5 Ups & 4 Downs From WWE Raw (24 Aug - Results & Review)

1. Generic Big Guy #847 Wins

If WWE was calling up a Big Guy® from NXT to get hot and then serve as an average midcard heel who eventually would be fed to someone like Oba Femi, then what they’re doing with Big Cass would work perfectly.

But that’s not what they have in Cass. The seven-footer is athletic. He’s a solid talker. And he’s banter on the mic and with his mannerisms – even during matches.

Rather than play on any of that, they’ve brought him in presumably on a redemption story, but instead it’s a swerve, and Cass has been beating up Je’Von Evans week after week.

Monday, Evans finally got to face his attacker head-on in a match, and it honestly went better for the Young OG than it did for Cass. Evans kept Cass off-balance with his attacks, showing a lot more aggression and fire than he had previously. In fact, he had Cass on his heels with a flurry outside, and a Red Dot and springboard clothesline inside the ring.

Cass managed to knock Evans off the top rope when he went for an OG Cutter and quickly followed with a big boot for the win. Get that? Cass, the big, dominant heel, pulled out a come-from-behind win in his re-debut match.

This isn’t suggesting that Cass should have squashed Je’Von, but having him get beat up for a good chunk of the match and then squeak by was… definitely a choice. Perhaps it will be part of his story – that he’s a coward who isn’t nearly as dominant as he portrays himself to be - but then why book him like this out of the gate?

It’s all very confusing and doesn’t feel like WWE has an actual plan for Cass. Maybe we’ll find out more soon and it will all make sense, but this generic heel routine doesn’t feel like anything special.