Vince McMahon Didn’t Want Current SmackDown Star To Wrestle On The Main Roster

You never know when you might see one of NXT’s top stars get called up to the main roster. In March of 2022, Pete Dunne got called up to SmackDown to join The Brawling Brutes, but he didn’t get called up as Pete Dunne as he was renamed Butch.

The Butch character has received a decent amount of TV time since getting called up, but it doesn’t sound like Vince McMahon ever had any intentions for Butch to wrestle.

Mansoor was released from WWE back in September and he recently became a free agent. While talking to Denise Salcedo about his run with WWE, Mansoor claimed that Vince McMahon didn’t want Butch to wrestle as he simply wanted him to be an on screen character.

“I always think about Pete Dunne when he was Butch. I don’t know if he still is Butch. [He’s still Butch] Sure. But when Butch was in the beginning of that character. When he was the scrappy sort of like third guy in the Brawling Brutes that was coming out and attacking people and coming through the crowd, Vince said that he never wanted Butch to wrestle a match. The idea behind Butch is that he was always gonna be just this scrappy character that would claw and attack people but he was never gonna actually [wrestle]. Pete Dunne, right? Crazy.”

Ever since Triple H took over WWE creative it’s been rumored that The Game has plans to change Butch’s name back to Pete Dunne, but so far that hasn’t happened yet.

Stay tuned for updates.

H/T Sportskeeda