Renee Young has become a staple of WWE programming. She performs a variety of tasks for the company such as backstage interviews, hosting pre-show panels and appearing in other video-related content.
Renee was recently a guest on E&C’s Pod Of Awesomeness. During the interview, she revealed the original name WWE pitched to her when she first started with the company.
Here is what she said: (h/t to Wrestling INC):
“When I got the job, it was still a weeks after that and I was going back and forth from like Stamford [Connecticut] to Toronto, and figuring out my visa, blah, blah, blah, whatever and I got an email with my new name change, which was Renee Sterling and I was so stressed out about this. Yeah, it was Renee Sterling. I didn’t know that my name was going to change and that kind of threw me for a loop because, as [Edge and Christian] said, I was working in Canada before and had been on TV before, so I felt very odd about changing my name. And then, they let me give a few other name options and I ended up with Young.”
Renee [real name Renee Paquette] also says that she had reservations about having her name changed at all:
“Yeah, it’s super odd and, like, I do get it in the way of like, it’s different now. A lot of people got to keep their name. We’ve hired a few other people that are down in NXT now and they’ve all got to keep their name, so it seems like that may be dying off, but I felt like that kind of put me into the machine of WWE for all rights and whatnot for them to just own the name. But yeah, that was the biggest thing I had reservations about. I just felt like I didn’t know that was going to be part of the deal and it threw me for a loop. And it was not met with good reception when I didn’t want to change my name, but that was somebody else who also doesn’t work here.”
You can also check Renee’s recent comments about possibly doing some commentary for WWE.