6 Ups And 8 Downs From WWE Elimination Chamber 2017

3. Mute Otunga

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This column constantly gives Byron Saxton grief for his lackluster announcing, but David Otunga might be worse.

Sunday, Otunga immediately showed how not-ready-for-primetime he was during the first match when he noted that Mickie James hadn’t been in WWE for seven years, so she must have a lot of ring-rust on her. He would repeat that claim multiple times during the match.

Let’s quickly unpack that: WWE has been openly acknowledging that wrestlers come to the company from other promotions and have achieved success all over the world. They might not reference the company by name (such as TNA), but they definitely will note that wrestlers have experience.

That’s what made Otunga’s repeated insistence that Mickie James was rusty such a moronic statement. It was so bad that the third time he said it, JBL jumped in and shut him down, noting that Mickie had been competing all over the world the past seven years, just not in WWE.

Stick to bodybuilding, David.

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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.