Vince McMahon Refused To Change Stable Name For Ex-WWE Star

A former WWE star says they “hated the name” that Vince McMahon refused to change for a stable in the Attitude Era.

In the Attitude Era of WWE from the late 1990s until the early 2000s, Vince McMahon and his creative team weren’t afraid to push the envelope. They did a lot of things for shock value, including the names of groups and wrestlers.

PMS was a female group that formed in November 1998 and disbanded around August 1999. PMS stood for Pretty Mean Sisters, but it was also a reference to the Premenstrual syndrome that women deal with regularly.

The group included Terri Runnels and Jacqueline as the mainstays, while Ryan Shamrock joined at one point, and a wrestler named Meat (Shawn Stasiak) was part of it as well.

Terri Runnels was asked about PMS in an interview with Ring The Belle, where she stated that she disliked the name and wanted Vince McMahon to change it.

“I hated that name. No [I didn’t come up with it], in fact, I begged the dude that used to own the place. I mean, who wants to think about a bloody tampon when you’re like — nuh uh. It was just bad.”

Many people celebrate The Attitude Era a lot, but like Terri said, it was a bad name for a group. When asked who may have come up with the name, Terri suggested former writer Vince Russo.

“Probably Russo, I don’t know. I came up with other acronyms. PMS was not one of them.”

Terri Runnels Begged Vince McMahon To Keep Her Out Of The Ring

During her impressive 20+ years in pro wrestling, Terri Runnels was known as a manager and backstage wrestler. She also wrestled as well, but she didn’t like it. In the same interview, she opened up about how frustrating it was when she found out she was being put in matches by Vince McMahon and his creative team.

“Imagine getting to TVs. You love managing, you love everything about what you do, and then all of the sudden, one day they go, ‘Tonight, you’re going to wrestle in front of millions of people on live television.’ Not to mention the thousands and thousands in the arena that are packed here.

We’re going to teach you what you’re going to do in about 10 minutes from now. Yeah, it was brutal. I begged Vince, please don’t make me wrestle. Yeah, it was pretty clear that I was going to wrestle.”

As she continued, Terri spoke about how she didn’t want to wrestle.

“All these women and people want to be wrestlers and train for years and years just to be able to wrestle and I didn’t want to. I loved taking bumps from the guys, Kane picked me up from the neck and tossed me to the front row chairs, Dudleys put me through the table, great.

But I did not want to wrestle and the bad thing was, I had to memorize it as if it were a ballet, which God forbid when they needed to go home early or stretch that match out, they’re like, ‘Terri is in the match, we can’t do either.’