8 Things You Didn't Know About WWE's Mansoor

Dig a little into someone's past, and it's only a matter of time before you find something rotting beneath the surface. The biggest and most problematic skeletal elephant in Mansoor's armoire of mixed-metaphors is a seemingly anti-semitic skit, which promptly resurfaced when his name was put in lights in Jeddah.

In the short clip, WWE's latest star acts out the Shylockian-stereotype of a Jewish usurer, a mime of the 'Happy Merchant' meme that's as shocking as it is stupid. Mansoor directly addressed the old video on Reddit, telling a user that he was a young, "dumb" college kid trying to get a rise out of 4chan's infamous Politically Incorrect cesspool. Obviously, everybody is permitted mistakes, but it's a very bad look, especially given he's the face of a regime known for enforcing strict religious intolerance.

And then there's the Lars Sullivan precedent. Presumably WWE officials were not previously aware of this idiotic lapse of judgement - if they were, putting him over yesterday was just barmy - and will be fuming at such a situation arising again. But given they just promoted a government which specifically banned women from competing, fining Mansoor strikes of chromatic conversation twixt pot and kettle.

Either way, it's worrying that the Californian was once a regular one of the internet's biggest hives of scum and villainy - and one known for helping forment fascist sentiment - even if it's all in the past.