[1992-02-01-WWF-Superstars] Papa Shango vignette

[Loss]

Talk about it here.

[Loss]

Not much to say, but it's funny that the WWF was doing so many dark gimmicks at the same time, between this and the Undertaker.

[goodhelmet]

The sad thing is that if they could have found a Papa Shango that could work (Butch Reed? Maybe even Ron Simmons?) and Taker was able to put on his post 1996 working boots, this could have been a feud of the decade on the two gimmicks colliding. Of course, it doesn't matter because it was the Godfather in the gimmick.

[Tim Evans]

I don't even think Reed could make the Warrior feud work. I liked Shango's feud vs Lawler though.

[shoe]

These are the types of things that make you embarassed to be a fan of wrestling. Still Shango comes across as a pretty sinister character.

[MikeCampbell]

More goofy stuff. I'm assuming that Vince or Patterson had recently watched Live and Let Die and decided that they needed a Baron Samedi character.

[WingedEagle]

Man it would've been something to see Butch Reed try and make this work. This felt like the trailer for a really, really bad Tarantino movie.

[PeteF3]

Shango probably deserved the Most Embarrassing Wrestler Observer award on principle, and I know he was sort of the final straw for a lot of longtime fans. And I know Charles Wright may have never had a good match in his entire career. But dammit, I marked out when jobbers got set on fire and ooze started coming out of people's bodies.

[garretta]

How anyone could call this even remotely sinister compared to Taker and past wildmen like Kamala is beyond me. Everything about this screamed "CARTOON!" Maybe it's just the way Wright played it, because they don't get any more cartoonish than Taker on paper, and look what Calloway did with him.

 

I don't recall ever seeing Shango wrestle. From what I've heard here and in other places, maybe that's a good thing.

[dawho5]

Hey, now we got a voodoo guy! And another racist gimmick to give black wrestlers all at the same time, yay?