8 Big Questions That Need Answering At WWE TLC 2014
5. Is Rowan Getting A Real Push?
When the Wyatt Family dissolved a few months ago, fans handicapping the futures of the three members would have pegged Erick Rowan as the long shot to have a real impact on WWE. Bray Wyatt obviously is the star, and Luke Harper has shown some serious flashes in the ring, and he has an Intercontinental Championship to show for it. But lately, Rowan has gotten a fair amount of attention. He got a backstory of being really intelligent and after enlisting as a member of Team Cena at Survivor Series has been inserted into a feud with Big Show. WWE even altered the name of its PPV to Tables, Ladders and Chairs and Stairs to include the gimmick match between Rowan and Show. Could Rowan be getting an actual push? If he hoists Big Show in the air, slams him (as hes done in a couple tag matches several months back) and wins, then perhaps WWE believes he could have an impact. It would make sense for Show to help establish Rowan. But the more likely avenue here is that Show, who just turned for the 6,342nd time, needs to win so he can be built up to be fed to someone bigger at Royal Rumble.
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.
