While there are plenty of examples of Vince McMahon's creative doing wonders for the professional wrestling business. However, he's also been the worst thing to ever happen to WWE at times (especially in his later years) and many of his decisions have been real head-scratchers.
There was a period when McMahon grew obsessed with adding flashy adjectives to the names of WWE Superstars; some short-lived efforts included the "Scintillating" Santos Escobar, "Cheeky" Chelsea Green, and the "Loquacious" LA Knight.
Some did stick and even carried over to the Triple H era WWE. However, an update on WWE.com confirms Seth "Freakin" Rollins has finally lost the "Freaking" and is back to being plain old Seth Rollins.
"Dirty" Dominik Mysterio and "Big" Bronson Reed are also just listed as Dominik Mysterio and Bronson Reed, with the "Dirty" and "Big" removed.
This feels like a step in the right direction for all three WWE Superstars and, back in January, Rollins shared his take on being given the "Freakin" moniker by Vince.
"I give that credit to the old man. The middle name was his idea back in the day. I don't remember why. I don't remember how it came about. I think he was just bored with Seth Rollins and he was like ah, you'll be Seth Freakin Rollins again. Okay, cool. Sold a lot of T shirts when we did it, so whatever. The thing that killed me was when we first did it, when we first brought the freakin’ back in."
"Because it was just like The Monday Night Messiah Seth Rollins or whatever, for a while. And then there was the Drip God, which was never my idea. I didn't like that nickname at all. I tried to push The Visionary on him, and he didn't get that character at all, and then added freakin’ in there at some point. But then everybody had to say freakin’ every single time they mentioned my name on commentary, anywhere."
"The first thing I did when I had the opportunity was let's just pull back on that, how about I just say it? If someone's introducing me in a grandiose manner, they can say it. But if they're just talking about me they could just say Seth Rollins, it's okay. You don't have to say The Tribal Chief Roman Reigns all the time. No one said The Hitman Bret Hart all the time."
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