Did WWE already have Terry Crews on its back about using his name and find a convenient way to spin the name change?
While it doesn’t ultimately impact the gesture all that much, it does change the narrative a bit if true and make the fact that the name change happened despite the spelling difference between “Crews” and “Cruz” all the more interesting.
Terry Crews then went on to tweet “Negotiations broke down” when a fan showed a past tweet of him praising Apollo’s name choice a few years back.
Crews’ statements could be seen as a joke, but there’s also a sense in the “negotiation” tweet that the actor is hinting WWE’s decision to change Apollo’s name wasn’t exclusively tied to the Florida tragedy.