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countessofcrisis


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Hassan/ Taker controversy
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The most recent issue of the "Advertising Age" features an article on the badly timed Hassan/Undertaker angle on the July 7 airing of WWE SmackDown!. The article details that Hassan is Italian-American and his real name is Mark Copani.

The following is an excerpt from the article.

"A spokesman for World Wrestling Entertainment has acknowledged that airing a match featuring a supposed Arab-American wrestler named Muhammad Hassan on the day of the London subway and bus bombings was "terrible." Gary Davis told Advertising Age that the WWE has received hundreds of complaints, despite a warning crawl that it aired during the broadcast that some people might find the material offensive. In the match, Hassan and his cohorts were seen entering the ring and beating up a popular wrestler called the Undertaker. Davis said, however, that Hassan is actually an angry, disillusioned Arab-American embracing his roots after experiencing racism following the 9/11 attacks."


He's not even really arab. How lame is that?

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In the news section of imdb.com and they have an article about the terrorist angle from SmackDown. Interestingly, it gives Hassan's real name and mentions he is actually of Italian-American descent. You can check that out at imdb.com.

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They put up warnings for this last week on the parent part of WWE's site.

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I'm from England and they never aired that part of the show. What happened?

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LydiaGutierrez


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Basically, a bunch of guys dressed up like terrorists came out and took down those in the ring.

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I think the whole hassan character is stupid. It would have been best if they had him wrestle under maybe his real name and had some other kinda gimmick.

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Yeah Hassan had a bunch of guys in masks come out during his match with Taker. They beat down Taker and then carried Hassan out like he was a marytr or something. And considering this happened at around the same time of the London bombings WWE was forced to take it out of the show in a lot of venues.

The Hassan character was just a really dumb idea. Let's have a terrorist angle during the War in Iraq thats not a bad idea. No!

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The problem is, Hassan's character was originally intended to be positive, but Vince doesn't know when to stop, and they ended up doing what they are now.

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Hassan should've debuted baby face. Starting him heel was stupid. minus 10 IQ points for WWE creative team.

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Sweetie, you can't subtract anymore point from an IQ that's already negative 100, you know that. lol

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LydiaGutierrez


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Update on Hassan's terrorists:

Because these henchmen wore masks and camouflage pants, and because Hassan is of Arab descent, some viewers may have leapt to the conclusion that these henchmen are terrorists. They are not, as our viewers will learn in future episodes.

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If not terrorists then what were they supposed to be then? Nice attempt at a cover though.

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UPN has told WWE that they do not was the Muhammed Hassan character on their network again.

Hassan has been kept off WWE television for the last two weeks ever since they aired footage of him and a terror cell on the same day as the London attacks.

We'll keep you posted.


Buh bye Muhammed!!! Whooo

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LydiaGutierrez


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Great, so they'll take him off until this Fall when they'll probably move the show back to USA.

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LydiaGutierrez


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WWE.com addressed the reports of UPN nixing the Hassan character in an update this evening:

"Due to the unfortunate terrorist attacks in London on Thursday, July 7, which coincided with our pre-produced WWE SmackDown! program, UPN has asked us to be sensitive to the usage of the Arab-American character, Muhammad Hassan. We have agreed with UPN, and have not had the character on SmackDown! since that date. It is uncertain as to whether or not the WWE will continue with this character beyond this Sunday's Pay-Per-View, The Great American Bash."

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num1ortonfan


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Is wwe moving both shows to usa? I haven't heard anything in a while and was just wondering...

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LydiaGutierrez


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See, at first UPN didn't want Smackdown! anymore, so it looked like it was going to USA with RAW, but now they're saying the Smackdown! will be moving to Friday nights on UPN this fall, whether that will be premanent remains to be seen, so I any case, Smackdown! position anywhere can't be guarunteed.

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We're not gonna see Hassan again.
SPOILER ALERT!!! DON"T KEEP READING IF YOU DON"T WANT TO KNOW


Randy Orton is going to interfere at the Bash and that will start his fued with Taker.

The guy who plays Hassan will more than likely be sent back to OVW for a while for a character change or he'll simply be fired. That's my guess


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I don't think he should be fired, as he's not a necessarily bad wrestler, it's just that he was given a character, you know? As a wrestler, he's good, as Muhammad Hassan, he's bad.

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num1ortonfan


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I understand what youre saying. I don't think he should be fired either.


I heard about sd! moving to fridays a while ago but i hope it doesn't happen. I watch what I like about you on Fridays and i have to work so i usually have to tape what i like about you which would mean i would also have to find another tv to tape sd on. So that would just be bad.



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LydiaGutierrez


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Well, it's supposed to move Sept. 9. I think, is that right Countess...?

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Chris Rock's new show everybody hates Chris debuts at 8:00 PM on Thursday, Sept. 22 The fall schedule shows Smackdown showing on the following Friday. So I'm guessing that the Fall schedule starts on the 22nd. Not positive though, but that would make sense.

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LydiaGutierrez


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Then it starts on the 9, as I read that it would be moving a couple of weeks before the fall line up was to start. So yeah, I was right. YAY!

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Good job.

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- The controversy with Muhammad Hassan and UPN has made the news again today. Alt.muslim.com and BlackAthlete.net both wrote a story about it today.

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