![]() ![]() Poor guy, he was planning to go home Monday night. The other ones were big developmental guys and they’re like, ‘do we want a green developmental guy to wrap piano wire around our top guy’s neck?’ So they brought in Val Venis, just for that day. ![]() One of the Taliban guys, the only one that was allowed to choke Undertaker was Val Venis. “Here’s a good insider baseball thing for you. It was just, we went to Vince’s office, he said it’s done, we can’t do it anymore.ĭaivari also broke down the angle in question as well as revealed who the man that used the garrote on The Undertaker was. And that a network note from UPN was, ‘Muhammad Hassan is not a character on that show or Muhammad and Daivari, we’re not having them on our program.’ And that’s why it wasn’t even a discussion or like a ‘move them here, move them there’ thing. If HBO tells “The Sopranos”, hey you have to kill Tony Soprano on episode two, you have to do it. It was a network note that they’re allowed to give any TV show. Dreamer noted that UPN basically forced WWE to pull the character after that, and Daivari explained how he learned the angle was finished.ĭreamer: “ basically were like, ‘if you have these guys on the show, we’re not going to air SmackDown.’ĭaivari: “It was a little more direct. The taped show saw Hassan summon masked men that choked out and abducted The Undertaker, and became even more controversial when it still aired unedited on the same day as the London suicide bombings took place. “I can get way more heat on my own with the s- I do in my match than wearing a turban or speaking a foreign language.ĭaivari also explained how his WWE run with Muhammad Hassan came to an end at the direction of UPN, who was “direct” in telling WWE to end the character after an infamous incident on the Jepisode of SmackDown. And I was like, ‘oh man, maybe this is the year that people aren’t gonna just hate an Arab person just because.’ And then since then I just kinda stopped doing it because it doesn’t work,” Daivari said. And I remember it got like crickets and a couple boos. And Raven did a promo and I can’t remember exactly what he said but he pretty much did a joke where in the punchline was about me being Arab or speaking Arabic or something. “This was a sold show at an army base, so like you would think at an army base, people might have even more of an axe to grind against Middle Eastern people and stuff, and I wrestled Raven. The people have to give it heat for it to work but if people don’t s-t on it, like I remember I wanna say, wasn’t at some point D’Lo and Headbanger Mosh were trying to be like middle eastern Arabs, like Tiger Ai Singh, but this was before 9/11, like there was no reason to boo that type of person.”ĭaivari explained his decision to shy away from characters like that, pointing to an event at an Army base around 2012 0r 2013 where Raven cut a promo on his heel character, and it fell flat. It wouldn’t work today- Honestly, I don’t think it would work,” Daivari explained, “which is why I kinda stopped doing it around 2012 or 2013. That was the thing that got eyeballs on me in the first place. It was the perfect time for it to work and to this day, it’s pretty much why I’ve ever had any exposure was that. But right around end of ‘02 into ‘03, some TV shows like “The Shield” and “The Cell” or “24” were coming out where they had Middle Eastern people playing the villains of the show and I figured, at that time, ‘okay, if Hollywood’s okay with portraying these people as villains, maybe it’s okay for me to do it, too.’ And then I started doing the angry Middle Eastern schtick and it just, it worked. “I didn’t wanna do the schtick because I thought it was kind of offensive in poor taste and whatever. ![]() He went on to explain that it was definitely a product of its time, and he got exposure from ![]() Daivari explained that after the September 11th attacks in the United States, it didn’t matter what he did because the crowd just enjoyed seeing him get beaten up, and didn’t care if he came back because of the new perception of Middle Eastern people in the country. ![]()
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