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10 WWE Name Changes That IMMEDIATELY Backfired

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🗓️ 24 July 2025

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10 WWE Name Changes That IMMEDIATELY Backfired

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0:00.0

Wrestling names! We get so mad when someone goes through a shift even though weeks later we don't care.

0:06.0

It's a very reactionary life we lead.

0:08.0

The same time, even though we do accept it, eventually sometimes the choices are bizarre.

0:13.0

Don't forget the WWF at one point wanted to call Stone Cold something like Chili McFreeze.

0:18.0

So really we've come a long way, but what stood out the most? Well, I am Simon Miller. Thank you for joining me. Hit the subscribe button and let's find out. Number 10, the War Raiders become the Viking experience. I mean, that's not even close. It all came to the fact that we can't say war on TV, apparently. That's what Vince McMahon didn't like and think of all the other things he muttered on television.

0:38.7

It never makes sense.

0:39.9

2 plus 2 equals potato.

0:41.4

It was a 15th of April 2019 though, which checks out.

0:45.0

W.W.E. in 2019 was just a nightmare through and through.

0:48.3

And when the War Raiders got their debut on Raw, they were now a theme park ride, The Viking Experience.

0:55.7

They had Viking names as well, which were Eric and Ivar, and they were now a theme park ride, The Viking Experience. They had Viking names as well,

1:00.7

which were Eric and Ivar, and they've told a great story about this. They too googled some Viking names afterwards and found that Eric and Ivar were top of the search, so nobody had even

1:05.7

researched it that hard. The real kicker was that the Raiders had been kicking ass in NXT,

1:09.8

so they were already in the system. Not like they just come from New Japan or something. They were established in the WW world to some degree, and yet we still switched it. Didn't help their threatening edge either. I mean, having experience in your name is always going to sound like you're selling some sort of a raxon holiday. Of course, as soon as the old WW was gone, new WWE sweetened them back to the War Raiders. And that's when you know,

1:32.9

if the company that made the decision in the first place sneaks it back in, then yeah, it was a mistake.

1:38.2

Fans didn't want the Viking experience either. It felt a little bit patronising. Number nine,

1:43.4

Piper Niven is Doodrop. This one feels like a

1:46.3

fever dream because it happened when the once Piper Niven was hanging out with Eva Marie in 2021.

1:52.0

My brain cannot compute that Eva Marie was with WWE then. The numbers do not add up. But hey,

1:57.9

she did dub Piper Doodrop, and to this day, I don't know what that means.

2:02.8

What is a doodrop? Maybe an evolved Pokemon. It didn't do niven any favors because of all the

2:07.6

reasons we've already laid out before. It's a silly name and therefore fans who weren't aware

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