17 Wrestlers Who Took Forever To Get To WrestleMania (and Why)
13. The Godfather
As “Sir Charles”, Charles Wright debuted on WWF house shows in 1991. He later and more memorably debuted in 1992 as Papa Shango shortly before Wrestlemania 8. Rather than wrestle a match of his own, Wright was booked to interfere in the main event. I would like to be able to tell you that he performed admirably in that role, I really would.
At the following Wrestlemania, Shango wrestled at Caesar’s Palace, but not on the Wrestlemania pay-per-view; he lost to Tito Santana in a dark match.
Wright re-emerged as Kama in 1995, but stood at ringside as part of Bam Bam Bigelow’s entourage rather than wrestle at Wrestlemania 11. Again Wright left the company, returning in 1997 as Kama Mustafa to join the Nation of Domination. Not a voodoo priest, not yet a pimp, Mustafa competed forgettably alongside Faarooq in Wrestlemania 14’s tag team battle royal.
Remarkably, even after taking seven Wrestlemanias to finally make it on the pay-per-view, he hadn’t yet adopted the Godfather gimmick that would send him to the Hall of Fame.