Footage of an incident involving Mustafa Ali and WWE Champion Daniel Bryan has surfaced online. During this week’s episode of SmackDown Live in Fresno, CA at the Save Mart Center, Bryan and Andrade Almas battled AJ Styles and Ali in a tag team match that ended up serving as the main event.
The finish of the match saw Ali pick up the win for his team once he hit his finisher, 054, off the top rope. When coming down, Ali wasn’t centered and landed on Bryan’s head with his knee. Ali immediately apologized for the incident to Bryan then pinned him.
It should be noted that Bryan is okay as he worked the TV taping after this episode for next week’s show, which is great news as Bryan does have a history of suffering concussions, which put him on the sidelines for two years as he wasn’t medically cleared by WWE doctors. You can see the slow-motion footage of the incident here:
This is what happened. Mustafa Ali hits Daniel Bryan with the knee up high.
(Slow motion, angle 2) #SDLive pic.twitter.com/lbEoSUdUds— GIF Skull #SDLive Is The A-Show (@GIFSkull) December 19, 2018
This marked the second match between Ali and Bryan as last week on SmackDown Live, the WWE Champion issued an open challenge which was accepted by Ali. In the end, Bryan got his hand raised in the match that was well received by fans.
