7 Ups And 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (April 18)

4. A Titus Sighting Sort Of

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Monday night, we saw Titus O€™Neil return to Raw alongside Natalya in a commercial joking that Titus finishes all of Nattie€™s things, such as her novels, her hairspray and even her sentences. The ad was for anti-smoking group Truth, urging young people to be the generation that ends smoking.

So why is such a worthwhile, noble ad a €œdown?€

Titus O€™Neil is by all accounts a good person, an award-winning father of the year, a great ambassador for WWE and an all-around asset to the company. He also just finished a 60-day suspension for playfully grabbing Vince McMahon€™s arm at the end of Raw when Daniel Bryan retired. O€™Neil missed the entire WrestleMania season, and WWE lost one of its few really public faces who make the company look good for grabbing Vince€™s arm.

It€™s great to see Titus, but the fact that it was in an anti-smoking ad just magnifies the mind-boggling overreaction that his punishment was.

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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.