15 WWE Wrestlers Who Lost A Name

4. (Bobby) Lashley

Mustafa Ali
WWE.com

Remember when Bobby Lashley was the future of WWE, when Donald Trump chose him as his representative in the “Battle of the Billionaires” against Vince McMahon and Umaga?

It’s been 10 years since he left WWE, and Lashley has found success in TNA and the world of MMA. But it all started during a two-year run in WWE where he won the reactivated ECW Championship and the United States Championship. Many thought he was being poised for a run with a world championship, but that never came to pass.

During his short stint with WWE, Lashley shed his first name, although it seemed to come and go periodically. Trump called him by his full name in 2007, just months before his final WWE match.

With a rumored return to WWE imminent, it’ll be interesting to see whether he goes by his full name or just his last name.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.