Mustafa Ali Recalls Accidentally Stumbling into the Undertaker’s Private Locker Room at WWE Raw 25

Mustafa Ali and the Deadman were pretty tight.

During a chat with Chris Van Vliet. Mustafa Ali, who now wrestles for TNA spoke about the time the WWE planned the 25th Anniversary of Raw and how an abrupt change in plans led to him hanging out with the Undertaker while Ali and Lince Dorado were looking to change into their gear.

“Do you guys know Mustafa Ali and Undertaker hang out a lot?” Ali jokingly said. “There was an anniversary show for Raw. I think it was the 25th anniversary. I could be wrong, but one of those. It was like 2018, ‘19, something like that, and it was when Raw was doing the Barclays Center and the Manhattan Center at the same time… The Manhattan Center, 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 promos. There were 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 in the Barclays. He goes, ‘I need matches and I need them now.’ So Mark Carrano goes, ‘Oh, I know, the cruiserweights!’ So he stuffs a bunch of cruiserweights into a van and just sends us blindly to Manhattan Center. One, Hideo Itami is driving. He’s like, ‘Where am I going?’ ‘I don’t know…’ So we’re running upstairs and everyone’s panicking, like, ‘Go! Go! Go upstairs! Go upstairs!’ So we’re running with our gear because we’re all coming from Barclays, and Triple H basically goes, ‘Guys, the situation is there’s no matches during the commercial break. I just need you guys to go out there and do the craziest sh*t. But do it like two or three minutes.’ ‘Alright, cool.’ So I was wrestling Lince Dorado, and we run upstairs and we have our bags so we just open this door and we throw our bags down, we close the door, we start talking, like, ‘Alright, maybe this, this’ and you know, something quick, and the referee comes up and goes, ‘Hey, guys, where are you changing?’ Like, ‘We’re 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. We’ve done a huge mistake. We’re just gonna grab our bags and we’re gonna leave,’ and we go to reach for our bags and he goes, ‘Hey, you guys don’t want to hang out with the motherf*cking Undertaker?’ Before I could say anything, Lince Dorado goes, ‘Hell yeah!’ We just pulled up a chair next to The Deadman and we’re changing… I told him I was a former police officer and he was like, ‘Oh sh*t.’ We’re talking about this and that, and Lince was a former teacher — 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, and the ref was like, ‘Guys! You’re on!’ So we just ran out and did our match, and then, yeah, it was just one of those wild experiences that The Undertaker told me to come hang out with him.”

Ali recently signed an extension with TNA this past January, he is a former X-Division Champion and has made the most of his time there to bounce back from being put through the worse during his time in WWE.

You can check out the entire episode of INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet featuring TNA Star Mustafa Ali below.

h/t to Fightful for the transcription.

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