{"id":327132,"date":"2026-05-01T01:33:12","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=327132"},"modified":"2026-05-01T01:33:12","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T20:03:12","slug":"booker-t-thinks-wwe-nxt-champion-needs-latest-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/01\/booker-t-thinks-wwe-nxt-champion-needs-latest-name\/","title":{"rendered":"Booker T Thinks WWE NXT Champion Needs Latest Name"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2161518\/booker-t-thinks-wwe-nxt-champion-tony-dangelo-new-name\/\" data-post-title=\"Booker T Thinks WWE NXT Champion Needs New Name\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2161518\">\n<picture id=\"pe93094f057d3f9484e424051076c0e02\"><source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/booker-t-thinks-wwe-nxt-champion-needs-new-name\/intro-1777578507.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/booker-t-thinks-wwe-nxt-champion-needs-new-name\/intro-1777578507.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">WWE<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>Tony D&#8217;Angelo became the face of &#8220;NXT&#8221; when he defeated Joe Hendry, Ricky\u00a0Saints, and Ethan Page in a fatal four-way match for the NXT Champion on the Stand &#038; Deliver Premium\u00a0Live Event. While D&#8217;Angelo is officially the primary ever NXT Grand\u00a0Slam Champion, WWE Hall of Famer Booker T believes D&#8217;Angelo needs to point out him something \u2014 and possibly change his name.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The one person, I&#8217;d say, that is got to actually step up in &#8216;NXT&#8217; immediately is Tony D&#8217;Angelo. He&#8217;s the champ!&#8221; Booker expressed during an episode of his &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=QN43-2mNMLY\" target=\"_blank\">Hall of Fame<\/a>&#8221; podcast, declaring that D&#8217;Angelo has a whole lot of competition and desires to start to prove himself, especially since he&#8217;s the champion now.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You bought to be a very good talker, alright? You gotta give you the option to confer with people within the constructing, alright? But then you definitely&#8217;ve got to give you the option to go on the market and back it up at the identical time,&#8221; he said. &#8220;I&#8217;ll be diligently watching Tony D&#8217;Angelo. You understand, possibly we should always change the name? You understand? TD Angelo? You understand, something like that &#8230; I gotta give him more of a playa name!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Booker laughingly put out a call to his audience for a brand new moniker he could &#8220;slap&#8221; on D&#8217;Angelo to &#8220;put the rocket on him.&#8221; He also admitted that D&#8217;Angelo is &#8220;a hell of a talent,&#8221; but noted that there is still a feel of his D&#8217;Angelo Family mob boss character, which he thinks D&#8217;Angelo needs to interrupt away from.<\/p>\n<p><em>When you use any quotes from this text, please credit the &#8220;Hall of Fame&#8221; podcast, and supply a h\/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Tony D&#8217;Angelo became the face of &#8220;NXT&#8221; when he defeated Joe Hendry, Ricky\u00a0Saints, and Ethan Page in a fatal four-way match for the NXT Champion on the Stand &#038; Deliver Premium\u00a0Live Event. While D&#8217;Angelo is officially the primary ever NXT Grand\u00a0Slam Champion, WWE Hall of Famer Booker T believes D&#8217;Angelo needs to point out [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":327133,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[19538,1470,13883,575,6221],"class_list":["post-327132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-booker","tag-champion","tag-nxt","tag-thinks","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327132"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":327135,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327132\/revisions\/327135"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/327133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}