9 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's Raw (Aug 15)

3. The Ultimate Lovable Loser

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This might be a minority opinion, but Heath Slater’s latest gimmick is actually entertaining. Undrafted by Raw or Smackdown last month, Slater has been bouncing back and forth between the two shows searching for a contract, to no avail. (As a result, he’s gotten more screentime each week than most superstars.)

Monday, Slater interrupted Paul Heyman and Brock Lesnar to declare that he wanted a match against Brock to earn a Raw contract. He clearly didn’t want to face the Beast, but he knew that he had to if he wanted the contract. He screamed his case to Paul and Brock that he had a family to provide for (“two girls at home and all the other kids I have” was an outstanding under-the-radar line) and was going to step up.

Sure, Heath got obliterated and treated as a total jobber, but there’s something about him standing up to Lesnar and demanding a match, much like him fighting Rhyno on SmackDown last week. It’s tough to quantify, but it definitely was entertaining Monday night.

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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 fortunately became a fan in time for WrestleMania III and came back as a fan after a long high school hiatus before WM XIV. Monday nights in the Carlson household are reserved for viewing Raw -- for better or worse.