July 10, 201114 yr Author comment_5476449 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.
July 10, 201114 yr comment_5476472 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.
July 13, 201114 yr comment_5476683 I don't even think Reed could make the Warrior feud work. I liked Shango's feud vs Lawler though.
August 7, 201114 yr comment_5478945 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.
September 3, 201213 yr comment_5513891 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.
February 13, 201312 yr comment_5535217 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.
July 6, 201312 yr comment_5550065 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.
December 15, 20159 yr comment_5715937 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.
March 19, 20187 yr comment_5836403 Hey, now we got a voodoo guy! And another racist gimmick to give black wrestlers all at the same time, yay?
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