5 WWE Superstars and what their names were originally going to be

#2 Steve Austin could have been called Fang McFrost

That's the bottom line 'cause Fang McFrost said so

“Stone Cold” Steve Austin is one of the most iconic WWE characters of all time, but his career could have taken a very different path had he been given an alternative name in the mid-1990s.

Austin, originally known as The Ringmaster when he debuted with the company in 1995, was looking to change his gimmick and wanted a 'cold' new character name after taking inspiration from a television show called “The Iceman”.

His wife at the time, Jeanie Clark, revealed in 2015 that the WWE office faxed several temperature-based names back to him, including Ice Dagger, Fang McFrost and Chilly McFreeze.

Austin found the names hilarious, according to Clark, who inadvertently went on to create the legendary character name when she told her then-husband to drink his tea before it went “stone cold”.