“He Gave me an Opportunity” – WWE Superstar on How Vince McMahon Changed his Life

WWE Superstar MVP has had a rough life, to say the least. He was arrested multiple times as a teenager for serious crimes and seemed to have no way out. However, MVP opened up recently and spoke about how WWE saved him, and how Vince McMahon gave him a second shot at life.

Hassan Assad, or as we know him, MVP, was a troubled child through and through. He joined a gang in his early teens and became a hardened criminal before he was 16.

“As a teenager, I was into gangs and guns and nonsense. I was all about robberies, used to say the world was my ATM. I ended up doing six-and-a-half months in the juvenile facility for robbery, armed robbery, aggravated assault, grand theft auto, resisting arrest,” said MVP.

Hassan has been extremely open about his troubled past and has used it to make himself a better person. “By the age of 16 I had buried a couple friends, I’d been in shootouts, and just all kinds of ridiculous sh*t. When I went to prison, again, people were like ‘Oh, you were young, you made a mistake.’”

MVP was given a second chance by Vince McMahon

Hassan recently opened up about how WWE saved kept him out of prison. He said in a recent podcast, “When I got to the WWE, I was given an opportunity that society wouldn’t give me.

“Society wouldn’t give me an opportunity to make minimum wage, Vince McMahon said. ‘Yeah, you did some bad things, but everybody here gets an opportunity. You’ve earned an opportunity.’”

He spoke fondly of Vince McMahon, and how Vince believed in him when society had given up.

MVP returned to the WWE last year and has been riding the wave since. He has been one of the top-billed Superstars on Monday Night RAW and is in the midst of helping Bobby Lashley secure a WWE Championship.

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He returned to WWE not just as an in-ring performer, but also as someone who could guide new talent to greatness. His experience in the WWE, New Japan Pro Wrestling, and Ring of Honour makes him a seasoned veteran.

Hassan remains ever grateful to the WWE and McMahon and seems to have settled into his new role rather comfortably. 

“He gave me an opportunity to become an internationally known professional wrestling superstar. With that came social redemption,”  admits MVP.