Could the Right to Censor work today, a long time after the infamous group disbanded on WWE programming? Former member Bull Buchanan thinks so.
The Steven Richards-led group got here together in 2000 and sought to impose its will on WWE TV, stopping violence and sexual content.
Chatting with “The A2theK Wrestling Show,” Buchanan, the second member of the group after Richards, spoke of a modern-day revival. He said,
“[When asked if the faction could work today.] Oh, yeah. I don’t know whether we’d be heels or baby faces, but yeah. Definitely.”
While Buchanan believes a modern-day Right to Censor could work, he doesn’t see himself donning the white shirt and black pants again. He said,
“I hate to say this, nevertheless it would probably must be a younger generation. I just don’t think we will do that anymore like we used to, a minimum of on my part.”
The faction would hold the WWE Tag Team Titles (Buchanan and The Goodfather) while Ivory would have a reign as WWE Women’s Champion.
For Buchanan, the important thing to RTC’s success as heat magnets was easy:or they were taking away what the fans desired to see. He said,
“We were taking all of it. We took The Godfather’s girls away, we took away Val. We were attempting to we were messing with Chyna right after her Playboy deal. We were telling Austin they couldn’t drink beer.
“It was the Attitude Era, so everybody had some form of vice on TV and and that just gave us an countless amount of folks that we could mess with.”
The RTC was WWE’s parody of the Parents Television Council (PTC) which actively campaigned against the promotion within the late Nineties.
In 2000, WWE filed a lawsuit against the PTC, alleging that the PTC had used false claims to sabotage the wrestling promotion’s business relations.
One claim was that 14-year-old Lionel Tate had killed a six-year-old girl through the use of skilled wrestling moves seen on WWE programming
The case resulted in July 2002 with the WWE winning. The PTC paid $3.5 million and issued a public apology and a retraction, admitting the Tate claim was a lie.
After the faction’s end, Buchanan was rebranded as B2 (B-Squared) in 2002 and made a bodyguard for John Cena before departing the WWE in January 2003.