When it comes to the most underused and overlooked factions in WWE history, The Forgotten Sons will ironically make the list. Originally just Steve Cutler (now Impact Wrestling’s Steve Macklin) & Wesley Blake trying to find something that worked for them in NXT, before they’d be paired with Jaxson Ryker. Ryker would become the focus of the group, the reason for their call up, break up, and only one left in WWE. Now thanks to a recent interview, we know their original plan for The Forgotten Sons.
Wesley Blake On Joining Up With Steve Maclin
Wesley Blake would be on the WrestleInc daily podcast with Nick Hausman, one of his first major appearances since being released from WWE earlier this year as part of their budget cuts. He’d of course cover a variety of topics, most notably how Forgotten Sons got together in the first place.
“So I was, okay, so the first thing that came to my head when he told me I needed to change my gimmick was Steve Maclin. So when we got back in the States, the very first phone call I made was to Steve and just asked him, ‘Hey, I really think that we can start tagging,’ because we’ve always had a bond with each other. We’ve always had a real close brotherhood – friendship type thing. Not a lot of people know this but he’s the godfather to my children.”
They would quickly gel as a tag team in the ring. Blake has recently been compared to Bobby Eaton in terms of his in-ring abilities, and Maclin has started to prove himself in Impact. The skill was all there, they just needed a gimmick.
The Original Pitch For Forgotten Sons
After making some pitches, it was the Forgotten Sons that got management interested, but it was of course different from the end product.
“When Steve and I first originally were pitching this, we were pitching a Sons of Anarchy type vibe, a brotherhood, but we originally pitched prisoners of society. The concept of that was you had two guys from different backgrounds, which we were, but we felt we’ve done everything right that you’re supposed to do in life, and we weren’t getting ours. And so now, we were going to take ours by any means necessary.”
This was a solid pitch, but when Ryker would be added to the group? It became more about being forgotten war veterans. They’d get some minor success in NXT, getting decently far in the Dusty Rhodes Tag Team Classic, being in a ladder match for the vacant NXT Tag Team Championships, before being called up.
Would this original gimmick have worked out, or would it have simply been too generic to get them noticed? Let us know what you think in the comment section down below.
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