Mariah May is no more. Her name is officially “Blake Monroe” in WWE…
@BlakeMonroeWWE #WWENXT pic.twitter.com/CyeKvAlXbz
— WWE NXT (@WWENXT) June 11, 2025
The glamour is here. ✨
Introducing @BlakeMonroeWWE! #WWENXT pic.twitter.com/2oRQEmAFan
— WWE (@WWE) June 11, 2025
BLAKE MONROE @WWE pic.twitter.com/qJtfK1QGi8
— Blake Monroe ♡ (@BlakeMonroeWWE) June 11, 2025
Wow. I never thought a name alone could make someone so unappealing. This may be the worst WWE name change ever, I don’t think Vince ever did something this bad. It’s a male tennis instructor’s name. Shawn, if you’re not smoking anything, please start.
@Luke–I give you exhibits A through K as a start:
Michael McGillicutty, Isaac Yankem DDS, Ring Master, Beaver Cleavage, Golga, Bastion Booger, Meat, Kelly Kelly, Franky Monet, Festus, The Red Rooster….
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There’s also Braden Walker, Just Joe, Friar Ferguson, The Dicks……
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Some of these have (or at least were intended to have) comedic appeal. Take those out and take out the nicknames, we’re left with Michael McGillicutty, Franky Monet, and Braden Walker. All bland like hell, but none of them really had a great and marketable name that both fit the gimmick or person and rolled off the tongue before. They just had names people were used to. I’m putting Mariah May (pretty much the perfect name for her gimmick) to Blake Monroe above all of them for sheer stupidity. The only one I can think of that comes close is Max Dupri, but that one was quickly fixed.
Plus “Mariah May to Blake Monroe” sounds like something out of a human trafficking spreadsheet…
@Luke–Maybe it’s got a meaning we don’t know. Blake Lively + Marilyn Monroe = Blake Monroe.
“Mariah May (pretty much the perfect name for her gimmick)”– How so? I ask as someone who genuinely doesn’t know.
From a newer post here. Looks like I was half right:
“– May’s new name “Blake Monroe” was inspired by her niece, Blake.
The second is clearly for Marilyn Monroe which makes sense given the type of her character that she’s portraying.”
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It just sounds glamorous, I don’t know why (glamour really isn’t my thing). Maybe it’s something to do with the 3+1 syllable combo.
I don’t care about the meaning, the name still sucks. I actually never put it together with Marilyn Monroe. So they want her to steal Toni Storm’s gimmick? I thought she already did that in AEW and they were gonna steal her own gimmick…
Good thing they never forced a new name on Bret or Owen, they had a niece named Satania Ecstasy…