10 WWE Superstar Names That Are Totally Fake (And 7 That Are Surprisingly Real)
What’s in a name? Well, the entirety for those who are a qualified wrestling. Your identify is your id and for WWE stars, it’s also the object that makes you money. WWE loves to have complete keep watch over over the names their wrestlers use, so ceaselessly they're going to give them logo new names, beyond their real names, so that they may be able to copyright it and use it every time they want. Some wrestlers are sensible, like Samoa Joe, who copyrighted his identify sooner than signing with WWE so he has keep an eye on over it. While others have been passed new names from the very starting and needed to alternate from what they had been identified prior to.
There are a choose few individuals who do get to keep their actual identify. Brock Lesnar is the most efficient instance, and it’s no marvel why Vince McMahon wouldn’t wish to trade his title for something fake. Many wrestlers have got to keep their real identify and so they must really feel lucky. Here are 10 WWE Superstars who've fake names and seven others that are in reality real.
17 FAKE: Sami Zayn
Sami Zayn is for sure a totally fake identify, but it’s pretty clever for a fake name, making an allowance for his actual title is Rami Sebei. So take the S from his ultimate identify and substitute it with the R in his first and also you get Sami. It’s now not the worst made-up title WWE has, and so they almost certainly gained’t shorten it to only one title either.
16 REAL: Johnny Gargano
Johnny Wrestling's real title is actually Johnny Gargano. He has used it all through his complete professional career. It’s the Johnny Wrestling part that is maximum fascinating, as he mentioned in a podcast that he asked Triple H about the use of it, figuring out WWE didn’t like several reference to wrestling. So, Johnny Sports-entertainer?
15 FAKE: Drew McIntyre
Drew McIntyre got a part of his identify right, as Drew is just a short form of his actual first identify, Andrew. But McIntyre is surely totally fake, and was once picked through WWE as McIntyre used his actual last name, Galloway, prior to coming to WWE, and so they sought after something that still sounded Scottish.
14 REAL: Shinsuke Nakamura
Shinsuke Nakamura came to visit from Japan where he used to be already an enormous start in New Japan Pro Wrestling. So WWE wasn’t about to mess that up and change his identify and lose all credibility he had already built up over his career the place he is thought of as some of the top draws in Japan.
13 FAKE: Buddy Murphy
Buddy Murphy doesn’t even get the Buddy a part of his name, as WWE minimize it, and Murphy isn’t a part of his real identify at all both, as his real identify is Matthew Adams. Another victim of WWE shortening a reputation, and this one was brutal, making an allowance for Murphy doesn’t sound that superb as a unmarried strive against name.
12 REAL: Bobby Fish
Bobby isn’t technically his actual name, however rather a nickname of his actual title. Bobby Fish is if truth be told Robert Fish in real existence, and has beautiful well long gone by Bobby Fish his complete profession. Not too many people get to keep their actual title, and it helped that he came in with a large number of warmth as part of the tag workforce with Kyle O’Reilly.
11 FAKE: Seth Rollins
Seth Rollins no less than were given to assist pick out his personal name, as in NXT he jotted down a host of names he preferred and so they happily put Seth and Rollins in combination. His actual title is Colby Lopez, and on the indie she was the usage of the identify Tyler Black, so Rollins may be very used to going by means of a distinct identify.
10 REAL: Keith Lee
Keith Lee would possibly sound like a made-up name for Wrestling, but it surely’s the same title he had on his again when he performed football for Texas A&M, and the same identify he has used all the way through his professional wrestling profession. Hopefully, WWE doesn’t see any reason to change his title when he gets referred to as up as they did with the Viking Raiders.
9 FAKE: Becky Lynch
(*7*)Becky Lynch is a made-up identify as the RAW Women’s Champion’s actual title is Rebecca Quin. That would totally work as a real identify for her, and I guess the Becky section sticks to her real identify slightly well. But it’s most likely another example of WWE seeking to make her sound extra Irish with the title.
8 FAKE: Jimmy and Jey Uso
Jimmy and Jey are participants of the Fatu family, and slightly than give them their actual last identify, WWE created Uso, which in reality manner ‘brother’ in Samoa. So that works out smartly bearing in mind the 2 are brothers, and is actually inventive. Their real names are in fact Joshua and Jonathan Fatu.
7 REAL: Drew Gulak
Drew Gulak is actually his real identify, however his different ring identify used outside of WWE could be extra interesting, because it was Soldier Ant. He labored with Chuck Taylor, who was known as Fire Ant as a part of a tag team. With Drew McIntyre being a first-rate match player identify, Drew Gulak may just easily be Gulak very in a while.
6 FAKE: Roman Reigns
Roman Reigns is a company created title, as Reigns is in reality a member of the Anoa’I family of wrestling, which incorporates the likes of the Rock, the Wild Samoans and Yokozuna. He did use his actual first name Leati, in FCW before it became NXT and he used to be repackaged as Roman Reigns.
5 REAL: Mickie James
When Mickie James got here onto the scene as the obsessed Trish Stratus fan, any person may have figured Mickie James was once a made-up WWE title. But it isn’t, as her real name is if truth be told Mickie James. She used a fake name when she was once in TNA wrestling, going through the identify Alexis Laree.
4 FAKE: Carmella
Carmella’s name is totally fake, because it was picked to sound like a high-end woman from New York. Her real title is Leah Van Dale, which wouldn’t in reality paintings for her gimmick or as an excellent ring identify in any respect. Carmella is any other single title wrestler, but at least she has made it work and stood out.
3 FAKE: Sasha Banks
Sasha Banks is a fake name and up to now, she has managed to keep both her names as WWE likes to chop off one. I suppose when your finisher is called the Bank Statement, you more or less need to keep it in there. Her real identify is Mercedes Kaestner-Varnado, so if they had been going to go to one name, Mercedes would be great.
2 REAL: Akira Tozawa
(*10*)Surprisingly for WWE, they let Akira Tozawa keep his real title. He just about has simplest used that identify for his whole profession, or portions of it. Considering different foreign wrestlers get made-up names at all times, Akira must feel lovely lucky that WWE didn’t make him alternate it for copyright reasons.
1 FAKE: Zelina Vega
Zelina Vega is a extra ingenious name and if any individual is in all probability at the chopping block to lose a reputation, it’s her. Considering the individual she manages, Andrade, were given his identify cut down, it sort of feels most effective time for Zelina to lose the Vega part of her identify. Her real identify is in fact Thea Trinidad.
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