On a recent episode of Insight with Chris Van Vliet , WWE superstar IYO SKY shared the surprising, last-minute story of how she changed her name from Io Shirai just days before her main roster debut at SummerSlam.

SKY explained that she used her original name for her entire run in NXT and was unexpectedly called up to the main roster by Triple H while recovering from a broken ankle. “Hunter called me, ‘Are you ready to go to Raw?’ And I totally didn’t expect that,” she said. “He told me, ‘with Bayley and with Dakota Kai,’ because she was not even working on WWE. That makes me so happy, because Bayley, Dakota, and I make a new unit.”

The surprise call-up came with an urgent request. “Then he says, ‘Oh, please think of a new ring name.’ Oh my gosh, I don’t have any time because maybe tha

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