WWE & EVOLVE notes: Mustafa Ali, Kassius Ohno, Street Profits

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By Joseph Currier | @josephcurrier | Oct 24, 2018 11:14 am


WWE and EVOLVE have made a couple of announcements concerning WWE wrestlers working upcoming EVOLVE shows.

As was announced earlier this month, Mustafa Ali will be wrestling at EVOLVE 115 in Livonia, Michigan on November 9 and EVOLVE 116 in Oak Lawn, Illinois on November 10. Ali's opponents were revealed today, with him facing DJZ in Michigan and Darby Allin in Illinois.

Kassius Ohno is set to wrestle at EVOLVE 117 in Queens, New York on December 15 and EVOLVE 118 in Deer Park, New York on December 16. He'll also be a guest trainer at a seminar that WWN is holding in Long Island on December 16.

EVOLVE Tag Team Champions Chris Dickinson & Jaka issuing an open challenge has been set up for EVOLVE 114 in Ybor City, Florida this Sunday. On Twitter, it's being teased that The Street Profits (NXT's Angelo Dawkins & Montez Ford) will be the team to face Dickinson & Jaka.

With the working relationship that exists between WWE and EVOLVE, Adam Cole and Velveteen Dream have worked dark match main events for EVOLVE this year. Cole defeated WALTER in June, and Velveteen Dream defeated Austin Theory and Allin last month.

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Not going to lie: As an EVOLVE fan and WWN subscriber, I'm getting a little annoyed at not being able to see one of EVOLVE's top names on every show because they're wrestling a dark match.
With Ohno in particular, they could even make it play into his NXT storyline by having him go in and try to preemptively try to prove that guys who WWE is rumored to be interested in are not on his level (and, out of kayfabe, it lets Hero go and evaluate the guy and give Hunter and Regal a report on what it is like working the guy).