WWE superstar of Pakistan descent Adeel Alam (ring name Mustafa Ali) has a candid chat with mid-day.com on the inspirations behind becoming a professional wrestler, his liking for Bollywood films and how he wants to bring a change in the WWE over the coming years.

In your childhood, what inspired you to take up wrestling as a profession?
Well, I think it is like a standard story, I was a young child and my dad was a big wrestling fan, so he used to watch a lot of wrestling on TV and when I used to walk by the television set, he used to grab me and put me on his back, and I watched Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart, Shawn Michaels and thought that this was amazing and wanted to do it myself. From there it became an obsession, I used to admire their larger-than-life personalities, their moves, and I used to recreate their moves at home. So it has been a life-long thing and I started training when I was 16 years old.