Muhammad Hassan on Locker Room Jealousy, Being Told He Could No Longer Be on TV, and More

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On Locker Room Jealousy:

“I think it was, especially when I came in and nobody knew me, I felt a lot more pressure. Coming in and getting a push to the moon, it doesn’t bother the top guys, it bothers some of the mid-card guys because they consider that their spot. The top guys will tell you if that was your spot, you would have taken it. So all the top guys treated me really well and most of the mid-card guys did too. But you know, there’s just pressure that comes in and being new and back then, it was a different locker room. You know, there wasn’t a lot of rules. But I definitely had pressure during my time in WWE.”

When he was told he could no longer appear on television:

“I remember at the time we didn’t know where we were going to go. I remember there was a lot of pressure on them that the character was going to change or disappear from television. I remember talking to Johnny Ace, who was the head of talent relations at the time, and I asked him if he had any idea what was going on. I said something like, ‘I’m about to buy a house,’ and he said, ‘Don’t buy the house.’ That’s when I knew I was in, but I didn’t know what was going to happen after that. But after that, it happened pretty quickly. We couldn’t be on television anymore. We did the pay-per-view with Undertaker and Buffalo and that was it. They wouldn’t even put the character back on television in any form.”

On the race for the World Championship, according to rumors:

“I know I heard that and I don’t know where it originally came from. But I was supposed to, as far as I knew, beat the Undertaker, obviously with a lot of help, and then face Batista at (SummerSlam) in Washington, D.C. Dave’s from Washington, D.C. So it was kind of like the era of him beating the hometown boy in the nation’s capital was supposed to be history.”

If there had already been plans to return:

“Absolutely not. I don’t want to travel, I don’t want to put my body through that. It’s hard enough, I’m getting older. Like I said, never, I just wanted to do a few matches (in 2018). There’s little local shows and local promoters, nice guys. So it was just something to do. I did two or three matches, I think, and that was it. I’ll never do it again.”

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