History YMMV / MuhammadHassan

* AntiClimaxBoss: Went undefeated for months in WWE, only to get squashed in two minutes by none other than Wrestling/JohnCena.

* DesignatedVillain: Many of his complaints about prejudice were completely valid ones (see StrawmanHasAPoint below), but he was still portrayed as the most evil villain in WWE (his infamous Royal Rumble appearance had both faces and heels working together to eliminate him, much like [[EnemyMine the typical scenario where good and evil join together to fight a common enemy]]). In addition, the commentators would always speak of his actions as heelish even if he had a valid reason for whatever it was that he was doing. An example of this would be the time Wrestling/ChrisBenoit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK15H6l3moU challenged him to a match]], and he agreed to a match at a later date due to not being properly prepared for one. Benoit responded by attacking Hassan, but he was overpowered by the combined efforts of Hassan and his manager. The commentators painted Hassan and Daivari as being cowardly and underhanded by saying "Benoit came out here to make a man-to-man challenge, and this is what he gets," though Hassan and Daivari only ganged up on Benoit because Benoit had attacked Hassan first.

* MisBlamed: He took a lot of crap in the locker room from other wrestlers for doing and saying things he was ordered to by Vince [=McMahon=], such as refusing to sell for [[Wrestling/SgtSlaughter Sergeant Slaughter]] or telling Wrestling/EddieGuerrero he couldn't use the Camel Clutch to honor his father, the man who ''invented'' the move.
* NightmareFuel: His entrance video, which featured interspersed shots of Hassan and his manager, [[Wrestling/ShawnDaivari Daivari]], with slow pans of various American landmarks, all set to [[OminousLatinChanting ominous Arabic chanting]], can leave the viewer with a uncomfortable feeling, especially for those who watched it during Hassan's run (only a few years removed from 9/11) and for those who knew that the 9/11 hijackers chose the World Trade Center ''specifically'' because it was an American landmark that had appeared various times on media.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Just look at the comments section on any Website/YouTube video featuring him. There are a lot more people who agree with the things he says than those who disagree. The week after the infamous segment with the Undertaker, Hassan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQA6jsC3h4 responded]] to a ''New York Post'' article criticizing the segment. Among other things, he points out that the article refers to him and Daivari as [[MistakenForTerrorist terrorists]] despite not having met them before, and refers to the masked men as "Arabs in ski masks," even though the ski masks would prevent the writer from knowing whether they were Arabs or not. Even beloved wrestling figures like Mick Foley and Jim Ross are heavily criticized and attacked in them for using simplistic jingoist arguments like "America, love it or leave it!" in response to a lot of the criticisms Hassan had towards America for its treatment of Arab Americans, making Hassan come off as being more sympathetic as a side effect especially considering both Foley and JR didn't constructively respond to Hassan with rational arguments but instead, chose to stoke the jingoistic sentiments of the audience.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodPlot: WWE never even attempted capitalize on the sweltering amount of heat he got in the UK. Even if they had never planned to return to the country itself you'd think there could at least be some sort of pay off involving some wrestler fans in the UK might turn on the television for.

* BaseBreakingCharacter: '''BIG TIME.''' Either this was a really brave and creative way to get a heel over, or it was a ridiculously offensive gimmick that got "over" because [[UnfortunateImplications it played off of racism, Islamophobia, and stoked post-9/11 paranoia]] for a cheap pop.

* MemeticMutation: For a time, a popular fad on YTMND was to insert Hassan's music over various video clips to create the illusion that the people in the clip were being interrupted by Hassan's entra-[[SelfDemonstratingArticle '''ALLEYAHLEEYLALAYAHELLIYEAH''']]

** But then, (see ReplacementScrappy below), that's ''still'' better than what happened to Rodney Mack and his "Five-Minute White Boy Challenge," which was Wrestling/{{Goldberg}} squashing him in ''26 seconds!''

* ReplacementScrappy: An odd case, as no one actually wanted what was replaced ''back''. [[Wrestling/TeddyLong Theodore Long]] and Rodney Mack were part of a reviled storyline where Long would complain about white people and society in general holding down black people. Finally that storyline finished and not three months later two more guys are in a race baiting angle, just replace "black" with "Arab". Worse, Davari and Hassan combined didn't have half of Rodney Mack's wrestling ability or Teddy Long's charisma. Then Hassan's angle was given more screen time than Rodney Mack's ever had. People were ready to see Rodney Mack and Teddy Long in more tasteful roles but [[BShow Mack was left on Heat with Jazz, Long with Mark Jindrak on Velocity]] while Hassan, little more than a basic brawler with an [[FakeNationality "Arab" manager really speaking Persian]], got to be on Pay Per View with Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels! All the same, [[ItsThePrincipleOfTheThing even Hassan's harshest critics still did not like the circumstances that screwed him.]]

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: This thought is pretty much unanimous among wrestling fans. The general consensus was that, while he was still a little green in the ring, he was excellent on the mic and played the character really well. He had the makings of a big star, and could have gone down in history as one of the greatest and most unique characters in recent memory had WWE not axed the storyline abruptly. Even when he was active, people had this opinion, as they felt that he could have (and ''should'' have) been a babyface with his gimmick of not wanting to be MistakenForTerrorist as a result of 9/11, but that the fan reactions messed that all up. This last point is backed upover 10 years later by the Canadian of Syrian descent Wrestling/SamiZayn and Pakistani-American Wrestling/MustafaAli from ''205 Live'' getting over as faces by being the least stereotypical "Arab" wrestlers ever.[[note]]Zayn being better known as "The Generic Luchador" El Generico, a masked Canadian pretending to be Mexican, likely has something to do with that.[[/note]]

* EarWorm: His theme.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: This thought is pretty much unanimous among wrestling fans. The general consensus was that, while he was still a little green in the ring, he was excellent on the mic and played the character really well. He had the makings of a big star, and could have gone down in history as one of the greatest and most unique characters in recent memory had WWE not axed the storyline abruptly. Even when he was active, people had this opinion, as they felt that he could have (and ''should'' have) been a babyface with his gimmick of not wanting to be MistakenForTerrorist as a result of 9/11, but that the fan reactions messed that all up.
** This last point is backed upover 10 years later by Wrestling/SamiZayn and Wrestling/MustafaAli from ''205 Live'' getting over as faces by being the least stereotypical "Arab" wrestlers ever.[[note]]Zayn being better known as "The Generic Luchador" El Generico, a masked Canadian pretending to be Mexican, likely has something to do with that.[[/note]]

* MemeticMutation: For a time, a popular fad on YTMND was to insert Hassan's music over various video clips to create the illusion that the people in the clip were being interrupted by Hassan's entra-'''ALLEYAHLEEYLALAYAHELLIYEAH'''

** This last point is backed upover 10 years later by Wrestling/SamiZayn and Mustafa Ali from 205 Live getting over as faces by being the least stereotypical "Arab" wrestlers ever.

* ReplacementScrappy: An odd case, as no one actually wanted what was replaced ''back''. Theodore Long and Rodney Mack were part of a reviled storyline where Long would complain about white people and society in general holding down black people. Finally that storyline finished and not three months later two more guys are in a race baiting angle, just replace "black" with "Arab". Worse, Davari and Hassan combined didn't have half of Rodney Mack's wrestling ability or Teddy Long's charisma. Then Hassan's angle was given more screen time than Rodney Mack's ever had. People were ready to see Rodney Mack and Teddy Long in more tasteful roles but [[BShow Mack was left on Heat with Jazz, Long with Mark Jindrak on Velocity]] while Hassan, little more than a basic brawler with an [[FakeNationality "Arab" manager really speaking Persian]], got to be on Pay Per View with Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels! All the same, [[ItsThePrincipleOfTheThing even Hassan's harshest critics still did not like the circumstances that screwed him.]]

** This last point is backed upover 10 years later by Wrestling/SamiZayn and Mustafa Ali from 205 Live getting over as faces by being the least stereotypical Arab wrestlers ever.

** This last point is backed upover 10 years later by Wrestling/SamiZayn and Mustafa Ali from 205 Live getting over as faces by being the least stereotypical Muslim wrestlers ever.

** This last point is backed upover 10 years later by Mustafa Ali from 205 Live getting over as a face by being the least stereotypical Muslim wrestler ever.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: This thought is pretty much unanimous among wrestling fans. The general consensus was that, while he was still a little green in the ring, he was excellent on the mic and played the character really well. He had the makings of a big star, and could have gone down in history as one of the greatest and most unique characters in recent memory had WWE not axed the storyline abruptly. Even when he was active, people had this opinion, as they felt that he could have (and ''should'' have) been a babyface with his gimmick of not wanting to be MistakenForTerrorist as a result of 9/11, but that the fan reactions messed that all up.

* ReplacementScrappy: An odd case, as no one actually wanted what was replaced ''back''. Theodore Long and Rodney Mack were part of a reviled storyline where Long would complain about white people and society in general holding down black people. Finally that storyline finished and not three months later two more guys are in a race baiting angle, just replace "black" with "Arab". Worse, Davari and Hassan combined didn't have half of Rodney Mack's wrestling ability or Teddy Long's charisma. Then Hassan's angle was given more screen time than Rodney Mack's ever had. People were ready to see Rodney Mack and Teddy Long in more tasteful roles but [[BShow Mack was left on Heat with Jazz, Long with Mark Jindrak on Velocity]] while Hassan, little more than a basic brawler with an [[FakeNationality "Arab" manager really speaking Persian]], got to be on Pay Per View with Wrestling/HulkHogan and Wrestling/ShawnMichaels! All the same, [[ItsThePrincipleOfTheThing even Hassan's harshest critics still did not like how UPN and The New York Post screwed him.]]

* FanDumb: His entire career illustrates why wrestling fans are usually portrayed as dumb backwards racist redneck hillbillies.

* StrawmanHasAPoint: Just look at the comments section on any Website/YouTube video featuring him. There are a lot more people who agree with the things he says than those who disagree. The week after the infamous segment with the Undertaker, Hassan [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TmQA6jsC3h4 responded]] to a ''New York Post'' article criticizing the segment. Among other things, he points out that the article refers to him and Daivari as [[MistakenForTerrorist terrorists]] despite not having met them before, and refers to the masked men as "Arabs in ski masks," even though the ski masks would prevent the writer from knowing whether they were Arabs or not. And in those Youtube videos, even beloved wrestling figures like Mick Foley and Jim Ross are heavily criticized and attacked for using simplistic jingoist arguments like "America, love it or leave it!" in response to a lot of the criticisms Hassan had towards America for its treatment of Arab Americans, making Hassan come off as being more sympathetic as a side effect especially considering both Foley and JR didn't constructively respond to Hassan with rational arguments but instead, chose to stoke the jingoistic sentiments of the audience.

* TheyWastedAPerfectlyGoodCharacter: This thought is pretty much unanimous among wrestling fans. The general consensus was that, while he was still a little green in the ring, he was excellent on the mic and played the character really well. He had the makings of a big star, and could have gone down in history as one of the greatest and most unique characters in recent memory had WWE not axed the storyline abruptly. Even when he was active, people had this opinion, as they felt that he could have (and ''should'' have) been a babyface with his gimmick of not wanting to be MistakenForTerrorist as a result of 9/11, but that the fan reactions messed that all up.
* UnfortunateImplications: Trying to make someone who was raising legitimate claims about unfair treatment due to his cultural heritage the heel was bound to backfire. While still controversial, having Wrestling/JackSwagger and Zeb Colter play negative stereotypes of {{Eagleland}} basically allowed them to convey the same point that Hassan did while playing characters that actually made sense as heels.

* AntiClimaxBoss: Went undefeated for months in the WWE, only to get squashed in two minutes by none other than Wrestling/JohnCena.
* BaseBreaker: '''BIG TIME.''' Either this was a really brave and creative way to get a heel over, or it was a ridiculously offensive gimmick that got "over" because [[UnfortunateImplications it played off of racism, Islamophobia, and stoked post-9/11 paranoia]] for a cheap pop.
* DesignatedVillain: Many of his complaints about prejudice were completely valid ones (see StrawmanHasAPoint below), but he was still portrayed as the most evil villain in the WWE (his infamous Royal Rumble appearance had both faces and heels working together to eliminate him, much like [[EnemyMine the typical scenario where good and evil join together to fight a common enemy]]). In addition, the commentators would always speak of his actions as heelish even if he had a valid reason for whatever it was that he was doing. An example of this would be the time Wrestling/ChrisBenoit [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EK15H6l3moU challenged him to a match]], and he agreed to a match at a later date due to not being properly prepared for one. Benoit responded by attacking Hassan, but he was overpowered by the combined efforts of Hassan and his manager. The commentators painted Hassan and Daivari as being cowardly and underhanded by saying "Benoit came out here to make a man-to-man challenge, and this is what he gets," though Hassan and Daivari only ganged up on Benoit because Benoit had attacked Hassan first.