As seen at Saturday’s NXT Takeover: Philadelphia event, WWE introduced War Machine, Ricochet, and EC3 on the big screen in between matches. It was previously reported that War Machine would be receiving new names once they arrived to the company and we can confirm that is still the plan.

Dave Meltzer reported on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Radio that the company decided to introduce them as “War Machine” at Takevoer so that they could get a reaction from the fans in attendance. The belief is no one would really know them by their original names. The plan is still to repackage them with a new name once they make their in-ring debuts on weekly NXT television.

Regarding EC3, Meltzer said that he could see them keeping that name because it’s well established but WWE may still decide on changing it. Meltzer also indicated that Ricochet will definitely be receiving a new name once he debuts.

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WWE has posted footage of Trevor “Ricochet” Mann at the WWE Performance Center. In the clip he talks about finally making it to WWE and said that he’s a unique wrestler who can go in the ring with any style of opponent. He said he’s excited to develop as a wrestler at the Performance Center.

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The Wrestling Observer Newsletter reports that Matt Sydal suffered a dislocated shoulder at the most recent set of GFW Impact Wrestling tapings.

While there are no exact details of how the injury occurred, it’s believed that it may have happened during the last mach of the tapings. That match featured Sydal teaming with Sonjay Dutt & Alberto El Patron to take on the team of Trevor Lee, Low Ki and Bobby Lashley.

Sydal worked an indie match last week in Israel but was limited in what he was able to do inside of the ring. He is currently scheduled to face Ricochet at a UK indie show tonight.

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