Ex-WWE Star Reveals Wild Backstage Story Involving Triple H & The Undertaker
A former WWE superstar had a very interesting moment with The Undertaker after getting a call from Triple H.
The January 22nd, 2018 edition of WWE Monday Night Raw was unique because it marked the 25th anniversary of the show.
For whatever reason, WWE officials came up with the idea of running a regular Raw event at the Barclays Center in Brooklyn and another event taking place at the Manhattan Center in New York City, which was the home of the first episode of Raw in January 1993.
That plan didn’t work very well because the fans at the Manhattan Centre were upset that they barely got any action in the ring while they paid big money to sit there and watch the screens.
Mustafa Ali wrestles for TNA, but he’s also a former WWE superstar who worked for WWE from 2016 to 2023. During a recent interview with Insight’s Chris Van Vliet, Ali spoke about the chaotic night that was Raw’s 25th Anniversary and how he actually appeared at both venues.
“It was the 25th anniversary [of Raw]. It was when Raw was doing the Barclay Center and the Manhattan Center at the same time. There’s a bunch of people that have paid a lot of money to attend this event.
But here’s the problem that they didn’t plan, there was no actual matches there. It was just legends coming out and cutting a promo. So about almost an hour into it, the fans start realizing, ‘hey, we got jibbed.’ There’s no matches, and they start booing recklessly.
So Triple H is at the Manhattan Center. He gets on the phone, and he calls over Barclays, and he goes, ‘I need matches, and I need them now.’ So Mark Carrano goes, ‘I know, the cruiserweights!’ So he stuffs a bunch of cruiserweights into a van, and just sends us blindly to Manhattan Center. Hideo Itami is driving, I don’t know. So we’re running upstairs and everyone’s panicking, go, go, go, upstairs. Go upstairs. We’re running with our gear, because we’re all coming from Barclays.”
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As Mustafa Ali continued telling the story of what happened at Raw 25, he mentioned accidentally bumping into The Undertaker, but it wasn’t a bad thing after all.
“And Triple H goes, ‘Situation, there’s no matches during the commercial break. I just need you guys to go out there and do the craziest sh*t for two or three minutes.’ All right, cool. So I was wrestling Lince Dorado, and we run upstairs, we have our bags, so we just open this door and we throw our bags down, we close the door, we start talking.
The referee comes up and goes, ‘Hey guys, where are you changing?’ Right here. And then we look up, private locker room for The Undertaker. Open the door sheepishly, me and Lince, ‘Hello, sir. I’m Ali, This is Lince. Huge mistake. We’re just gonna grab our bags and leave.’
We go to reach for our bags, and he goes, ‘Hey, you guys don’t want to hang out with the motherf**king Undertaker?’ Before I could say anything, Lince goes ‘Hell yeah!’ We’re changing.
He’s asking us about, you know, I told him I was a former police officer. He was like, oh s**t, we’re talking about this and that. Lince was a former teacher. So he’s like, ‘Isn’t that crazy?’ We’re talking to The Undertaker about life, and then we kind of forgot that we had to go. We just ran out and did our match up. And then, yeah, it was just one of those wild experiences with the Undertaker.”
The lesson is that if you happen to run into The Undertaker, don’t be scared or intimidated because he might be a fun guy to talk to after all.