5 Ups & 9 Downs From WWE Raw (Fb 28)

4. There’s No ‘There’ There

Omos t-Bar
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Why are we still having Omos put on our screens?

Look, it’s been a year, and the guy is clearly only capable of putting on a convincing match if it lasts less than 90 seconds. Anything more or with any complex series of movements and it all falls apart. Monday’s match against T-Bar was a two-move express, with Omos knocking him off the apron beforehand, clotheslining him and then hitting a Tree Slam for the pin.

And that’s really about it. You’re billing a guy as dominant and unstoppable, but he’s also incapable of putting together anything resembling a match. He can’t sell, can’t work, can’t do a decent promo. Worst of all, fans have no real reaction to him. If the audience was “oohing” and “ahhhing” over him, then it could be forgiven.

But when you have an immobile giant who isn’t captivating fans, you really just have a lump.

Watching him dominate a guy in the former Dominik Dijakovic who is a big guy (6-foot-9, 275 pounds) and who can actually wrestle made it worse realizing that this capable big man is just out there doing nothing but jobbing while Omos goes out every couple of weeks and has a substandard squash.

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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.