In an exclusive for WrestlingNews.co, Steve Fall interviewed former WWE Intercontinental Champion Ahmed Johnson. During the interview, Johnson talked about how he was signed by WWE and the call he got from Vince McMahon, his run in WWE and why plans for him to win the World Title were derailed, his issues with Ron Simmons, the Nation of Domination, Shawn Michaels and The Kliq, why his run in WWE ended, WCW, issues with Booker T and what Hulk Hogan said to him in WCW. Scroll down to watch the entire interview.
On WWE wanting to do a lynching angle and racism playing a part in his departure:
“I think racism did play its part in it, but not from Vince, 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, and 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.”
Ahmed Johnson on being backstage during Montreal Screwjob when Bret Hart was screwed:
“Just seeing Bret get screwed over like that man and, you know, he put 14 years in that company and I heard he never missed a day from wrestling. You got an employee that’s come to work 14 years, never missed a day, and you can’t let him go out with the belt. I didn’t like that man. That didn’t sit good with me.”
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