Post by SwitchBack on Oct 3, 2007 16:21:22 GMT -5
This comes from WRESTLECRAP.
When you step back and think about it, acronyms like nWo have proven at times to be a huge part of wrestling. World Wrestling Entertainment is more known as WWE. Degeneration X is always referred to as DX, and Triple H is never called by his full surname, that being Hunter Hearst Helmsley. No wonder, that name sucks. With this in mind, it stands to reason that wrestling companies would always try to come up with groups, characters, and even promotions that follow this formula. But it doesn’t always work out, as is the case in Wrestling’s Six Worst Acronyms:
6. VKM: Not sure if you’ve ever noticed this, but as WWE is the big name in the wrestling biz, a lot of folks in smaller groups try to make their names by throwing out challenges to that group, and in particular, it’s owner, one Vincent Kennedy McMahon. In 2006, the artists formerly known as Road Dogg and Billy Gunn decided they’d had enough of TNA, and began to boast of how they’d quit the promotion. This while being on their TV shows every week. Just imagine this scenario being played out in real life. You walk into McDonald’s, telling everyone that you’ve quit. This would include the customers. Somehow we doubt that the manager would allow you to keep working the drive thru and intentionally giving patrons apple pies when they’ve clearly ordered Filet o’ Fishes. As you’ve probably noticed, logic often goes out the wind in wrestling. Back where we were: the pair decided they would no longer be known as the James Gang (their TNA moniker), but were now to be called the Voodoo Kin Mafia, or VKM. See, they were using the same initials as Vincent Kennedy McMahon. It was like a crafty subliminal message. Nah, scratch that, it was a dumb message, and none too subliminal. Plus “Voodoo Kin Mafia” just sounds like a bunch of random words shoved together to make up VKM, like “Vivacious Kumquats Media” or “Vacant Karaoke Minds.” Nah, those both make more sense.
5. TIT: One of the reasons that the WWF was able to best WCW in the infamous Monday Night Wars was their proliferation of beautiful women. One that barely is mentioned these days but that was featured on a weekly basis was Terri Runnels, who managed Goldust under the name Marlena. Following the split with her androgenous charge, she began to cycle through new clients as frequently as she changed her thongs. Eventually, she became embroiled in the tag team scene and created a tournament in which the winner would become her latest acquisitions. The name of these playoffs would be the Terri Invitation Tournament. That’s right, the TIT. No doubt seven-year old wrestling fans the globe over were giggling, then later asking their friends exactly what a “tit” was.
4. PMS: Following her dabbling in the tag ranks, Ms. Runnels decided that she could conquer the wrestling world faster if she had more women helping her. And so a new coalition was formed, with herself as the leader and Miss Jacqueline and Ryan Shamrock (Ken’s pseudo sister) as her cronies. The group had a bad attitude towards men and dubbed themselves the “Pretty Mean Sisters”, otherwise known as PMS. Again, less an actual team name, and more a Mad Libs gone wrong.
3. POWW: Say what you want about him, but David McLane has been able to start no less than three women’s wrestling promotions over the past 20 years. Sure, the wrestling wasn’t great, but the groups were more about stupid slapstick comedy and showing scantily dressed women prancing about than wrestling, which is all fine with us. In the beginning there was GLOW, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, and more recently there was WOW, Women of Wrestling. But sandwiched in between those two was yet another troupe: the Powerful Women of Wrestling, or POWW. Yes, they were known as POWW despite the fact that the initials to the company were actually PWOW. Maybe Brandi Mae was actually the Dyslexic Farmer’s Daughter.
2. SEX: Ok, just look at the three initials to the left. Can there be any doubt, any doubt at all, that the creation of a group in wrestling with those word digits can be the creation of any man but Vince Russo? Sports Entertainment Extreme, or SEX, was a group that threatened to take over a fledgling new wrestling company. And as hard as it might be to fathom, this company had an even worse acronym for a name than SEX…
1. TNA: When Jeff and Jerry Jarrett decided to once again get back into the wrestling promotion business in 2002, they had many important decisions to make, not the least of which is what to name the company. Although it was decided that they would compete under the ages old National Wrestling Alliance banner, they believed that NWA was too passé and carried too much old-school baggage to be held alone as the company’s brand name, especially given the fact that the idea was for the promotion to give fans a brand new type of wrestling, one based on total nonstop action. Total nonstop action? Now there’s a name! And look at the initials: TNA! Why, people will be very curious as to what the hell we’re up to! Such was the moronic thinking, and soon enough, NWA-TNA morphed into TNA. Want to have fun with the wife one night? Tell her that you and little Billy are going to watch some TNA. A little free advice to any future promoters: do not name your company in such a way that a) parents won’t let their kids watch it and b) it may cause domestic violence.
When you step back and think about it, acronyms like nWo have proven at times to be a huge part of wrestling. World Wrestling Entertainment is more known as WWE. Degeneration X is always referred to as DX, and Triple H is never called by his full surname, that being Hunter Hearst Helmsley. No wonder, that name sucks. With this in mind, it stands to reason that wrestling companies would always try to come up with groups, characters, and even promotions that follow this formula. But it doesn’t always work out, as is the case in Wrestling’s Six Worst Acronyms:
6. VKM: Not sure if you’ve ever noticed this, but as WWE is the big name in the wrestling biz, a lot of folks in smaller groups try to make their names by throwing out challenges to that group, and in particular, it’s owner, one Vincent Kennedy McMahon. In 2006, the artists formerly known as Road Dogg and Billy Gunn decided they’d had enough of TNA, and began to boast of how they’d quit the promotion. This while being on their TV shows every week. Just imagine this scenario being played out in real life. You walk into McDonald’s, telling everyone that you’ve quit. This would include the customers. Somehow we doubt that the manager would allow you to keep working the drive thru and intentionally giving patrons apple pies when they’ve clearly ordered Filet o’ Fishes. As you’ve probably noticed, logic often goes out the wind in wrestling. Back where we were: the pair decided they would no longer be known as the James Gang (their TNA moniker), but were now to be called the Voodoo Kin Mafia, or VKM. See, they were using the same initials as Vincent Kennedy McMahon. It was like a crafty subliminal message. Nah, scratch that, it was a dumb message, and none too subliminal. Plus “Voodoo Kin Mafia” just sounds like a bunch of random words shoved together to make up VKM, like “Vivacious Kumquats Media” or “Vacant Karaoke Minds.” Nah, those both make more sense.
5. TIT: One of the reasons that the WWF was able to best WCW in the infamous Monday Night Wars was their proliferation of beautiful women. One that barely is mentioned these days but that was featured on a weekly basis was Terri Runnels, who managed Goldust under the name Marlena. Following the split with her androgenous charge, she began to cycle through new clients as frequently as she changed her thongs. Eventually, she became embroiled in the tag team scene and created a tournament in which the winner would become her latest acquisitions. The name of these playoffs would be the Terri Invitation Tournament. That’s right, the TIT. No doubt seven-year old wrestling fans the globe over were giggling, then later asking their friends exactly what a “tit” was.
4. PMS: Following her dabbling in the tag ranks, Ms. Runnels decided that she could conquer the wrestling world faster if she had more women helping her. And so a new coalition was formed, with herself as the leader and Miss Jacqueline and Ryan Shamrock (Ken’s pseudo sister) as her cronies. The group had a bad attitude towards men and dubbed themselves the “Pretty Mean Sisters”, otherwise known as PMS. Again, less an actual team name, and more a Mad Libs gone wrong.
3. POWW: Say what you want about him, but David McLane has been able to start no less than three women’s wrestling promotions over the past 20 years. Sure, the wrestling wasn’t great, but the groups were more about stupid slapstick comedy and showing scantily dressed women prancing about than wrestling, which is all fine with us. In the beginning there was GLOW, the Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling, and more recently there was WOW, Women of Wrestling. But sandwiched in between those two was yet another troupe: the Powerful Women of Wrestling, or POWW. Yes, they were known as POWW despite the fact that the initials to the company were actually PWOW. Maybe Brandi Mae was actually the Dyslexic Farmer’s Daughter.
2. SEX: Ok, just look at the three initials to the left. Can there be any doubt, any doubt at all, that the creation of a group in wrestling with those word digits can be the creation of any man but Vince Russo? Sports Entertainment Extreme, or SEX, was a group that threatened to take over a fledgling new wrestling company. And as hard as it might be to fathom, this company had an even worse acronym for a name than SEX…
1. TNA: When Jeff and Jerry Jarrett decided to once again get back into the wrestling promotion business in 2002, they had many important decisions to make, not the least of which is what to name the company. Although it was decided that they would compete under the ages old National Wrestling Alliance banner, they believed that NWA was too passé and carried too much old-school baggage to be held alone as the company’s brand name, especially given the fact that the idea was for the promotion to give fans a brand new type of wrestling, one based on total nonstop action. Total nonstop action? Now there’s a name! And look at the initials: TNA! Why, people will be very curious as to what the hell we’re up to! Such was the moronic thinking, and soon enough, NWA-TNA morphed into TNA. Want to have fun with the wife one night? Tell her that you and little Billy are going to watch some TNA. A little free advice to any future promoters: do not name your company in such a way that a) parents won’t let their kids watch it and b) it may cause domestic violence.
