WWE Switches Mia Yim's Ring Name Back After Just One Day

Farewell Michin, we hardly knew ye.

Mia Yim
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Hopefully no one was practising how to say "Michin", because that moniker is apparently dead, with WWE's renaming of the recently returned Mia Yim lasting less than 24 hours.

Yim was brought back to WWE earlier this month after being released last year and immediately placed into a feud alongside the OC against the Judgment Day. Touted as the OC's solution to their "Rhea (Ripley) problem," Yim also quickly found her way into WWE's first WarGames match on the main roster, joining Raw Women's Champion Bianca Belair's team last week.

But on Monday night, announcers and wrestlers started referring to Mia as "Michin," which she said the previous week is Korean for "crazy." The renaming, while not universal - the announcers still periodically called her Mia Yim - seemed official with her profile page on WWE.com reading Michin Monday night.

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WWE seemingly has reversed that change, with her superstar page reverting to "Mia Yim" on Tuesday. If this seems confusing to you, you're not alone. For her part, Yim explained that the nickname was one that is very personal to her, so it would seem weird for WWE to change course so quickly.

Abandoning the name change after one day would also seem strange considering WWE had filed a trademark application earlier this month for "Michin." What's really odd is that WWE could have just made it a nickname for Mia Yim to use interchangeably with her ring name, much like Roman Reigns has about 20 nicknames, but you don't see WWE renaming him, "The Tribal Chief" and ditching "Roman Reigns."

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Who knows? We might see another update in the next day or so indicating that WWE has changed its mind again on Yim's 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.