Rumored Reason WWE Dropped ‘Crews’ From Apollo’s Name

As reported Monday, WWE took the decision to drop ‘Crews’ from Apollo’s ring name prior to RAW. The reason for this wasn't entirely known at the time but it is now rumored it was a direct order from Vince McMahon to avoid any sort of association to last week’s Florida high school mass murderer Nikolas Cruz, who killed 17 people.

WWE held moments silence for the victims at the beginning of last night's broadcast. 

Sportskeeda has revealed an email sent to them by WWE email confirming this, although Ryan Satin of Pro Wrestling Sheet is claiming WWE PR never sent this email.

Apparently this is the reason why Apollo Crews is now "Apollo".

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