Mark Dursin on WWE's Worst Angles

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From ESPN's Page 2, and it's pretty OTM:

― 30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER! (Barry Brune, Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:12 (twenty years ago)

The link vanished for some reason:

― 30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER! (Barry Brune, Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:15 (twenty years ago)

WTF?

― 30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER! (Barry Brune, Thursday, 21 July 2005 13:16 (twenty years ago)

http://www.photofile.com/Photos/Albums/WWE_Album/Images/KURT_ANGLE2.JPG

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 21 July 2005 14:57 (twenty years ago)

So looks like Hassan has been BANNED FROM UPN. What next?

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Friday, 22 July 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

isn't hassan gunna be killed off on sunday?

― kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 22 July 2005 19:57 (twenty years ago)

I think the undertaker needs to stop killing people. Call me crazy..

― Stuh-du-du-du-du-du-du-denka (jingleberries), Friday, 22 July 2005 20:34 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, he's getting sent to OVW for repackaging. Good riddance to tasteless gimmicks.

― 30 Bangin' Tunes That You've Already Got ... IN A DIFFERENT ORDER! (Barry Brune, Friday, 22 July 2005 22:15 (twenty years ago)

Meh, the guy playing Hassan is actually Italian anyway, repackage him with a Brigate Rossi gimmick and have him just kidnap and shoot wrestlers rather than blow them up: problem solved.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Friday, 22 July 2005 23:00 (twenty years ago)

Wouldn't it just be solved by turning him into babyface? Oh right, we're talking about rasslin' fans here.

Anyway, given McMahon's track record (people piss him off, he retaliates by creating a gimmick to mock them), I'm sure we're gonna see Hassan repackaged as a "UPM" network employee one of these days. I'd say I feel sorry for the guy, but he sucks in the ring. Hope they have plans for Daivari though.

― alex in montreal (alex in montreal), Saturday, 23 July 2005 00:13 (twenty years ago)

I wonder if they've got the balls to go with Daivari as a kinda "NON EVIL MUSLIM" character?

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 23 July 2005 10:02 (twenty years ago)

- WWE has gotten a ton of press on the Muhammed Hassan situation, with most saying that WWE will "limit his use" moving forward, and WWE PR head Gary Davis often being quoted saying that the point of the character was to highlight injustices on Arab-Americans after 9/11.
- The Muslim Wakeup newspaper in the United Arab Emirates called Davis' comments "a comical but valiant effort that would have made any p.r. veteran proud" and stated that WWE told the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination League that the character wouldn't be used after tonight's PPV.

I don't know what's more surprising -- the fact that a UAE newspaper is covering the WWE (even if it solely due to the Hassan character), or how OTM they are.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Sunday, 24 July 2005 19:05 (twenty years ago)

tonight, Hassan was "powerbombed straight to hell", and did a stretcher job(with strangely-delayed bleeding).

i was greatly disappointed that neither Cole nor Taz actually said, "powerbombed straight to hell," since i took it upon myself to yell it at the bar's TV.

however, Taz wins points for calling Eddy G a "friggin' asshole."

― kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 25 July 2005 02:28 (twenty years ago)

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