Over the years fans have seen quite a few Superstars go through gimmick changes on WWE programming, but apparently there is one gimmick that Vince McMahon has grown tired of.
Westin Blake, formerly known as Wesley Blake in WWE, recently appeared on The Angle Podcast, and he explained why the cowboy gimmick he was using in NXT back in 2014 was eventually scrapped.
“After about 6 months, I kind of got the impression or I was told that, ‘Hey Vince McMahon doesn’t really like cowboys. He thinks it’s kind of overdone especially in the wrestling business. We are going to have to switch up your character and pitching some more ideas.'”
Blake was called up to the WWE main roster last year as part of The Forgotten Sons, but the group quickly disappeared from WWE programming after Jaxson Ryker received some backlash for posting a political tweet. The former WWE star noted that originally The Forgotten Sons were set to feud with The New Day, but their spot was filled by Cesaro and Shinsuke Nakamura.
“You guys are going into a New Day feud, because at that time Xavier Woods was out with an injury and we were going to feud with them for quite some time to where Xavier would come back and then we could have 6 man exchanges and stuff,” Blake said. “We were never told you guys are going to win the titles type stuff. And of course once things happened we kind of got taken out of that spot and we saw Cesaro and Shinsuke kind of get put into our spot of course they win the tag titles so it makes you think oh man if we would’ve stayed there that could’ve been us.”
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