10 Rejected Wrestler Names WWE ACTUALLY Pitched
7. The Mastodon (Vader)
You'd be forgiven for thinking that's what Vader was called in WWE, considering how much Vince McMahon called him this every time he was on screen anyway.
It's funny to listen back to those calls with the benefit of hindsight. McMahon, the gaffer, doing whatever he wants and what he obviously felt quite deeply by beating viewers over the head with his bizarre nickname, as if this psycho killer he'd just signed was actually an...extinct...elephant...thing?
We all know now of The Chairman's penchant for dinosaur bones after that hulking great T-Rex head gifted to him by Triple H finally made it on to pay-per-view at Money In The Bank 2020, but his presumable dislike for name is only matched by his obvious adoration for his own creation. End result "Vader" was of course shortened from the full "Big Van Vader" he'd gone by for the bulk of his career, itself a monument for McMahon's stubbornness and need to own as much of his performers as he can.