How Chavo Guerrero's Kerwin White Character Almost Became A KKK Member In WWE
As if Kerwin White wasn't bad enough...
Former WWE wrestler Chavo Guerrero recently spoke with interview god Chris Van Vliet, touching on all kinds of different topics relating to his professional wrestling career - including his controversial spell as Kerwin White.
White was WWE's attempt at rebranding Chavo, a wrestler of Mexican heritage, as a middle-class white conservative who played golf and literally used "it's not right if it's not White" as a catchphrase. Risque material to begin with, but it almost got a whole lot worse.
As Chavo tells Van Vliet, he once pitched the idea of coming out dressed in a white sheet as a means of drawing heat. Vince McMahon apparently loved the idea, but Guerrero said it was "a little too risque for the network," leading to the "KKK sheet" being abandoned.
"I grew up in a time in wrestling where the more heat, the better," Chavo said. "I wanted to fight my way to the dressing room every night. I wanted to be in the streets and people yell, 'We hate you!'."
Decking himself out in a manner similar to a KKK member would have almost certainly done that, but good grief. Some things are best left on the cutting room floor.