WWE Hall of Famer and former WWE Intercontinental Champion The Godfather recently revealed that his wife came up with the idea of him being a pimp. He played a total of three gimmicks in his WWE career, among them, his Godfather gimmick became most famous of them all.
The Godfather was one of the most entertaining wrestlers of WWE in the attitude era. Charles Wright, the man who played the role of Godfather actually played three different characters in WWE.
Godfather Reveals That His Wife Came Out With The Idea Of His Pimp Gimmick
He played his first character back in 1992 which is famous as Papa Shango, in this gimmick he played the role of an evil hoodoo priest. The character was disbanded in 1993. In 1994 he returned as a new character named Kama. The character of Kama went on for four long years. And in 1998 he finally adopted the gimmick of The Godfather.
Charles Wright became really famous in the gimmick of The Godfather. He is still famous among the fans under this gimmick only. In 2016, he was inducted into the Hall Of Fame of WWE and he was addressed during the WWE Hall of Fame as the Godfather.
Charles Wright recently appeared as a guest on Stone Cold Steve Austin’s Broken Skull Sessions show recently where he revealed that his wife came up with the idea of him being a pimp. He said;
“I was in the Nation. At that time, Faarooq was gone, Rock was doing more singles and D’Lo and Mark Henry kind of hooked up together. My contract was coming up and I’m like, ‘Ooh, I got to come up with something because I got lost in the shuffle here.’ So, I started growing my hair.
“Now, at this time, they’re building The Rock. He’s wrestling you [Steve Austin], and when it’s time for the Stone Cold Stunner, we’re jumping in there and taking it. That’s all me and D’Lo were doing; was taking people’s finishes at the end. So, I started letting my hair grow. My hair grows fast. So, I start growing my hair, I dress with a black vest, black pants and these hats.
“The same hat me and Taker got into a fight over. I always wore these hats. My wife starts saying, ‘Instead of being a heel, why don’t you just be a babyface and let people like you?’ She goes, ‘Why don’t you become a pimp?’ This is all my wife. ‘Why don’t you become a pimp and wear these colors, and wear these bright colors and hats and jewelry.’
“I’m like, ‘Well if I’m going to be a pimp, I want to be a mean pimp.’ She’s like, ‘No, no, no! You need to do something where people see the real you and let your personality come out instead of pretending to be somebody.’”
“My wife would have the vest made. All this jewelry, she’d have it made. Hats. Glasses. She did everything. All I did was perform,” Wright said. “The WWE, really, had nothing to do with it until Vince kind of heard that it was getting over and he came to me and he says, ‘Hey, Charles, this might have legs to it.’
“He says, ‘Do you think you can get some girls and put it to it?’ Because at that point we were just doing it at the house shows, because me and Bradshaw, we were on the popcorn match. Me and Bradshaw are going 10 minutes, beating the hell out of each other and people are sitting on their hands.
“We’re getting no reaction and we’re lacing into each other. So one day I went to Jack Lanza because my wife had talked about it and I said, ‘Let’s try something different.’”
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