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People know anyways, at least they used to.
They haven't mentioned TNA because thats not helping anyone but TNA. How's that lend credibility to the wrestler coming to WWE? And who the hell has even come to WWE from TNA of any signicance?
On the other side of things, it certainly helps TNA to refer to Angle and Booker T's previous accomplishments.
But why would WWE care if Monty Brown kept his name or not? It's not really helping him, they can't act like everyone knows who he is and build him to come in well known and make a splash because realistically thats not true. They're better off starting from scratch because only 10% of fans probably recognize him. If you go "Thats Monty Brown!!!" when he makes his debut run in, people are gonna say wtf, who?
In the old days, it mattered.
When Jericho and Big Show debuted, they never said "they're here from WCW" but they didn't build them up from scratch. They were debuted by suprise under the understanding that everyone, or most of their fans knew them. They made them fresh and changed their gimmicks slightly, but they didn't act like it was a "new" wrestler. They flashed Jerichos name up there before they showed him knowing it would speak for itself, and Michael Cole yelled "THATS PAUL WIGHT" when Big Show came through the ring, instead of yelling "WHO IS THAT? LOOK AT THE SIZE OF HIM"
Also, when the radicals showed up they had them sitting in the front row like fans and Road Dogg recognized them acknowledging them. Then they fought for contracts and WCW was referred to.
Same was done on for WWE wrestlers entering WCW, even more intensely but overall not as well.
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