10 Candidates For WWE’s Next Bizarre Push

10. Titus O'Neil

Titus O'Neil is very well-liked...

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...by the WWE office but, Adam Wilbourn excepted, not by the fans. Which makes him the ideal candidate!

Titus comes across as a chap impossible not to admire, and thus difficult to criticise. An ultra-dedicated charity worker and doting dad, he is, nonetheless, not...very...good...in the ring...at all. Nothing about his offensive repertoire belongs in this century. He's slow and uncoordinated. His work isn't believable, undermining his menacing heel character in 2014, nor engaging, undermining his jovial babyface character in 2018. One facial expression apiece - grunting/beaming - underscores that he is a one-dimensional performer.

Nonetheless, WWE tends to stumble ar*e-backwards into various PR furores in 2018; from naming the Women's WrestleMania Battle Royal after the Fabulous Moolah to blotting the Women's Revolution by accepting Saudi Arabian money, the company has learned that PR ain't easy, which might result in a PR-friendly singles push for a man spotty in the ring but spotless outside of it. If it does happen, it won't work.

Dave Meltzer said it best: "Titus isn't that good, but he's got a good look, and he's tall, and he goes ur-ur-urh."

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