{"id":340289,"date":"2026-05-25T08:01:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:31:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=340289"},"modified":"2026-05-25T08:01:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T02:31:12","slug":"the-godfather-shoots-on-modern-talent-want-to-be-a-wrestler-get-a-million-followers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/25\/the-godfather-shoots-on-modern-talent-want-to-be-a-wrestler-get-a-million-followers\/","title":{"rendered":"The Godfather Shoots On Modern Talent – ‘Want To Be A Wrestler? Get A Million Followers!’"},"content":{"rendered":"
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During a recent interview with \u201cSportshadow Wrestling,\u201d The Godfather discussed quite a lot of topics, including his WWE Legends deal, the sort of treatment he received from Vince McMahon, today\u2019s generation of wrestlers, and more.<\/p>\n

You possibly can try some highlights from the interview below:<\/p>\n

On his WWE Legends deal: <\/strong>\u201cThey began that in 2003. That\u2019s once I finished up. I had been on it constantly since 2003. That\u2019s what 23 years I\u2019ve been on it, and so they just signed one other five-year deal. They simply got here out with an motion figure, some pants. They\u2019ve been so cool with me. But my characters, despite the fact that they were short-lived, people remember them.\u201d<\/p>\n

On Vince McMahon: <\/strong>\u201cVince has done so many wild things. Where do you begin, bro? I mean, Godfather, Papa Shango\u2019s not even on the list. Dude, he\u2019s a really creative, very smart, superb person. Regardless of what you hear about him. Don\u2019t imagine what you see on TV. He\u2019s all the time been superb to me and my family. I used to be at his eightieth party. I used to be invited to that. That whole McMahon family has been nothing but good to me and my family.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAll I’ll say is the cash appeared to be higher when Vince was running things, and I\u2019ll let it go at that. But my royalty checks have gone way down since Vince left.\u201d<\/p>\n

On today\u2019s wrestlers: <\/strong>\u201cI don\u2019t hate on anything, bro. I mean, it\u2019s a special time. It\u2019s different people. It\u2019s different management. It\u2019s a special era. So things are different. The wrestlers, so far as I see, don\u2019t have the creativity that we did. One thing about me, I used to be never scripted. As Godfather, I might need to say a town, an event, but I might never be scripted. I don\u2019t know in the event that they still have that. Last time I used to be there, I used to be amazed since it\u2019s a lot different within the locker room and stuff. It\u2019s a lot different. It\u2019s more business now. After I was there\u2026 Everybody was, it was a bunch of friends and buddies. It was the blokes that frolicked together. Now it\u2019s more of a business.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe fellows are more concerned about what number of Instagram followers or TikTok followers they’ve than what they really do. So it\u2019s a special business. I tell people, \u2018You desire to turn out to be a wrestler now? Get 1,000,000 followers. They\u2019ll put you in there immediately.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI ain\u2019t mad at them, bro. I\u2019m not mad at anybody for getting cash. People hated on me once I got here in as Papa Shango. They thought I used to be going to be the top of wrestling, you understand? So I ain\u2019t mad at no person. God bless them. I hope they\u2019re all getting cash.\u201d<\/p>\n

On The Undertaker: <\/strong>\u201cI met Mark like in \u201888. We became a tag team called Death Express within the Mid-South with Jerry Lawler in Memphis. We became really good friends. After I met Taker, he didn\u2019t ride. To begin with, once I met Taker, he didn\u2019t drink Jack Daniels. That\u2019s for me. After I met Taker, he didn\u2019t hearken to country music. That\u2019s for me. After I met him, he had no tattoos. You\u2019ll see pictures of him getting his first tattoo, and also you\u2019ll see me behind him like this. Most significantly, he didn\u2019t ride a Harley. That\u2019s for me. What I tell people about, because Taker will inform you, he\u2019s like, \u2018Dude, all of the American Badass is that this dude over here talking about me.\u2019 But all I tell people about Taker is I just introduced him to a brand new lifestyle, and he took to it real well.\u201d<\/p>\n