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#4. Hope isn't true: Why WWE was forced to cancel the hacker storyline

The hacker

It's no secret that the original plans for Mustafa Ali was to be the SmackDown hacker. He was even involved in "exposing" Sonya Deville in her storyline with Mandy Rose, but it seems like there's been no sign of the hacker following WWE WrestleMania 36.

Tom Colohue revealed that Ali was the hacker but WWE took it out of his hands:

"Ali was the hacker, however, it became too convenient of a storyline and WWE essentially took it out of his hands"

He said that with Ali's move to RAW, it's unlikely that we're ever going to see the hacker storyline come to fruition.

"Now, with Ali's move to RAW, it is extremely unlikely that we are ever going to see him as a hacker. However, as long as the Hacker storyline is something that the WWE writing team can use to write themselves out of corner, there will always be a SmackDown Hacker."

We hope this isn't true because we hate seeing storylines with no payoff or continuity. It seemed like it was being built as an essential part of SmackDown until it abruptly stopped. While we're aware that WWE has the option of starting it again, we don't see that happening.