10 Times WWE Wasted HUGE Teases
2. The SmackDown Hacker
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Where to start on this? It seems easier to go to the end and work backwards, but WWE very clearly f*cking don't anymore, and typically put it on their loaded talent roster to do the heavy lifting for them. So let's try that too.
Much to the amusement of many but admittedly the intrigue of all, a "glitch" started appearing during broadcasts of SmackDown in early 2020. Little flashing graphics appeared on the screen leaving behind a pattern of lights that resembled the circle on Mustafa Ali's glove to the point where it was virtually a clue too far.
So far so good though, because if anybody had good reason to f*ck up your sh*t in a less literal sense than GTV, it was Ali. Gradually, the glitches were revealed to be the work of a hacker, who also had a load of cameras set up to catch his colleagues in all sorts of nefarious acts. He struck just before WrestleMania, revealing that Sonya Deville had plotted with Dolph Ziggler against friend Mandy Rose and her new beau Otis.
Then, nothing. Or very little, before there was then nothing. Then, months after switch to Raw and a major heel turn, the former 205 Live regular confirmed it was indeed him operating the controls.
Why, Ali? Why?
Well, because he was hacking yet another abandoned storyline to bits and trying to rebuild it...