The Story of The Right to Censor
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The Right to Censor was a WWF faction that existed during the WWF's "Attitude Era". When the PTC began giving Vince McMahon problems in regards to the WWF's more contemporary content, it was decided that Stevie Richards would lead a group that held the same beliefs as Vince McMahon's real life enemies. The Right to Censor, eventually featuring superstars such as "The Goodfather", Val Venis, Ivory and Bull Buchanan, would do everything they could to put a halt to the WWF's attitude initiative, from covering up female superstars to trying to stop the Dudley Boyz from using tables. The RTC's actions would lead the group to becoming natural heels within the World Wrestling Federation.
This video looks at the formation of the Right to Censor in 2000 and it also looks at how each member became associated with the group.
00:00 - The WWF vs The PTC
03:34 - Steven Richards becomes concerned about WWF content
06:57 - The Goodfather joins the cause
10:52 - Val Venis joins RTC
15:13 - Ivory joins RTC
16:50 - The Dudleys tease joining the group
19:59 - The final weeks of The Right to Censor
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Stevie Richards was just flat-out underrated
Definitely was he made anything work
The last time I saw him on actual TV, I can't remember if it was heat or RAW, but he was in drag (wearing a wig and dress) fighting Kane in a horrible squash match that effectively did nothing but kill him.
His "Super Kick" was (probably still is) better than Shawn Micheals' ever was.
@@thisisnotachannel yea his superkick was great always out of nowhere and didn’t overuse it
Ill show you YOU SEE
I hated RTC back in the day, but when I looked back, they were a genuinely amazing heel group
I guess they were necessary..... somehow
They weren't the four horsemen but they were a decent mid card stable that was a good counter to the attitude era stuff at the time.
Yes
If you hated them, you're doing exactly what Vince and WWE/F intended.
@@Tgogators it's true but when you're 12 you don't think like that
The fact that it was a direct parody of an advocacy group makes it doubly hilarious.
Right it was hilarious as hell
It was a bit like the character I.R.S.
In both cases, Vince was taking not so subtle potshots at his real life foes.
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns I would have liked to see him do one of the WWF...with wrestlers dressed in Panda costumes.
Back when Vince McMahon was a pure genius!!!!
Yep 😂😂
Richards deserves so much credit as a heat magnet in my opinion. He played that character to absolute perfection.
yup, he was perfect
yeah he was perfect for it for a while they were doing nothing with him they had a great talent right under their nose the whole time
@@robertgibbs7513 factz...a good stable imo
@@Classicbasketballdvds Godfather and bull Buchanan had great chemistry together when they work together and when they wrestled against each other
@@robertgibbs7513 factz
"If putting people through tables is wrong, then I don't want to be right!" I love that bit.
Standing as I tweet
That sad moment when you realize that RTC technically won as WWE is now a watered down PG shell of its former WWF-self. Groups like the PTC are who WWE solely caters to now.
RTC did not win. Vince gave up, got bored of the attitude era and got greedy with all the corporate money coming in when they became a public company.
The fact that the WWE and the entertainment industry in general is watered down and sterile now is nothing to do with the conservative-minded PTC and everything to do with over-sensitive woke liberalism and a corporate media who fiercely attack everything that deviates from the permitted narrative, thought patterns and behaviours.
@@attiepollard7847 that, and you don't have to be as good when there's no longer any competition
@@buenapilapil5513 exactly.
Don’t forget, Linda was running for Congress at the time too. Vince wanted to make the WWE’s image look good to help her win, while she was running (which we know now she didn’t win).
Man I miss consistent booking and storylines that play off.
Blame the fans for that.
@@thediamondcutter9185 ???
@@thediamondcutter9185 the fans are the reason creative can't write a good storyline?
@@user-gm4kv2my4u you're always there bitching and moaning, being never satisfied with nothing.
So yes, at this point if I was a writer I wouldn't bother either.
@@thediamondcutter9185 lol. You're doing just as much bitching and moaning. Apoligizing foe the WWE's half assed effort. People like you are the reason the company does nothing but try to maximize profits instead of put forth a quality product.
6:14 Seeing Steven Richards run away with the tables made me crack up. You can't draw better heat than censoring things.
He did it for us! 😂
Stevie Richards had great mic skills. He was the perfect guy for that role. He could really get a crowd to hate him.
Even dressed up all "RTC", Ivory was still hot as hell.
Schoolgirl look. They knew what they were doing.
@@adamalberts2 😆 It worked great!
Hell yeah she was fine
her ass was super underrated. look at 2000 royal rumble bikini contest
@@eddie9244 - I always enjoyed the view!
Stevie Richards is one of the most under rated wrestlers in the industry. He could work as well as anybody, he had a knack for being able to draw real heat as a heel, and could cut a promo. Cant help but feel he is so under appreciated by these companies.
His youtube channel breaks down things very well too. Good post career move. Ivory is underrated too. Goodfather was my favorite 😂.
Honestly though, censorship is sometimes justified, especially in small doses as well as aiming to a younger audience, like putting a shirt on lady deathstrike in x-men the animated series from the 90's or rejecting the Longshot romance idea as jubilee was too young. The making of book thanked the censors for not handcuffing them (like 90's spiderman or 2000's fantastic four with many edited scenes).
I like the fact that they had five talents they didn't know what to do with and...DID something with them!
The irony...
I guess you die a hero or live long enough to become WWE PG era.
😂😂
I thought the same thing too. This is technically the one heel group that won, besides the NWO.
LOL! Nice!
I will say I never gave ivory enough credit for her abilities and mic skills til she joined the RTC.
I mean she was an original in GLOW.. ol Tina Ferrari. =p
She was super talented.
@@RyanKuebelthanks for the info. Always helps to know women's wrestling wasn't just Chyna and the fabulous moolah mess.
"She reminds me of my 5th grade English teacher...who NEVER MARRIED, by the way." - Jim Ross
JR was ALWAYS a savage! 😂😂😂
What? Did he really say that?
Best Stevie Richards moment is when he chair shot jbl for beating up blue meanie
Hell yeah, that's my favorite Stevie Richards moment too... sticking up for his friend!
In the WWF, at least. ECW is another story.
Strongly agreed
Stevie’s time in ecw is actually very good. Stevie is really underrated. He kept himself in good shape his entire career along with having longevity due to not getting himself hooked on drugs, which is wild considering his history in ecw.
oof. he laid that one in there nice and stiff. sounded like a gun went off. would be cool if wrestlingbios covered that beef and that moment.
@@Thor-Orion Richards probably could have had some good midcard title runs if it wasn't for that stinger he got. His career was drastically cut down after that
Molly Holly would've been perfect for the faction
Yeah the 2002 version Molly holly
Molly holly was and is always perfect.
Well, the RTC predicted what's happening to WWE, that's the product today.
They got the last laugh.
Actually, the RTC predicted what it happening to the world today. And many are no longer laughing.
@@str.77 I mean the portrayed RTC characters are laughing.
@@xenobreak1160 Sure. My comment was not meant to contradict yours. Maybe in the context of your comment they are laughing. Not in mine's.
Both the Right to Censor(2001) and The Corporation(1999) are in full control of WWE right now.
WAY ahead of their time this group was
Thanks for that insight, Yoda.
Not really! Are You Blind?! People were PC in the 1990s! This is why this group existed!!
@@kenrickeason That was kid stuff compared to now.
Just imagine if Goldust was around during this time lol
Right 😂😂
What where his Name then? Censordust? ^^
@@Ymiriron It was Dustin Runnels he had a gimmick similar to the RTC in 1998.
Adrian Adonis would've been even better
Or imagine if Stone Cold Steve Austin would have been here during this
They were waaaaaay ahead of their time! They predicted the PG era all the way back in the attitude era ;)
Well, WWF was PG all the way up to mid-1998, so it was just a return to form for WWE after "getting the F out" (after losing rights to the WWF initials to the animal rights/environmental conservation advocacy organization The World Wildlife Fund [for Nature], who owned the initials well before the former World Wrestling Federation dropped the extra W from its prior WWWF moniker) & doing away with the TV-14 rating, along with trying to backdoor censor its more salacious, risque programming in hindsight upon partnering with longtime Monday Night RAW distributor NBC-Universal/Universal Studios (owners of USA Network, moderators of WWE Network on Peacock & loaning out Hot Stuff the Little Devil -- the impish hell-spawn friend of Casper the Friendly Ghost & the ethereal adolescent's "fleshie with superpowers" girlfriend Wendy the Good Little Witch from NBC's acquisition of Harvey Entertainment/Harvey Comics -- for use on promotional material for the NXT New Year's Evil PPV event) & streaming industry pioneer Netflix (the recent _Escape The Undertaker_ interactive TV movie & previously, _The Big Show Show_ family sitcom before Paul Wight joined the All Elite Wrestling rival promotion).
And cancel culture
@@kenwahldhlamini8102 and they can bring this stable back in the times we are in now
This makes no sense. The wwf was pg before the attitude era. All Vince did was bring the company back to what he always wanted it to be.
Yeah, when I was a teenager watching this I was like "This is insane and would never really happen!". Fast forward 20+ years and yeah............................ 😒 it actually happened.
Thank you for remixing the Rights To Censor “entrance song” (quote, unquote). Good God. It was ear rape seeing them live in 2000 and all everyone did was cover their ears until they made it to the ring
FFS ear rape??? 😂
This ain't it chief, RTC's theme was unironically one of the GOATs
Funny thing is behind all the blaring alarms and horns there's a sick beat bumping 🤣
The Godfather and Val Venis looked like they weren't too happy about it
They should have been the leaders against them to be honest.
I had no idea Godfather HATED this gimmick, and was on the brink of quitting.
He most likely stayed because of the Undertaker since he was part of his Bone Street Crew. Could be mistaken though.
The “Goodfather” was a clever way to evolve as a wrestler though...
Probably his only memorable story line
Surprised me, too. This gave him the most screen time he's ever had and elevated him from an occasional performer on Sunday Night Heat.
Val Venis hated it as well. It wasn't Val Venis's cup of coffee. He was serious at the time, but not that serious in the sense that he'd ditch the sexualized portion within his serious heel gimmick.
@@VegetaAlex however, he didn't fully metamorphisize into a clean individual on WWF Games. In Smackdown 2 he still has his Pimpdrop and his Ho Train Charge Body Splash, but the majority of his gimmick is, normal. His loading screen in the game even has a "Godfathery" pattern despite it saying "Goodfather." instead of a RTC pattern similar to Steven Richards's loading screen in the same game.
Man that spiked pilederiver on Chyna was brutal af
Yeah, I bought it like a $1 Big Mac.
Looked brutal, but probably the best one ever to take
LOL, it was the way Ivory gets right up there on her tip toes for the assist man 😆
And it was a perfect bump to take to say your neck was gona be messed up kayfabe cuz it’s so believable that she was actually hurt
I always had a soft spot in my heart for this faction. It was just so goofy, and the fact that they WON the majority of the time was insane and awesome. Great video. 💜
Heat magnets the RTC were! I was super annoyed with them, especially as a kid, but I can look back and see how effective they were as heels.
Lol yeah i hated them, what a great faction
I Remember when RTC thought The Dudley Boyz was going to join them
🤣 that was a painful mistake they made
I have a question what if los ingosbernables de japon fought right to censor
That was so funny.
@@kevinpayton2664 I think natio and los ingosbernables de japon would destroy right to censor
@@YoungRiaz I think they would too.
Probably the most effective heels of 2000-2001. I remember absolutely hating them and cheering on whoever their opponents were even if I didn't like them.
I never appreciated this faction back in the day but looking back now in 2021, they were excellent and ahead of their time!
Bubba Ray did that same "I don't wanna be right" segment in TNA when everyone thought they joined the Main Event Mafia.
Nobody censored wrestling bios!😁
Just stay away from peacock
I gotta say, I thought Right To Censor was a hilarious group. Especially when Steven Richards got on the mic.
Even as a Stevie Richards fan, I got a good laugh out of Taker using the RTC to teach Kane the Last Ride🤣
Stacey Carter aka "Miss. Kitty" and "The Kat" and she also the leader of "Right to Nudity" for Real!
Stevie Richards is criminally underrated in regards to his in ring capabilities AND his mic and promo skills.
@@thisisnotachannel indeed, his work against abyss in TNA was fun to watch
“And remember, we’re doing this for YOUR OWN GOOD…”
The RTC's theme song is a good alarm clock to wake up in the morning that's for sure. 😆
Jesus, their "entrance music" was enough to get all the heat from me back in the day.
Even as a 9 year old kid, I loved that mock interview by Val and Ivory. The RTC was way ahead of its time.
Ivory was sooo underrated
RTC still around they're just working for Peacock now!
/overused joke
You got that right but at least the RTC faction was heel heat while the peacock stuff has go away heat
I agree with you, I hope aew does a parody of peacock
@@cobraninja2968 I hope WWE and Peacock lose money over it. They'll loosen up once their bank account starts missing a few million.
@@funkyweapon1981 true, it sucks they let the whole world have the app and America gets the peacock app
@@Kas58223 lol true.
Man I feel like no one remembers Bull Buchannon but whenever I see clips I forgot how he could actually go in the ring.
Go not very far, let's be honest. I mean look at his performance at Wrestlemania X7 (I think he did maybe 1 move for his time in the ring). I enjoyed him far more as Bossman's henchman (or B-2 with John Cena)
Bull was pretty much everyone's sidekick.
I don't know how to describe him other than surprisingly interesting to watch low carder
No one could leap to the top rope without using hands, jump backwards off it and turn in mid-air to drop a huge leg drop in the middle of the ring like Bull, he made it look like it was easy. He got his best run in Japan but he was fun as sidekicks to Jackyl, Boss Man, Stevie & Cena. I still remember being downhearted when him and Raven both got cut after Rumble'03 to never return. Good memories mostly tho.
In hindsight, Right to Censor was ahead of their time, I can see them working very well in the modern-day.
They ought to rename themselves as Twitter.
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns ...or the British Broadcast Channel
@@rosegraham5283 ...or the Democrat Party
@@Gunners_Mate_Guns 😂😂
@Metal Rulez You have a short memory, then. The left got it from the right, case closed.
Roughly around the 18 minutes mark I forgot how gorgeous the tag team belts were around that time
The best tag belts ever imo
Really great heel faction that worked perfectly with the attitude era.
By today's standards they'd be a face faction.
Damn they were good at being hated
They'd be faces, they'd get X-Pac heat, and you'd be a bigot for hating them.
Nice! One of my favourite stables 😊. They were spookily spot on about the future with our current "PG Era". Great upload mate, thank you 👍
Who would of thought something meant as a parady turned out to be reality 20 years later. So sad.
Right to censor episode on 4/20? You are the best!
As a child words cannot express how much I hated the Right To Censor... If news had came out that they were murdered in a gangland styled execution I would've probably popped as an 6 year old. Looking back now, they were such a fun group & WWE could've gone so much further with them. They definitely get forgotten by modern wrestling fans of this current era; but they certainly have their place in history! Great video brother!
RTC had the best entry music because it did exactly what it was meant to do. You couldn't sing to it, you couldn't dance to it, it wasn't catchy, all you can do was boo. It was obnoxiously perfect to create nuclear heat, and it worked.
Ivory, the world's first Karen
Is it just me or did he leave out the part how the RTC censored MR.ASS and got him to change his name to "THE ONE BILLY GUNN" ??
He did. To paraphrase the RTC leader's promo towards Billy Gunn, "I find the use of the name MR. ASS to be repulsive, revolting & totally unacceptable! So, if you are any kind of man at all, Mr. Gunn, you would allow me the privilege and the honor to personally censor your profane name! -- gestures to the crowd -- And, I do it for the good of each and every one of you!" ~ Steven Richards
As a kid absolutely hated them looking back having Rewatched 2000 on the network before the peacock deal happened they were a decent group who played their parts well Richards especially.
That deal is the modern RTC.
But you weren’t wrong to hate them Bc that means the sold their heel faction role !!
@@alekomania that's ridiculous
honestly, the stable were perfect heels back then
fit perfectly
Never did I click so fast for this. Man I hated those guys especially when Val and the Godfather joined that's how good they were in the brief time they were together. Steven Richard's did some real underrated mic work with RTC
Volcanic heat!
Stevie was great on the mic in ECW, too!
Even godfather himself hated being in this group and you could tell by looking at him he really really wanted to go back to being his pimp gimmick because since he did in 2002 I feel like it didn't really have it's spark like it did in 1999-00
You mean Goodfather
RTC was a very underrated stable, this Ivory's best WWE character. She looked like a nun.
this bio reminded me of how underrated steven richards was.
RTC was a very creative faction. Ivory flourished and Richards was exceptional. They were very underrated.
If putting people through table's is wrong.....well, I don't wanna be right!
Oh, my brother... testify!!
Stevie really deserved at least an intercontinental title run with this group he was so underrated. The right to censor were probably the best heel faction of their time, such a great gimmick
Stevie Richard was hilarious in RTC as I look back.. LMAO 😂😆
Steven Richards has the distinction of being the leader of both a successful face and heel faction, BWO in ECW, and RTC in WWE.
24:13 Stevie Richards' WWE and TNA runs, as a whole, were like Right to Censor. Stuff like this, Dr. Stevie and Stevie Night Heat didn't elevate Richards past the low-to-midcards, yet he was off-kilter enough that he lasted a long time in his comedy niche without drawing too much off the ECW nostalgia well.
"Classic case of Vince McMahon being Vice McMahon." I could not have said it better myself. This is just like Vince creating the Million Dollar Man and IRS.
A mid card stable is a mid card stable, but I think you have to judge the value of the stable by whether or not the whole is greater than the sum of the parts. I think Right to Censor was the high point of most of the member's careers in WWF.
I think Val Venis got the best pops out of the stable solo, especially when he came to the WWF in 98. His porn videos were hilarious.
I would love to see RTC make a comeback in today’s world
They ARE back! That's why wwe sucks now 😂
They are running the show now
They would be seen as babyfaces today.
They are back. They’re called The WWE.
They would come out and say " Everything is fine. Have a good night"
I really wanted to see the conclusion of KAT vs RTC
She cheated on Lawler, there goes her wrestling career
@@ComicBookGuy420 Actually, she's married to Kizarny.
@@TherealRNOwwfpooh I know
My statement stands
@@ComicBookGuy420 Point is, she still had some loose ties to the business, however fleeting.
@@TherealRNOwwfpooh when was the last time you saw her on tv?
Career over
She wasn't much of a wrestler to begin with
They are like the first Straight Edge Society
Some of the bumps that Richards took during this time (some highlighted in this video) showed he was a very good worker. I remember hating him at this time and that shows he was doing his job right. Very underrated.
Reminds me of Cyrus from ECW as Paul Heyman's way of poking fun at the network which was TNN.
And now a days, RTC lives on but now being called PeacockTV. 😉
Honestly, this was exactly what a faction should be ... Specially a heel one. They got an idea, a principle and an execution and they did great, adding guys like Goodfather and ValVenis was a great idea and they did what they were supposed to do, being despicable heels. Sad that we didn't see Goodfather being the one who broke the group by getting his old self back, but still they did have a good run and they were very prominent during their run, I'm sure it started as a joke but they succeed. I mean when you look at other factions like The Core, League of Nations or Retribution, i ben they wished they had at least half the success RTS got. Nice video.
I could actually see RTC being used in storylines today considering damn near everything is censored.
Stevie richards going thru a table was awesome
@ Wrestling Bios its difficult to do a remix of a car alarm theme but props to you for trying.
Ivory was awesome in this role. Heel personified.
Val never recovered from being in RTC.
He was all right when he was Chief Morley.
Neither did the Godfather
I think this was the really brilliant part: the RTC successfully censored some of the more lurid parts of the show. But rather than fans getting upset with WWE as a company for toning things down, fans instead got upset with the on-screen faction doing it, and it was made part of the story. I think they wanted to tone things down a little bit but found a way to do it while making it part of the storyline.
Nice take man, pretty sharp!
Not sure if anyone remembers but Ivory did return in her RTC gimmick in the 2022 Royal Rumble. She made history by being the oldest woman (60) to compete in it. She also did an interview afterwards where she was so trying to stay in character but was having a hard time occasionally.
Tbh that segment with the Dudley's was amazing. But that 3D was one of the CLEANEST 3D's they've ever done!!!
Now if only WWE brought them back and presented them as the reason why WWE is family friendly now, thus doing long term booking on a scale we could never have imagined, to finally defeat them and bring back Attitude 2.0 then I will call them the greatest faction of all time. Until that day WWE... I'm still waiting.
That would have been the greatest storyline of all time!
They to old
Stevie Richards was one of the best, he played every character so well and especially this one! Thanks for a great video mate.
Stevie played the role perfectly.. best character he played on his entire career
I’ll never forget that Dudley Boys fake out - it was so satisfying watching Steven get his comeuppance.
This is a video I think a lot of Wrestling Bio regulars have been waiting for. So happy to have seen it pop up in my feed
The Right to Censor faction was just pure genius
Underrated heel faction
One of the rare cases in wich a comedic gimmick was done right.
Lisa “Ivory” Moretti has often said she was put in the RTC as a sort of punishment for refusing to pose for Playboy. She also didn’t do a whole lot after RTC disbanded, she still got used regularly during her last couple years in the company but it was mostly house shows and throwaway TV matches. She’s chalked that up to lingering resentment over her not doing Playboy and creative basically forgetting she existed.
Man I wish she would have done it. She was hot 🥵
The highest point of stevie richards career in my opinion
It shouldn’t have been, but it was definitely his highest profile angle.
@kjsays being with Victoria
Twitter and FB would LOVE this group
Loved this group. Ivory and Stevie Richards so underrated. It's for your own good.
Right To Censor would be a babyface faction today
They would be called: Right to Cancel...😂😂
I disagree. They would be more hated today.
@@Cycopace Right To Justice....an SJW group.
Major heel heat right there.
@@SnipingIsFun For advocating social justice/pushing towards freedom for all & not just some/wanting to "cancel culture" racism, sexism, xenophobia, pedophilia & other terrible aspects of humanity?
@@TherealRNOwwfpooh They would act like the first one but truly be the second. Like how most of them are in real life.
Automatic heel magnets.
The Dudley Boyz segment was probably one of the most memorable in Smackdown. Bubba Ray defied gravity on that 3D
That was probably their best 3D ever, at least in their WWF/E career.
The show at 17:41 was the best 3D I have ever seen in my life.
Best heels going. Hated them as a wee guy 😂
This is one of the last things that I remember right before I got “too cool” for wrestling at the age of 11.
@@412StepUp lol yea you might be right. As a relapsed fan though, I see that I’ve missed some pretty interesting stuff from the past 20 years. Mostly garbage but a small percentage of interesting things that would have been cool to have witnessed. Mainly the rise of Edge becoming a main event player, retiring and his surprise return for the Royal Rumble.
Same. This is one of the last angles I remember before I tapped out of wrestling. Completely underrated group. I remember hating them. LOL
Imagine being too cool for Attitude Era WWE. What's edgier?
i've been waiting for this. right to sensor pulled of midcardism to the highest level
Wrestling Bios uploads like crazy, great work ethic. 👍
Always am requesting a bio on this to many channels...... So happy it's finally been done
Just the perfect heels for the time. I’m usually annoyed when Vince inserts his personal beefs into the product, but the performers were just stellar. They made it work and then some.
Looking back, these guys were damn engaging and entertaining. I really enjoyed their storylines.
Now WWE is basically the corporate version of RTC they're censoring themselves 😆🤦🏾♂️
And destroying themselves.
Running the company right into the ground.
In hindsight, this angle was brilliant. With Stevie Richards doing phenomenal work.