10 Unusual Ways To Lose Your Job With WWE

2. Do Everything The Company Asks You To Do

In their desperate quest to regain some of the mainstream publicity WWE had during the Attitude Era, the company's creative team took Italian-American developmental talent Mark Copani and turned him into Muhammad Hassan, an Arab-American who was tired of the discrimination he had experienced since 9/11. Not only was Copani posing as a member of a different ethnicity, but the character was portrayed as a heel, and so subsequent feuds with babyfaces did nothing but stoke discriminatory feelings among small-minded fans.

Still, the inexperienced Copani - who was as capable on the microphone as he was completely lost in the ring - did everything the company asked him to do, and he received an immediate push. Of course, that did little to endear him to more experienced talent, and they began to resent him. One co-worker pulled a prank on Copani by telling him that, as it was his finisher, he should tell Eddie Guerrero to stop using the Camel Clutch. The veteran Guerrero, whose father invented the hold, was not pleased, and when word spread among the locker room, Copani was even more hated.

Still, the push continued. Hassan was traded to SmackDown and put into a feud with The Undertaker, but it soon came to a halt. In a supremely controversial angle, Hassan and his manager, Daivari, engineered an attack on Undertaker that saw masked men attack and beat the Phenom before Hassan finished the job. Intentionally evocative of terrorist attacks, the angle was tasteless enough on its own, but in between its taping and airing, the July 7, 2005 London bombings took place. UPN banned the character from its network, and with no recourse, WWE quickly wrote him out of storylines. Two months later, Copani was fired.