Giovanni Vinci Feels His Repackaged Character Didn’t Get a Chance In WWE

Giovanni Vinci got a character adjustment when he left Imperium, and he feels like that character didn’t get much of a chance. Vinci first potrayed the new take on his character in NXT when Gunther and Ludwig Kaiser were called up to NXT without him. He eventually split from the grounp again and his NXT character was teased on Smackdown, but he only had a couple of losses to Apollo Crews before he went on hiatus and was then released.

Vince spoke about the original plan for that character on Insight With Chris Van Vliet, noting that he was originally going to get going right away but found out what was happening the day of the show. You can see the highlights below:

On the Original Plan With His Repackaged Character:

“I thought the plan was to get me going right away, and I didn’t find out about that till basically the day of the show. So at the end of the day, you’re a professional. Whatever the plan is, you try to make the most of it. I do have to say, as far as entrance-wise, that was my favorite entrance I’ve ever done. Because in the group, I always felt a little bit like I tried to fit in. That’s why I didn’t stand out. Whereas with that character that I did in NXT, and it worked great there, doing that on the main roster, I just felt like, ‘Okay, I have some sort of direction, who I am, what I’m supposed to do.’ Was my favorite entrance, personality-wise, charisma-wise and everything, and then the plan changed the day of.”

On the Character Not Getting a Chance:

“Looking back now, I feel like from a business standpoint, if you look at the positives, it definitely got attention, definitely got people talking. The unfortunate thing for me is just that not more came out of it, because I feel like we could have done a lot of cool stuff with that character on SmackDown. I know Apollo and I could have tore it up in a match. We did in NXT. We did on Main Event. We have great chemistry. It was just things just kept happening. We moved to a different channel two weeks after then the next thing happened. I wasn’t on TV for a little bit. And, yeah, that’s just one of those things that are a little unfortunate. Because I saw myself actually having really good matches with the guys in the United States title picture at the time, like Melo, LA Knight, Andrade at the time. I think we could have done some cool stuff there. But, yeah, it is what it is.”