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Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia

Mustafa Ali - Tearing Down Stereotypes

Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia

Lilian Garcia

Health & Fitness, Sports, Society & Culture

4.81.8K Ratings

🗓️ 17 December 2018

⏱️ 103 minutes

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Summary

This week on “Chasing Glory with Lilian Garcia, Lilian sits down with the 205 Live Superstar, Mustafa Ali. This is Mustafa’s podcast DEBUT and is the FIRST 205 Live Superstar to be on Chasing Glory! Fresh off of his memorable Smackdown match with WWE Champion Daniel Bryan, Mustafa talks all about how it feels to be part of the 205 Live roster in the WWE. He also talks about what goes through his mind when he performs his jaw-dropping finish move, the 054. He also takes you behind the scenes on the emotions that he was going through before his Wrestlemania match with Cedric Alexander. Mustafa shares with his fans what it was like growing up with his parents and his father’s health issues and how it’s important for him not to overwork himself. He also talks about how his life changed before and after the September 11 attacks especially being from Pakastani descent. Mustafa reveals having to wrestle under a mask while posing as a luchador in the beginning of his wrestling career and how he finally was able take a stand against wrestling promoters wanting to book him with a stereotype. Mustafa mentions about his time being a police officer and why he chose to follow that path. Find out what it was like for him to go from being an alternate in the Cruiserweight Classic to being one of the 32 competitors and what he told Triple H before he got signed to a WWE contract. All this and much more. It’s about to get real, raw, and inspiring with Mustafa Ali.

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Transcript

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Stand by.

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3, 2, 1.

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The following program comes from executive producer Lillian Garcia.

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Every athlete is on this quest.

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Every performer dives in head first.

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Battling real life challenges and overcoming obstacles

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in an effort to make their dreams reality.

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Singers, songwriter, 15 year WWE host Lillian Garcia was the first woman to ever announce

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WrestleMania. Oh yeah! And the first to launch her own podcast which gives you an all access past to

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the human interest stories of elite athletes and extraordinary entertainers.

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Now let's embark on another fascinating journey of chasing glory with your host Lillian

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Garcia. Garcia. Hey everyone, welcome to Chasing Glory. Can you tell I'm in a good mood?

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I'm in a good mood because I am back with you. I care about you guys. I love all the

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feedback that you've been given me because it makes me feel like we are

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connected and I just want to thank you so much for joining the show. If this is

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your first time welcome to the C. G. Squad. We are here making an impact story

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by story and with all of you definitely letting me know what you think of the

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show and spreading the word. So thanks for spreading the word. Thank you for subscribing,

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