Just for starters and to answer the main question of the thread, I like most of you feel that John Morrison will be the first of the two to get either the WWE or World Heavyweight Title. However, I am going to explain this the way I see it.
Speaking of John Morrison, if any of you caught the Hell in a Cell pay per view, he and Dolph Ziggler had the best match of the night. That is case and point enough as to why he will have a title sooner rather than later. He has great matches with whomever his is placed against. Take into account his outstanding performances in the Money in the Bank matches, successful tag tam runs and that's "RUNS" with an "S" meaning more than one, his previous and current Intercontinental run, and his ECW world title run and this guy has a pretty solid resume. I don't generally count the ECW title run due to the fact that he only got it as a result of the Benoit tragedy, but he did get it, he did defend and hold it for a while, and it was still a major title regardless.
Someone earlier mentioned that he'll probably win this years MITB match and I would like to see that, but I am not sure that he would even be competing in it if he is still the Intercontinental champion by then. I keep wanting to say that Shelton Benjamin was intercontinental champion or U.S. champion when he's competed in it but I am not sure so one of you might want to look into that. Point being that he might have an Intercontinental Title match at Wrestlemania and not be involved in the MITB which would ruin that whole idea unfortunately. I think Royal Rumble winner is out of the question for him as well. I figure that will be held for someone in the title hunt or someone generally in the title hunt already like Batista, Jericho, or someone else in that upper tier.
Someone else, possibly the same person who mentioned the MITB possibility, also inferred that after Edge comes back Morrison might feud with him for the title. I like the sound of it since they are both great in ring performers but I don't foresee that for one main reason. I have a very strong feeling that Edge is going to return as a face. His return is probably going to be a lot like Triple H's first one, and I don't think they are going to want to put two faces against each other. Especially when they are trying to build one as a new face or up and comer, and another one as a returning hero of sorts. It is a really unclear path that John Morrison will walk in the near future, the only thing we know is that it will lead to world championship gold at some point.
As for Ted DiBiasie Jr. I am in concurrence with most of you on the fact that he has a long way to go. I don't really see the DX-Legacy feud as all that big a step up for him, it's just another step towards being cemented in the tag team division where there is little gold to be had, especially with the gorilla kung-fu grip that Jericho and Big Show have on it at the moment. Ted is going to have to get out there on his own for a while and let creative figure out what to do with him. There is a big problem with Ted right now that is going to heed his progress and I feel already has.
Some have mentioned that he has all this fan following on the net that is pretty unjustified and I agree. I don't think he's done anything special yet, and I don't think he has shown anything impressive about himself as a wrestler either. He needs to first figure out who Ted DiBiasie Jr. is actually going to be. So far he and Cody Rhodes have just been Randy Orton clones. There has been little to distinguish a from b on the matter. I think he and Rhodes taking on this Randy Orton persona is really detrimental to their characters and careers. They walk to the ring like Randy Orton, wrestle like Randy Orton, talk on the mic like Randy Orton, so on and so on like Randy Orton and there seems to be little to no Ted DiBiasie in there. He needs to figure out who his character is really going to be, rather than letting it be an attempt at creating another Randy Orton. I think it is bland and unoriginal. I know that being in the Legacy Stable warrants some of that but still, he and Rhodes need to be forming their own identities to become stars rather than borrowing one.
Evolution worked, and everyone from Evolution was successful because they all had their own identities. Batista was the muscle the enforcer, Randy Orton was the Protoge, Ric Flair was the mastermind behind all of it, and Triple H was simple the leader. Batista and Randy Orton weren't trying to emulate every aspect of Triple H's character, they were their own characters, and that is what is lacking for Ted DiBiasie Jr, and Cody Rhodes. If you can hardly distinguish one of them from the other, how great a job are they doing in making themselves anything in the future. You could switch their names around and there would be no difference really.
Take a look at Shawn Michaels, or Bret Hart who both came from tag teams. They both knew the had to get free of the twin identities of their tag teams, and form their own, which they both did and were successful at doing. Shawn Michaels was one of the Rockers, and came out with a completely different persona that got people watching him. Bret Hart was mostly the same character in the Hart Foundation but was able to get more attention drawn his way without the distraction of Jim Neidhart at his side, and hone his character and who he was outside of the tag team division.
I don't know if Ted DiBiasie Jr. really is championship material or if he will be. I don't think so in the current place he is. Like I said, he needs character. But if he is it is being hidden and wasted. Maybe WWE Creative was smart enough to know that neither he or Rhodes was going to make it on their own, so they've done what they've done, hoping that they will become big by association. That's all I can draw from all of it. We could very well be in the infant stages of creating a champion in DiBiasie, but I wouldn't be looking forward to it any time soon.
From the way things are looking at the moment there is going to be a falling out with Randy Orton and probably some kind of feud with either him, or else they go for the tag titles and stick around there for a while. But still, if they split from Orton and go for tag gold, Who are they? We know their names but who are they? What is their angle? What is there to them? Other than being 3rd generation wrestlers, nothing. Randy Orton minions who turned on their leader, that's it. No real character, to real edge to them. Just a couple guys who act like Orton.
