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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Mar 26, 2019 12:46:17 GMT -5
The tweet is what's really heartbreaking about this; he clearly cared about his name and valued it as something of his own creation and in storms this old white dude with no care for what it means saying "Goddammit you're Ali now, pal"
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Mar 26, 2019 12:47:58 GMT -5
The tweet is what's really heartbreaking about this; he clearly cared about his name and valued it as something of his own creation and in storms this old white dude with no care for what it means saying "Goddammit you're Ali now, pal" Listen up pal, your name is now This Mothma.
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Post by Final Countdown Jones on Mar 26, 2019 13:34:06 GMT -5
The tweet is what's really heartbreaking about this; he clearly cared about his name and valued it as something of his own creation and in storms this old white dude with no care for what it means saying "Goddammit you're Ali now, pal" Listen up pal, your name is now This Mothma.
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Post by Chainsaw on Mar 26, 2019 14:20:19 GMT -5
Just Ali.
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Ali Nofirstname.
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Post by DragonMasterP on Mar 26, 2019 14:24:50 GMT -5
Dumb company is dumb. Mustafa is a bad ass name, it means "the chosen one." This move only hurts the character. That explains so much, Vince doesn’t like chosen ones unless he’s the one doing the choosing.
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Post by The Thread Barbi on Mar 26, 2019 14:31:20 GMT -5
I also thought of the Aladdin reference.
But then I thought he needs to be accompanied by a blue Titus O' Neal...
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Post by BigAl on Mar 26, 2019 14:33:32 GMT -5
The tweet is what's really heartbreaking about this; he clearly cared about his name and valued it as something of his own creation and in storms this old white dude with no care for what it means saying "Goddammit you're Ali now, pal" This Hope the senile old man does not punish him for tweeting something like that. And I'm going to keep saying this but you know his push has finished because Smackdown. unless things change , has turn into the Kofi Kingston show and when he wins the belt this week I think it's just going to be 80% focused on him and new day doing god-knows-what, throwing pancakes all day I guess, and with all those NXT call ups there is no room for Mustafa Ali except for maybe a bunch of tag matches or something
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Post by salz4life on Mar 26, 2019 14:43:35 GMT -5
I'm shocked Kofi Kingston hasn't been changed to just Kofi
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Post by Deleted on Mar 26, 2019 15:22:11 GMT -5
I'm shocked Kofi Kingston hasn't been changed to just Kofi At least that one actually would kind of have made sense back when he stopped being Jamaican. Though I presume that's probably mostly because Kofi is from before they went really heavy on that being a thing and also Kofi is his actual name so it'd basically just making it easier for him to go somewhere else if they did it. Keeping in mind that Kofi was around during the days when they were insistently renaming everybody regardless of circumstances.
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Post by Johnny D on Mar 26, 2019 16:30:00 GMT -5
My god this is so dumb, even by their standards.
Take Drew's last name away from him next Vince, go on I dare ya!
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Post by Susan "Poison" Candy on Mar 26, 2019 16:35:23 GMT -5
WWE's name generator really is run by manatee's.
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Post by Woo on Mar 27, 2019 5:37:30 GMT -5
The wrestlers should just be braver and say no. Call yourself by your whole name in promos, just ignore it. Orton, Cena, Rollins, Ambrose, Reigns, Bryan, Styles, Lesnar and Angle all have full names and age three top stars. It's almost like this is a test. Go along with it and you'll never make it big.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 5:43:56 GMT -5
The wrestlers should just be braver and say no. Call yourself by your whole name in promos, just ignore it. Orton, Cena, Rollins, Ambrose, Reigns, Bryan, Styles, Lesnar and Angle all have full names and age three top stars. It's almost like this is a test. Go along with it and you'll never make it big. I doubt he has enough political capital to make a power move like that at this point. Most likely at best it'd get him labelled as difficult and get him the, "Job them out so they learn their place," treatment and at worst he'd probably just be stuck offscreen waiting out the remainder of his contract.
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Post by BigAl on Mar 27, 2019 5:45:37 GMT -5
After watching these Gauntlet shows on Smackdown why do I have a feeling unless Mustafa gets a gauntlet match as a way proves himself providing the lazy writers don't turn coffee and new day into a bunch of lucha house party type Thugs who will do anything to keep the belt, this is just going to be new day show for the next few weeks? I know Kofi got his fans but this just does not look like it's going to be good television if this continues with the lazy writers who thinks Gauntlet matches will solve the lazy writing
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Post by Woo on Mar 27, 2019 5:55:35 GMT -5
The wrestlers should just be braver and say no. Call yourself by your whole name in promos, just ignore it. Orton, Cena, Rollins, Ambrose, Reigns, Bryan, Styles, Lesnar and Angle all have full names and age three top stars. It's almost like this is a test. Go along with it and you'll never make it big. I doubt he has enough political capital to make a power move like that at this point. Most likely at best it'd get him labelled as difficult and get him the, "Job them out so they learn their place," treatment and at worst he'd probably just be stuck offscreen waiting out the remainder of his contract. It's a risk, but don't crap like that is the only way to get McMahon's respect.
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 27, 2019 6:53:10 GMT -5
I doubt he has enough political capital to make a power move like that at this point. Most likely at best it'd get him labelled as difficult and get him the, "Job them out so they learn their place," treatment and at worst he'd probably just be stuck offscreen waiting out the remainder of his contract. It's a risk, but don't crap like that is the only way to get McMahon's respect. Big Cass defied Vince's express order and look how that worked out for him. Standing up to Vince only seems to impress Vince if he comes to the conclusion that he was wrong.
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Post by Dub H on Mar 27, 2019 6:57:03 GMT -5
It's a risk, but don't crap like that is the only way to get McMahon's respect. Big Cass defied Vince's express order and look how that worked out for him. Standing up to Vince only seems to impress Vince if he comes to the conclusion that he was wrong. there is also space between "stand up to vince" and "disobey direct orders on live TV"
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Post by Mighty Attack Tribble on Mar 27, 2019 7:48:40 GMT -5
Big Cass defied Vince's express order and look how that worked out for him. Standing up to Vince only seems to impress Vince if he comes to the conclusion that he was wrong. there is also space between "stand up to vince" and "disobey direct orders on live TV" "Just ignore him, say your full name in promos" would fit in the latter category.
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Post by Dub H on Mar 27, 2019 7:54:40 GMT -5
there is also space between "stand up to vince" and "disobey direct orders on live TV" "Just ignore him, say your full name in promos" would fit in the latter category. Yeh,I agree with that.Was just commenting on the standing part. Even then I believe the stand up is just for people Vince likes
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Post by Deleted on Mar 27, 2019 8:24:02 GMT -5
Who was the first wrestler that this happened to?
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