10 Times WWE Wrestlers Should Have Refused To Read The Script

Chavo Guerrero is a member of the legendary Guerrero wrestling family. Whereas his uncle Eddie found success embracing and amplifying his roots as ‘Latino Heat’, WWE creative had a different idea for Chavo.

Chavo’s painful metamorphosis to Kerwin White was relegated to Heat. He came to the ring as a satire of a preppy golf enthusiast, clad in pastel colours with bleached blonde hair. The gimmick could have gone either way: comedy or distaste. The script writers held the lion’s share of its fate.

Kerwin’s promo was peppered with racial insults aimed at Chavo and his heritage rather than, like a typical wrestling promo, at an opponent. It included such cringeworthy lines as referring to himself as “a warrior cut from the same cloth as real Americans”. He addressed fan’s “Chavo” chants with “Chavo has left the building. He’s probably trying to get a job at some taco stand like all the rest of the unemployed Hispanics”.

Using the blatant and blunt pun on the character name, he referenced “White values”, the arrival of “the great White hope”, and “If it’s not White, it’s not right”, which became his catchphrase.