Top TNA Star Mustafa Ali Talks Re-Signing With The Promotion: “Selfishly I Was Looking To Be Creatively Fulfilled”

On January 8 – just one week prior to the TNA Thursday Night iMPACT! premiere on AMC network – it was revealed by Mustafa Ali himself on Denise Salcedo’s Instinct Culture podcast that he’d signed a new contract with TNA.

While speaking with the Rewind Recap Relive, Ali gets into a little more detail about what drove him to sign a new deal and when he found out about the new AMC media rights deal.

Mustafa Ali mentioned the creative freedom as one big reason for signing a new contract with TNA.

“I still think I’m a good soldier, I might question the order before I go do it, but at the end of the day, you know, if my sergeant or the person above me gives me an order I follow through on that. So, I’ll never knock myself for that, I definitely am a team player, but man, am I opinionated, and that’s welcomed with the creative team at TNA and with Carlos.”

“I have ideas, I have visions and I would say like nine times out of 10 they kind of see the vision with me. And it’s not a knock on other places, it’s just that I’ve been able to develop that relationship. That was a big key component for me. 

“I’m very very blessed to be able to do this for such a long time where I’m able to provide for my family financially. Selfishly I was looking to be creatively fulfilled and I feel like the best chance I had at doing that is with TNA, and I’m so happy.”

“TNA and me specifically is just this synergy, it’s this fit. I get along really really well with Carlos (Silva) and the creative department. I’m a very hands on, opinionated person.”

Mustafa Ali also says he didn’t know about TNA’s TV deal with AMC when he was negotiating his new contract:

“I was actually negotiating this deal before I even knew about the network deal being finalized.

“You always hear about deals… in wrestling it’s like I’ll believe it till I see it. I’m not saying I didn’t believe it but I definitely was like, ‘We’ll see.’

“So I still kind of decided to stay here with TNA despite not knowing that the network deal was on the horizon, so it was kind of like I re-signed and then a couple weeks later, ‘Oh, we’re on TV as well with AMC, awesome.’ So it was like a nice little cherry on top.

“But very grateful and appreciative for the opportunity they have here at TNA and I’m sure they’re very grateful and appreciative for having Mustafa Ali on the roster.”

(Rewind Recap Relive)

H/T WrestleTalk.com for transcription. Full article here.

Mustafa Ali lead the Order 4 team to victory last night at the No Surrender LIVE special, and will battle Elijah one last time tonight at the TNA iMPACT TV tapings, set to air on the 2/19 episode of Thursday Night iMPACT!

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