Vince McMahon is one of the most powerful people in the world of professional wrestling, and in WWE what he says goes.
Over the last few years quite a few Superstars such as Alexander Rusev, Antonio Cesaro, Mustafa Ali, Buddy Murphy and others have had their names shortened to one word, and during a recent episode of his Grilling JR podcast Jim Ross tried to explain the reasoning behind the names.
According to Jim Ross, “it’s a showbiz thing” and it’s something that Vince McMahon does because the theory is that one word names are easier to remember.
“It’s a showbiz thing, simple as that. Vince wants to be Walt Disney. He wants to be an entertainment mogul, making movies, making T.V. shows, producing pay per views, all the things WWE has done as a publicly traded company.”
“It’s like Cher, always one name stars. Bono – there’s a zillion of them, one name. The theory is that it’s easier to remember one name for a person than two names for a person. I don’t agree with it. Now you’ve seen it’s come full circle and he’s being called Bobby Lashley, but at that time and to this day, look at all the people on the roster that have one name.”
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