It's easy to fail in the business of professional wrestling. Spots at the top of the sport are limited. Competition is cutthroat. It's an industry that demands talent seize the brass ring. If you wait for it to be handed to you, the only thing you'll be given is a pink slip and a one-way ticket to obscurity.

Charles Wright, better known to WWE fans as The Godfather, will be inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame during WrestleMania weekend because he understood this. And when the time was right, he grabbed ahold of an opportunity and never let go.

After nearly a decade in the business, Wright was still searching for that role that would help him break out from the pack. He was discovered by a pack of wrestlers working on the movie Over the Top and soon enough was learning the ropes at Larry Sharpe's Monster Factory in New Jersey. A brief run on the independent circuit and a tryout match in Arizona arranged by his friend Mark "The Undertaker"Calaway, was enough to secure WWE's interest. 

"They told me when they came up with something they'd give me a call. I was working at the club in Vegas when the call finally came," Godfather told Bleacher Report in an exclusive interview. "They told me 'we want you to go rent the movie Live and Let Die.

"It's an old James Bond with a voodoo character named Baron Samedi. And that's where Papa Shango came from. As we got into it, I came up with that name. Papa is the surname and Shango means keeper of the grave. It's actually pronounced 'Shane-Go,' but I thought 'Shon-Go' sounded cooler."

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