SmackDown Hacker FINALLY Revealed On WWE Raw
A resolution over six months in the making.
Of course it was Mustafa Ali.
The new RETRIBUTION leader finally copped to being responsible for hacking SmackDown earlier in the year, doing so in a backstage promo on last night's Raw. A strong diatribe saw him claim his real strength was sowing chaos with a laptop, cell phone, or secret, saying a single click from him could bring somebody's world down, before revealing himself as the forgotten Smackdown hacker.
Ali claimed that he had sat at home all summer as his employers couldn't think of what to do with a guy named "Mustafa Ali," learning the wrestlers' secrets as they stabbed each other in the back on television.
Fans and media outlets had pinpointed the former 205 Live man as the likeliest hacker before the storyline was canned after just a few weeks of activity. The cancellation was never adequately explained at the time, with the segments simply vanishing, the hacker disappearing into the ether before having any kind of real, palpable impact on WWE's shows and storylines - much like RETRIBUTION until Mustafa came along.
Ali was unveiled as RETRIBUTION's leader last week. The hacker storyline goes hand-in-hand with the group's aesthetic, so this at least makes sense.