WWE Royal Rumble 2023: Predicting All 30 Entrants

25. Mustafa Ali - #6

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There's no use raising the stakes so early, but equally, it's a bad idea to litter the field with too many bang average talents. The crowd must be worked into the match slowly, but there's no use killing it.

Mustafa Ali is the perfect compromise; he's hardly a top star, but he's a very good worker who can wake the crowd up with some exciting high spots before lurking by a turnbuckle until the time calls for his elimination.

And, since Triple h has developed something of a kink for humiliating the man, perhaps the next entrant will throw Ali out like a trash bag when he's in the midst of a very histrionic fire-up spot under the deluded belief that he might just win...

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