Lacey Evans was recently a guest on Lilian Garcia’s Chasing Glory podcast. During the podcast, she opened up on a wide variety of topics.
One of these topics was about her ring name. It turns out that it is very close to her actual maiden name, ‘Macey Evans’. It also has another close connection to her family.
Here is Lacey explaining the origins behind her name and how she ended up with it (h/t to Wrestling INC for the quotes below):
“When I got signed with WWE, I got to choose names and I originally wanted Macey Evans, my real maiden name. And then I chose Macey Loretta because I love Loretta – it is different. I wanted my character to be southern, so, Macey Loretta sounds southern, but WWE chose Lacey and Evans from the names that I had chosen.
I never chose those names together. I said, ‘Oh no, Lacey is my sister’s name,’ and they said, ‘Well, if she is okay with it, then we are okay with it.’ So I called her and she said, ‘Hell yeah, use my name! That is so cool!’ So that is how that happened. It was just by pure chance.”
Would you have preferred Macey Evans or Macey Loretta? Let us know in the comment section below.
On a related note, Chris Jericho recently shared what he almost used as his ring name. You can read his comments here.
