Tommy Dreamer praised Oba Femi’s bounce-back on Monday’s Raw, telling Busted Open listeners that Femi walked in looking like a man who’d just lost — then flipped the night into a dominant showing alongside Solo Sikoa, Penta, and Carmelo Hayes.
Femi had dropped his match to Brock Lesnar at Clash in Italy the night before, so the Raw fatal four-way was his first chance to answer it. Dreamer admitted his first impression worried him.
“Oba did not have that confidence in his strut tonight. Oba looked like he was a man who lost, and I was so like ‘No, please don’t tell me you’re de-pushing this guy!'”
That’s a real fear in WWE, where a big loss can be the start of a slow fade rather than a one-night setback, and how a wrestler carries himself afterward is often the tell. What changed Dreamer’s read was the match itself — and the three guys in it with Femi.
“Then, working with Solo, Penta, and Carmelo Hayes — three freaking amazing professional wrestlers — they all went there and did their job and got Oba back to that where Oba should be. Then, his intensity and what makes Oba special came about in the ring through his work.”
He added, “Oba came back from a loss with a dominant, dominant performance.”
The Raw win sends him to the King of the Ring semifinals, with the potential of working the finals at Night of Champions in Saudi Arabia on June 27 and a SummerSlam title shot waiting for the winner.
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