How Do You Perceive R-TRUTH?

[Downfall]

Terrible on the mic. Wrestling is about telling a story and he is about as fake as Pamela Anderson's package. 'nuff said.

 

[Swastik]

I like the guy. Might not be my favorite wrestler but I still enjoy his matches. I don't understand why people are so against the poor fellow. He has a unique in ring style which makes his matches fast paced and enjoyable and I dont think he is that bad on the mic either.

I do however agree that his new theme music needs to go. I would be in favor of a charcter revamp and a possible heel turn too.

 

[HBKevin]

I didn't see his heel days in TNA, but I hear he was much more over. He and MVP would make a nice heel tag team. Both have real-life criminal records, both have their fair share of haters as faces. But that won't happen. Anyway, he is a great mid-carder I think. Gets the crowd pumped up with his gimmick, and his split taunt he does once per match. Plays his role well.

 

[Layorz]

R-Truth is a decent midcarder. He has a decent gimmick (although the old song entrance was far better than this one) and the kids can get into him easily. His matches are usually fast paced and interesting, he has a decent moveset and if needed can simply improve it by using some older moves from TNA, or even some new moves. He can also fit into some main events quite well (like multi-tag team matches etc), and he'd probably be somewhat believable in chasing a title, although I don't think he should win it at his current place in the WWE.

Also, I like the friendship thing he has with JoMo and Cena, I'm hoping R-Truth rides on the back end of JoMo's push/Cena's storyline and gets a bit more over/involved in the upper midcard/main event scene. He's not the best superstar on Raw, but he plays his role and I can see him getting better or worse based on booking. Also, I think it's fair to point out that while R-Truth is not exactly a mic-legend, he's still decent, and leagues better than the likes of Drew McIntyre or Heath Slater.

 

[Okininja]

Funny Story, well not really. I was actually about to make a topic almost exactly like this. I personally don't find anything thing about him good. I feel he is the most over rated superstar in the WWE right now.

I find his finisher horrendous. In all honesty I feel that The Cobra has more impact than the Lie Detector.
He doesn't entertain me in the ring at all. He has a very limited move set and its mostly just twirls and spins.
His entrance has always bothered me... Like no lie I hated "What's Up" and changed the channel every time it came on.
And he is not that good on the mic either.

 

[ABMorales787]

His theme was changed literally for the sake of changing it. His age shouldn't be a problem though. Batista was pretty old himself but look how far he got. I guess the problem WWE see's is that maybe the crowd won't buy into him being a main event guy. He goes out there every week to cheer up the crowd. It's hard to imagine him in a heated conversation with a Randy Orton or a Wade Barrett. My guess is that WWE just wants him for crowd appeal and feel comfortable keeping him there because they know it works. They don't want to take risks with him that might fail like for MVP, Morrison and Kingston.

 

[MrHashasheen]

His theme was changed literally for the sake of changing it.

I read in the main site that Vince McMahon likes the idea of him changing theme songs like rappers doing new singles. It's a stupid idea, but it's also an innovative way of keep his gimmick fresh.

 

[BigRedPunk]

I dislike him. I find his rap terrible and annoying and his mic skills lacking. Also his finisher "The Lie Detector" sometimes only grazes the opponent if at all.

 

[willywonka8822]

His rapping is terrible, his mic skills are shit, and his gimmick is'nt something to be desired
He should only main event in TNA because he cant cut it in WWE
He has also been holding morrison back when morrison can actually be main event material

 

[Tech N9ne]

He definitely has charisma. No matter what anyone says, that cannot be taken from him. But he will probably just always be that happy fan favorite with a decent gimmick that will always be good but not great. Therefore, he is a guy that will never be world champ. He will always be able to entertain to a certain degree, especially little kids and people that automatically pull for the Faces.

But I just don't see him as a serious threat or contender. He will always be able to put on a match and be a sufficient Face when a situation calls for one. He can always be that team member at Bragging Rights or Survivor Series.

 

[drobs85]

Yeah, but Edge has been an established eventer in the WWE for years. What I meant was, why bother pushing someone like R Truth who is 38, when the current crop of established main eventers are younger (or around a similiar age.)

And why should the WWE go the whole nine on R Truth? Yeah he's had a crappy gimmick and shit feuds, but that's because he doesn't do anything with them. If he had charisma, not so many people would be bashing him on this thread, and he would be given better feuds. Why waste effort and time on him when there are younger superstars who are showing their worth?

And PLEASE don't do 'turn him heel' thing, that's so overdone. There needs to be faces, and there needs to be midcarders. R Truth can stick to that, he's not worth having the midcard heel-face ratio unbalanced, and he's not talented enough to move up the card.

How many guys do you no who could do something with a crappy gimmick and shitty feuds? Christian has charisma and look at him. So your charisma argument isn't valid either.

Apparently the crowd disagrees with that notion. He's very over, yeah the rapping is shit but as so many wrestlers failed to do, he got over. His shit rapping gets him over with the crowd. Ask Shelton Benjamin, Ezekiel "not over" Jackson, The Hart Dynasty, Otunga, Drew McMahon, Ted Jr. During these guys matches and their entrance and promos the crowd is dead silent.

 

[The Encore]

I would love for R-Truth to get Kayfabe injured and take time off, mainly to work on microphone skills perhaps and a gimmick change, Have him still be the same man and everything just not come to the ring rapping? It is so stereotypical (I'm Part Black) and I hate it so much. If he had just the gimmick of coming from a tough area & what his debut video's showed he would still be able to get huge pops and have something main event worthy. In the ring he's fine, but on the microphone he's terribad!

WHAAAATTTTSSSSUUPPPP!??!.. the sky.

 

[Sting's Bat]

At this point i see him as enhancement talent and somebody for Cole to whine about, other than that i think hes pretty much reached the point in his career where he has gone as far as he could go and its only downhill from here for R truth.

 

[Dagger Dias]

What do I think of R-Truth's current role? Well to me his two current roles would be talking to people backstage randomly about Cena's situation and coming out rapping to that HORRIBLE new song. So I don't like him in either one of those two roles. He's getting annoying in those backstage promos and his rapping to the new theme song redefines the word awful. His mic skills are average at best and he's decent in the ring but not enough to get me to like him again. I used to but he lost me as a fan some months ago. Shortly after his loss at Wrestlemania's opening match. Then again, I only liked him in that for tag teaming with John Morrison. His overall run in WWE has been nothing to write home about and I see him getting future endeavoured soon if things don't change for the better because there's nothing to like about him right now. They could start by getting rid of that stupid song and have him actually win some important matches instead of pretending to be Cena's friend backstage.

 

[LSN80]

I think that R-Truth is absolute garbage.

The man can't have a match without botching at least 1 or 2 noticeable spots. There's no way for the announcer's to cover up for him, because he's that bad. He fails to hold his own time after time against bigger stars, and only puts on passable matches with his fellow mid-carders.

To top it off, he's turned into a 12 year old tattletale. One day he's giving a speech to Cena about what he should do at Survivor Series, then going to Orton to tell him he should take Cena out, because he could tell what Cena's decision would be. Then he goes back to Cena, and offers to "accidentally" take out Orton. Who thought that was a good idea? To top it off, he was freaking horrible in his role. He just furthered my beliefs that he has putrid mic skills.

I just don't see what makes R-Truth relevant. Bad wrestler? Check. Bad Gimmick? Check? Horrible Mic Skills? Check. Terrible Entrance Music? Check? I don't see anything redeeming in R-Truth other then using him as a jobber to get stars over. He's athletic, and works hard, but the results just aren't there.

 

[Da Solo]

Let me also set his in-ring skills straight: R-Truth works with what he's given (i.e. He took a shit gimmick and made it watchable) but in ring ability counts too. Remember the John Cena from his debut to his WM win over HHH? When he was doing all kinds of moves and had a better ring presence before creative made him wrestle with the 5 moves of doom? Same goes for R-Truth. Watch him in TNA and then see some of his WWE matches and tell mee he doesn't have what it takes. Remember this: He wanted his WWE finisher to be some variation of a tiger suplex when he returned, the 'E deemed it too dangerous. He used to use the bicycle kick often, then Sheamus came up with the Brouge Kick and since then I haven't seen Truth use it (btw those 2 put on a great match this last RAW). He used an amazing suplex-stunner combination for a few matches then it ceased to be used. The only way he would cease using something so fast is probably because of (guess who?) creative. So imagine what else he could do in the ring? Don't blame the Truth, blame the bookers.

 

[Little Jerry Lawler]

R-Truth is average in the ring. He's not terrible but he's not great. The one thing he does well is get the crowd entertained and hyped up and that's one aspect you always need so he has a lot of use there. He's good for a midcard title reign here or there but that's the highest he's ever going to get.