Details You Didn't Know About Charles Wright

May 2024 ยท 2 minute read

After a short return to the USWA, Wright hit the WWF again as Kama "The Supreme Fighting Machine." Even though his angle against The Undertaker had him steal the Deadman's signature urn and melt it down into a necklace, the character didn't take off, and he left the promotion again in 1996.

Wright really hit his stride the next year when his character Kama Mustafa joined up with the Nation of Domination. This stable ended up becoming a group of Black wrestlers that rivaled the all-white Disciples of Apocalypse and the Latino group Los Boricuas in a weird and probably racist "gang warfare" angle that fortunately petered out by 1998. But by the end of the Nation of Domination's run, Wright was known as the group's "Godfather," so he switched gears once again and took on a new, more stylish angle. According to Wright's other official WWE bio, for The Godfather, this ladies' man character became "a fun-loving staple of the Attitude Era" who was known "both for his attractive supporting cast and for his enigmatic charisma and charm."

The Godfather won an International Championship and a WWE Tag Team Championship, but his run to the WWE Hall of Fame would be marked by controversy. As it turns out, wrestling fan parents are fine with voodoo and gang war gimmicks, but once you start flashing working girls on prime time TV, that's when the Parents Television Council gets involved.

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