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Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Why Muhammad Hassan left wrestling, plans to be WWE Champ, his job as a Junior High principal

Insight with Chris Van Vliet

Chris Van Vliet

Business, Sports, Mental Health, Wrestling, Health & Fitness, Entrepreneurship

4.93.5K Ratings

🗓️ 23 July 2020

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Muhammad Hassan (Marc Copani) talks to Chris Van Vliet from his home in Syracuse, NY. This is a very special interview because Marc has rarely done any interviews since he left wrestling in 2005. He talks about being the very controversial character Muhammad Hassan, the real life fear he caused people, his release and why it caused him to leave wrestling, the plans for him to beat Batista and become the WWE Champion at SummerSlam in 2005, his current job as a junior high principal, the graphic novel he created with Shad Gaspard called "Assassin and Son" and much more! Subscribe now and support the show by supporting our sponsors! BetOnline - Head to http://betonline.ag and use the promo code BLUEWIRE for your free welcome bonus! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:19.3

It's Chris Amalia brother. That's a great question. Look at you man. Look at the powerful questions.

1:27.6

This is the Chris Van Vliet show. Chris Van Vliet show. Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Vliet.

1:40.4

Well here we go. Welcome back to another audio adventure on the Chris Van Vliet show.

1:48.0

This episode is brought to you by Bat Online and I love when we do two episodes in a week like this.

1:54.8

I hope you like it too because I think there's going to be a lot more two episode weeks coming up in

2:00.8

the next bunch of weeks and months because there's a lot of interviews to get to but this one,

2:09.2

oh man this one with Muhammad Hassan is so good. He doesn't really do a lot of interviews. I mean

2:16.8

he's only done a handful of them since leaving WWE and that was 15 years ago.

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