On Raw this past Monday (Oct. 5), Mustafa Ali was revealed as the leader of RETRIBUTION. Since then, he’s been doing work on social media to push the group. It’s only a handful of tweets, but it’s quality over quantity.
This continues a trend of the wrestler’s online efforts being more successful in getting the new faction over than WWE’s on-screen ones. T-Bar (né Dominik Dijakovic), who seemed to be in charge of RETRIBUTION when its five core members were revealed a couple weeks ago, landed a few big Twitter shots at Chris Jericho and Eric Bischoff that got internet fans buzzing. Mia “Reckoning” Yim popped fans by mocking critics, and Dio “Mace” Maddin & Shane “Slapjack” Thorne are just entertainingly odd.
Ali is playing it straight, whether he’s pointing out interest in the angle...
They want to watch the world end. https://t.co/knci8hJv6g pic.twitter.com/pHAhBxablC
— Mustafa Ali / Adeel Alam (@AliWWE) October 6, 2020
... or offering an explanation for why the key players would want to “destroy” the company that pays them...
They asked “Why?”
— Mustafa Ali / Adeel Alam (@AliWWE) October 7, 2020
We asked “Why not?”@TBARRetribution @RETRIBUTIONMACE @ReckoningRTRBTN @SlapJackRTRBTN pic.twitter.com/SRCGXij5bf
It’s an uphill battle, and they’re gonna have to win lots of in-ring ones along the way to turn this thing around. But it might actually be coming together as a wrestling storyline we can enjoy without getting distracted by WWE’s lack of attention to detail?
Let us know what you think about Ali’s efforts, and where RETRIBUTION stands overall.