5 WWE name changes fans immediately disliked

#3 WWE ruins several names with RETRIBUTION

RETRIBUTION IS TEARING THE PLACE APART!#SmackDown pic.twitter.com/d7UyDD4I6b

— WWE (@WWE) August 8, 2020

WWE, what in God's name was this?

After months of SmackDown getting hacked and a random group attacking the Performance Center with Molotov cocktails and chainsaws, RETRIBUTION was finally unleashed. The group was filled with some top-tier talents from NXT. Dominik Dijakovic, Mia Yim, Shane Thorne, Mercedes Martinez, and Dio Madden were all well-known by the WWE Universe at this point.

For some reason, though, the top brass didn't know this, opting to give them all goofy half-masks and ridiculous names. Dijak became T-Bar. Yim was Reckoning while Thorne had maybe the worst name in Slapjack, and Martinez was Retaliation before being cut from the group entirely and sent back to NXT. Madden became Mace, which was a pretty awful name but considering his lack of time in-ring, he probably walked away least affected by all of this.

#RETRIBUTION https://t.co/RBhXLseGeY pic.twitter.com/Z1MJ29FhOJ

— Mustafa Ali / Adeel Alam (@AliWWE) October 11, 2020

Eventually, Mustafa Ali was revealed to be the leader, and was thankfully spared from being called Skullmasher or Pain or Killer spelled backwards. It's been a little under a year since the group's debut, and they've now all parted ways. However, for some reason, Dijak and Madden are still using those ridiculous names. Yim and Thorne are nowhere to be seen, and Ali after being abandoned by the group he once led, is hanging out on Main Event.

Terrible names, terrible story. That may be the worst decision WWE made in 2020.