Shawn Spears revealed that keeping the name he used on the independent scene, as well as AEW, was a decision he made to give himself a fresh start in WWE.

"Being away and going back to a name that I picked from a baby book way back when I was first starting out, and being able to kind of put some weight behind it a little bit in terms of what I was able to do with that over the course of X amount of years. When I came back to WWE, it was presented as an option, which I've felt very, very grateful for," said Spears. "It was a conversation. It was like, how would you like to proceed? Would you want to go back here, or do you want to kind of hang on to this? And I just said, let's hang on to this. Let's see what we can do. Coming back, a fresh start, [a] fresh slate. Let's see what we can do. So it meant a lot that I had that had the option. And, yeah, we're still building, baby, still building."

To go along with the name, Spears also kept his gimmick of "The Chairman" when he returned to WWE, a role he used frequently during his first year with AEW in 2019.

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