7 Ups And 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Sept 5)

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7. Bo Knows Fresh Starts

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You know you’ve reached the bottom of the barrel when you’re given a squash match and it is legitimately shocking.

But that’s what happened Monday night when Bo Dallas strutted to ringside, sign in hand, asking fans to Bo-Lieve in Bo, then demolished Kyle Roberts in a matter of seconds. He didn’t waste time or mince words. A couple well-placed kicks and then a CrossRhodes to end the match. Just like that, the announcers were fawning over a “new, more aggressive Bo Dallas.” Sure.

So why is this a positive? Well, Dallas really doesn’t have much lower to sink. His fellow Social Outcast Heath Slater went undrafted but has entered into a SmackDown tag team title tournament. One could argue that Slater’s gotten plenty more storytime than his former Outcasts buddies, so seeing Bo get any kind of special attention is a good thing.

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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.