The current Smackdown Women’s Champion Sasha Banks recently appeared as special guest on Stone Cold Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions and spoke about several topics.
During the show, Stone Cold asked Banks about who she got her WWE in-ring name. Then, Sasha Banks revealed the story behind her in-ring name. Here what Banks said:
“I remember my first week, they’re like, ‘give us a list of names.’ And I just remember putting “Sasha” with a different last name and “Banks” with a different first name. And then I had a match the week after that and Sara Del Rey came into the locker room and like, ‘you’re Sasha Banks.’ I’m like, ‘you know what? I love that. That sounds like money. It sounds like gold.'”
The Boss Sasha Banks also said that her mother didn’t like of her in-ring name and asked her to change it.
“I remember telling my mom and my mom looked it up and goes, ‘I hate it. It sounds like a pornstar. It’s a pornstar’s name, Mercedes. Change it right now, call them up.’ I’m like, ‘I cannot ask WWE to change my name, are you kidding me?'”
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