even more rarely, a match gets above 1 Muta. Example: The Undertaker vs Brock Lesnar Hell In A Cell.
  • Eddie Guerrero vs. John "Bradshaw" Layfield at Judgment Day '04 took the scale up to about 12.
• The Mutants / the ECW Faithful - Fans of the pre-revival ECW. Mutants was coined by Joey Styles, for the fans'...well, unusual behavioral traits, while ECW faithful is from FMW Faithful, fans of a company ECW took many cues from. Since ECW's fall, it has become a nickname for Philadelphia fans in general, ECW's hometown. Also, individual fans also get nicknames, such as:
  • Hat Guy - A fan who always dressed in Hawaiian shirts, sunglasses, and a large straw hat.
  • Kato - A fan who looks like Kato Kaelin, a man famous for being OJ Simpson's house guest.
  • Sign Guy - He had lots of signs. An homeage to him was later incorporated into The Dudley Boys' act as Sign Guy Dudley.
  • Faith No More Guy - He looked like Faith No More lead guitarist Jim Martin.
  • Tie Dye Guy - famous for his loud, tie-dye shirts.
• ROHbots - The Fan Community Nickname for Ring of Honor fans. Also can be derogatory when said by an Anti-ROH fan. When Sinclair Broadcast Group came in "Honor Nation" and later "Honor Club" were coined in an attempt to get away from this one.
• "Una Telenovela" a four year angle in AAA revolving around Gran Apache's overprotective behaviour and his daughter Fabi's suffering because of them.
• WWE's Thunder - A name for WWE's Thunderdome in reference to WCW's tv show "Thunder".