At that moment, what would turn out to be quite a colorful in-ring career began to blossom. Following a successful career as a football player at the University of Las Vegas, being a WWE Superstar hadn't even crossed Wright's mind. Besides the witch doctor, he would also become Kama "The Supreme Fighting Machine," a militant thug named Kama Mustafa in the Nation of Domination, The Godfather and this incarnation's antithesis: The Goodfather, as part of Right to Censor. I want to talk with Vince! I go in there, right, and Vince was like, Charles, change of plans. [16] Shango actually missed his cue to run in, hitting the ring late. [34] At SummerSlam on August 27, Right to Censor defeated Too Cool in a six-man tag team match. Can You Name All The WWE Survivor Series Sole Survivors? [56] After the match, he hosted a bikini contest which was won by Lacey von Erich. The Godfather's portrayal of Papa Shango had its biggest push coming with a reported feud with Hogan. Finn Wolfhard height: How tall is the Stranger Things star. The Godfather character would be constantly surrounded by "hos" in reality girls from local strip clubs, actresses,[27] or up-and-coming female wrestlers (Victoria[28] and Lita[29] were the best-known wrestlers to play the role, while Ivory was offered the role but was discouraged from accepting by Luna Vachon[30]). That Matt guy on #Traitors was the absolute worst. Wright performed as Papa Shango from January 1992 until July 1993, casting spells and practicing voodoo as he went. Though we dont see her totally regain her powers by the end of season 4 part 1, she does remember something game-changing. As you can imagine the gimmick has gone down in history as one of the worst in wrestling history, especially since Shango would use his voodoo in the ring to debilitate his opponents. 19:02. [20], At the same time as he was wrestling as Papa Shango in the WWF, the WWF had a working agreement with USWA. PS. 7 His First WWE Stint Was Riddled With Bad Luck Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Shahid. Mustafa became increasingly known as The Godfather of the Nation, a moniker which would eventually become his official ring name in 1998. A year later on December 16, 1995, he returned as Kama and defeated Viktor Kruuger. The outlandish character was a voodoo practitioner who cast spells on WWE Superstars. Wright performed as Papa Shango from January 1992 until July 1993, casting spells and practicing voodoo as he went. Build your customFanSided TV email newsletter with news and analysis onNetflix and all your favorite sports teams, TV shows, and more. Papa Shango, Kama, Kama Mustafa, The Godfather and The Goodfather) is one of those stories where fate played its hand. catalanforever. News on all your favorite celebs, reality TV, and movies. WWF House Show - The Ultimate Warrior & The Undertaker vs Papa Shango & The Berzerker - 07.12.1992. . Shango bombed, and deservedly so. [citation needed] In September 2013, Wright resumed wrestling on the independent circuit. pic.twitter.com/3k6FKRYEv6. H/t to Wrestling Inc for the transcription. The Undertaker Vs Papa Shango. WWF House Show - Randy Savage & The Undertaker vs Ric Flair & The Berzerker - 07.21.1992. The wrestlers involved gave him the advice that, with his large body type and unique (tattooed) look, he should try seeking out Larry Sharpe and his Monster Factory to get into the business. February 27, 2023 Monday Night RAW results, IWGP Junior Heavyweight Tag Team Championship, United States Wrestling Association (19891991), United States Wrestling Association (19931994), World Wrestling Federation / Entertainment (19972002), The Nation of Domination and The Godfather (19971999), Right to Censor and return of The Godfather (20002002), USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship, Reunion Show of the July 22, 2019 episode of RAW, World Wrestling Federation/World Wrestling Entertainment, United States Wrestling Association alumni, Extreme Canadian Championship Wrestling alumni. Unfortunately, he missed his cue, something that actually botched the finish of the match and led to a bit of a mess at the company's biggest event of the year, WrestleMania 8. Wright was asked to return in 1997, with the original plans being for him to revive the Papa Shango character. and turned into a heel by dropping the ho's and feuding with Val Venis for a short time. Just because Papa Shango is 56 years old and not in WWE any more doesn't mean that he isn't still using his voodoo elsewhere in wrestling. The Godfather was scheduled to lose the title to Hart's character, "The Blue Blazer," that night. Wright made an appearance as The Godfather at the 2013 Royal Rumbleas entrant #17. Papa Shango Is No More Although Papa Shango faced Bret Hart for the WWE Championship unsuccessfully on the 1992 edition of Saturday Night's Main Event, he was barely on WWE TV in 1993.. It was heavily teased in season 2 that he was actually still alive, and Matthew Modine himself has said in the past that hed love to come back to the show. For the remainder of the year, the Goodfather was completely absent from WWF programming. No one should expect to make money from the picks and predictions discussed on this website. Charles Wright (May 16, 1961) is an American businessman and retired professional wrestler. Were going to put you in the Nation of Domination. Shango would keep a high profile due to his rivalry with The Ultimate Warrior in the spring of 1992. Aug 2, 2020. The cartoon antics were going to be 86ed as the Attitude Era would have brought a new version of the voodoo . He is best known for his tenure with the World Wrestling Federation throughout the 1990s and early 2000s, and underwent several gimmick changes; the most notable were Papa Shango, Kama, Kama Mustafa, The Godfather and The Goodfather. I show up to TV, ready to go. However, due to Shango getting to the ring late, Sid was forced to kick out of the leg drop to save face. I show up to TV, took these pictures, and they say, Vince wants to talk with you., I was like, Cool! Lucky for him he was still able to call upon his voodoo powers and brought all five men to their knees before sending them out of the ring without even having to touch any of them. Shortly after the 2002 brand split, he was sent to SmackDown! Shango actually missed his cue to run in, hitting the ring late. [53], In 2007, Wright appeared for WWE at the Theodore Long and Kristal Marshall wedding ceremony on the edition of September 21, 2007 of SmackDown!, where he tried to convince Long and Ron Simmons to go back to the old partying days they had. which made him being suspended from May to August 2002. [24] Instead he returned as Kama, now billed under his full name, "Kama Mustafa". The Godfather, under his old gimmick and with his hos, returned at the 2002 Royal Rumble competing in the Rumble match. When Shango was finally set to have a match with Warrior in November 1992, Warrior was released from WWF. In spring of 2014 Wright made two appearances for Preston City Wrestling in England, as Papa Shango working against local star Bubblegum on both nights. They work together and use an isolation tank for Eleven to recall her traumatic memories. . The shockingincident would become Papa Shango's most memorable moment in WWE and earned the magic man his place amongst the scariest Superstars of all time. 7:09. During the Reunion Show of the July 22, 2019 episode of RAW, The Godfather returned in a backstage segment. . Wright's final PPV appearance as the Papa Shango character was at the 1993 Royal Rumble (where he was eliminated in under 30 seconds). [37] At No Mercy on October 22, Goodfather and Buchanan entered into an elimination tag team tables match, which was won by the Dudleys. Wright was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame on April 2, 2016, under the Godfather gimmick. Did a WWE legend just take a shot at Sami Zayn's physique right here? At the same time that he was wrestling as Papa Shango in the WWF, the WWF had a working agreement with the USWA. This didn't come to fruition. The angle went nowhere, as Warrior challenged Randy Savage for the WWF World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam, with the rivalry never culminating. (ITA) Buried Alive Match tra The Undertaker e Mankind - WWF In Your House 11: Buried Alive 1997 . Wrestler Charles Wright (also known for playing the roles of The Godfather and Kama in WWE) opens up about why he hated playing the role of Papa Shango. During his time in the USWA, he would also tour in New Japan Pro Wrestling in 1990. [61], According to Wright, the Papa Shango character uses paint because Vince McMahon said his face did not match his body. Wright made a rare in ring segment along with his long time friend Val Venis and Dexter Verity in Elite Xtreme Wrestling, where he promised to bring his hoes if Venis and Versity have had successfully defended their tag team titles. Papa Shango appeared on WWE television between January 1992 and July 1993. Sign up for BINGE to watch. [42] They lost the titles to Edge and Christian at Armageddon in a fatal-four-way tag team match also involving K-Kwik and Road Dogg and the Dudleys.[43]. (Spoilers). During the autumn of 1994, there were rumors that the Papa Shango character would be brought back to participate in a storyline involving Bob Backlund, wherein Shango's voodoo spells would explain the traditionally good-natured Backlund's erratic and villainous behavior. Shango received a WWF World Heavyweight Championship shot against Bret Hart on Saturday Night's Main Event XXXI, but was unsuccessful. HASBRO MATCH-UP: The Undertaker & The Ultimate Warrior vs.The Berzerker & PaPa Shango. If you've grown up with it and you embrace it though you know as well as us that it's a terrific business and extremely entertaining, even if it does include men pretending to be witch doctors and undead entities. American professional wrestler (born 1961), "The Goodfather" redirects here. [17] Wright's final PPV appearance as the Papa Shango character was at the 1993 Royal Rumble (where he was eliminated in under 30 seconds). Plus, get every WWE Premium Live Event, your favorite shows, new movies, live sports, and more. I worked out hard, Im like, We going to have some fun now, Im going to be a lot more serious this time. I was probably 285, I was in really good shape.. In June 2016, Wright appeared (as Papa Shango) on a season two episode of WWE Swerved on the WWE Network along with The Boogeyman, pranking people inside a shopping mall. So, what's the story? Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Disney + HotStar. Did Millie Bobby Brown shave her head for Stranger Things season 4? However, the WWE Chairman changed his mind and decided to put The Godfather (then known as Kama) in The Nation of Domination instead. The content on this site is for entertainment and educational purposes only. Those of you who have been watching professional wrestling for a long time will know all too well how insane and wacky that the business can be. Takermania Podcast. [51] This would be his final appearance on WWE programming for the next three years as Wright was released from the WWE in December 2002. Shortly after his debut, he joined Ted DiBiase's Million Dollar Corporation stable. WWF House Show - The Ultimate Warrior & The Undertaker vs Papa Shango & The Berzerker - 07.12.1992. Sign up for Peacock to watch. Pro Wrestling is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. The Ultimate Warrior then returned to the WWF by running to the ring and helping Hogan against Sid and Shango. The Undertaker vs The Berzerker - WrestleFest'93 - Taped 06.01.1992. In 1998, The Godfather (known to wrestlers as a genuine tough guy) competed in the WWF Brawl for All; which was a strictly voluntary boxing/shoot fighting competition, eventually won by Bart Gunn. On the June 16 episode of Raw, Mustafa and Faarooq defeated Ahmed Johnson and The Undertaker. The Godfather would instead lose the title to Hart's tag team partner Jeff Jarrett a week later. He was eliminated immediately byDolph Ziggler. But she knows he can help her get her powers back, so she agrees to work with him. [52], On July 13, 2007, Wright returned to the ring for the first time in five years after his retirement, where he reunited with D'Lo Brown to defeat Jeremy and Bubba Blanchard in McMinnville, Oregon. Still, while all these personas were memorable, one stands out most in Wright's mind. Viscera dropped the proposal and dumped Garcia for The Godfather's hos. One of the PTCs complaints was the Godfather's pimp gimmick, and during the ensuing controversies the WWF higher ups began imposing restrictions on what he could say and do, hurting his popularity. Visit Sony LIV to sign in or sign up and enjoy WWE's premium content. Even with his admitted limited skill set, he was given the USWA Unified World Heavyweight Championship on October 23, 1989 and held it for about two weeks. Papa Shango just put a curse on Ultimate Warrior!!!! Most of you reading this will likely remember Wright best for his time as The Godfather, a wrestling pimp who would come to the ring for his matches accompanied by a string of women known as his Ho Train. Do check the Promotions tab if you cannot find it in the Primary Inbox. Although Papa Shango was his first character and a bizarre one at that this would be not the last persona Wright would adapt. Vince McMahon planned to revive Papa Shango as a more serious character in 1997. Watch every Premium Live Event and enjoy some of your favorite WWE content on Disney + HotStar. He was seen dancing with interviewer Charly Caruso and leading the WWE Universe in chanting the PG-friendly phrase "All aboard the Soul Train!". WRESTLING ARCADE MATCHUPS. Debuting on WWF Superstars back on February 8, 1992, the dark role played by Charle Wright carried a skull to the ring, which billowed smoke. As Papa Shango, he wrestled a summer tour for Otto Wanz' Catch Wrestling Association in 1994. Wright made a rare in-ring segment along with his longtime friend Val Venis and Dexter Verity in Future Stars of Wrestling, where he promised to bring his hoes if Venis and Verity would have succeeded defending their tag team titles. [11] Winning the title actually upset him, as he felt it was only done to sell to the predominantly black crowd, and after complaining to management he dropped the belt to Owen Hart. [47] During the next six months, Wright competed in several television matches, usually on Raw, Heat and SmackDown! Big Papa, I still think the gimmick got too much hate. After leaving the wrestling business he moved to Las Vegas, where he currently manages the strip club Cheetah's. Shango made an appearance at AIW and was tasked with taking out five men at once. How was The Miz's second WWE Championship reign received backstage? Hulk Hogan defeated Sid Justice in the main event of WrestleMania VIII via disqualification following interference from Sids manager, Harvey Wippleman. Wright returned to the WWF in January 1995 under the antagonistic heel gimmick of Kama (nicknamed "The Supreme Fighting Machine"), a scrappy and competitive shoot wrestler inspired by Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter Kimo Leopoldo. Unique lists featuring pop culture, entertainment and crazy facts. Whether or not these rumours are true, William Kraft's impact on society will be remembered forever. Hart reported that WWF executive Pat Patterson did not like the gimmick and was responsible for its termination. Be the first one to comment on this story. Wrestling . In 2005, Wright appeared at WWE's Vengeance pay-per-view, interrupting Viscera's marriage proposal to Lilian Garcia in order to show Viscera what he would be missing out on if he asked Lilian to marry him. Wright first entered professional wrestling after being noticed tending bar by wrestlers during the filming of the movie Over the Top. [62] During his last WWE appearances, Wright appeared sans girls. In August 1991, he appeared with the Dallas, Texas-based Global Wrestling Federation as "The Soultaker". Wright appeared at the WWE Raw Reunion show on July 22, 2019. Instead he returned as Kama, now billed under his full name, Kama Mustafa, with less emphasis on his shoot fighting background. Wright's Papa Shango character was pilloried by fans, being voted the Worst Gimmick and the Most Embarrassing Wrestler in the Wrestling Observer Newsletter awards for 1992. In late 2009, Wright returned to wrestling to take part in Hulk Hogan's "Hulkamania: Let The Battle Begin" tour of Australia. Shango was seen infrequently on WWF TV afterwards, and following a loss to Jim Duggan in a 1993 King of the Ring qualifying match, he made two final televised appearances against enhancement talent in June and July 1993. "That was the character closest to really being me. [12] Wright competed there and briefly at house shows as "Sir Charles", a play on both his real name and the nickname of National Basketball Association player Charles Barkley. Subscribe so you don't miss out on more awesome nuggets like this one! SUBSCRIBE TO CVV CLIPS: bit.ly/CVVclipsEmail me: cvv@chrisvanvliet.comFollow me on Instagram: http://instagram.com/ChrisVanVlietLike me on Facebook: http://facebook.com/ChrisVanVlietFollow me on Twitter: http://twitter.com/ChrisVanVliet#TheGodfather #PapaShango #WWE Dr. Brenner appears in flashbacks throughout Stranger Things season 4 part 1, but also in real-time! The Godfather says his Papa Shango gimmick failed in WWE because he did not know the character well enough. He was taken off of TV in the fall of 1995, and after an appearance in the 1996 Royal Rumble match, Wright left the company again. Wright was released from the WWE in December 2002 and retired from wrestling, returning to Las Vegas to manage Cheetah's, a gentleman's club. Buchanan defeated The Godfather, who promptly joined the stable and renounced his former ways. "I was working overseas at the time when WWE gave me a call," Wright said. "[19] Bret Hart liked the character and Wright's in-ring work, but found Shango's storyline with the Ultimate Warrior in which a voodoo curse was placed on the latter to be perhaps the second-worst creative concept in WWF history (after the introduction of The Gobbledy Gooker). He is best known for his tenure with the World Wrestling Federation (WWF) throughout the 1990s and early 2000s under the ring names Papa Shango, Kama, Kama Mustafa, The Godfather, and The Goodfather (when he joined Right to Censor). [21] He became an immediate part of the stable's feud with The Undertaker, stealing the Undertaker's signature urn at April's WrestleMania XI then having it melted down and formed into bling,[22] but remained in possession of the bling urn remnants until November 1995 when King Mabel seized it amid a feud with The Undertaker. Speaking on Steve Austins 'Broken Skull Sessions' show, The Godfather said he lacked experience when he debuted as Papa Shango. (PHOTOS). . Sign up for Peacock to watch. He makes a surprise return in Nevada once Dr. Owens (Paul Reiser) and Eleven (Millie Bobby Brown) arrive at Owens' lab to try and work. In fact for those of you who still aren't completely sure of what it is Papa Shango used to get up to in the ring during his heyday then take a look at the video above. This never came into fruition. He interrupted the "wedding" of Billy and Chuck in September 12, 2002, which helped lead the tag team into admitting that the entire gay marriage was a shame and just an attempt to get media attention. [46] The last time Wright would be seen on television was where he along with Buchanan and several WWF superstars attacked invading WCW wrestlers Chuck Palumbo and Sean O'Haire on an episode of SmackDown! Before that though he portrayed avoodoo practitioner known as Papa Shango. Or at least, we get a quick glimpse. [10] Eventually Wright parlayed his training into a job with Jerry Lawler in the United States Wrestling Association (USWA) with the gimmick the wrestlers from the bar had given him and took the name "The Soultaker", taken from one of the tattoos on his arm. In 1992, the haunting voodoo practitioner known as Papa Shango made his shocking debut in WWE. 11:06. On a July 27 episode of Raw is War, Wright debuted his "Hos", during a tag-match, with Nation member Mark Henry against the Legion of Doom. The Godfather appeared again the following month on Raw during the Raw Roulette event, where he offered Jerry Lawler and Stevie Richards a night out with his Ho Train to the victor of their match. Because Shango was late, Sid kicked out of the legdrop to save the angle. Although Papa Shango was his first character and a bizarre one at that this would be not the last persona Wright would adapt. Two days later, Pimp Fatha wrestled his last match on the tour, and defeated Morley. Josh is a writer at TheSportster and has been watching wrestling since Stone Cold and The Rock's WrestleMania My Way package reeled him in. As part of the agreement Papa Shango was sent to wrestle in the USWA, where he won the Unified World Heavyweight Championship for a second time. However, Shango received a title shot against new champion Bret Hart on Saturday Night's Main Event but was unsuccessful. Charles Wright (born May 16, 1961), better known under his ring name The Godfather, is an American professional wrestler. 9:35. Replying to . Someone who knows a thing or too about a crazy gimmick is WWE Hall Of Famer, Charles Wright. Sid's manager, Harvey Wippleman then jumped on the apron, and the referee signaled for the disqualification at that point as Shango was just getting to the ring. Sign up for BINGE to watch. 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