Y2Impact wrote:

Charlie Scene wrote:

If Y2Impact and Mr. DEDEDE can accomplish what they have, I'm gonna have to say no, names do not matter.

This is 100% true, but I refuse to let DDD & I be outed without mentioning Robbie V and Mister K being in that same group. That said, these names are still better than things like "Deadman 4 Life" and "wweforever98". Alejandro Ariel was a pretty badass name, by the way.

Deadman 4 Life and Y2Impact are about on the same level to be honest.

Also can't forget American Dragon 5000 and The Bottomline!!! Ahh, efed names were great when it was all Y!A names. I was smart enough to choose Charlie Scene right off the bat, so even when everyone else had a stupid name, I was still there swaggin it up. 

There was also Graduation Bear, The Legacy Continues, and the guy who alot of people consider the best fedder on this side of the world, AJ Arias, first e-fed name was "13 Times The King of Kings."

Everyone does dumb shit sometimes. 

Except for me. Charlie Scene, Alejandro Ariel, both great names. (We'll forget I spent some time in CWF as "Craid Craig" and went down as the #1 Tag Team in IEW history as "Crash Smash." Also I debuted in CWF with a YAMATO pic base under the ring name "YOSIMATO." Which btw -si- isn't even in the Japanese language, but that didn't stop me!)

I would hope not

To answer more thoroughly, nope, not as long as it's within the realm of reason. I would change my name in an instant if given the chance to start over, but I created Y2Impact when I was 11. As history accumulates, you grow more attached to whatever name you have, similar to Mr. DEDEDE, Mister K, Robbie V, Heart Break Boy, etc. Not the most inventive or original names, but all guys who achieved immense success under those characters.

Nope, because if someone like Jacob Senn (and Imp and HBG wanting me to change it to Zen) can be world champion, or Pizza Boy becoming National Elite Champion, anyone can.  It's all about how well you can promos and the quality you bring.

I sure hope not

Das Lannister wrote:

I don't think it makes much of a difference. If a guy going around calling himself H in Triple form, I'm pretty sure anything else in wrestling can stick. Let's be real now, "Mr. DEDEDE" is inarguably EAW's biggest legend. Not exactly a top-flight name.

If you have the talent, you can make ANYTHING sound good. You can make anything sound mainevent material, like DDD/Rock/Triple H have.

ken with the props   ty based lannister

Guys

'Kawajai' was a EAW Champion, Triple Crown, Hall of Famer etc.

what the fuck is a Kawajai

Highly.

In eFedding, no - assuming that the judges in a competitive eFed aren't biased or petty or anything, all that matters is the substance and quality of the content put forward. The same, however, doesn't apply to professional wrestling in real life. In real professional wrestling, you are made by the audience. If the audience can't take someone seriously, they won't get behind them and that person won't succeed, most likely. Gimmicks like Max Moon, Bastion Booger, so on and so forth, were unsuccessful because the audience couldn't take them seriously right off of the bat, due to their name.

I think a name can affect success negatively, if one goes out of his/her way to come up with something stupid. Nowadays, I'm not sure people could get away with using Yahoo! Answers names like myself and some of the guys I already knew upon my arrival can. Even a name like Lioncross isn't common among the people I met for the first time when I got to EAW - lots of Firstname Lastname instead.

I think a name can affect success positively like it did in my case, where Lioncross immediately got a match with Heart Break Boy based on our history. I probably don't get that if I came up with a new character for EAW. That being said, I'm not sure that's the question that was being asked.

Zack Crash

Zach Crashington The Third

Zack Smash

Hmmmmmmmm...

In e-feds?....well, hi, I'm The Pizza Boy, new EAW National Champion.  Nice to meet you, I SHOULDN'T BE HERE IF NAMES MATTER!

In wrestling itself? I don't know.  We've got a guy named Dolph Ziggler who can claim to have held the World Heavyweight Title twice, a dude named after mineral sediment as the face of an era, and another named after a generic green super hero as the former face of wrestling.  Also a dude named The Undertaker who used to wear leg warmers whose not only been champion, but had one of the more iconic careers in modern day wrestling.

Not anymore than a pic base can, which means ever so slightly, but overall not really to a degree that it's even an easily noticed issue. I mean if you joined EAW as "FagboyKillerMSNRus1999" it probably wouldn't be that awesome, you could even find success, but there'd always be a degree of less gravitas to you.

no

I heard it affects success in marriage when the two of you share the same last name...