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Watching a video on Muhammad Hassan as we just passed the 20 year anniversary of the airing of the Undertaker angle that pretty much got his character cancelled.
That the 7/7 London bombings happened on the day of the airing obviously made the optics worse (though WWE seemed to follow the "controversy creates cash" and instead of using this as a chance to revise the tape delay, they just slapped a content warning on it). I don't think they expected the sheer level of blowback they got, including UPN basically threatening to cancel the contract.
Kinda think there would've been at least some blowback even if 7/7 hadn't happened and if it had been on Raw/Spike TV instead. There's a reason they didn't attempt to just take him off TV for a few months and try again on Raw.
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