it’s the news that we all feared would happen eventually, but it seems that the popular
Smackdown Hacker storyline has been fully cancelled
So what led up to it’s cancellation and why did this happen?
We’re gonna touch on everything, so let’s get into it and take a look back
Towards the start of the year, we started seeing these mysterious messages and symbols
pop up on the screen during Smackdown’s broadcast
It was the words of “The Truth Will be heard” along with a ticking clock and an envelope
WWE Superstars and commentators never acknowledged the messages on screen and just ignored them
WWE would later upload a highlight clip of Smackdown and referred to these Smackdown
mystery messages
As “glitches”
So then the question from there on became, “who’s behind the Smackdown glitches?”
One of the earlier popular guesses was Karrion Kross and Scarlett
Karrion Kross and Scarlett were known for using a ticking clock, so everyone thought
it could be a teaser for their debut
Scarlett even hyped up the theory and twitter and made it look like they were connected
with the Smackdown glitches, so a lot of fans were buying into it
Even though it was a good theory, WWE rarely let’s any new superstar go straight to the
main roster.
AJ Styles and Ronda Rousey are probably some of the few superstars that didn’t have to
go through NXT before the main roster roster
that’s the part that threw me off that theory, didn’t make any sense for WWE to bring them
both onto the main roster right away, so that was debunked
Fans kept looking deep and actually discovered another clue.
This clue was the circular ring of light.
Ali was the only superstar to used this same circular ring of light in the past, so he
became the next fan favorite guess for the mysterious new character
As the months went by, the teasers kept getting larger and we finally got a semi-reveal of
the character with the Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville breakup
The WWE hacker spoke for the first time in his disguised voice to interrupt Mandy Rose
And Sonya Deville.
The hacker finally put an end to all the Mandy and Sonya drama by showing the truth that
Sonya was the evil mastermind behind everything
This was quite the introduction for the character and really set the bar high for him.
We see right away just how powerful this character can really be
He had full access to all the cameras and even had his own hidden cameras, so this character
really held the secrets of every Smackdown superstar backstage
The Hacker would tease later on that he had access to phone calls, text messages, emails,
he literally had the world in his hand.
He was pretty much over-powered in a way
Basically blackmailing them in a way by letting them know that if they’re not truthful,
he’s gonna put out all the dirt he has on them
What an exciting time this was.
The hacker was teasing that things between these superstars was not what it seemed
Teasing the idea that The New Day, Alexa and Nikki Cross, Bayley and Sasha, The Miz and
John Morrison and much more tag teams were all hiding something from each other
The hype was insane and we were all really eager to find out who was next to get exposed
after Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville
From there WWE would release three separate videos from the hacker, but each one used
a different voice, bringing up the new theory of this being a group with more than one hacker
With the removal of the voice disguises, fans were able to recognize the three voice as
being Ali, Shorty G (Chad Gable), and Xavier Woods
So that seemed to be our big three for the hacker group.
They created a twitter account and called themselves “The Message”.
This also explains why they were using the envelope graphic.
The envelope represents the act of delivering a message, so that’s why they went with
that sign
From there on, the hacker basically did most of his work on twitter.
He posted all of his new teasers over there on twitter in the middle of the week and they
would re-air the clips on Smackdown
The Hacker’s biggest reveal was at money in the bank where he showed his massive room
of like 300 screens, living up to the idea that he literally is watching all the superstars
After that, we got one of the last few teasers which was the voice mail.
In the voice mail, we hear a woman talking about how she’s gonna come after superstar
that wronged her
So we all assumed that we were getting real close to the next reveal
The Hacker poster his final message on May 28th, showing that he was now watching Raw
superstars as well and said “I see your lies”.
Since May 28th, we haven’t heard from the hacker at all.
This long absence was very unlike him.
At the least, he would always post something once a week, so the fact that he disappeared
for so long had a lot of us worried
Reports came out that he went missing but will be brought back eventually, but now we’re
unfortunately getting a whole new report that says otherwise
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This new report claims that the storylines as well as the character has been completely
dropped.
Absolutely heartbreaking to hear
Ali’s WWE profile was recently moved to Raw and that’s what made everyone think
that it really is over after all.
Ali was said to be the Smackdown Superstar behind the Hacker persona, so the fact that
he’s now being advertised for Raw is bad news for his Hacker character
Not to mention that Shorty-G also made his return to Smackdown recently and he was rumored
to be part of the Hacker group as well, so it’s just all signs that everything was
falling apart for the hacker group
Despite having the hacker character, it looked like Ali wasn’t so pleased with the idea.
Ali has been on twitter in recent weeks talking about how he hates to be sitting on the sidelines
in the prime of his career
Ali is 34 years old, it’s not like he’s a 20 year old up-and-coming wrestler, he’s
in his mid 30s and just sitting on the sidelines while being perfectly healthy
He feels like the prime of his career is being wasted and he just wants to get back out there
again and do what he loves
Maybe WWE wanted to keep him off TV because he really was the hacker an, but honestly
they could’ve done both
Have Ali come out and wrestle on Smackdown and he can serve as the Smackdown Hacker as
well.
Everyone gets want they want, the fans get to see the Hacker story continue and Ali gets
to wrestle as well
But that obviously didn’t happen.
Makes you wonder why was the hacker cancelled?
Was a situation like Emma with the Emmalina character.
It was said that WWE had plans for this character, but Emma didn’t like the persona, so it
was cancelled.
So it makes us think, is that what happened here?
Was Ali not a fan of the hacker persona for himself and that’s why WWE cancelled it?
It’s a good question to ask
The thing that bothers me the most is a lack of storyline explanation and acknowledgement
of his disappearance
This character has been all over Smackdown for 6 months, bothering and watching superstars
and now he’s good and there’s no explanation?
I see fans on twitter asking for the hacker and asking what happened to him?
That’s what I wish WWE would address
If you’re gonna abandon the character then give us some closure on his disappearance.
One quick thought I had for this was for one superstar to accidentally come across the
hacker’s main working room backstage.
Maybe the screens are all unplugged or maybe the room is all cleaned out signifying that
he’s gone or maybe he was arrested.
Just give us something to explain why he is just gone all of a sudden
We actually talked about this situation when the hacker is introduced, we said not to get
too invested in the character because WWE usually drops things out of no where or it’ll
will be a underwhelming reveal
I saw one fan say that if it wasn’t someone like CM Punk then it was probably going to
be an underwhelming reveal and that’s true.
No doubt WWE was going to ruin the reveal and make it feel flat, that’s what they‘re
best known for, but it’s all of missed opportunities with what they could’ve done with the actual
hacker that’s unfortunate
It’s clear that the hacker’s only purpose wasn’t to just reveal Mandy Rose and Sonya
Deville’s drama.
It’s clear by his teasers that he had a list of targets and was going after them one
by, so to see all those potential stories get cancelled is just a horrible feeling
The hacker was getting ready to possibly expose that woman in the voicemail, but instead we
get nothing and it’s unfortunate because the hacker opened up the door to so many different
possible reveals.
Instead of a tag team generically breaking up, we could’ve got reveals from the hacker
such as Mandy and Sonya’s that really would’ve had a unique feel to it
It’s going to be a month without a single work with the hacker and with Ali now being
moved to Raw, I’m losing hope for the Hacker character and really believe the reports that
it’s over
I would love to be wrong, I would love to see the hacker return with some insane out
of this world reveal, but I just don’t see it happening.
One of the most interesting stories in the WWE has just been scrapped
I’m personally devastated with this news because you spend so much time getting invested
in something, going through all the theories and nothing matters in the end because it’s
all cancelled.
Not to mention that a lot of writers have been going in and out of the creative team
lately as well, so maybe that’s why this character has become an afterthought
So we’ll see what happens in the following weeks.
Do I think the hacker will show up?
No, I don’t think he will, but like I said before, I would love to be wrong and hope
to see him again
What are thoughts on the news of the Smackdown Hacker character being scrapped?
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