4 Ups & 10 Downs From WWE Raw (Dec. 13)

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4. Otis Looks Like A Beast

Otis Riddle
WWE.com

If there’s one thing WWE has started doing recently that’s worth paying attention to is how they’ve talked up and actively protected Otis.

The big man has been part of a not-so-successful tag team for a while now, but he hasn’t been on the receiving end of any of those pinfalls. And on Monday, Otis challenged Riddle in a one-on-one match that saw him shrug off much of the Original Bro’s offense, including an attempted RKO, which he turned into a World’s Strongest Slam for the win.

And just to drive the point home afterwards, he pushed Randy Orton off when the Viper tried an RKO and laid him out with a running back elbow.

If there’s any consistency here, it looks like WWE is planting the seeds for Otis to go on a singles run, either while still part of a tag team or not.

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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.