Mustafa Ali Reportedly Moved to WWE Raw from SmackDown

WWE has reportedly moved Mustafa Ali from SmackDown to Raw amid hypothesis that he became once in the reduction of the SmackDown hacker gimmick.

In step with PWInsider’s Mike Johnson (h/t WrestlingInc.com’s Marc Middleton), Ali is tranquil listed as a SmackDown Celeb on WWE.com, nonetheless he’s now a member of the Raw roster internally.

Ali became once widely believed to be the thriller hacker on SmackDown, nonetheless no hacker vignettes maintain aired in recent weeks, which is in point of fact a signal that the gimmick has either been dropped or is attractive to the crimson mark in conjunction with Ali.

The Chicago native closing wrestled in a televised match when he and Shorty G lost to The Revival on the Dec. 13 SmackDown. He competed in several darkish fits after that, most currently beating Drew Gulak on Feb. 7.

It wasn’t lengthy previously that Ali became once a key cog on SmackDown. Main up to WrestleMania 35 closing 300 and sixty five days, Ali became once feuding with then-WWE champion Daniel Bryan, and it gave the affect doubtless that he became once in line to sigh Bryan for the title at WrestleMania.

That did not happen, as an injure kept Ali out of the Elimination Chamber match and resulted in him getting replaced by Kofi Kingston. Kofi had a big exhibiting, the fans got in the reduction of him and the comfort is history, as he went on to beat Bryan for the title at WrestleMania.

Ali tranquil got a title shot, as he confronted Bryan and Kevin Owens in a Triple Likelihood at Fastlane in March 2019, nonetheless he lost the match and has by no methodology returned to that stage since.

Even supposing he has been out of the fold for quite some time, Ali has the total tools wanted to be a colossal-time star. He has a weird undercover agent, he’s a big in-ring performer and he’s in a position to reducing compelling promos when given the different.  

If Ali became once certainly in the reduction of the hacker gimmick, attractive it from SmackDown to Raw with him could be the true switch because it is a storyline fans are already invested in, that methodology they would be invested in Ali by proxy can maintain to he be printed because the personality.

Despite his personality, there are some racy heels on the Raw roster for Ali to switch up towards assuming he remains face. Seth Rollins, Randy Orton, Andrade, Angel Garza and Bobby Lashley are true about a of the Superstars he could presumably maintain some stable fits with.

A void became once left on the Raw roster when AJ Styles became once moved to SmackDown for “Superstars to be named later.” Ali could presumably maybe no longer be on Styles’ stage by methodology of star energy, the switch to Raw is in point of fact a colossal different for him if he’s establish in a the same greater midcard residing that Styles once occupied.

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