WWE Raw star and a former TNA Wrestling star Dexter Lumis who is a formal two times of OVW Southern Tag Team Champion recently talked about his WWE ring name and revealed how it was actually created.
Dexter Lumis started his professional wrestling career back in 2007 and had been active on the independent circuit for quite a long time. In 2010 he joined TNA Wrestling and worked in the promotion for three years. He remained active on the independent circuit till 2019 but he could not win much championships in his long independent circuit career.
Dexter Lumis Reveals How He Got His WWE Ring Name
In 2019 he signed with WWE and started working on the performance centre and on the NXT which is the development territory of the promotion. He worked in the NXT for 3 years and worked in various storylines. His storyline with Indi Hartwell became quite famous among the NXT fans.
But earlier this year he had been released from the promotion. It was a shocking news for a lot of fans. But recently on Monday Night RAW he has been brought back by Triple H who is the new Head of Creative of WWE. Instantly he got involved in a feud with The Miz amd this feud going on months. It had been pretty entertaining so far. We hope he has an impressive future in WWE.
Dexter Lumis who is a formal two times of OVW Southern Tag Team Champion recently spoke to MCW Backstage Pass where he talked about his WWE ring name and revealed how it was actually created. He said;
“It’s just, hey, you get an email and it’s like, hey pitch us five names. Anything but your own name and the intellectual property. So I basically just, I didn’t initially have the name ‘Dexter Lumis.’ I had it in the list.”
“I don’t even know if it was Dexter Lumis, it may have been like ‘Dexter Shawshank’ or something. But the writers seemed to like ‘Dexter Lumis.’ Lumis was a play on Dr. ‘Loomis’ from Halloween, we just spelled it different for trademark reasons and whatnot. So I was always a big fan of the horror movie genre.
“‘Halloween’ is one of my favorite horror movies from the 70s, early 80s. Dr. Loomis, Sam Loomis, that was the guy who I sort of based that name on, and Dexter obviously being the famous TV show, the vigilante serial killer that kills bad people.”
Quotes courtesy of WrestleTalk.com