Mustafa Ali and Shawn Michaels had a difference of opinion regarding how he should cut his promo against Ethan Page this week on NXT.
On Tuesday night, Mustafa Ali made his shocking return to WWE NXT and confronted North American Champion Ethan Page. It was revealed in the segment that Ali will finally receive his North American title shot, a match he was supposed to have before getting released by WWE.
TNA Wrestling‘s Mustafa Ali recently spoke with Denise Salcedo. During the interview, Ali spoke about his NXT promo and revealed how a disagreement with Shawn Michaels led to the epic promo on NXT.
“I gotta be perfectly honest with you, thatâ€s what the original idea was,†Mustafa Ali said. “When I got there, I kind of shied away from it. It wasnâ€t that I wasnâ€t comfortable with it. Itâ€s just that I feel like Iâ€ve said this before, Iâ€m at a stage in my career, especially with TNA, where I feel like Iâ€ve presented this, this politician, like a very powerful, very confident individual that kind of condescendingly weaves and snakes his way into the match.â€
Further, Ali revealed how the HBK wants him to be real in this promo. This eventually led to the segment we witnessed on recent NXT.
“So when I got there, I did meet with Shawn, and I kind of pitched a different version of the same promo, but what I thought would be more in line with what I did. Initially, he was like, ‘Yeah, I kind of see it.†Then I want to say it wasnâ€t that long before weâ€re on, he changed his mind, and he pulled me aside with the writer.
“He goes, ‘Iâ€m telling you, youâ€ve got to be real on this one. Youâ€ve got to let people know what happened. Youâ€ve got to trust me on this. Start off how you want, but then midway through, just take the mask off and look him down in the eye and tell everybody what happened. Iâ€m telling you. Youâ€ve gotta trust me.â€
“At the end of the day, Shawn Michaels tells you how he wants it; he wants it. I wonâ€t lie, I thought he was wrong initially. And then I went out, and as Iâ€m cutting the promo, I myself started to feel it, and there was this pin drop silence. I think I said something along the lines of, ‘My dream was on the horizon, but that day, Mr. Page, the sun did not rise,†and you could just hear everyone felt that was real.
HBK made the right call…
“Then, I went on to what happened, and the reaction afterwards, and them cheering, and even the chatter online afterwards. I think people genuinely would be upset if I did not win. So when I came back, I looked at Shawn, I go, ‘You were right.†Itâ€s one of those things that even all this time in the game, I know me, but still, Iâ€ll 100% say that was 100% Shawn. Shawn made the call, and he made the right call.’†[H/T – Fightful]
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