For the love of whatever you find Holy The Rock is only half Samoan. I don't care if he plays up is Samoan heritage more the fact remains he is of African American decent on his father's side you have your first black heavyweight champion.
Booker T has been World Heavyweight Champion your 2nd black heavyweight champion.
Mark Henry, founder of the Hall of Pain has been World Heavyweight Champion on Smackdown. Your 3rd Heavyweight Champion.
Now on Topic: As I type this I'm just got done the Miz TV segment on Smackdown. Backlund has done very little talking and most of the talking was Done by...Darren Young. He is a bit rough but I thoroughly enjoyed that segment. You may say The Miz carried it and if you do I will say your full of shit. Young carried that segment and single handedly got me interested in the IC title match at Battleground.
I'll give you credit where credit is due, I should have worded that better, my statement was not correct.
However Booker T and Henry getting the
secondary world title speaks to what I was saying about devalued championships in the company by having two "world champions". They were Heavyweight champs yes, but the Smackdown title had already been shat all over and at that point and held about as much clout as the US title has now.
The Rock is the only one of these guys who was the face of the company at one time or another but half black is still not black in some people's eyes. I'm not saying its right but some folks feel that being half black affords you more opportunity than if you had darker skin and were of primarily african descent (ask some people if Obama is "black enough"). I realize to some I may be coming off as overly sensitive or self righteous but I grew up in a very diverse community where the racial divide was always as tense as it is now with all the black lives matter stuff so yeah I can be overly sensitive to these things and I try to see things from all people's perspectives, I admit that.
I had the pleasure of being labeled a N***** lover by some of my more inbred cretinous classmates because I had no problem letting anyone socialize with me. I've also been targeted by pigs for living in black neighborhoods because surely a white boy wouldn't live there, I must have been looking for drugs
. Countless times I witnessed friends have their futures ruined by getting criminal charges for "crimes" white country club kids and good ol boys who's "diddy went to high school with the sherriff" continue to openly commit and never even get a slap on the wrist for, so thats my excuse or reasoning for being sensitive to racial stuff.
I'll hop off my soapbox now and get back on topic, as always I agree with you about the Miz. The only things about Miz tv that were remotely different from his usual tired schtick were the Backlund and Young bits. You could film 15 different Miz tv's in front of a green screen and leave space to "insert opponent name here" and add the guests after the fact. As I've stated before, I don't care if they are supposed to be heels and I don't care how hot people find Maryse, the sight of Miz with a mic and her voice and delivery on the mic makes me want to change the channel, I often do but last night I toughed it out beause I was curious about how Backlund and Young would approach this segment.
I'm not crazy about Darren Young but it could be worse. If they insist on Miz being the IC champ for an extended period I guess jobbing out Darren is better than having Cesaro lose to Miz for the 12th time. It's possible that this feud could help elevate DY if done right, for an example of how not to do it,look at the Titus Young Rusev feud that basically had no backstory and nothing was really done to build up Titus as a credible threat to the title, that feud didn't really do much for either guy.
They could have these guys stay on the same show and continue the feud for a while and eventually have the blow off and let DY win, this would give them some options of where to go, you could have him continue to the baby face angle or you could have him win in heel fashion if they want to get rid of Backlund at that point. The more likely way to go is to make DY look strong before Miz wins with his usual heel tactics and use that to give DY some momentum before going to a show opposite of Miz and making a run for a midcard title on that show. I'm not saying I'd give Young a title but this feud could serve as a way to try to give him credibility so when NXT guys come up to the main roster a win over him actually means something.
