I wish he would have kept the name.
A word is only offensive if you IDENTIFY with it, just like the Nword with the hard ER
If that man want to have the word "gorilla" in his name and he identifies a gorilla with something positive as opposed to what Cacs turned the word into, I salute him.
If you as a black person have a problem with his previous name, you have given all of your power to Cacs because your whole opinion about the word comes from them and you're embarrassed of his name..... because of cacs