Last year Trinity Fatu and Mercedes Mone both walked out of WWE, but they have since resurfaced in the world of professional wrestling. Trinity recently debuted with Impact Wrestling and Mercedes made her debut with NJPW earlier this year.
Trinity Fatu spent years working as Naomi in WWE, and the SmackDown Women’s Champion recently explained to Denise Salcedo that she picked the name because she was trying to be a knockoff of supermodel Naomi Campbell.
“That’s where I picked my first wrestling name; that’s where I came up with Naomi because I had this idea. I couldn’t use my real name that was the initial one I wanted to use. But then I was like, maybe I can be this knockoff Naomi Campbell in the ring. I had this whole idea concept but that never worked out, so then I was just stuck with the name Naomi.”
Trinity went on to explain the original concept she had for her character when she added, “When I originally came in I would be a heel so I had this idea of being this bougie, shady, wannabe supermodel who was just not it. But I did it for like a few weeks but I was like this ain’t it.”
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