Mojo Muhtadi is proud of everything he accomplished in and out of the ring with WWE.
Mojo Rawley, now going as “Mojo Muhtadi,” recently spoke with WrestleZone about his professional wrestling career as well as what he’s been up to outside of the ring. Mojo teamed up with Pepsi for their “Made For Football Watching” campaign, which kicked off in conjunction with the start of the 2021 NFL season.
The connection was made after Mojo was released by WWE in April, the end of a nine-year run with the company. Mojo was asked what some of his favorite memories were in that time, and he said the whole experience was memorable, adding that he knows that not everyone got the opportunities that he did.
“Honestly, almost all of it. I had an awesome nine years and when you think about it, only so many people can make it to NXT, and out of that [group], an even smaller percentage makes it to WWE. I got a nine-year run out of the company, and it wasn’t even like I put in ten years of wrestling experience before that,” Mojo said. “I came in straight from the NFL with zero experience, so my first day in a wrestling ring was in a WWE ring. I was always grateful for that, homegrown talent is very unusual to see these days in WWE and I was one of them. I always took pride in that.
“I had a great run. I won the Andre The Giant Memorial Battle Royal at my first WrestleMania, that was the sure-fire career highlight of my whole [run]. I had some fun storylines tagging up with Zack Ryder and then even more fun turning on him, one of my highlights,” he explained, “even though that match, in particular, was on the Kickoff Show, was having my one-on-one with ‘Broski’. It was my first-ever match as a heel and it was on a pay-per-view, so that was exciting.”
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In addition to his work inside the ring, Mojo took pride and enjoyed being able to travel the world with WWE and show different audiences what he was all about. Mojo said he sees how many people don’t make it to the point that he did, so he does appreciate his career, regardless of how things went along the way.
“I had some special moments, and then just the international tours and being on the road for three weeks straight and wrestling every single day in a different city or country,” he explained, “just traveling the world and being able to go out there and make a difference, and I wasn’t one of these guys that came in as the ‘five-star recruit.’ I came in as the ‘under-the-radar’ guy that no one expected anything from, but I was able to hang in there for a long time and I feel like when I did get opportunities on TV, in big matches and title matches, I feel like I made the most of it. I had a lot of fun with it, it was a hell of a run.
“I go back and think about all of the people I started with and how few made it through, how few had as much success as I did in the company, so I’m grateful. If you’re a true competitor and you have high goals for yourself, no matter what you do, you’ll never be happy with your career. You’re always going to want more, so I always try to check that. Of course, there’s things that I would have liked to have gone differently or things on TV that I didn’t necessarily want to,” he explained, “but that’s the name of the game, man. It’s about surviving in that company and I put in almost a decade. Honestly, I’ve got no regrets.”
Check out our full interview with Mojo Muhtadi at the top of this post.
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