hey chris, as a man from ontario are you going to be at money in the bank?

Actually I feel like Dirty Dom is also generating that type of heat right now. He even gets booed loudly if his name gets mentioned and he's not even there lol

​​​@@zeospark9715 doms not even close to getting that type of heat 😂 you neckbeard tubby marks be saying anything

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It was one of those promos that got me to get behind him. He wasn't necessarily doing anything heelish other than the wire attack on Taker.

Care to give an example?

I thought WWE originally was going to put Hassan over The Undertaker...but promos an Conalisa rice got in the way...terror attacks in London resembling the promos...

They should have kept that heat. This country was told over and over again to "Never Forget". I would've used that.

The heat was white people couldn't accept the truth.

I wished they went this far with Jack Swaggers push with Zeb Coulter.

Not 9/11 but this character came out around the same time as the London subway bombing in 2005. So the timing was just very unfortunate but pulling the character off TV was the right thing to do.

That's why he got cancelled, they did a show on July 7, when the bombing happened, pretty sure that was his last on tv

I heard it in my head just like you typed it

Yeah, we were actually behind Mustafa Ali until they ruined Retribution (and I mean the faction, not the random school teens who demolished the ring)

What would be the point of doing the gimmick if you didn't have that final payoff?

@@DD-fs9xt The "payoff" was not him having a gang of faceless goons that undermined his character and made his character basically a literal terrorist despite being the exact opposite of what they'd been building up. The payoff was supposed to be him being a world champion and bringing down even more heat than JBL. And, y'know, not being thrown out like old garbage after GAB considering how much air time they'd already invested in him.

​@@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva The payoff is you finding out he actually is a terrorist running a group & that his promos were BS. It seems you just don't like the character they were going for in the end. Given world events at the time, seeing masked terrorists on WWE tv was a big deal. It's just unfortunate timing that a literal terrorist attack also happened that same week

@@DD-fs9xt The character they went with after putting him on a different brand with at the time a different writing team was at odds with the one that had been set up on Raw. Even if he didn't get written off, making him a literal terrorist was multiple layers of stupid. Not only could they not pay it off, since it's not like there was any will in 2005 to do another invasion angle or something else crazy built around a young heel act, it also would have killed his heat in the medium-long run since without the ambiguity, there would be nothing for him and a face opponent to really push off of. The terrorists didn't accomplish anything that a hired goon like Viscera or Big Show couldn't.

@@KAPTAINmORGANnWo4eva How do you know that the Raw writing team would have done any different if he wasn't drafted? All creative went by Vince at the end of the day. & That's just delusional, it being Viscera or Big Show would completely remove the intended effect of it being a terrorist group. All the sudden it's just a big fat guy.... Not the same lol

Facts 😂

That fake tan he has back then didn't tip you off that he was Italian?

EEEEEEEEYYYYYY WHASAMATTA YOOOOOOU!!

Albert tried to play a Japanese Man xD

Next your gonna tell me Santino is Canadian, Marc Mero is Italian, Sgt Slaughter isn’t really in the army.

White americans couldn't handle facts being spat at them

It wasn't wrestling heat. He had actual real life heat because of 911 and everything he said

Nooooo really?!

A heel, hated? Crazy, I tell you!

Not by the TV network though lol Not that it was his fault. Just a mishandled angle and bad timing. Should have just repackaged him or something. SMH

Thats glorious. Imagine him yelling at people "TOMORROW IT WILL BE... PARTLY CLOUDY!" Hassan WOULD have (not could have) paved the way for others (non-cookie cutter wrestlers). I had 3 WWE tryouts as a Chinese wrestler prior to 2010. His push would have been a God send and would have ushered in a 2nd age of Attitude Era instead of the PG era. I was presented as Chinese but am also Japanese/Hawaiian and wrestled Yuji Nagata when I was 23. Least Jey Uso still uses the neckbreaker I made in 1998. KZfaq Best Neckbreaker in Wrestling History.

lots of backlash, protected him in the long run

Back then? Had to be him.

"Hey Vince, this guy is Italian, not Arab." Vince McMahon - "Eh, close enough."

Santino is of italian descent though. Jinder and Piper are also Canadian but played Scottish and Indian characters. Hassan has no Arab in him but Vinny Mac wanted him to play an Arab regardless. I believe Nikolai Volkoff wasn't Russian either.

Dom has nuclear heat, but at the same time I think people "get it" and are playing along. I don't think anyone was playing along with Hassan/Copani. There was some legit hate for him.

Maybe CM Punk and Mr Kennedy. They both made their debuts not long after

Have you been to Southern Italy ?

Tell me you have no idea about Italy without telling me you have no idea about Italy.

No he does not, he has the generic older aging italian haircut with gel.

Arabs ruled Sicily for like 2-300 years

It's the same region

Mustve been hell everywhere in the west, my mom got threatened when walking outside

And now it's us Hispanics that are getting the hate. Even for simply speaking Spanish lol. But I remember the arab hate post 9/11. I'm a new yorker, we took the worst hit and there's several MENA neighborhoods here so I definitely recall those days. Now, they seem to be more at peace with american society. Unless they're Palestinian or Israeli because, you know lol

@@dangercat9188in California every other community is expected to bow down to Hispanics

That would've actually diluted his heat.