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Old 05-20-2006, 03:23 PM   #1
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Are they trying to 'Hassan' Khali?
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On this past Friday Night SmackDown!, in the video package, they played this music that almost seemed "Hassan"-esque. Then later on, he spoke in his native tongue (still sounds garbled as crap. Does he have teeth?)...in a "Daivari"-esque move.

Strange... I'm not sure even going the "Hassan" route will make Khali tolerable.
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Old 05-20-2006, 03:28 PM   #2
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What? He's supposedly Indian and he's been talking in Kahlish since he debuted.

I haven't seen SmackDown! yet, but I seriously doubt that he's going to go "the Hassan route" just because he has Daivari as a manager.
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Old 05-20-2006, 03:42 PM   #3
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Not the whole "Post-9/11" angle with Hassan, but with a similar entrance theme (easy to be lampooned and YTMND-ed up by Net fans), and the whole Daivari, "Don't Speak English So That You Get Booed" angle, instead of just having Daivari talk for him.
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Old 05-20-2006, 03:50 PM   #4
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Aside from the music, Kahli is just playing your standard foreign monster gimmick. There's nothing special about it.

Truthfully, there wasn't that much special about Hassan either, besides the fact that he could personally lay down the insults instead of spitting out random sounds.
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Old 05-20-2006, 04:35 PM   #5
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Aside from the music, Kahli is just playing your standard foreign monster gimmick. There's nothing special about it.

Truthfully, there wasn't that much special about Hassan either, besides the fact that he could personally lay down the insults instead of spitting out random sounds.
I loved Hassan because he was talented as all hell on the mic. It didn't even matter the words he was saying, his whole body language screamed heel. Plus, his music was great "interruption" music. But thinking back, he was kinda average in the ring.

Sadly, Kahli can't even match Hassan's in-ring ability.
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Old 05-20-2006, 04:46 PM   #6
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Overall, though, it was just another foreign gimmick capitalizing on current events. Just like The Iron Sheik, Nikolai Volkov, etc.
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Old 05-20-2006, 05:21 PM   #7
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It would make sense. I've read and seen alot of how horrible Khali is in the ring. I already think the clock is ticking on this guy. And considering Undertaker has "killed" people the last 2 Great American Bash's, that could be Khali's fate as well this year.
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Old 05-20-2006, 08:53 PM   #8
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Old 05-20-2006, 08:59 PM   #9
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If they are, expect him to do something really stereotypical that pisses off UPN and then get a Last Ride off the TitanTron....
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Old 05-20-2006, 09:34 PM   #10
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Khali and Hassan have nothing in common besides being foreign stereotypes. Hassan's character was quite good.
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Old 05-21-2006, 12:31 AM   #11
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Unlike Hassan, Khali can neither wrestle, nor talk.

Talking in his "native tongue" or not, it still sounded like a big ofe with a muzzle on.

I hope they pull a Hassan repeat and kill off Khali's character. It'd be doing the WWE fans a great service.
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Old 05-21-2006, 10:10 AM   #12
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Maybe Khali can actually decapitate the Undertaker. Killing two birds with one stone.
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Old 05-21-2006, 06:13 PM   #13
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I like Hassan .. i do not like Khali. I thought Hassan had a good gimmick... i think Khalis gimmick is shit. I knew Hassan wouldnt beat Taker... With Khali im not so sure

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Truthfully, there wasn't that much special about Hassan either, besides the fact that he could personally lay down the insults instead of spitting out random sounds.
He was great on the mic. Also his Anti american angle worked unlike so many others.
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Old 05-21-2006, 06:33 PM   #15
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Just saw the video, they are using (parts of) the same music they used for hassan in a video package when his "Terrorist unit" choked out Taker.
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Old 05-21-2006, 06:58 PM   #16
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He was great on the mic. Also his Anti american angle worked unlike so many others.
I'm not taking into account the ability here. I'm just saying that it was just a modified version of the Anti-American angle.
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Old 05-21-2006, 07:11 PM   #17
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It worked though.
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I'm not denying that. I'm just saying the gimmick is the same, just with a different actor, for lack or a better word.
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The same could be said for Stone Cold though, He was the same as Sandman and made Millions for the WWE.

You could say that about ever wrestler really.....Except Burchill
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Old 05-22-2006, 09:26 AM   #20
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I'm not taking into account the ability here. I'm just saying that it was just a modified version of the Anti-American angle.
Not that it really matters, as his angle is nothing like Khali's.
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Old 05-22-2006, 09:28 AM   #21
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I'm not denying that. I'm just saying the gimmick is the same, just with a different actor, for lack or a better word.
And a different approach...

That's kind of the crux. Hassan was not anti-America in the traditional sense. Especially since he was an estranged American. A guy from Detroit who didn't get his rights as an American respected. It wasn't just the actor, but the different tack they took.
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