6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Raw (June 13)

4. Ali’s Lustre Is Gone

Mustafa Ali Chad Gable
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Here’s hoping that Mustafa Ali has a handshake agreement with WWE management that by coming back and jobbing a bunch, he’ll get his release soon.

That’s got to be the reason he came back to work, because it can’t be that he wanted to lose 3-minute matches when he’s actually featured on Raw. Monday’s version was a loss to Chad Gable, and while Otis provided a distraction, it was a meaningless match a week after losing a United States Championship match in his hometown of Chicago at Hell in a Cell.

What does that mean for Ali? He’s lost a title match and then lost a follow-up match to a tag wrestler who hasn’t won a singles match in *checks notes* two years, when he was known as Shorty G. That can’t bode well.

Even if Ali shows up next week and wins, there’s seemingly no thread here for him. And Corey Graves calling him a disruptor is meaningless when he gets no promo time and loses constantly. Just another body to fill time on a three-hour program.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.