Simone Johnson, daughter of WWE legend The Rock has a new ring name. She will now be known as Ava Raine when she gets called up to the WWE NXT. WWE has been in the process of late not letting wrestlers use any parts of their real name or their independent wrestling names on television. Simone has been training at the Performance Center since signing with the company back in February 2020.

She posted to Twitter to note that her name change doesn’t take away her family’s legacy in wrestling, writing in a series of tweets:

"i probably sound like a broken record & hopefully this is the last i’ll mention this but i don’t understand why people being portrayed as separate individuals from their family name is such a heated topic.

a name doesn’t discredit any prior accomplishments from any family”

“i could build my entire career around my father & people would still bash me anyway”

“& im not trying to ignore or undermine all the sweet comments & support i get. thank you guys”