Who Are It’s Main Members?

Several weeks before SummerSlam 2020, The WWE Performance Center started experiencing all kinds of technical difficulties and attacks perpetrated by a gang of hooded thugs calling themselves Retribution. The group has been hellbent on destroying the WWE, which means they would eventually get signed to work for the company that they’re intended to take out, right?

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Recently they revealed themselves to be T-Bar, Mace, Slapjack, Retaliation, and Reckoning. Then, Mustafa Ali unveiled himself to be the group’s leader. But who are the men and women behind the masks leading this new invasion angle, which will most likely be a fixture of Raw all the way through Survivor Series?

6 Mustafa Ali

For years, Mustafa Ali was the heart and soul of 205 Live. He then got called up to SmackDown Live and has been wooing audiences ever since. Ali was red hot and on a path to superstardom when an injury sidelined his career at Elimination Chamber 2019 - Kofi and Kofimania would take Ali’s place.

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Fast forward a little over a year later and Ali has returned from injury, been traded to Raw, and was helping out friends Apollo Crews and Ricochet against The Hurt Business. As the leader of Retribution, he put a foreclosure sign on MVP and company.

5 T-Bar

Up until recently, Retribution and all of their members were just nameless hooded bad guys. Once they received contracts, they also received names. The first one to reveal himself was Bane-looking masked T-Bar. The big man had been making a name for himself in NXT.

Previously known as Dominick Dijakovic, the Massachusetts-native had some of the black-and-gold brand’s best matches against Keith Lee. The two even formed a friendship out of mutual respect. Dijakovic was last seen on NXT getting taken out by Karrion Kross. T-Bar has also helped the Bane comparisons form his new character, once paraphrasing the Batman villain in a tweet, "You merely adopted the Performance Center. I was born in it, molded by it. I didn't see the main roster until I was already a man.”

4 Mace

After trying to follow in his father Brent Williams’ football footsteps, Brennan Williams entered the world of wrestling. Trained by Booker T and rechristened Marcellus Black, Williams eventually got signed by WWE and was again rebranded, this time as Dio Maddin.

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Seldom wrestling a match in WWE, he wound up getting a shot at the Raw Commentary team. Once he stepped up to Brock Lesnar to protect Jerry Lawler, Maddin was wiped out by The Beast. Maddin was sent back down to NXT to train. Recently, he showed up as another member of Retribution, Mace.

3 Slapjack

Up until a few years ago, throughout the independent world, The Mighty Don’t Kneel were making a name for themselves in the tag team scene. Shane Thorne, a former tag team champion has more or less been a ship without a sail since he suffered an injury. He had a brief appearance on Raw with former TMDK member Brendan Vick. Now, he's seeking...”Retribution.” When the group was revealed, along with their silly names, Thorne was rechristened as Slapjack.

2 Former Member: Retaliation

If any member of Retribution has some true gripes and a need to deliver retribution to members of the WWE’s female roster, it would have been Retaliation. 20 times across several different promotions, she’d be crowned world champion. For 20 years now, Retaliation has established herself as one of the greatest wrestlers of this generation, male or female.

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She’s grinded it out on the Indies while the WWE and TNA went through their Diva model Knockout phases. Recently, Martinez was sent back to NXT, hopefully, she’ll get called back up soon to exact even more revenge.

1 Reckoning

Similar to her female stablemate, Reckoning has also been touring the world in the Indies. She also got play the part of one of Adam Rose’s Rosebuds from time to time. She’s toured all over the world, learning various styles including Lucha Libre. In TNA, she was Jade and got to make her impression there as a former Knockouts Champion.

After competing in the Mae Young Classic under her real name, Mia Yim, she was signed to a WWE contract. Yim was a contributing member of the Women’s Division in NXT and even was part of Rhea Ripley’s WarGames team. Before joining Retribution, she was last seen on NXT, working with her boyfriend Keith Lee against the Garganos and participating in a six-woman tag match at TakeOver: In Your House.

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