Mace Believes Retribution Would Have Benefitted From Having Crowds Present

Mace looks back on Retribution and how it could have benefitted the faction to have fans in attendance for their run.

Mace looks back on the failure of the faction known as Retribution.

Back in August 2020, a faction of disrupters would attack anything related to WWE, tearing down sets and smashing into buildings.

On September 21st of that year, most of the faction’s identities would be revealed, including the likes of Mace and T-Bar, as well as Mia Yim under the name of Reckoning. Later, Mustafa Ali would be revealed as the unseen leader of the faction.

However, despite being littered with talent, the faction would go nowhere and ended up being disbanded before Fastlane 2021.

In a recent Reddit Q & A, Mace would discuss Retribution and noted that he believes the faction would have benefitted from performing in front of a live crowd. Retribution’s entire run would take place entirely during the Covid 19 pandemic which meant there were no fans present.

“At one point we were told that we were going to lose the ski masks and get like neat entrances masks to represent our anonymous nature. I think the concepts I sent in were kinda Gundam-Kamen Rider-y. We showed up one week and they had bane masks for us.

I really think retribution would have benefited from a crowd. Even if it ended up silly. Me and TBar pitched being like Bulk and Skull bullies after that fell apart.”

As noted, Retribution would go on to be disbanded prior to Fastlane, as T-Bar and Mace rebelled against leader Mustafa Ali. Prior to this, Mia Yim had been kicked out of the faction.

Elsewhere in the Q & A, Mace looked back on working with Brock Lesnar.