A former celebrity mentioned that he ended up on Yokozuna’s unhealthy facet as a consequence of what he thinks amounted to jealousy.
Ahmed Johnson was given a significant push in WWE throughout his first run. He was pushed strongly beginning in 1995 and all by means of 1996, and was even awarded a WWE Slammy in 1996 for “New Sensation of the Squared Circle”.
It was clear that the corporate had excessive hopes for him, which is why he was booked to have an fascinating confrontation with one of many firm’s greatest stars.
In an interview with WrestlingNews.co, Ahmed Johnson mentioned having to work with Yokozuna throughout his early days. In response to Johnson, Vince McMahon gave him direct orders to bodyslam Yokozuna, by no means asking him if he truly might. And when Ahmed went to Yokozuna to clarify the state of affairs, the 500-plus-pound Samoan bristled at what Johnson instructed him and mentioned that he couldn’t cooperate that a lot.
“Once I bought to the massive present, Vince known as me and mentioned, ‘I need you to go down, do a run-in, and bodyslam Yoko.’ He didn’t ask me, might I? He simply mentioned, ‘I need you to.’
So I went to Yoko and instructed Yoko that Vince desires me to slam you and Yoko was very jealous of me at the moment as a result of he mentioned, ‘I got here from nowhere and ended up on the highest of the cardboard.’
Yoko mentioned, ‘Properly I hope you may get me up as a result of I’m not going to leap for you.’ I used to be like, ‘Rattling. It’s like that, huh?’
So once I bought to the ring, I used to be so fired up, man. It took every little thing I needed to get him up and over, however I did it.”
Ahmed Johnson’s WWE run resulted in 1998 for various causes, amongst them, in keeping with Johnson himself, allegations of racism and proposals for racially-insensitive angles.
