15 WWE Wrestlers Who Lost A Name
6. (Alexander) Rusev
Blink and you might have missed the fact that Rusev was not
his first name.
When the Bulgarian Brute debuted on Raw in 2014, he went by the name Alexander Rusev, a name that seems a little weak for the Super-Athlete in retrospect. But just a couple months into his run, the first name disappeared and was never mentioned again, leaving us with the now well-known one-word moniker.
It turns out that this shortened name has played really well, much like Drago in Rocky IV (you rarely hear him referred to by his first name of Ivan). Besides, “Alexander Rusev Day” doesn’t have quite the same ring to it.