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Hello there my very good friends, Andy Marty here at Whatculture Wrestling,

Michael Sidwick here at Whatculture Wrestling, afternoon, a bit of news and not

somebody ever really want to have to jump into the studio and report on, but Mustafa Ali no longer

working for WWE. This is literally the extent of what we know at this stage. Ali tweeted literally

eight minutes ago at the time we're sitting here, eagle eye cherry over here, keeping track of things

on Twitter, spotted it, skyping there, okay, Mustafa Ali tweeted the following, I am no longer

with WWE, I look forward to the future, thank you, a deal which is of course his real name, a deal a lot.

Now Mustafa Ali's had a pretty complicated relationship with WWE over the past few years,

of course it wasn't so long ago that he actually asked to be let go by the company which he

documented on Twitter, he was very transparent about that, he was like hey I've asked to leave,

don't know what's going to happen, he was taking off television for a few months shortly after that,

he eventually ended up returning to the company, I don't recall if there was any ever

confirmation that he'd renewed or anything like that, but it did come out soon after that they'd

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