15 WWE Wrestlers Who Lost A Name

15. Apollo (Crews)

Let’s start with the most recent example, as Apollo Crews showed up on Raw one night last month and was simply introduced by his first name.

Gone was his last name of Crews, with no reason given, publicly or behind the scenes. For a wrestler who has been in limbo, stuck in a go-nowhere stable like Titus Worldwide, any change has got to be viewed as potentially being a good one. And when you’re left with a name like Apollo, that’s not a bad move.

It turns out that an internal email leaked out revealing that WWE hacked off his last name because of the similarity to the Parkland high school shooter last month who murdered 17 people. The names sound similar but are spelled completely differently, making this an odd reason.