8 Wrestlers WWE Pushed In The WORST Way Possible

The spicier side of a WWE fan's timeline is currently awash with the idea that the company would have had an ICE gimmick on Raw or SmackDown if Vince McMahon were still in control of creative. On the surface, it's just people poking fun at the disgraced billionaire's poor taste in his penchant for including the zeitgeist in his product. Muhammad Hassan's role in 2005 makes the grim prospect far more realistic.

Being frank about it, Muhammad Hassan was cartoonish rot. His over-the-top xenophobic promos, cliched attire, and masked henchmen who came in balaclavas to attack opponents were the kind of characters that embarrass fans for liking WWE. It was tone-deaf and childish, and made wrestling fans seem like simpletons who got off on reducing nuanced global issues to mindless parody.

As WWE becomes more of a global product than ever before, hosting multiple PLEs in Saudi Arabia no less, a character like Muhammed Hassan feels more like a bad fever dream of wrestling's past. In the words of Diamond Dallas Page, that is a good thing.