10 Wrestlers Who Got Buried For Someone Else Screwing Up

9. Muhammad Hassan

Muhammad Hassan was at one point in 2005 pencilled into challenging and winning the World Heavyweight Championship from Batista at SummerSlam. That’s how strongly WWE were behind Muhammad, who was attracting huge heat from North American crowds.

The only reason the match and result never occurred was the infamous SmackDown angle in July where Hassan and his masked followers beat and choked The Undertaker out in what appeared to have large terrorist connotations to it.

Muhammad was famously removed from all of WWE television after this angle, where wire strangulation was used on The Phenom after it aired the same week as the London bombings. This was hugely unfortunate for Muhammad, who was simply booked to take part in this segment by WWE creative, who were already pushing the envelope too far with his character. Muhammad was simply trying to please management in any way he could as a rookie by doing what was told of him in this hugely regrettable angle.

His character was killed off at The Great American Bash later that month and Hassan was quickly demoted to developmental and left wrestling altogether later that year after recounting the whole experience as heartbreaking, stating:-

“We started to push it too far. It was the masked men, it was treating Daivari as a martyr, it was carrying him out martyr style. It was everything about the character that was starting to draw heat with media, with Muslim American groups and eventually it started to change this heat from this genuine heat where the fans loved to hate this character to something that became a bit more. A little more political."