Was Ricky Romero a Stage Name?

As a 60s kid in Albuquerque, I took great delight in watching Mike London's wrestling show on late-Saturday-morning TV. In particular, I liked watching my hero, Ricky Romero. 

Recently, watching Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers in the 1936 motion picture "Swing Time," I learned that Astaire's romantic rival for Roger's affections in the movie is given the name Ricky Romero. Now I'm wondering if the wrestler adopted Ricky Romero as a stage name. Does anyone know?

[A contributor to the "Albuquerque Memories" Facebook Group points me to the Ricky Romero Wikipedia page.  He was born Henry Romero, and had several ring names, but there is nothing at the page about why he called himself Ricky.]