5 Superstars who changed names after their WWE release

#1 Dean Ambrose

By the time 2019 came around, Dean Ambrose had gotten tired of the way he was being used in WWE and had made up his mind to leave the company. He went on to reunite with Roman Reigns and Seth Rollins during his final few weeks in WWE, and the trio faced Drew McIntyre, King Corbin, and Bobby Lashley on several occasions.

The Shield defeated the villains at "The Shield's Final Chapter", which was Dean's last WWE match. He remained inactive for a while before posting a teaser for his in-ring return as "Jon Moxley", the notorious character that he used to portray before he made it big in WWE.

Moxley made his huge debut at AEW's first event, Double Or Nothing in May last year, and attacked both Chris Jericho and Kenny Omega. Moxley has been dominating the AEW roster ever since then. He defeated Chris Jericho for the AEW World title at AEW Revolution, thus becoming the promotion's second-ever World Champion.

Moxley is still holding the belt and it seems like he isn't regretting his move to AEW one bit.

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