Former Superstar Blames Racism For Not Winning WWE Title

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Former WWF Intercontinental Champion Tony Norris, f.k.a. Ahmed Johnson, recently was interviewed by David Diaz of The Wrestling Mania Show. Here is one special highlight from the interview:

Never becoming WWF Champion: "I was going to face The Undertaker for the title. I found out through Vince Russo that we were gonna do that match, and he told me that some of the people at the booking table told him that the WWF were not ready for a black champion. Can you believe that s--t? F**k that. More of that racist s--t coming to surface. And there was a lot of it."[/quote]

 

[stylesismilo]

Coming from Russo and him, I kinda doubt how true it is. Anyway I don't remember he was THAT over with the fans to be the champ, honestly. Then again, I was only what, 7 to 10 years old?

 

[CalvTheHedgehog]

There's been no full black WWE champion eh? I did my research yesterday and the blackest dude to have the title was The Rock.

 

[Undertaker Fan]

lol

 

[TheDoctor]

geez people everytime something doesn't go their way it's racism.

 

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[TheDoctor]

And?

 

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UPDATE:
<blockquote class='quote\\_blockquote'><dl><dt>Quote:</dt><dd> </dd></dl><div>Ahmed Johnson joined Inside The Ropes on Thursday to talk about his career, where he also addressed recent claims of racism in the WWF. Here is one special highlight from the interview:

To clarify his recent racism allegations against the WWF: "To become the black champion in history there (WWF), it was so neat. But there was also a dull side to it, I lived in this fantasy land where I thought there was no more racism in the world, then I go out to my car and and someone had scratched 'Congratulations n----r' on my car. I didn't know who did it, nobody would fess up to it. I never found out who did it but you know I thought about it for a while and I asked Vince the question, I asked him why did it take them until 1996 to decide that they'd have a black champion because there was so many great black wrestlers before me like Junkyard Dog and other people. Why didn't he give them the opportunity to be a champion and wear the belt? He got very upset about me asking that question. So that ended up being the end of me in the WWF after that. I didn't want anything to do with him. The word I got from the booker Vince Russo, he told me after this was over and all the smoke had cleared, that they would have meetings about this and Vince and other people said that the American audience wasn't ready for a black champion, which was bulls--t. Every time we went to Germany, Kuwait, India, I was the number one draw over there when we went."[/quote]

 

[TheDoctor]

And we all know Russo always tells the truth right? </sarcasm>

Being a black man wasn't the reason he wasn't champion, the reason he was never champion was he sucked period.

 

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[TheDoctor]

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[wwefan4life2]

Sorry Ahmed, you just sucked and had a history of being careless in the ring.