The One WCW Gimmick Too Offensive For Eric Bischoff

The alliance lasted just a single television taping in Atlanta, Georgia. Fortunately, the footage never aired.

Who put the foot down? Mr. Controversy Creates Cash himself, Eric Bischoff, who "saw what was about to transpire and barred the gimmick from TV," according to Mark Madden in his 28 June 1993 Pro Wrestling Torch column. Madden called it "a rare moment of lucidity" from 'Eazy E.'

The idea wasn't to put The Posse over as actual slaves, of course, but "a pair of death row convicts who had been won in a card game by Parker, who came to the ring as if straight off the plantation," according to David Shoemaker in The Squared Circle: Life, Death, and Professional Wrestling. There isn't a chance in hell that would fly on television, though. The optics were too damning.

So who came up with this awful, awful idea? Well, that's unclear.

The Huffman brothers tell different stories. Stevie once claimed on his podcast that they devised it themselves, stating that the chains were supposed to represent that they'd been thrown in prison unjustly and that Parker was a last-minute addition. Booker, however, claims not to know the answer, but has previously stated he felt humiliated by what went down.

General consensus points towards someone entirely different.

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