During a recent appearance on Bradley Martyn’s Raw Talk, the Tren Twins, Chris and Michael Gaiera, opened up about their failed attempt to join the WWE. They revealed that the organization rejected their application due to their close association with PED culture, specifically because of their last name.
The conversation began when the topic of name changes came up. The twins were discussing the possibility of legally changing their last name to “Tren,” when Chris pointed out how that choice could create professional roadblocks, using WWE as an example.
“If you ever got a job position like or the WWE, like maybe they like my last name’s Tren,” he said.
Bradley Martyn immediately saw the upside, responding, “You guys would be sick in the WWE.”
That’s when the twins revealed they had already tried to make it happen. “No, I wanted to do it,” Chris said. “We tried to do it, but they were like, they couldn’t get past the name Tren. Yeah, literally they said the ste**ids thing.”
Michael backed that up, adding, “They don’t promote that.”
Chris agreed, saying, “Yeah, they don’t want that.”
As the twins explained it, the rejection had nothing to do with their physical ability or entertainment value. Instead, it came down entirely to how their name would be perceived publicly.
“Tren,” short for Trenbolone, is one of the most widely recognized anabolic ste**ids in bodybuilding circles, and WWE has long enforced a strict wellness policy around PEDs. For a company that has spent years distancing itself from past ste**id controversies, signing a duo whose name directly references it was, unsurprisingly, a non-starter.
After sharing the story, the conversation shifted toward their appreciation for professional wrestling, especially what they described as its golden era.
“That was such a golden era of wrestling,” Martyn said.
Chris agreed, reflecting on the stars of that time: “Yeah, it was, man. John Cena, Undertaker. Stone Cold, like. I feel like the 2000s was just peak, bro.”
