10 Times WWE Totally No Sold A Wrestler's Past
8. Grand Master Sexay
WWE shoehorned the occasional nudge, nudge, wink, wink commentary aside that hinted that Brian "Grand Master Sexay" Christopher and Jerry "The King" Lawler had a paternal bond. However, Christopher was left to forge his own identity away from his connection to wrestling royalty. While he initially started hot, battling his way to the final of the 1997 tournament to crown a new Light Heavyweight Champion, he soon languished at the bottom of the card teaming with Scott "Too Hot" Taylor to form Too Much.
Similar to the birth of the New Day we all know and love, the eye-rolling Too Much progressed into Too Cool. When the team took the names Scotty 2 Hotty and Grand Master Sexay, and joined with Rikishi, they became one of the most popular tag teams of the Attitude Era, finding themselves tangling with the era's megastars on the top of Raw and SmackDown cards.
However, when Rikishi was split from the group for the dire 'Who Ran Over Stone Cold?' angle, and Scotty was injured, Christopher became lost in the shuffle before being swiftly released in 2001 after he moved illegal drugs across the Canada-US border. Perhaps, his singles run could've included his royal heritage during a time when the promotion still has a yearly King of the Ring...