Nia Jax was recently a guest on the ‘Talk Is Jericho’ podcast hosted by Chris Jericho. She spoke on a wide variety of topics about her career so far. This includes the advice and compliment that she received from Vince McMahon during one of their first meetings.
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Nia Jax shared the origins behind her ring name on the podcast. She also revealed the names that she was going to use in WWE that were scrapped.
Here is what she said:
“My first name during my first match was ‘Lena.’ I was still Lena then, just because we hadn’t gotten a name yet,.”Then I was ‘Zeda’ for half a second; I picked it and thought it was such a cool name, and it got approved, but once I kind of put it out on Social Media, someone from the higher ups and was, ‘Who the F*** is Zeda?’ They said that they were changing that name, and to go back to Lena for the time being.”
She also revealed that Triple H has the final say on names and hated ‘Zeda’. She also shared the origins of her name: ‘Nia Jax’:
“I submitted a bunch of names. Nia is like a Samoan girl name that a lot of women have. Jax is from Sons of Anarchy, I was super into Jax, so I threw the name Jax in there and it came about that way. I believe Hunter gets the final say on the character names. He was actually the one who didn’t like the name Zeda, so he has the final say.”
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