10 Wrestlers Who Got TERRIBLE Advice From WWE
7. Chavo Guerrero Must Denounce His Heritage
Man, this was awful.
In 2005, Vinnie Mac approached Chavo Guerrero and told him that he'd be rebranded as "Kerwin White" - an emphasis was placed on the surname, because the hispanic wrestler would become "a white guy" (Chavo told Chris Van Vliet's show that those were the boss man's very words).
Basically, Guerrero was going to ditch his famous family name and turn into a soft version of Donald Trump years before he was the US President. This was clearly going to be sh*t, and Chavo probably knew it. Still, he wanted to do his best and agreed to the switch.
Months later, following the death of his uncle Eddie, Chavo scrapped the unsavoury gimmick.
Asking Guerrero to denounce his heritage and play what was effectively a white supremacist was in severely bad taste. People can hide behind any 'oh, the world was different back then' claims they like, but this still felt wrong in '05.