WWE champion Ettore Ewen has been the champion for less than a year now. He made history by becoming the first African American competitor to hold the ‘Money in the Bank' contract.
He made an appearance recently on the popular radio show The Breakfast Club where he discussed his career and also spoke about whether or not he had experienced racism in the company. WWE has had a complicated relationship with minority performers.
“In WWE, no, honestly I haven’t,” Ettore Owen, AKA Big E, said on the show about experiencing racism in the WWE (transcription via Rajah.com). “I will say, as far as our representation on TV, we are getting to where we need to be. It’s always a work in progress. Oftentimes, if there are issues it would present themselves as, people see you a certain way and they want you to, as a character, ‘oh you’re a big black man,’ so this is the role you need to play. Our goal with The New Day was to start tearing down those boxes so people don’t see performers. When they see a black woman, they think she needs to be doing certain things. I look at somebody like Bianca [Belair], she’s so dope to me because not only is she an incredible athlete, but she’s so authentic. What you see on-screen is who she is off-screen, and I think we are getting more of those black characters on TV that are authentic.”
It's good to hear that Big E has had a positive experience in the WWE. He has a very bright future in the organization.
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