Mustafa Ali was the first WWE talent to announce he was no longer with WWE last month before the mass releases across the main roster and NXT happened, forcing NXT to make changes to its plans.
Ali had been slated to challenge Dominik Mysterio for the North American Title this past Saturday at NXT No Mercy. Dominik instead defended the title against Trick Williams and lost with Williams holding gold for the first time as a singles star.
While speaking on Wrestling Observer Radio, Bryan Alvarez noted the original plans didn’t call for Ali to win the title, so the decision to put the title on Williams was likely a late one.
Meltzer: “I don’t know this, but it would feel like this was a very late decision because this match trick Williams never even scheduled for this match. “This was supposed to be Mustafa.”
Alvarez: Ali was not supposed to win. Now, I will say this. They have not announced an NXT yet, but I would not be the least bit surprised if within the next week or two. Trick offers a rematch to Dominik and Carmelo screws him out of the title and we get the belt back on Dominik because clearly, the belt is going to end up back on Dominik soon because he was never supposed to lose it. He wasn’t going to lose it to Ali. And so that would also play into this Carmelo-Trick storyline where Carmelo is jealous. That trick has a title and he does not.”
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