10 Most Controversial WWE Ruthless Aggression Storylines
Most controversial storylines in the WWE Ruthless Aggression era
6. Muhammad Hassan on 7/7
Sometimes, timing is everything.
Careers have been made thanks to a superstar being in the right place at the right time. Conversely, bad timing can be a career-ender, something you need only ask the man who portrayed the villainous Muhammad Hassan.
Hassan enjoyed a meteoric rise up the ranks, working with everyone from Shawn Michaels and Steve Austin to Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker in his short, whirlwind career.
Regrettably, just months into his tenure, Hassan was written out of storylines at the behest of UPN network executives because of an angle that took place on SmackDown. In it, Hassan’s masked henchmen attacked The Undertaker and attempted to garrotte him with piano wire.
It would have been controversial anyway, but it happened to air on the same day of the 7/7 London bombings, a terror attack that shocked the world. The angle was edited out of the European version of the show and came with a warning for US viewers.
WWE went ahead with the storyline, without Hassan appearing on television, but sent the character to his end at the Great American Bash pay-per-view.
Once pegged as a future world champion, the controversy brought a premature end to Marc Copani’s time in the business.
