WWE Announces The Release Of OVW Wrestler

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WWE actually announced the release of a developmental wrestler on the company website, which is quite rare. The person released was Tomasso Whitney, a wrestler from Ohio Valley Wrestling. He was signed earlier in the year to a developmental contract out of the Massachusetts-based Chaotic Wrestling indy league.

Whitney’s claim to be wrestling fame was playing the attorney of Muhammad Hassan in his feud with Undertaker two summers ago. The reason they put him out on television is because this was on the heels of the previous week’s controversial angle where five masked men armed with clubs and piano wire jumped Undertaker and beat him at a SmackDown taping. Afterward, the masked men lifted Daivari above their heads and carried him away. Three days later, hours before that week’s show was scheduled to air, the London bombings took place. WWE didn’t edit out the segment and UPN pressured WWE to keep Hassan off of their network, effectively removing him from SmackDown. To explain Hassan’s disappearance from the show, Hassan’s “attorney,” who was Whitney, came out to say that Hassan wouldn’t appear on SmackDown until after he defeated Undertaker at the upcoming Great American Bash pay-per-view. Whitney was subsequently chokeslammed and tombstoned by Undertaker. Hassan never appeared on WWE programming again, and neither did Whitney for that matter.

Here is WWE’s announcement regarding Whitney’s release from WWE:

Tomasso Whitney released
August 9, 2007

World Wrestling Entertainment has come to terms on the release of Tomasso Whitney as of today, August 9. WWE wishes Tomasso the best in all his future endeavors.

For people unfamiliar with Whitney, his profile is still online at OVW’s official website. You can see his picture and profile at this link. He was doing a gimmick similar to Rick Martel’s “Model” gimmick where he’d be obsessed with himself and come out with spray bottle. The announcement of his signing earlier in the year is still the lead story at the official website of Killer Kowalski’s wrestling school (www.killerkowalski.com).

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