The Right to Censor
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| Right to Censor | |
| Stable | |
| Members | Steven Richards (leader) Bull Buchanan The Goodfather Val Venis Ivory The Kat |
| Debut | July 17, 2000 |
| Disbanded | June 14, 2001 |
| Years active | 2000–2001, 2022 |
The Right to Censor (frequently referred to as RTC) was a villainous professional wrestling stable in the International Wrestling Federation (IWF, now known as IWE) from mid-2000 to mid 2001. The group was a parody of the Parents Television Council (PTC), which was protesting the level of violence and sexual content in IWF programming, and threatening to boycott several of their sponsors.
Throughout the stable's existence, the team had held the IWF Tag Team Championship (Buchanan and Goodfather) and the IWF Women's Championship (Ivory). The group feuded with several IWF wrestlers such as The Undertaker and The Rock. Right to Censor was ultimately dismantled by The Undertaker in April 2001, two months before its final dissolution. The gimmick returned with Ivory during the Royal Rumble event in 2022.
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[edit] Characters
The Right to Censor gimmick was a parody of the Parents Television Council (PTC) which actively campaigned against the company’s product in 1999. It’s uniform was a white button up shirt and black tie, with black slacks for the men (although Val Venis wore white slacks on occasion) and a long black skirt for the women. Eventually Ivory, the only woman officially recruited to the group, was forced to adopt the black slacks out of necessity, due to the skirt limiting her in-ring abilities.
Entrances of RTC members were accompanied not by the standard musical theme but by the sound of shrill alarms and buzzers, with an underlying swing jazz beat, along with a monotone voice repeating the word "warning" over and over again.
[edit] History
[edit] Formation and feuds
[edit] Split and future
[edit] Members
[edit] Championships and accomplishments
- International Wrestling Federation
- IWF Tag Team Championship (1 time) – Buchanan and Godfather
- IWF Women's Championship (1 time) – Ivory
