Who She Is: 21 Year Old Fourth Generation WWE Star Undergoes Name Change

That’s who she is. A wrestler’s name is one of the most important things about them as the wrong name can put a hard limit on where your career can go. It is hard to imagine that wrestlers with certain names are going to reach the top of the card no matter what they do. Sometimes you will see the name changed and it can be a positive update, which hopefully is the case with a recent change.

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Last October, Simone Johnson, the daughter of Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, made her NXT debut, joining the Schism stable. She was introduced as Ava Raine and has yet to wrestle her first match. However, according to her WWE.com profile, her name has officially been shortened to simply Ava. There is no word on why WWE made the change or when Ava will make her in-ring debut.

Ava has done well while she has been around. Check out her time in NXT:

Opinion: This is something that WWE has done for a long time now and I really don’t get it. The name Ava is fine as the first half of a full name but there is something weird about having wrestlers with just their first name. It is something that can work, but at the same time, WWE makes it such a habit that it makes almost no sense. Now she is going to get to see what she can do with her new name, though making her debut is a bit more important.

What do you think of the change? How will Ava do when she debuts? Let us know in the comments below.

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