5 Botches, slip ups, and outrageous moments from WWE Raw Dec 5, 2016
It’s Tuesday once again, which means that we’re all officially in a Raw-induced hangover. We’re also still trying to recover from the TLC Pay-Per-View the day before and then there’s SmackDown Live to look forward to tonight; so wrestling fatigue is likely abounding. Thankfully, Monday night was refreshing.
Raw featured two great singles matches, which consisted of Kevin Owens taking on Sami Zayn and Roman Reigns facing Chris Jericho. Jack Gallagher also made his Raw in-ring debut, which can only be a good thing.
As far as the negative goes, that’s where this article comes in. There weren’t any manoeuvres botched on this particular Raw but there were plenty of outrageous moments and head-scratching storyline developments to go around.
Many of the entries in this article focus on Enzo Amore and his pursuit of Rusev’s bride, Lana. The storyline was a little hard to believe at times, so it warranted multiple breakdowns of things that didn’t make much sense.
In addition to that, I’ve also included remarks on WWE’s affinity with fan close-ups, as well as Titus O’Neil’s extremely hard-fought match; so I’m not solely picking on Enzo.
Without further delay, here are 5 of the more outrageous moments from this episode of WWE Raw...
#5 Poor, poor Titus
Pretty much everything about the state of Titus O’Neil in WWE can be labelled as one gigantic slip-up, right? Ever since grabbing Vince McMahon a tad too playfully on the arm and getting suspended, he’s been in a perpetual doghouse.
The above GIF was his entire match against Mark Henry on this episode of Raw. I believe there was a storyline about Mark getting a WWE Films role that Titus wanted or something, but who really cares enough to invest much thought into stuff like this, when the actual match lasted less than 30 seconds?
O’Neil didn’t even get any offence in; he just ate Henry’s finisher, and that was it. If anyone ever invents a time machine, have some compassion on Titus and send him back to the day he pulled Vince’s arm, so he can try to stop himself. This could be a signal of the end of his WWE career.