13 Things We Learned From Luke Harper On Talk Is Jericho

3. Becoming Luke Harper

In regards to how he got the name Luke Harper, he says he was supposed to do a job in a squash match in NXT and they quickly stuck him with the name. Once they got into the production meeting someone spoke up and said that they may have plans to use him at some point and suggested using someone else for the squash match. After that meeting though, the name had stuck. He says he had pitched around thirty names for himself but that every single one of them had been shot down. Jericho asks what some of them were and he says he doesn't know, before adding that "Gator Wilkins" was one of the names that he thought was money for sure. This leads Jericho into talking about how he was convinced that his first name Jack Action had superstar written all over it until Lance Storm told him how stupid it was.