On Monday afternoon it was revealed that WWE had dropped ‘Crews’ from Apollo’s ring name. There has been some speculation going around online that WWE made this move to avoid any sort of association to last week’s Florida high school mass murderer Nikolas Cruz. Cruz opened fire on his former high school and killed 17 people, including both students and faculty. Sportskeeda is reporting that WWE emailed them and confirmed that this was the reason for the change:
Apparently this is the reason why Apollo Crews is now "Apollo".
(Article by @JustDanWood)
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Pro Wrestling Sheet’s Ryan Satin pumped the breaks on that rumor, however, as he reports WWE PR is denying ever sending an email of that sort:
https://twitter.com/ryansatin/status/965703624650235904?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.iwnerd.com%2Fpotential-rumor-killer-reason-apollo-crews-name-changed%2F
We’ll keep you updated as we learn more…..