He obviously knew the comic value of his surname, as the Wiki says:
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Hackenschmidt was also a pioneer in the field of weightlifting. He invented the exercise known as the hack squat, whose name is a reference to his own.
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I suppose the sports journalists who wrote about him were all hacks too... But the name Lurich is weird too, like lurid.
Wiki entry:
Georg Hackenschmidt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia