10 Worst Sacrifices In WWE
9. Ali Can't Save Or Solve The Retribution Problem...
...or "problems", considering how littered with flaws the stable was from the moment it first appeared on Monday Night Raw.
When Mustafa Ali was revealed as the leader of Retribution, it offered him a lifeline away from the lame gaggle of midcard losers that populated some of the three-hour show's squash match rotation. Honestly, the indictment on the company here can't be overstated either - the likes of Ricochet, Drew Gulak et al would be proverbial first drafts if you were starting your own promotion.
Ali was amongst them, and thus fairly p*ssed off with his lot, so said the lore of the stable. And indeed Ali himself, after claiming responsibility for being the SmackDown hacker earlier in the year in a desperate attempt to tie a couple of frayed ends together.
Though no babyface momentum was sacrificed with this turn (he simply had none to lose), his credibility was left in tatters by how good his Twitter attempts were to clean up an on-screen mess. Awesome monologues shouldn't make you want to tell a gimmick to f*ck off, but Mustafa Ali was telling his own stories to cover for putrid ones on television.