Every wrestler has a story behind how his or her ring name came about.

If there wasn’t such intrigue, #MyWrestlerNameWouldBe would not be trending on Twitter on Wednesday. For The Win caught up with some wrestlers to ask them the story behind their ring name:

1. Adam Cole, Ring of Honor World champion

“My parents were going to name me Cole as my first name. Up until the day before I was born, they were set on Cole. That’s what they were going to go with. Then they changed it at the last minute. That’s where Cole comes from.

There’s really no funny story to Adam. My real first name is Austin. But I picked Adam to stay away from Austin because there are so many Austins in pro wrestling – Austin Aries, Stone Cold Steve Austin, even Austin Idol if you want to go back that far. It would have been like starting a band and putting the name Beatles in it. Austin is so popular and so well-known so I wanted to totally stay away from that so I became Adam Cole.”

2. Bayley, WWE RAW Superstar (via Talk Is Jerico interview)

“I was throwing out names like Bobby or Jordan, something like that because I was like ‘I don’t want it to be super girly, like I don’t want to be Patricia or something.’ I don’t know if that’s girly but I was thinking of it, (like) Jennifer. Bailey was one of them and that was like the last one I wanted. I did not want that name.

“They gave me three choices and I forget what the other one was but one of them was Davia, which is not Davina, and I was like ‘are you guys missing the ‘n’ or…?’ They’re like, ‘No, Davia.’ I said, ‘That’s not even a name.’ … I was like, ‘Man, I guess I’ll just go with Bayley.’ … It was with a ‘i’ and I was like ‘OK, I’ll choose this … because I was ready to send in another list of names because I was just not happy. I finally said, ‘OK, if I choose this one I have to spell it B-A-Y because I’m from the Bay Area’ and I thought I was so cool. Yeah, it has to mean something to me. So then I went with that and now I love it.”

3. “Stone Cold” Steve Austin, WWE Hall of Famer

The way Austin tells the story is that the name came from Dutch Mantell, who was the booker in Memphis back in the late 1980s for the United States Wrestling Association. “I introduced myself and said, ‘My name is Steve Williams,’ ” Austin said and Mantell replied, “You can’t be Steve Williams here … They already got a guy named Steve Williams. They have Dr. Death Steve Williams. There can’t be two Steve Williams.”

Mantell then gave Austin a few chances to come up with a new name. “This is a life changing decision that’s going to affect the rest of my career,” Austin said, and he still wasn’t able to come up with a name.

Eventually, Mantell dubbed him Steve Austin and sent him to the ring, although Austin says his first response to the name was, “You mean the 6 Million Dollar Man?”

4. Alexa Bliss, WWE Smackdown Superstar

“It was one of the names that I pitched. At the time, I was playing around with being a Southern Belle-type character in NXT and always say, Bless Your Heart.’ For a Southern woman to say that, it was kind of in an insulting tone. It ended up more like, ‘Bliss Your Heart.’ It became a play on words and not meaning a good thing and there are so many ways to take it, ‘Blissed Off’ and ‘Bliss Slap.’ I know if it got approved, it would be so much fun to play with.”

5. Jay Lethal, former Ring of Honor World champion

“Two friends, John and Eric, would take the train with me to get to the wrestling school for Jersey All Pro Wrestling. On one of the train rides, we were trying to think of wrestling names in case the training went well and we became something in wrestling. The two choices for me came down to Jay Lethal and Jay Cypha. I picked Jay Lethal, but sometimes I wonder how Jay Cypha would have done.

“Part of me wanted to use my real name, but my dad was so against it. I was only 16. He was saying, ‘I don’t want people knowing your real name, what if someone tries to steal your identity?’ ”

6. Frankie Kazarian, former Ring of Honor and TNA tag team champion

“Kazarian is a family name so I always wanted to use it. Early in my career, I was “The Future” Frankie Kazarian, mainly because I’m a huge fan of Back to the Future. No one had that moniker in wrestling at that time. My new nickname is the “Heavy Metal Rebel” and that ties right into a few things: I love heavy metal, my son’s name is Rebel, I’m rebellious by nature. Just an extension of who I am.”

7. Gail Kim, TNA Hall of Famer, former WWE women’s champion

“Ron Hutchison gave me the name, ‘La Felina.’ I guess he thought I was catlike and put me in a mask for my first few matches. That was because I was wrestling Traci Brooks, who was a babyface and Ron thought I was ‘too pretty’ to be a heel against Traci. Those are his words. … I never thought of using that name once I hit WWE and they just used my real name, which I’m grateful for to this day.”

Colt Cabana, Two-time Ring of Honor tag team champion and independent wrestling star

My last name is Colton. My nickname has been Colt a lot of my life so I wanted my first name to be “Colt”. The tricky part was the last name. I had wanted it to be McCullah for a long time. Then, the wrestlers at my training school started saying it fast and we all realized it sounded like Coca-Cola. I didn’t want to be known as Coca-Cola my whole career. I tried a lot out and even wrestled as Colt Nevada on a show early on. Finally, Colt Cabana came to my head and I asked my trainer Ace Steel if he liked it and he did. Obviously I think it flows well because of the song Copa Cabana, but either way, that’s how the name Colt Cabana came to be.

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