Elijah Burke is often referred to as “The Pope” after using the gimmick in TNA Wrestling.
During a recent appearance on “The Ten Count” podcast, Burke revealed that the name actually came during his days working as a columnist on WWE.com.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On when he first started thinking about the name: “I often times referred to myself as the guiding light, your paragon of virtue, your host of hosts [in his WWE column]. And I would refer to the people that responded to me in such a large amount … They would respond to me, and I decided to call them my congregation. Since I was calling them that, I was thinking, ‘Shoot, who am I to them? What can I call myself if they’re my congregation?’”
On the name coming from that: “There had never been a Black Pope. And thus the name and Black Pope was born.”
