Mustafa Ali Recalls Accidentally Changing In Undertaker’s Locker Room At Raw 25

Mustafa Ali recently recalled how he and Lince Dorado accidentally got changed in Undertaker’s private locker room at the 25th anniversary episode of WWE Raw. The episode aired on January 22nd, 2018. The nostalgia-heavy episode was light on in-ring action and took place in two places, the Manhattan Center and Barclays Center.

Ali recalled the episode when appearing on Insight With Chris Van Vliet. He noted that when they realized that there were no matches at the Manhattan Center, several cruiserwieghts were sent to have matches to keep the crowd entertained when matches were taking place at Barclays. Ali noted that he and Lince Dorado had to find a place to change and ended up in Undertaker’s private locker room. You can see the highlights below:

On How It Started:
“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.”

On Not Realizing They Were In Undertaker’s Locker Room:

“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. 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.”

On How It Played Out:

“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*cking 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 sh*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.”