Despite Iconic “Names” Synonymous With Him, Dwayne Johnson Once Tried to Popularize Outlandish Nickname

WWE is always known to make its wrestlers look larger than life. Be it in the ring, or in promos or on ground promotions. Most of the top WWE superstars are almost made to look like indestructible forces. And one very essential part of this exercise is giving the wrestler a commanding nickname. As in the case of the current superstars, you have ‘The American Nightmare’ Cody Rhodes, The ‘Beast Incarnate’ Brock Lesnar and The ‘Maverick’ Logan Paul to name a few.

But before all these wrestlers even started their wrestling careers, there was one Superstar whose nicknames and catchphrases became synonymous with the WWE. We are talking about ‘The Rock’ Dwayne Johnson who had another bizarre nickname he thought fans would love.

Dwayne Johnson wanted to start the nickname ‘Big Long Daddy From Cincinnati’

As any die-hard Rock fan knows, Dwayne Johnson was famous during the ‘Attitude Era’ for his ‘raised eyebrow’ which was famously known as ‘The People’s Eyebrow’. In addition to that he had his signature finishing move called ‘The People’s Elbow’.

And just like that, he also had popular catchphrases like, “It doesn’t matter what your name is!” and “Do you smell what the Rock is cooking?”. But his nicknames were what got the fans really excited. He was known as ‘The Great One’, ‘The People’s Champ’ and ‘The Most Electrifying Man In Sports Entertainment’.

But he also once had another really weird nickname he wanted to try out with his fans. On an appearance on “Late Night With Conan O’Brien”, he talked about that bizarre nickname that luckily never saw the light of day. He said, “I have one, i have been saying, but it hasn’t stuck. It’s called ‘Big Long Daddy From Cincinnati’.

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OMG!! Can you imagine the crowd chanting this? Thankfully, we stuck to ‘The Great One’ and ‘The People’s Champ’ throughout his entire career. But Dwayne Johnson also had another fairly unknown ring name right at the start of his career.

Dwayne Johnson was called ‘Flex Kavana’ in his early pro wrestling days

After Dwayne Johnson left the WWE to pursue a career in Hollywood, is when we actually started calling him by his real name. Until then fans always called him ‘The Rock’ or ‘The Brahma Bull’.

But in his early pro wrestling days, when he was with the USWA just before joining the WWE, he had a very peculiar ring name. He went by the name of ‘Flex Kavana’. Then later when he joined the WWE, he took up the name of ‘Rocky Maivia’ using a combination of his dad’s and grandfather’s nicknames.

But fans didn’t like that character and eventually, he had to take on the new role as a heel with the name ‘The Rock’. And the rest as they say is history as even today he is called Dwayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson. But do you guys think that ‘Big Long Daddy From Cincinnati’ had any chance of survival?

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