Thread: Which debut intrigued or underwhelmed you the most?
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Old 08-16-2016, 09:01 AM   #5
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Muhammad Hassan and Khosrow Daivari's very first vignette made me sit up. It was surreal seeing a wrestling character openly talk about the stereotypes and prejudice that he was facing after 9/11. I just figured stuff like that would be off limits, even for Vince, simply because of the controversy it was bound to bring.

In spite of the Hassan character making valid points, I knew there was no chance that the average American wrestling audience was going to cheer for him. So in a way a lot of my intrigue leading into his debut was me thinking "there is no possible way this could end well, is there?"

Obviously once he debuted what we got was a character so memorable that people still talk about him 11 years later despite him only existing on WWE television for 7 or 8 months.
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