10 Controversial WWE Attitude Era Moments You Totally Forgot About
8. Tiger Ali Singh's Servant
Quite appallingly, since he was clearly only a heel because he was a Sikh, Tiger Ali Singh was announced as hailing from the "continent of Asia" in 1998.
The implication is that you, boorish American, hated them all, all the Asians, and all 3,643,662,915 Asians were the same. Just a big, threatening hive mind they had going on over there - there being 30% of the planet's land mass.
Tiger was an abysmal professional wrestler, just the absolute sh*ts, but it was the Attitude Era. He wasn't there to wrestle well; he was there to do something that you'd talk about in repulsed but fascinated tones, and that something was "Persuade members of the audience to do gross sh*t for money". He did this in a bid to prove that Americans were disgusting people, and on the basis of who Vince McMahon paired him with onscreen, he wasn't f*cking wrong.
Tiger, and this was absolutely not "on," had a servant, with an implied developmental disability (they're savages, pal!) who in one segment wiped mucus from his own nose that a member of the audience had to then eat. This, to be clear, isn't the controversial bit.
That servant's name?
Babu.
Assumedly, this was whittled down from a list that also included "Apu," and "the Soup Nazi".