Before he was Tommaso Ciampa in WWE, the former NXT Champion had a short-term character role with the company in 2005.
WWE RAW Superstar Tommaso Ciampa was a recent guest on INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet. When asked about the time he played the role of Muhammad Hassan‘s lawyer. Ciampa spoke about how that came about.
“Similar to being in the right place with Chaotic, they called up the promoter at the time, Jamie, and they said hey, we need — which is a weird suggestion from WWE for what we need — but we need guys under six foot tall, who look like they could be like fresh out of law school,” Tommaso Ciampa said. “So I forget how they worded it, but because it was for Hassan and Daivari, like they wanted you to have a certain look, I think their wording was.
“So three of us got sent. It was me, this kid Matt Logan, and this kid Chase. I want to say maybe I’m like at that time six months older than Matt and younger than Chase. But we didn’t have anyone who was like 20, which is just so weird now thinking about wrestling. But we didn’t have anyone who was 26-30. It was all kids, and we all went there.
“I borrowed my brother’s suit because I didn’t have one, and the three of us are in catering. And John Laurinaitis comes in, he just like looks at us, and he’s like, Yeah, I think he’s gonna do, and that was the end of that. You’re like, Okay, I didn’t know exactly what we’re there for. And then all of a sudden, like it was the whirlwind of a day.
Meeting Stephanie McMahon
“Stephanie McMahon comes up to me, next thing I know, takes me for a tour. And I’m like, What the heck is going on? So like an individual tour. This is the backstage, this is where we do this, this is that. I remember, like to this day, her just saying it’s just like the independents just with a lot more money behind it. But she was the nicest person ever.
“And I was like, This is crazy. Then finally, I did the whole thing and stuff. They were like, you’re gonna read this script, and you have a writer Ed Koskey, who still to this day is with the company as a head writer.
“And they kind of let it slip to me later in the day as the day went on there. This is super important. Like, at that time, they did something with Hassan. I forget what it was. But it was like, I want to say something happened with terrorist attacks too and UPN was under crazy heat.”
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