9 Best WWE Attitude Era Gimmick Changes
8. The Godfather
Charles Wright had to try and try and try again until he found the gimmick that suited him. He debuted in WWE in 1991 as 'Sir Charles', which wasn't really much of a gimmick (it was essentially Wright wearing some lavish robes) and then moved on to portray Papa Shango, a character that just about sums up the company during the cartoon era.
The gimmick was silly and angles such as the one where he cast a spell on Ultimate Warrior, making him puke black sludge, were an embarrassment to most wrestling fans. Wright left for a while and came back as Kama, an odd pseudo-MMA fighter with a flattop and a disjointed style. It was hard to define, and didn't get over.
A move to the Nation of Domination as Kama Mustafa wasn't so great, either. Wright finally got over as 'The Godfather', a fun-loving pimp who implored the audience to 'light a fatty'. The fact that Wright - who legitimately owned and operated a Las Vegas strip club - came out surrounded by a gaggle of scantily-clad 'hoes' didn't hurt his popularity with the 18-35 male demographic, either.
The Godfather was never going to be a WWE Champion or anything like that, but he consistently garnered one of the loudest reactions on any show he was performing on. No easy feat back then, I can assure you (and one of the primary reasons the gimmick was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame this year).
When WWE turned him heel and had him join the holier-than-thou Right to Censor, Wright hated it, because he knew the Godfather gimmick worked so well.