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MVP, Montel Vontavious Porter, is presently active in All Elite Wrestling AEW but he earned most of his same as a professional wrestler while working in WWE. He was presented as an upcoming talent of the promotion back in the Ruthless Aggression era, and he won multiple championships.
MVP made his main roster debut back in 2006, and he was instantly greeted with a huge rivalry with the Big Red Machin, Kane. He kept on having big feuds with top stars, and he had been a two times WWE United States champion and also a former WWE Tag Team Champion. During his early days, he was a strong upper mid card.
WWE had plans to put the World Championship on MVP
At a point, it looked like WWE was promoting him as a future main event star. Recently, the 51 year old professional wrestler made it clear that it was actually true, WWE wanted to promot him as a future World Champion. But what is the exact reason on WWE decided not to give him the World title? Speaking with Chris Van Vliet on the “Insight” podcast, he recently revealed the following;
“Because there were potentially countries that I couldn’t get into. So how can you be the World Heavyweight Champion, but you can’t go to this country? Like going to Japan. Japan is very strict about people who [can enter], like James Brown, they wouldn’t let into Japan. But because I went over for a Japanese company, they were able to smooth it over with the visa process. Canada. I couldn’t get into Canada for a long time.
MVP had been a two times WWE United States Champion
"I had to go through a process there where people had to write letters of recommendation. It costs 1000s of dollars in legal fees to get something in Canada. They call it a letter of rehabilitation. They said, Okay, you’re rehabilitated. You can come to Canada. You always have to bring this letter with you, because if they ask, ‘Have you been convicted of a felony?’ And I say ‘Yes, but here’s my letter of rehabilitation.’
"Then I can get in. Australia, the last time I went to Australia was with Tommy Dreamer’s House of Hardcore. It literally took an act of Congress, and at the 12th hour, some Parliament official, nobody wanted to sign off on my document to let me in. And somebody knew somebody, and some member of parliament or whatever, signed off on it, and I was able to get in Australia.
WWE decided not to give him the world title because of his past criminal records
"Now England, the United Kingdom, just started the electronic transfer authorization, and they ask the question, ‘Have you been convicted of a felony that required you to have a 12-month stay or longer in a correction?’ Well, yeah, I did nine and a half years. So I answered truthfully, and that’s why I wasn’t allowed in for Forbidden Door. So coming full circle, as it was told to me, there was a conversation about me being a World Champion. But there were reservations because of my convicted felony.”
MVP was released from WWE in 2010, and he made his return to the promotion after a decade in 2020, but during his second run, he mostly worked as an on screen manager. During his first run, he might have been promoted as a future main event star at first, but ultimately, by the end of his career he became a lower mid card, and he was never promoted as a main event star.
