5 storylines WWE abruptly cancelled

#3 Mohammad Hassan's rise to the top

Hassan choking The Deadman

Perhaps the most controversial character during the mid-2000s, Mohammad Hassan was a dastardly villain who was sick and tired of WWE pandering to American wrestlers and not giving "the likes of him" a chance to grab the brass ring and become a top Superstar.

Hassan played his 'anti-American' gimmick with merit, drawing a lot of heat from the WWE Universe. Week after week, he would come down to the ring, diss the audience and then proceed to attack a jobber before ultimately putting his opponent through a 'Camel Clutch' torture routine.

He went on to have feuds with the likes of Shawn Michaels, Hulk Hogan and The Undertaker. On the road to The Great American Bash 2005, Hassan was shown putting down The Undertaker with the help of a bunch of hooded figures. Three days later, the London bombings occurred. Plans for his push, which included him beating Batista at Summerslam 2005 to become the youngest world champion in WWE history, were scrapped altogether.

Hassan did have the goods to make it big in the WWE, but this will always remain a case of bad timing that led to a promising career coming to an end even before it took off.