10 Wrestlers With The WWE Stink
6. Mustafa Ali
Mustafa Ali is trying.
No, not the name of his new Netflix special nor a criticism of him as a person, but a realistic reflection of the current situation he finds himself in in the latest chapter of his strange, strange WWE story.
When he last held down regular television work, Ali was trapped beneath a gimmick so utterly risible it destroyed the credibility of almost everybody who came into contact with it. RETRIBUTION was a relentless nightmare, often made worse by the attempts of the wrestlers involved to wake up. Ali cut scathing Twitter promos trying to justify everything from the awful ring names to the lousy booking, but he was fighting somebody else's hideously uncreative battle.
And after a protracted absence around contract issues and Ali's attempt to leave, he returned to television to go 50/50 with the usual Raw midcard lot and took to Twitter with some very Vince McMahon-friendly comedy.
Everything about the man's guile is admirable, and perhaps that's the problem - he's not in a place where such a thing is typically rewarded.