For San Antonio independent wrestlers Brock Ali and Casey Blackrose, WWE Monday Night Raw in Milwaukee meant a brief role as fans in a scripted crowd brawl—not a match. The Sept. 28 segment brought them into a confrontation between The Bloodline and the heel stable 946, before they returned to the independent circuit.
The pair were brought in as extra talent for the Sept. 28 show, according to the San Antonio Current. In the staged fight, 946 members Royce Keys, Bronco Nima and Lucien Price faced Jacob Fatu and the Usos of the Bloodline. The Current reported that Price threw Jimmy Uso into the crowd, where he landed on Ali, and that Blackrose confronted Nima before being hit in the jaw and going down. The factions continued their feud backstage.
F4WOnline later identified Ali and Blackrose as the independent wrestlers caught in the melee. Wrestling Headlines also reported that the brawl took place at Milwaukee’s Fiserv Forum and involved the Usos and Fatu against Keys, Nima and Price. Ali told the Current, “We waited all day to be told what we were going to do,” describing the wait before the pair were selected to portray fans.
From Hybrid to the WWE crowd
Both wrestlers’ San Antonio connection runs through Hybrid School of Wrestling. The San Antonio Current reported that they trained there under head coaches Sho Funaki and Chris Marval; Blackrose, a San Antonio native, began training at the school in 2019.
After graduating from Hybrid in 2021, Blackrose became a coach and helped train Ali, the Current reported. Blackrose also had a dark match against San Antonio wrestler Keith Lee at the AT&T Center, now the Frost Bank Center.
Ali graduated from Hybrid in 2025 before finishing high school, fitting wrestling training around his school schedule, according to the Current.
WWE appearances and a hometown title match
Raw was one of several WWE appearances for Blackrose in a short stretch. He also appeared at ringside during both ladder matches at WWE Money in the Bank, making it his fourth WWE appearance in three weeks, the Current reported. That run kept him from attending the previous week’s United210 show in San Antonio.
An extra role is not a tryout
WWE described its March 2019 tryout in India as a search for potential Superstars led by talent scouts and Performance Center officials, according to WWE.
That formal tryout is distinct from the Raw appearance described here as extra work. A one-night role in a televised segment, on its own, does not establish that a wrestler has been recruited or entered a WWE development program.
United210 is the San Antonio independent promotion where Ali and Blackrose compete. It is run by wrestlers StudStache and Rob Love.
How Texas regulates wrestling
The Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation’s history of combative-sports law says a 1989 change removed wrestling from TDLR’s regulation of boxing and provided for registration of wrestling promoters with the Secretary of State. That history describes a different regulatory framework from boxing; it does not specify current event-level safety requirements for independent wrestling shows.
The two were scheduled to face each other for the United210 championship on Sunday, Oct. 11, according to the San Antonio Current—a local matchup following their appearance in Raw’s crowd brawl.
A post on X from the account @CaseyBlackRose
captured the moment with a simple caption: “He got me... #WWERAW.” For two wrestlers who came up through the same San Antonio gym under the same coaches, the national spotlight and the hometown ring turned out to be closer together than either moment let on.
