While Mansoor is a big fan of AEW and open to working for them, he’s mostly chomping at the bit to wrestle anywhere at the moment. This is because Mansoor feels he has a point to prove regarding people’s idea of him as a wrestler.

“I always kind of felt like, and I hate talking about myself in this way, but I do really feel like this run, on the indies, and wherever that takes me around the world, is going to be so instrumental in sort of creating a perception of me that I feel is more accurate to who I am,” Mansoor said. “I feel like I haven’t had a performance that I can really, really, really be proud of in the ring since that Mustafa Ali match. And before that, it was Cesaro.

“It was so few and far between, but now I feel like ‘I’m going to go to every single town and every single country, and I’m going to shock people. I’m going to have Match of the Night everywhere I go.’ And people are going to laugh. They’re going to say ‘Mansoor? Yeah right.’ But you’re going to be surprised, I promised. You’re going to be super surprised. I am going out there like a man with a mission, 100%. And I hope I get to do that in AEW and Impact/TNA, all these companies that will have me, because I want to show as many people as possible what they’re missing.”

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