Released WWE Star Recalls Having Heat With The Locker Room

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Mansoor, who was one of the names released by WWE a week ago, has recalled having heat with the locker room when he joined the company.

Mansoor joined WWE as the one Saudi Arabian tryout who actually stuck around, and his main roster debut was a 51-man battle royal in his home country at Super ShowDown 2019, which he won.

It turns out that he didn’t make too many friends upon his arrival, as he explained on his latest Twitch stream with fellow released talent and Maximum Male Models partner, Mace.

Mansoor said:

“All 51 people in the Battle Royal are in a big room… And Jamie Noble is going over the match and Heath Slater keeps shouting, ‘Okay, but who’s winning?’, and Jamie’s like, ‘Hold on’ and then finally, Heath’s like, ‘Who’s winning the damn thing?’ And Jamie’s like, ‘The NXT kid’s winning, okay!?’ And everybody turns to me and looks at me.

“I’m like, ‘Uh’, so I go hide in a separate locker (room) because when I did my tryout, we went to that same venue and they had us go to a storage closet. So I went to the same storage closet and I remember (Mustafa) Ali pulled me aside and said, ‘Hey dude, you got heat man’.

“I was like, ‘What? What happened?’ He goes, ‘You didn’t say hi to anybody, you didn’t introduce yourself, you didn’t shake anybody’s hand…’

“Yeah, I did (think I had heat with Kofi Kingston). I was really, really sad about that. I was like, ‘Oh my God. I’m sorry. I didn’t mean to do that at all. I just thought that that’s not what you do here’.’ He’s like, ‘Of course it is. Were you not told that?…’

“And this is before our run by the way so this was my first time ever talking to Ali and funnily enough, he was like, ‘Yeah, Claudio (Castagnoli/Cesaro) said that he was pissed’. I was like, ‘F**k! No!’ Because I’m a huge Cesaro fan and I would end up working him, obviously, later.

“So, I made sure, in the Battle Royal – well funny, in the Battle Royal, I was standing around and I was next to Luke Gallows and I said, ‘Hey, I know this is probably a weird time to say this but I’m a huge Talk’n Shop fan’ and he was like, ‘Pretty cool’.

“Anyway, afterwards, I shake everyone’s hand, I say, ‘Thank you, thank you very much’, introduce myself to everybody.”

Mansoor and Mace have been on their Twitch stream telling stories since they were released, such as Vince McMahon’s involvement with the Maximum Male Models gimmick, and the bizarre first interaction between McMahon and Mace.

You can find their Twitch stream at this link.

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