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Post by chunkylover53 on Mar 12, 2011 23:45:58 GMT -5
I thought that was actually going to be his gimmick (which I actually thought was hilarious) He comes out week after week giving soft spoken, well mannered promos in English and then his manager giving the most angry sounding promo possible in Arabic. Still makes me crack up Farsi actually. Like WWE knows the difference. They had The Iron Sheik play an Iraqi one time. Ignoring the fact that Iran and Iraq had a bloody war just prior.
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Post by The F'N Captain on Mar 13, 2011 1:35:22 GMT -5
The biggest "stupid" was when hassan was playing the "I'm just an arab victim" and being a straight up heel, the "Oh wait I AM A TERRORIST" thing killed it.
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Post by Super Duper Dragunov on Mar 14, 2011 10:13:56 GMT -5
I still say he was sympathetic in his initial debut and RAW run. It was just that, with that music, he was gonna get heel heat like HELL no matter where he wrestled. I thought it was even dumber that they go out of their way to announce him as being from "Detroit, Michigan" and the fans STILL chant "USA!" at him. I stand by my assertion that that character was too "deep" for the "at face value" thinking of a lot of wrestling fans. i agree with that last line 100%
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Post by chunkylover53 on Mar 29, 2011 2:33:35 GMT -5
The biggest "stupid" was when hassan was playing the "I'm just an arab victim" and being a straight up heel, the "Oh wait I AM A TERRORIST" thing killed it. Actually, as stated above, the storyline would've revealed that the men wearing the ski masks were white, proving his logic that they were only called terrorists because they were presumed to be Arab. Actually makes sense when you think about it.
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Post by thegame415 on Mar 29, 2011 11:38:17 GMT -5
The "terrorist" angle was poor timing.
The character was a good idea. It captured the realism of a social conflict among many Americans.
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Post by crimsonwolf on Mar 29, 2011 12:21:19 GMT -5
To this day, I feel bad for "Muhammad Hassan," or at least the way he went out. The Terrorist angle was poorly timed and stupid, but he was still essentially scapegoated to appease the network. I just hate the way he was forced out of the company by the Network. To the very least it would've been cool to see them repackage him, but nope that was it.
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