10 Banned Segments WWE Had To Censor
1. Muhammad Hassan Attacks The Undertaker
The Muhammad Hassan experiment was so divisive and offended so many people that it ended a promising worker's career entirely. Marc Copani was internally viewed as a can't miss prospect by WWE, but then they slapped this character on him and his life was never the same again.
Hassan was an anti-American gimmick in a post-9/11 world. That brought cheap heat by the bucketload, but caused significant problems for Copani on the road. Some wanted to fight him (or worse), and there were semi-regular complaints about things he was saying and doing on WWE TV.
Things came to a head on the 7 July 2005 SmackDown.
Tragically, a train station in London had been bombed that same day, but WWE still aired Hassan and a group of men clad in balaclavas attacking then abducting The Undertaker. This was "a sacrifice", and Muhammad even performed a beheading gesture before 'Taker was carried out.
UPN claimed they didn't have enough time to edit tapes and blamed WWE. Bruce Prichard, via his 'Something To Wrestle With' podcast, has called the whole thing unfortunate and pointed to poor timing. Poor timing?! People were terrified, so this just shouldn't have happened.
Questions needed to be asked about just how far WWE planned to go with the Hassan gimmick anyway. It was blending genuine fears about terrorism with pro wrestling telly that was supposed to be escapism.
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