WWE: 10 Times Real Life Political Troubles Fuelled Top Heels
4. Right To Censor
ince McMahon does tend to get a bit thinned skin when it comes to certain criticisms of his product. Its also no secret that despite his wife running twice as a Republican, McMahon and social conservatives have no love lost between each other. So its probably no surprise that when the WWF was riding high in 2000 and drawing the ire of conservative activist Brent Bozell and his Parents Television Council, Vince decided to thumb his nose at them.
The PTC did not care for the violence and sexual content of the programming, so the WWF created a stable called Right To Censor dressed in white shirts, black ties and black slacks. The stable, led by the formerly hardcore wrestler Steven Richards also converted two of the more sexually charged characters, converting Val Venis from his pornstar ways and the Godfather from pimping to being the Goodfather (three if you count the Kat who was fired shortly into the angle). The RTC would complain about hardcore wrestling and scantily clad women while the broadcast would encourage the companys supposed dedication to free speech and freedom of expression in a somewhat ironic stance given the WWEs policy on signs it finds disagreeable.
The Right to Censor found natural enemies in the swearing, poker playing, drinking tandem of the Acolyte Protection Agency, the hardcore legend Tazz at Wrestlemania X-7 and the annoying but entertaining stable ran their course when they ran into the Undertaker a couple months later as Richards got powerbombed straight to Hell and Venis, the Godfather and the rest could go back to their sinful ways.