17 WWE Superstars Who Mysteriously Lost A Name

Rusev's darkest secret -- other than the fact that he's the most sympathetic babyface in WWE -- is that he wasn't always this mononymic, unstoppable monolith. In NXT, he was just a regular dude, and he had a regular name. He wrestled in a skirt and was in a tag team with Scott Dawson and he got pinned by Enzo Amore. See the disconnect? Alexander is a kid that has no-good, very bad days. Rusev crush, you know?

Despite this, he held on to his first name for the first few weeks of his main roster tenure, as well as a considerable slew of pre-debut vignettes. I kept hoping that he'd revert to it during his broken-ankled, post-breakup sadbeard phase. Just like Lana leaves him and takes his intimidating Slavic surname with her, and he's just a dude moping around on crutches named "Alex".