10 Candidates For WWE's Bizarre Post-WrestleMania 38 Push

6. Mansoor

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Mansoor is a very talented prospect.

He's good. Perhaps a little too animated with his earnest good guy facial expressions, but good - with the potential to be very good indeed. He's 26, which would have knackered him a couple of years ago. The minimum age for a main roster push used to be 36. But things are different now; WWE is very aware that they require younger acts to draw the 18-49 demographic, and Mansoor is both young and not wildly green, unlike several of the acts WWE has recruited of late.

All of which positions him nicely for the old "Here's somebody we suddenly care about, as should you, automatically and without question" push. Perhaps he could play a silly character akin to Ezekiel. Maybe he could squirt heels with a water pistol before cowering up the ramp or something. As a babyface. Seems like something they'd do.

Or, they could simply do f*ck all with him and wait for the next Saudi show, just ahead of which they could pretend once again that he's there all the time.

One of the two.

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