Interesting Reason Triple H Wouldn’t Let Team Use French Names

Triple H didn’t want Jeff Parker and Matt Lee to have French names in NXT. Why? Well, because they would end up wearing berets of course.

AEW’s 2point0 recently appeared on Talk is Jericho where they revealed the process of coming up with their NXT name Ever-Rise. They said they pitched some French names which were quickly shot down. Here is the quote, courtesy of Wrestling News:

“Two days before we were set to debut, this was September 2019, so when AEW/NXT thing started, writer Joe pulled us aside and said, ‘You guys are going to debut on TV tomorrow, but Hunter wants you to have a name.’ We have to figure it out, right? So we go into a room with Road Dogg, and another writer named Baker, and we start pitching names but nothing sounds right. We go from trying to figure out maybe there are some French names we can do. That comes back to ‘Hunter doesn’t want you to be French because you’ll be wearing a beret in no time.’ That’s fair enough.”

Triple H himself had a French gimmick during his time in WCW, known as Jean-Paul Levesque.

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