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Post by The Rick Jericho on Mar 3, 2024 13:24:09 GMT -5
He was the one that was suppose to get the momentum.
He was suppose to get that Chamber win but got injured before it.
Then they gave the spot to Kofi Kingston and the rest is history.
So if Mustafa Ali had the same path as Kingston and defeated Bryan for the WWE title at Wrestlemania, how do you think the storyline goes with him?
Does Brock Lesnar still squash Ali down the road? Does Ali get the crowd behind him or is it a failed title run like Jinder's?
I've always wondered myself how this would've gone if things went according to plan for Ali. 2019 was really his year to do it.
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Post by fw91 on Mar 3, 2024 13:30:26 GMT -5
Ali would have busted. He was still kinda unknown to the audience and it would have been too much too soon. I feel Kofi had a lot more going on than Ali for it to work for him. He was around for a long time. Had several mid card reigns. New Day was a proven over act. The over veteran mid carder finally getting his moment in the sun is always a winning formula.
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Post by papagiorgio on Mar 3, 2024 13:37:47 GMT -5
Ali wouldn't have been over enough by the time they got to Wrestlemania that they would have had Byran win the match.
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Post by Jindrak Mark on Mar 3, 2024 13:39:01 GMT -5
KO was the one scheduled to face Bryan at Mania if Kofi didn't catch fire, not Ali. Ali's injury stopped him from being in the chamber but he was never the plan for Mania. His title shot was supposed to be at Fastlane and he was back in time to get it. It turned into a triple threat though with KO. Without the Kofi thing I guess Fastlane stays a Bryan/Ali singles match and then Bryan/KO at Mania.
I'm sure KO isn't too bitter about it seeing as he got 2 Mania main events since then and is likely on good terms with Kofi and was happy for him but at the time it must have hurt a bit to go from expecting a world title match at Mania to not being on the card.
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Mar 3, 2024 13:52:35 GMT -5
KO was the one scheduled to face Bryan at Mania if Kofi didn't catch fire, not Ali. Ali's injury stopped him from being in the chamber but he was never the plan for Mania. His title shot was supposed to be at Fastlane and he was back in time to get it. It turned into a triple threat though with KO. Without the Kofi thing I guess Fastlane stays a Bryan/Ali singles match and then Bryan/KO at Mania. I'm sure KO isn't too bitter about it seeing as he got 2 Mania main events since then and is likely on good terms with Kofi and was happy for him but at the time it must have hurt a bit to go from expecting a world title match at Mania to not being on the card. That's odd, because I saw this story a few weeks ago, so Ali was still fresh in my mind. From Road Dogg himself: It might’ve been — yeah, it was talked about (doing Bryan Danielson vs. Mustafa Ali at WrestleMania 35) and that’s probably what they’re referring to with the Daniel Bryan talking about Ali (coming to main roster) and stuff so yeah, there was talk about a storyline leading up to that. But yeah, so there was talk about that. Again, and that’s probably what they’re talking about.www.postwrestling.com/2024/01/25/brian-road-dogg-james-confirms-there-were-talks-of-bryan-danielson-vs-mustafa-ali-happening-at-wwe-wrestlemania-35/ |
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Post by HIM on Mar 3, 2024 14:34:17 GMT -5
He'd be worse than Kofi that's for sure. Kofi had New Day to fall back on but Ali? He'd end up being the new Ziggler. That's a former world champion who was hot at one time and then stayed a midcarder.
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Post by Main Event Mark on Mar 3, 2024 14:39:07 GMT -5
I'm a big Ali fan, but I don't see any scenario where they would have given him that push, let alone a WrestleMania main event.
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Post by DichEvans on Mar 3, 2024 14:42:26 GMT -5
Ali is talented enough to do whatever he wants, but main eventing a Mania before your over could be career suicide
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Post by Lizuka #BLM on Mar 3, 2024 15:06:50 GMT -5
I'm still kind of convinced that before the KO plan they were banking on signing Kenny Omega and having him be Bryan's Mania match. There'd been chatter for a good bit about Bryan's Mania opponent not being on the SmackDown roster and while Owens technically fit for that it didn't really seem to line up because no one ever really thought that sounded like a major match and that level of push for him was kind of coming out of nowhere.
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Post by The Heartbreak TWERK on Mar 3, 2024 16:58:31 GMT -5
KO was the one scheduled to face Bryan at Mania if Kofi didn't catch fire, not Ali. Ali's injury stopped him from being in the chamber but he was never the plan for Mania. His title shot was supposed to be at Fastlane and he was back in time to get it. It turned into a triple threat though with KO. Without the Kofi thing I guess Fastlane stays a Bryan/Ali singles match and then Bryan/KO at Mania. I'm sure KO isn't too bitter about it seeing as he got 2 Mania main events since then and is likely on good terms with Kofi and was happy for him but at the time it must have hurt a bit to go from expecting a world title match at Mania to not being on the card. That's odd, because I saw this story a few weeks ago, so Ali was still fresh in my mind. From Road Dogg himself: It might’ve been — yeah, it was talked about (doing Bryan Danielson vs. Mustafa Ali at WrestleMania 35) and that’s probably what they’re referring to with the Daniel Bryan talking about Ali (coming to main roster) and stuff so yeah, there was talk about a storyline leading up to that. But yeah, so there was talk about that. Again, and that’s probably what they’re talking about.www.postwrestling.com/2024/01/25/brian-road-dogg-james-confirms-there-were-talks-of-bryan-danielson-vs-mustafa-ali-happening-at-wwe-wrestlemania-35/"Becky wasn't supposed to get over because that was the not the story we were telling and I'm gonna be really shitty about it."  Nothing that comes out of this idiot's mouth is worth a cent. |
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Post by City Duck on Mar 3, 2024 17:10:45 GMT -5
I feel like if this happens in 2019 they give up on it super early but don't actually take the belt off him for like 2 months and just book him like Nikki ASH 💀
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Mar 3, 2024 17:21:08 GMT -5
I feel like if this happens in 2019 they give up on it super early but don't actually take the belt off him for like 2 months and just book him like Nikki ASH 💀  |
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Post by schma on Mar 3, 2024 20:11:29 GMT -5
I feel like if this happens in 2019 they give up on it super early but don't actually take the belt off him for like 2 months and just book him like Nikki ASH 💀 I kinda enjoy that Bayley and Iyo there are just kinda whatever, vaguely interesting. Meanwhile Dakota goes from completely giddy to wtf just happened here?! |
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Post by The Rick Jericho on Mar 3, 2024 20:42:46 GMT -5
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Post by Saiyanic Panic on Mar 3, 2024 20:47:37 GMT -5
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Post by RI Richmark on Mar 3, 2024 21:03:19 GMT -5
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Post by OGBoardPoster2005 on Mar 3, 2024 21:15:07 GMT -5
I heard Paul Orndorff was suppose to be the guy if Kofi couldn't go
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Mar 3, 2024 21:50:01 GMT -5
All I really remember is it was reported he was supposed to win the Money in the Bank originally before they gave it to Brock.
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Post by stoptheclocks on Mar 3, 2024 22:28:25 GMT -5
KO was the one scheduled to face Bryan at Mania if Kofi didn't catch fire, not Ali. Ali's injury stopped him from being in the chamber but he was never the plan for Mania. His title shot was supposed to be at Fastlane and he was back in time to get it. It turned into a triple threat though with KO. Without the Kofi thing I guess Fastlane stays a Bryan/Ali singles match and then Bryan/KO at Mania. I'm sure KO isn't too bitter about it seeing as he got 2 Mania main events since then and is likely on good terms with Kofi and was happy for him but at the time it must have hurt a bit to go from expecting a world title match at Mania to not being on the card. That's odd, because I saw this story a few weeks ago, so Ali was still fresh in my mind. From Road Dogg himself: It might’ve been — yeah, it was talked about (doing Bryan Danielson vs. Mustafa Ali at WrestleMania 35) and that’s probably what they’re referring to with the Daniel Bryan talking about Ali (coming to main roster) and stuff so yeah, there was talk about a storyline leading up to that. But yeah, so there was talk about that. Again, and that’s probably what they’re talking about.www.postwrestling.com/2024/01/25/brian-road-dogg-james-confirms-there-were-talks-of-bryan-danielson-vs-mustafa-ali-happening-at-wwe-wrestlemania-35/You've got to think how many different options are talked about for a match like that. Particularly when there was no clear frontrunner. So I'm sure Ali was talked about, but I don't see any way they'd have gone through with it. He just wasn't over enough to be the face vs Bryan. |
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Post by A Little Doo Doo on Mar 3, 2024 22:37:03 GMT -5
It wouldn't have worked, and I was an Ali fan.
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