NXT Star Expected to Receive Huge Push

According to F4WOnline, WWE officials are very high on current NXT star Mojo Rawley. Within WWE, the feeling is that Rawley will receive a huge push when he debuts on the main roster. Along with that, it is expected that he may be a candidate to carry the company in the future.

Rawley, whose real name is Dean Muhtadi is a 27-year-old from Alexandria, Va. who weighs 310 pounds at a towering at 6-foot-3. Muhtadi also played college football for the University of Maryland, where he once finished third on the team in sacks as a defensive lineman.

Muhtadi then had a two year career in the NFL in which he was on the practice squads of the Green Bay Packers and Arizona Cardinals. Interestingly, he was given the nickname, “The Iron Sheik” by Cardinals teammates and coaches due to his freakish nature and strength.

Muhtadi signed with WWE in August of 2012 and has been in NXT, the developmental of WWE since. There, he was given the ring name Mojo Rawley and made his television debut on Oct. 9, 2013 defeating Danny Burch.