Former WWE star Ruby Riott explained why she did not like her old ring name. Even though she is not talking about her current ring name that is Ruby Riott, she mentioned her previous ring name that she was given and independent circuit and other promotion she worked in, and that is Heidi Lovelace.
Riott started her professional wrestling career back in 2010 on the Independent Circuit. She was vastly known as Heidi Lovelace during her career before WWE. She became extremely famous because of her unique professional wrestling style. Of course, she was one of the Indie darlings.
Ruby Riott On Not Liking Her Ring Name
She travelled in a lot of professional wrestling promotions before joining WWE in 2016. She made her in ring debut in 2017. Those who knew who was where extremely happy to see in a WWE ring. She was treated as a title Contender during her NXT career. But everything changed after she joined the main roster.
She was never treated as a main event star after she joined the main roster. Even though, the stable she used too lead was named after her, it was the Riott Squad. After a lot of ups and downs, she was released by WWE last month. She could never find the success in WWE that she deserved.
Recently Ruby Riott appeared as a guest on the Wrestling Perspective Podcast to talk about a number of topics, she said that she never liked her previous ring name;
“A lot of people think that I’m going back to Heidi Lovelace. There are a multitude of reasons why I don’t want to do that. I was not a fan of that name. It was given to me by the people who trained me in the backyard. They were watching Raw and a commercial for The Hills came on and they were like ‘Heidi, that’s a name’ and they gave it to me. Nobody ever pronounced Lovelace correctly.
“sWhy come up with a wrestling name that people can’t pronounce? That’s a terrible idea. A lot of people thought I was going to go back to it. I have no intentions of going back to Heidi Lovelace. I am shopping for a new name I would like to keep [the name Ruby] if it’s possible. I feel like it fits me. Ruby came from Ruby Soho and that’s dear to my heart.”
“Liv [Morgan] came up with Ruby Reckless. Ruby Ramone was the other one, which is funny because Ramona was the other name I had pitched when I first got my name because my entrance music used to be Black Sheep by Metric, which was on Scott Pilgrim vs. The World and Ramona Flowers. I liked that name. Ruby Blue from Lola Blue (Rancid song) and Ruby Vandal was the last one I had,”
H/T to Fightful