10 Wrestlers Who Turned Their Backs On Former Gimmicks
2. The Goodfather
In several shoot interviews post-career, Charles 'The Godfather' Wright has lamented his 2000 transition into the buttoned-down, puritanical Goodfather as being totally contrary to his personality. It's possible he may have missed the point of its inherent irony.
Right To Censor were a post-millennium stable who, if not obvious from their abbreviation, parodied one of Vince's biggest bugbears of the time: the Parents Television Council, a lobby petitioning against the company's glut of sexual and violent content. Whenever Raw threatened to get out of hand - and in the Attitude era, that was a common occurrence - the RTC's iconic theme would hit, and out marched the straight-laced spoilsports to end all the fun and games (and often, rank misogyny, but that's neither here nor there).
Amidst their lot was The Goodfather, who'd completely rejected his pimpin', ganja-chugging ways of old, in pursuit of complete on-screen propriety.
"I hated it. Just hated it. It wasn't me," Wright later told Slam! Sports, the satire lost on him. And they say weed is harmless.