Nia Jax entered the 2019 Men’s Royal Rumble match and eliminated Mustafa Ali. Jax was eventually eliminated after being hit with a Superkick, a 619 and an RKO.
During an interview with Chris Van Vliet, Ali revealed that someone else was supposed to get eliminated by Nia at first, but they refused to get eliminated by a woman.
This led to Ali stepping up, hoping to impress Vince McMahon by being a pro. Here’s what he said:
“That spot wasn’t originally for me. I don’t know who it was for, but someone was not very much okay with getting eliminated by a woman. And I’m at this point where I’m trying to prove that I’m a pro’s pro. I’m down for whatever.
I can kind of see, I think it was Jamie Noble because it was some sort of frantic search. I looked at Jamie and I was like, ‘What’s the spot?’ He looked at me and he goes, ‘Would you be okay with it?’ I just go, ‘Yep. What is it?’ He goes, ‘Well, Nia is gonna beat up R-Truth and then she’s gonna take everyone’s finisher. But before she does that I just need her to throw somebody (out).’ I don’t know who the original person is. I really don’t know. But I remember going it’s a scripted show. It’s fine. Me and Nia are homies.
So I remember I told Nia hey, I’ll do it. And she was so like, thank you. I could see the sense of relief.
I could see why some people were like, oh man, that made you look weak; I go Nia is shoot strong as hell and could pick up anyone in this room right now, and she tossed me over.
So we did the thing with Nia. I do the whole ‘I’m not gonna hit you’ (thing). I did this thing and then she head-butted me, picked me up. Gets talked about to this day. Actually, I think the RKO and the 619 she took in the Royal Rumble gets talked more. But yeah, it was a moment.
I could see how some of the guys were like I wouldn’t have done that. But one, I didn’t have a problem with it and two, I was looking like, I think that goes a long way to like Vince (McMahon) and to like Bruce (Prichard). This guy didn’t have a problem getting the spot over because that’s a moment.
That’s what we want to do. We want to create moments. That was the honest intention behind it. So yeah, it wasn’t originally designed for me from what I understand.”
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