WWE Raw star and the former leader of Retribution faction Mustafa Ali who is a former Jersey All Pro Wrestling Heavyweight champion recently talked about the importance of the WWE United States championship and explained why he needed to win it.
Mustafa Ali started his professional wrestling career way back in 2003 at the age of 16 only. He spent a long time on the independent circuit and won various championships throughout the Indies. He was really a very big name on the independent circuit. In 2016 he made his WWE debut as a part of the newly resurrected Cruiserweight division of WWE.
Mustafa Ali Discusses His Desire To Win The WWE United States Championship
He was a big star of the WWE Cruiserweight division even though he failed to win the Cruiserweight Championship. WWE kept on experimenting new things with Ali, like the SmackDown hacker angle which was pretty cool. But it was dropped quite early and we never heard of it again. They also made a faction around him naming it Retribution. It was also going pretty well but WWE also decided to drop it.
At the end of last year he was pretty much frustrated with his WWE career and he was asking for his release. But WWE decided to give him a mid card push and he started getting consistent booking. He challenged for the WWE United States Championship on a number of occasions but failed to win it. Hopefully he will win some titles in WWE in the near future.
Mustafa Ali who is a former Jersey All Pro Wrestling Heavyweight champion recently released a video on his Twitter account where he talked about the importance of the WWE United States championship and explained why he needed to win it. He said;
“To me, it’s very easy to go into battle when you look behind you and there’s an army following you. But lately for me, when I look back, I don’t see a lot of people following me. I understand why a lot of people have given up on me. Week after week, loss after loss, “beatdown after beatdown, I get it. But all I can say is that I hope you don’t give up on me.
I hope you don’t give up on my chase for the United States Championship, and here’s why. Why do I keep getting getting up? Why, after beatdown after beatdown, do I keep picking a fight? The reason why is I wanna take you all the way back to when I was in high school. On 9/11, the tragic events unfolded, and the teachers thought it would be best to let the students talk and express their emotions and how they feel.
“I remember raising my hand and saying, ‘I can’t believe this happened to us.’ Kid in front of me turns around, and he says, ‘Us? What are you talking about? Your people did this.’ I looked around the class, and I looked at the teacher, and I was hoping someone would say something to help me or defend me.
“No one said anything. Despite being born here in this country, despite being an American, despite being a former police officer, a guy that actually wanted to protect people, that was willing to put his life on the line, I’m not American enough. So the United States Championship, sure it means more TV time, it means more money.
“It means a lot of things to a lot of people, but to me, it means I belong, and that’s all I’ve been chasing for my entire life. I don’t know how I’m gonna become the United States Champion, I don’t know when I’m gonna become the United States Champion, but I know why I wanna become the United States Champion. Now you do, too.”
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