10 Worst Wrestler Name Changes In WWE History

9. "I'm Braden Walker"

Chris Harris Braden Walker As if the previous example wasn't bad enough, WWE's creative braintrust decided that the best way to introduce the wrestler who was part of a hot TNA tag-team division was to strip him of any personality, giving him a generic black singlet and promo verbiage so dry you could call it a digestive biscuit. Chris Harris was a great performer as part of a team with James Storm in TNA. Known as 'Wildcat' and 'Cowboy' respectively, Harris & Storm were dubbed America's Most Wanted, and produced great matches with almost everybody they entered the ring opposite. Meanwhile, when Harris was hired by WWE and set to debut on the ECW brand, he was given the exciting name of Braden Walker, and instructed to introduce himself in the same way Dolph Ziggler later would, only with less pizzazz. Shockingly, this didn't get over whatsoever, and Walker only lasted a few months in WWE. How he was ever expected to succeed with such a boring persona is truly baffling, and reflects more badly on WWE than it does on him.
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