credit pwinsider A number of WWE developmental talents have been officially re-christened with what look to be their new official WWE ring names.

Stephen Cole has been renamed Cole Andrews

 

Britney Fetkin has been renamed Devin Taylor.

 

Erika Hammond has been renamed Veronica Lane.

 

Smith James has been renamed Bull Dempsey.

 

Lexi Kaufman has been renamed Alexa Bliss.

 

CJ Perry is now LANA.

 

Rebecca Quinn (the former Rebecca Knox) has been renamed Becky Lynch.

 

Adam Scherr has been renamed Braun Stowman. Interesting they would rename him as he's got a bit of a name in the bodybuilding world, having won the 2012 Arnold Amateur Strongman World Championships.

 

Australian talent Matt Silva has been renamed Buddy Murphy.

 

There should be some additional name changes in the days ahead as well.

What happened to cool names like Smash, Hitman, Warrior etc?! Give it a f*cking rest with the generic real names! The face of the company for 10 years is John. Lets get some decent gimmick names back.

What happened to cool names like Smash, Hitman, Warrior etc?! Give it a f*cking rest with the generic real names! The face of the company for 10 years is John. Lets get some decent gimmick names back.

I hear you but sadly it seems the days of good gimmick names are dying.

I hear you but sadly it seems the days of good gimmick names are dying.

 

Long gone

I actually don't mind Solomon Crowe. It's got a kinda gothic vibe about it.

Sounds like someone who would hang around with the Wyatt's

How about Ambrose, Crowe, Rollins and Reigns? That rolls off the tongue quite nicely! :lol

It does

How about Ambrose, Crowe, Rollins and Reigns? That rolls off the tongue quite nicely! :lol

 

What have I been telling youse guise? It's habbening! GET HYPE!

I'm past the "why the f*ck did they call him that stage" as long as the wrestler behind the name is allowed to work and is not jobbed out.

 

Dolph Ziggler's name was the biggest joke in town, Sami Zayn caused net-rage because WWE dared to rename / unmask El Generico and changing Bryan Danielson to Daniel Bryan had people in a twiz too.

 

Nobody bats an eyelid over those names anymore and I'm sure it'll be the same for the new guys too.

 

Not to mention Buddy Murphy is a fantastic name for a wrestler... especially if he's a friend of Sheamus from the old country.

Sami Zayn being a terrible name has nothing to do with renaming and unmasking El Generico, it's entirely about it being a really stupid, cartoonish, non-threatening, laughable, nerdy, tacky name.

Yeah, I think we all knew there was no way he was staying as Generico, but Sami Zayn was initially worse than any of us expected. Not that it's any better now, we've just got used to it, the same as Bryan and Ziggler.

It's better than the Ringmaster

I have no problem with the name Sami Zayn, and I think it fits his personality pretty well.

Veronica Lane sounds a bit pornstar.

And without his name, we wouldn't have got Cesaro to shout Zaaaaaaaaayn!