WWE Hall of Famer The Godfather recently revealed why he had to phase out his pimp character. The pimp character came into existence with his Godfather gimmick and it was a unique gimmick back in the time.
The Godfather was one of the most entertaining wrestlers of WWE in the attitude era. Charles Wright, the man who played the role of the sadi character actually played three different characters in WWE.
The Godfather Reveals Why His Pimp Character Had To Be Discontinued
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 did an interview with the 90s Wrestling Podcast where he revealed why he had to phase out his pimp character. Here is what he had to say;
“Vince didn’t want to take it away, if Vince could’ve had, he’d have had me out there with the girls forever. Just times were changing man, back then times were already starting to change.
“He went public, we were no longer on cable, we were on network now and people are taking a closer look at what we’re doing and you know from the puppies, and the suck its, to Val Venis. I mean, I was calling girls hoes and talking about smoking weed. So I mean, I was a handful.
“Vince would tell me at TV ‘Yo Charles, I’m fighting for you I’m fighting for you.’ But it got to the point where I couldn’t be on Saturdays, or Sunday mornings, I couldn’t be on before 10 o’clock at night. I couldn’t say this, I couldn’t say this, the girls had to be covered it just got really stupid after a while, but yeah I wasn’t happy at all. I wasn’t, at that point, I was done.”
Credit: 90s Wrestling Podcast. H/T 411Mania