10 Rejected Wrestler Names WWE ACTUALLY Pitched
4. Buddy Peacock (Daniel Bryan)
A break for WWE's creative heads now, if not the processes themselves.
Buddy Peacock is a ridiculously lame wrestling name, as unremarkable as Michael McGillicutty or Braden Walker, but somehow even more a p*ss take of the company's wretched recent history labelling their talent. As if the mind thinking it up might actually have been trolling those that had asked for one in the first place. It almost certainly was.
As if he's not already proven this hundreds of times over in his remarkable decade-long stay with the company, Bryan's a polymath. He can do it all between the ropes and on the microphone, with a patter game behind the scenes as impressive as the physical gifts he's shared with the world.
Bryan submitted 10 names himself as per the company's request, before landing on the surname switch via William Regal. He later told Chris Jericho on his podcast that Peacock was his favourite, along with Lloyd Boñier, ("pronounced as boner") before Daniel Bryan was the agreed-upon answer.