9 Ups And 6 Downs From Last Night's WWE Raw (Feb 8)
3. So Are They Being Pushed?
This is another instance of a negative that really should be a positive. Monday night, Social Outcasts member Adam Rose scored an upset win over Titus ONeil after Heath Slater provided a distraction (Slater Gator explodes!). That in itself is not bad. In fact, its exactly what should have been happening for the past month. If youre taking four jobbers and sticking them together, to make the group feel greater than the sum of its parts, then you have to have them triumph. But the group has been in a weird limbo, losing a few matches, winning one, losing more not to mention alternating between heels and faces for a few weeks. Its all very confusing. And when you factor in that Titus had been on a roll recently (he was undefeated in televised matches this year to that point, 9-0), then youve got to question why you had him lose to Rose suddenly like that. (Oh right, 50/50 booking.) So are the Social Outcasts being pushed now? Or will this win over ONeil be ignored next week?
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.
