#3 Eden Stiles
Nowadays, Brandi Rhodes has an important behind-the-scenes role in AEW as the company’s Chief Brand Officer, while she can also be seen making on-screen appearances as an in-ring competitor and as a manager for her husband, Cody Rhodes.
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During her time in WWE, Brandi went by the name Eden Stiles during her brief spell as a Superstar in 2011 and her three-year run as a ring announcer and interviewer between 2013-2016.
Speaking on Chris Jericho’s Talk Is Jericho podcast, she said she “hated” being called Eden Stiles and attempted to change her name to Eden Rhodes or Brandi Rhodes after Dusty Rhodes passed away in 2015.
“When Dusty passed, I felt like the only thing I wanted to do to feel like I’ve done what I should do is change my last name. They can keep Eden, that’s fine, but I did really want to change my last name to Rhodes because I just feel like that’s what needs to happen, and I know he [Dusty] was okay with it because I asked him in the first place.”
Brandi added that she was “baffled” when she was told that WWE had plans to name a tournament – the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic – after Dusty, so they did not want her to change her on-screen name to Rhodes.