9 Wrestlers Who Had Their Names Shortened on the Main Roster

#6 From Big E Langston to Big E

The booty shaking breakout star of the New Day used to be a menacing heel in NXT.

The man who terrorized NXT and is heavily fancied by Vince McMahon to be one of the next big stars in WWE, Big E went from being Dolph Ziggler's bodyguard to part of one of the greatest trios in WWE history. In this evolution, his name also saw a subtle change when his last name 'Langston' was dropped.

According to Big E himself in a 2015 interview with Christain Rosenberg of AfterBuzzTV, the last name was dropped because Vince McMahon felt that Big E was just a more powerful name. "The word I got was that Vince thought 'Big E' sounded more powerful without the last name so you show up and sometimes you know with what we do there's a debate or a discussion or you talk more say so and it's a little more hands on. And in this case it was a matter of me showing up and this is who you are now so you deal with it."