10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week (Dec 13)

by Jamie Kennedy

1. What New Day Were Almost Called Instead

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'Trillogy'?

That's right, 'Trillogy' was one name WWE's creative team pitched on a laundry list of them for the group that'd become known as New Day. The boys laughed at some others on their podcast, including 'The Voice', 'The Achievers', 'The Tribe', 'Tri-Verse', 'A-Men' and 'Redeem'.

Unbelievably, those aren't even the worst ideas WWE had for Kofi Kingston, Big E and Xavier Woods. Get this, they were almost saddled with the quite tragic 'Saving Our Souls' moniker, or called 'The Temptations' due to their affinity for gospel singing during those introductory vignettes. WCW's 3 Count, eat your hearts out.

Music lovers will know that The Temptations were already a popular soul group who started soothing audiences with tunes like 'My Girl' and 'Papa Was A Rollin' Stone' from the 1960s onwards. Was Vince Russo booking in 2014 or something?

What other big wrestling facts did you learn this week? For more wrestling, check out 16 Things You Probably Missed From AEW Dynamite (Dec 11) and WWE TLC 2019: 10 Things That Must Happen!

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Lifelong wrestling, video game, music and sports obsessive who has been writing about his passions since childhood. Jamie started writing for WhatCulture in 2013, and has contributed thousands of articles and YouTube videos since then. He cut his teeth penning published pieces for top UK and European wrestling read Fighting Spirit Magazine (FSM), and also has extensive experience working within the wrestling biz as a manager and commentator for promotions like ICW on WWE Network and WCPW/Defiant since 2010. Further, Jamie also hosted the old Ministry Of Slam podcast, and has interviewed everyone from Steve Austin and Shawn Michaels to Bret Hart and Trish Stratus.