WWE has had its share of controversial characters, few extra controversial than Muhammad Hassan, performed by Marc Copani. The character was an Arabic man who was seemingly radicalized by the post-9/11 Islamaphobia that was omnipresent in popular culture of 2004-2005.
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Hassan’s run with WWE was short-lived, after an ersatz-terrorist assault on The Undertaker aired inappropriately near the London prepare bombing of 2005, resulting in his character being written off at that 12 months’s Nice American Bash, chokeslammed via the stage and by no means seen once more. Copani has mentioned the character and why it would not work in modern-day wrestling.
“Muhammad Hassan would by no means work now,” Copani advised Maven Huffman bluntly. “It should not. It would not and it should not work. It isn’t the form of character that agrees with trendy society and that is completely high quality. That is what I really like concerning the character, is that it stays in its time and right here I’m dwelling a really completely different life and that character simply will get to remain in its time. To me, that is good.”
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Copani had initially been immune to his character changing into the extremist character it grew to become within the again half of its existence, feeling that the corporate was taking the character right into a darkish place, particularly with the fake terrorist assault that spelled the character’s doom.
The previous WWE star not too long ago revealed that he was open to creating a brand new character after Hassan was “killed off” by The Undertaker, however the probability by no means got here. Copani has realized to simply accept this reality, and his physique is selecting to avoid wrestling simply as he said that his again is solely in too tough form for him to even think about any form of physicality within the ring.
