Carlito made quite the impression upon arriving in WWE in 2004 but believes his introductory vignettes ripped off Razor Ramon.
On a recent edition of the “Stories with Brisco and Bradshaw” podcast, Carlito recalled his vignettes and when he learned they were a rip-off of the Bad Guy. He said,
“If you noticed, back in the day, my vignettes were all just a bunch of Razor Ramon rip-offs. I didn’t realize it until I was at the Hall of Fame for, I think for when they were inducting Razor Ramon, and I said, ‘Wait a minute, son of a… They just gave me lazy re-dos of the vignettes.
“In one of them, he was somewhere at a vendor, and he got some kind of fruit — I forgot what it was — and spat it at somebody, and then mine, my version was I was at the fruit stand, and when the guy asks for me to pay him, I took an apple, I bit it, and I spit on him.”
Carlito debuted on SmackDown in 2004 and captured the United States Championship in his first match by dethroning John Cena.
At the time, Carlito was the youngest WWE U.S. Champion in history, a record he held for close to two decades before Austin Theory’s victory in 2022.
