{"id":338958,"date":"2026-05-22T16:09:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=338958"},"modified":"2026-05-22T16:09:46","modified_gmt":"2026-05-22T10:39:46","slug":"mustafa-ali-retains-in-open-challenge-answered-by-starboy-charlie-on-tna-impact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/22\/mustafa-ali-retains-in-open-challenge-answered-by-starboy-charlie-on-tna-impact\/","title":{"rendered":"Mustafa Ali Retains In Open Challenge Answered By Starboy Charlie On TNA Impact"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2179143\/tna-impact-mustafa-ali-starboy-charlie-international-championship-open-challenge-reta\/\" data-post-title=\"Mustafa Ali Retains In Open Challenge Answered By Starboy Charlie On TNA Impact\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2179143\">\n<picture id=\"pcb3a191e3fa2edec7f136aebe7cc0b74\"><source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/mustafa-ali-retains-in-open-challenge-answered-by-starboy-charlie-on-tna-impact\/intro-1779416565.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/mustafa-ali-retains-in-open-challenge-answered-by-starboy-charlie-on-tna-impact\/intro-1779416565.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">TNA<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p>Mustafa Ali continued his International Championship reign with a defense over &#8220;WWE NXT&#8221; and &#8220;WWE Evolve&#8221; star Chazz Hall during &#8220;TNA Impact.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hall was the third challenger to Ali since winning the title from Trey Miguel at Insurrection in April, with the champion having seen off Adam Brooks on &#8220;Impact&#8221; and TW3 at &#8220;MarquetteMania IV.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Hall looked near winning the title after a Tornado DDT fed right into a standing somersault splash for a near-fall, but Ali continued to get the higher of him together with his strength. Hall tried to make use of the ropes to his advantage, rebounding off of them to no avail as Ali wrapped him up in a bridged pin for the title retention.<\/p>\n<p>Hall, often called &#8220;Starboy Charlie&#8221; outside of WWE, is the reigning WWE Men&#8217;s ID Champion, and was making his TNA debut. He has wrestled 4 times on &#8220;Evolve&#8221; this yr in addition to making his sole appearance on &#8220;NXT&#8221; in April with a losing effort to Lexis King in a WWE Speed Championship tournament.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TNA Mustafa Ali continued his International Championship reign with a defense over &#8220;WWE NXT&#8221; and &#8220;WWE Evolve&#8221; star Chazz Hall during &#8220;TNA Impact.&#8221; Hall was the third challenger to Ali since winning the title from Trey Miguel at Insurrection in April, with the champion having seen off Adam Brooks on &#8220;Impact&#8221; and TW3 at &#8220;MarquetteMania [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":338959,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[338],"tags":[6122,2892,399,1873,800,14098,1574,11358,52016,14959],"class_list":["post-338958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sports","tag-ali","tag-answered","tag-challenge","tag-charlie","tag-impact","tag-mustafa","tag-open","tag-retains","tag-starboy","tag-tna"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=338958"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338958\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":338961,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/338958\/revisions\/338961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/338959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=338958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=338958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=338958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}