Ahmed Johnson claims that the company wanted him to be in a “lynching” angle prior to his departure

Jul 26, 2023 - by James Walsh

In an interview with Steve Fall for WrestlingNews.co, former WWE star Ahmed Johsnon talked about the end of his run with the company…

“I think racism did play its part in it, but not from Vince [McMahon], from Shawn Michaels and some of the other boys. I mean, like they did that thing with DX when Bret Hart and the Hart Foundation and the Nation of Domination was getting into it, and they wrote all that stuff on the wall, you know, that was pushing it for me and I couldn’t have done that.

The thing with the Truth Commission was, what they wanted to do, they wanted him to hang me from a rope. You know how lynching is a very sore subject with black people? They wanted to hang me from a rope. That just wouldn’t happen with me, brother. I’ll do any other angle, but the rope? No. I didn’t want her (his dying sister) to be in her last minutes watching me get beat up. She was a big fan and then she passed like a day or two after that, after I left, so she would have had to see me get beat up and hung from a rope before she passed. That was not an image I was trying to put out, not for her, not for the black kids out there, to anybody. That is going too far.”

3 Responses

  1. Disgruntled Jobber says:

    That was actually Vince Russo’s idea, as was the later promo with the blackface. He thought it would make great “shock TV”. And I have doubts about the lynching gimmick given that The Truth Commission spent the majority of their run working Shotgun Saturday Night putting over other teams.

  2. The Real Deal says:

    Ahmed Johnson is trying to make himself look like a victim. He was released from WWE because he was dangerous and hurt too many people unintentionally. And this was over a decade before Nia Jax was considered unsafe in the ring!

  3. Pete Haines says:

    Sure they did.

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