10 WWE Wrestlers You Can’t Believe Got Over

7. The Godfather

As Papa Shango, Charles Wright had a killer look - but a DOA in-ring game. As Kama, the Supreme Fighting Machine, he was a rhyming pun - enough to satisfy Vince McMahon’s idiosyncratic love of language, but not enough to satisfy the WWF audience, who weren’t remotely bothered about his leaden performances. Kama only looked intimidating - which at least made his hired goon role in the Nation of Domination somewhat realistic, a feat that had eluded him throughout his career.

Wright only got hot when the product did - and his guise of the Godfather was the answer. Flanked by a harem of "hoes", the crude sexism of the act was definitely not an issue by the standards of the time - but you suspect that, even if it was, Godfather possessed enough charm and charisma to excuse it all. He even cracked a smile out of Steve Blackman with his hoes-for-a-loss proposal gimmick. He was still a dire wrestler, but this bit let him - and the fans - a night off.

"Who's gonna boo hot chicks? Who's gonna boo a train of hot chicks?" was the rhetorical question posed by Dean Ambrose on Godfather's Hall of Fame induction vignette.

That's probably the reason he was so over, let's face it.