10 Most Important Episodes In WWE SmackDown History
There have been some big episodes in WWE SmackDown's history
4. July 7, 2005
WWE does stupid things sometimes. One of the most boneheaded and badly-timed decisions the company has ever made went down on the SmackDown broadcast on July 7, 2005 and featured one of the most controversial characters in wrestling history - Muhammad Hassan.
The aggrieved Arab American - who was portrayed by a man of Italian descent, just to make things extra awkward - was in the middle of a feud with The Undertaker. This was the night he set a bunch of masked men on The Deadman, only these were no ordinary wrestling goons.
Hassan summoned the men in balaclavas by praying, the most overt terrorist reference from this character to that point. This just so happened to air on the day of the London 7/7 bombings, which understandably got WWE in a lot of hot water.
Hassan was written off TV in dramatic fashion when ‘Taker powerbombed him to his doom at The Great American Bash. Plans to have him win the World Heavyweight Championship at SummerSlam were canned and the character was never seen or heard from ever again.
