10 Candidates For WWE's Bizarre Post-WrestleMania 36 Push

10. Apollo Crews

It's happening already, inexplicably.

It's not inexplicable that WWE would see something in Crews. He's not the most engaging of stars but he is an outrageously gifted pro wrestler. There must be some role for him, and on Monday, there was. He took Aleister Black to his limit. His absolute limit: this match went longer than Black's defeat to Tommaso Ciampa at NXT TakeOver: Phoenix in 2019.

That epic on RAW was an insult masquerading as a show of faith. If he was that good, why wasn't he used like that before? Because he can't recite sh*tty material in the same cadence as everybody else?

It's inexplicable that WWE would use him in such a role, given that he was getting blown away like piss in the wind on his last TV appearances. They needed to fill three hours of television, and since Brock Lesnar would have done that bird of prey shriek thing if they'd asked him, WWE instead turned to an experienced and committed hand, one with the ability to work such a long match. They relied on Apollo to get RAW over the line after scraping him off their boot.

"Good old Shelton Benjamin," Vince McMahon marvelled in gorilla.

"Let's give him a run with the Intercontinental Title, or whichever one is on RAW, quite frankly."