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WWE Dropping Huhammad Hassan Character
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Source: WrestlingObserver.com
-- Dave Meltzer is reporting that WWE will be dropping the Hassan character, and he will not be moving back to RAW
-- No word on Daivari, who at current state of play, WWE wish to keep.
This comes on the heels of UPN telling the WWE that they never wanted to see Hassan on their network again
Source: PWTorch.com
The rumors of UPN asking WWE to permanently remove the Muhammad Hassan character are indeed true, and WWE writers are hard at work devising a way to write the character out of the program.
One idea being tossed around is to have Undertaker kill the character off at Great American Bash, although that is not confirmed.
Between the media outrage, complaints sent to WWE and UPN headquarters and backlash from affiliates and sponsors, UPN apparently saw no alternative.
Perfection:
Source: WrestlingObserver.com
As reported, UPN has requested that WWE remove Muhammad Hassan from SmackDown. The WWE writing team has not made an official decision regarding Hassan's future as a character, but only two suggestions are really getting notice at this point.
One, as noted earlier, would see Undertaker kill the Hassan character off at Great American Bash. Since Hassan was scheduled to defeat Undertaker and wrestle Batista for the World Title at Summerslam, it would be interesting to see how WWE would go about changing plans for this Sunday's PPV and, consequently, Summerslam.
The other would be to send Hassan back to RAW, so that Hassan could go into a tirade about being censored by SmackDown. The fear associated with moving Hassan to RAW is that the media would continue to express outrage and force Spike TV to also nix the character, at which point, WWE would look foolish. In fact, Spike TV might have already informed WWE that it has no interest in carrying the character, which would force WWE to further investigate the other option.
Bramsterdam (see ya):
why doesn't UPN want him around?
mrtonguetwista:
Yeah..I saw this. This all started cause they showed the taped episode of Smackdown on the same day that the first London explosions happened and it so happened that Hassan character brought out like 5 guys w/ black ski masks on like terrorists and it offended alot of folks. WWE had the note across the screen all night that night saying Parental Advisory Is Suggested. But I can't believe that a billion dollar a year company couldn't edit that out 12hrs before it was shown in the eastern time zone. Truly tasteless.
Bramsterdam (see ya):
oh well.. I hate that Hassan guy anyways, fuck him
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