Mansoor recently made the jump from WWE 205 Live to Monday Night RAW. Unfortunately, he lost his debut to Sheamus, snapping his 49-match winning streak in the process.
In a recent interview with Sportskeeda, Mansoor spoke about the defeat and called the end of his lengthy winning streak disappointing.
“How anticlimactic is that!?,” Mansoor said. “I’m trying not to get hot about it. I don’t want to get mad at Humberto [Carrillo.] Like, I get it. He was mad at Sheamus. Sheamus has been punking him and attacking him backstage and doing all these things for the past few weeks. Like, I get it. But you really couldn’t have waited just a little longer?”
The Saudi Arabian superstar went on to say that he was a bit discouraged about the streak ending, but in the end, he was still very happy that it happened in the first place.
“The whole streak thing was really crazy,” said Mansoor. “I didn’t even notice it until someone pointed it out around like 30. And that’s when it started to kind of change gears for me, because suddenly I had something that I was defending. Like, suddenly there were higher stakes to every one of my matches. On 205 Live. On Main Event.”
Mansoor then explained how the streak encouraged his opponent to step up their game in an effort to be the one to beat him, noting that his opponents brought “next-level intensity and competitiveness” that he thrived on.
Now without a winning streak, Mansoor will look to build himself up from zero wins on RAW, potentially starting with Sheamus. In the interview, he made it clear that after his first loss in nearly two years, he now has his sights set on “The Celtic Warrior” and his WWE United States Championship.
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