Over the years fans have seen a lot of tag teams come and go, former WWE Tag Team Champions Primo and Epico ended up working with the company for almost a decade. Over the course of their WWE run they ended up changing their gimmick several times, and at one point Vince McMahon himself pitched a gimmick that the team did not want to use.
During a recent appearance on That 90s Wrestling Podcast Orlando Colon, formerly known as Epico in WWE, revealed that Vince McMahon wanted him and his cousin Primo to dress like Hugh Hefner.
“One of the many times we got heat, they came up with this gimmick. We were supposed to be the Puerto Rican Playboys. We’re in the office and Vince goes, ‘Yeah you guys are good-looking. You’re Puerto Rican, I want you guys to dress like Hugh Hefner.’ It was like a mix of Hugh Hefner and Goldust. ‘You’re gonna wear black and gold.’ Me and Primo looked, we almost threw up right there. ‘Here’s your gimmick,’ they had gear and everything. We had the black and gold robe like Hugh Hefner. And we were gonna be in Goldust’s color scheme. ‘Oh god please.’”
Orlando Colon then went on to explain that Vince McMahon changed his mind and nixed the idea two hours before the gimmick was supposed to debut on WWE programming.
“We were about to debut and then two hours before we were supposed to debut with that gimmick Vince goes, ‘Ah, it might be too much for TV. Playboys, what is that?’ And that was his idea. So then we get called into the office he goes, ‘Yeah I want you guys to sell me Puerto Rico. Just yeah, sell it to me. Sell me attention.’ And I’m like, ‘we’ll do whatever you want other than Puerto Rican Playboys.’”
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