7 Ups And 9 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 1)
8. Very Respectable?
Michael Cole apparently is having trouble grasping the English language again. The Raw lead announcer declared Monday night as the Social Outcasts (Curtis Axel and Adam Rose) prepared to square off against the Usos that the quartet had been very respectable since teaming up. When was that? When Big Show ran over all four of them? Or when rapper Flo Rida punked them out last week? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sAtMB4DlEBc Look, we all know the announcers have to suck it up and say dumb things now and again, but aside from a very brief bump when they formed, this group has really just been 3MB 2.0. Calling the Outcasts respectable because they get a couple minutes of mic time each week before they once again lose is just insulting fans intelligence.
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.
