Mustafa Ali retains TNA International Championship as former WWE star makes debut at Slammiversary

Mustafa Ali went into Total Nonstop Action Wrestling’s (TNA) Slammiversary lawsuit without knowing who volition reply the telephone for his unfastened situation for the International Championship.

Ali told his followers connected societal media that TNA’s manager of operations, Daria Rae, would marque the announcement connected the Slammiversary pre-show. Ali decided helium wasn’t going to hold astir anymore and came to the ringing during the pre-show.

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Mustafa Ali enters the arena during Showdown astatine the WWE Performance Center successful Orlando, Fla., connected Oct. 7, 2025. (Kevin Sabitus/WWE via Getty Images)

As Rae was astir to stock the quality with Ali, TNA manager of authorization Santino Marella interrupted her. Marella and Rae some said they had opponents for Ali, making the unfastened situation a triple-threat lucifer alternatively of a one-on-one affair.

Ali’s archetypal hostile was revealed to beryllium Rich Swann. Then, Uhaa Nation made his debut for TNA. Nation was known arsenic Apollo Crews erstwhile helium was successful WWE. Nation was an intercontinental champion and U.S. champion portion with WWE. Nation dumped Ali retired of the ringing and turned his absorption to Swann to commencement the match.

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Mustafa Ali makes his entranceway during NXT astatine the WWE Performance Center successful Orlando, Fla., connected Sept. 30, 2025. (Bradlee Rutledge/WWE)

Ali had to truly excavation successful and effort to stave disconnected some competitors’ spot and agility. But helium got assistance from Order 4 members Tasha Steelz and Special Agent Zero. The 2 distracted Nation arsenic helium was trying to enactment the finishing touches connected Swann.

Zero took retired Nation and it allowed Ali to instrumentality vantage of the one-on-one matchup wrong the ring. Ali avoided Swann and rolled him up with a backslide pin and a bridge. The referee counted to 3 and it was Ali’s nighttime to celebrate.

Ali’s International Championship reign is his archetypal since entering the institution successful 2024. He came successful and won the X Division Championship and was named the X Division Star of the Year successful his archetypal twelvemonth there.

Uhaa Nation, formerly known arsenic Apollo Crews, makes his entranceway during Monday Night RAW astatine the Frost Bank Center successful San Antonio, Texas, connected March 4, 2024. (Craig Ambrosio/WWE)

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Since then, Ali has enactment the Order 4 alongside him and helium hasn’t been connected the losing extremity of his matches much. He won the TNA International Championship against Trey Miguel astatine Rebellion successful Cleveland successful April and hasn’t looked backmost from there.