5 WWE Superstars and the unique stories of how they met their wives/husbands

#4. WWE Superstar Mustafa Ali

Happy birthday, Uzma. I love you. pic.twitter.com/8rBKxNMpxM

— Mustafa Ali / Adeel Alam (@AliWWE) February 8, 2020

WWE Superstar Mustafa Ali chose to leave his job as a police officer and pursue a pro wrestling career. However, he did not choose his wife, Uzma.

Ali married the woman his mother chose for him. He told the story in an interview with Tinted.

"My mom said, 'You are reckless, and you need to get married.' And I was like okay," Ali said.

Ali's future mother-in-law emailed a photo of her daughter to Ali's mother, who showed it to her son. The WWE Superstar liked her eyes as he revealed on Chasing Glory.

Ali went with his family to meet his wife-to-be at her parents' house. He followed a specific strategy because Uzma had a very religious Muslim family. The WWE Superstar decided to look at the floor the whole time.

"Her family is really really religious. And It's proper custom for men to lower their gaze when women are walking, so you are not staring (...) So we (Ali and Uzma) sit at the kitchen table and I'm like looking down and Uzma is like 'why are you staring at the floor' (serious tone), that's the first thing she told me," he recalled on Chasing Glory.

"I look up. I thought it was a trick so I was like slowly, I go 'Can I look at you?'. That was our first conversation. And she was like, 'Why are you being weird?', and I'm like, 'I'm not being weird. you are being weird.' I was like 'I'm following customs' and she is like 'pshhh'. I was like 'bro, you got...!'"

Despite Ali's embarrassing first encounter with his wife, the two married in January 2011. The WWE Superstar expressed his love for his wife many times on social media. They appeared together several times at WWE events, including WWE Hall of Fame ceremonies.

Ali and Uzma have a boy and a girl. Last June, Ali announced that they are now expecting their third child.