Racquel Rodriguez comments on name change

[Chris]

Source: f4wonline.com

During an interview on the Bleav in Pro Wrestling Podcast, Raquel Rodriguez described what her reaction was to having her in-ring name changed by WWE.

The former Raquel Gonzalez was called up to the WWE main roster two weeks ago, debuting on SmackDown with the new name "Raquel Rodriguez." Rodriguez told the Bleav in Pro Wrestling Podcast that she was fine with the name change and had no big arguments about it at all.

“They just basically said, ‘Hey, you’re getting a name change and this is it.’ And I was like, ‘Cool, that’s fine.’ I really had no big arguments with it at all. It was just a simple little switch,” Rodriguez said.

“It’s funny, I was just joking with Rhea [Ripley] last Friday because she was actually at SmackDown, and her initials are R-R. Rhea Ripley. And we’ve always joked about being a tag team, and we had our feud in NXT. Well, now my initials are R-R, Raquel Rodriguez. So it kind of just feels like it was meant to be, so I’m okay with it. We’re starting to think of new tag names.”

In NXT, Rodriguez was a one-time NXT Women's Champion and a two-time NXT Women's Tag Team Champion.

Rodriguez's real name is Victoria Gonzalez. Dave Meltzer reported last week that Vince McMahon decreed in a memo that he doesn't want anyone new using their real names anymore, nor using names that they already had on the indies.

On last Friday's SmackDown, Rodriguez appeared in a backstage segment with Natalya and Shayna Baszler:

 

[Dale]

Stay away from Rhea

 

[Cwalker]

Was an unnecessary name change…

She’ll always be Big Mami Cool to me anyway

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Was an unnecessary name change…

She’ll always be Big Mami Cool to me anyway

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[Cwalker]

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Every time she’s on TV

 

[Comrade Khan]

Doesnt sound like someone who controls her narrative. Choo choo man sad.

 

[Jimmy King]

I wouldn’t mind a team of her and Rhea just wrecking other teams (sorry Dale), but for now Rhea needs to be on her own.

I don’t mind the name change tbh. It was a simple change, just like she said.

 

[Chris]

Every time I see her name now I just think of Ricardo Rodriguez

 

[Cwalker]

Every time I see her name now I just think of Ricardo Rodriguez

 

[Dale]

Imagine burying Ricardo like that.

 

[Cwalker]

I really don’t like you @Dale