Night Of Champions: The Miz & John Morrison vs. Finlay & Hornswoggle

[matt_09]

I think that there are two possible matchs that we could see.

1. Kofi Kingston & Evan Bourne
2. Finlay & Hornswoggle

I hope to God that it is not the second option for two reasons.

1. It would be in my opinon a slap in the face to the title, even though it has little to no credibility as it is.
2. I think a loss to a midget would really hinder Morrison's status as a future main eventer.

So I'm praying that we get to see the first option. If the Miz and Morrison do lose, I guess they could have a small fued and elevate Morrison higher up the ladder. Where does the Miz go after this? I really don't know, although I hope they find something for him because I would like to see him as more than a jobber.

If Bourne & Kingston win the titles I would like to see them get involved in a fued with Hawkins & Ryder, which would build up to a tag team ladder match for the titles around SummerSlam.

Spoiler: opponent spoiler

So I just read the June 17 ECW TV tapings, which revealed that Hornswoggle and Finlay signed a contract to face Miz and Morrison. Now that i read that my hopes of Evan Bourne & Kofi Kingston winning and fueding with Hwkings and Ryder are ruined. Morrison and Miz are probably going to lose to a team consisting of a midget which will destory what credbility the tag titles had and will hinder me from viewing Morrison as a legitimate main eventer (how can I take you serious if you lost to a midget?)

 

[Y 2 Jake]

Just confirmed on Raw. The Miz & Morrison vs. Finlay & Hornswoggle. Half of me thinks this is stupid. The other half thinks that the titles would get more exposure and heat around Finlay & Hornswoggle. I don't want the change to happen. I think it would be so incredibly stupid. But I'm certain it will happen. And I can't wait to see it.

Then again it'll just be a handicap tag title match for a few months, if that makes any sense. Hornswoggle won't get involved much. It's also better than Jesse & Festus as champs.

 

[AnthonyMango/NoFate007]

Just confirmed on Raw. The Miz & Morrison vs. Finlay & Hornswoggle. Half of me thinks this is stupid. The other half thinks that the titles would get more exposure and heat around Finlay & Hornswoggle. I don't want the change to happen. I think it would be so incredibly stupid. But I'm certain it will happen. And I can't wait to see it.

Then again it'll just be a handicap tag title match for a few months, if that makes any sense. Hornswoggle won't get involved much. It's also better than Jesse & Festus as champs.

I'd rather have Jesse & Festus...or hell, even Deuce/Domino as champs than Finlay and Hornswoggle. The midget makes kids laugh, ok, I get it, but don't give him a damn belt, especially if it means he'd be defeating two guys that have been the dominant tag champs, outclassing every tag team on all three shows. Morrison and the Miz have been consistently proving themselves for 6 months, so the WWE should reward them with bumps up (Miz to US/IC, Morrison in the main event)...not make them lose to a drastically failing comedy act.

My only hope is if this match showcases Morrison and Miz beating the SHIT out of Finlay/Hornswoggle. The only way I'd accept them losing the titles to these two is if every other team attacked them ahead of time, cause if they have Hornswoggle pinning them or aiding Finlay get the pinfall via "squirt gun attack", then we'll know for sure that Creative is just brain dead.

 

[lilmeche04]

So it looks like we have a WWE Tag Team Championship match at NOC between Finlay & Hornswoggle and Miz & Morrison. Hate to say it, but I think Finlay & Little Horny are gonna take the titles away from the dominant champions. ECW is going on the road with RAW, and it would be hard for Miz and Morrison to appear on all three shows, so I think a title change is gonna happen here! Why Finlay & Hornswoggle? Come on people, it's a comedy act! These two haven't been in the public eye that much lately, and this would be a great way to push them!

 

[Instant Classic]

I don't think Finaly and the midget will get the belts. I know WWe is aiming at children, and has done some stupid storylines but this beats them all. Ok so WWE have done it before with the cruiserwieght title but to do it with the tag titles aswel, I know WWE has had comedy tag champs before but in the past the could actualy wrestle, Hornswaggle can't actualy wrestle. Another requirement is that comedy tag teams have to be funny, Hornswaggle isn't its just a stupid midget. I personally this match is just a filler on the card and we won't see new tag champs. If we do it is totally stupid and achieves nothing IMO. Miz/Morrison though they haven't got a lot of exposure are starting to become known for been dominant champions and it should continue for a few more months until WWE can find suitable challangers to win the belts off them.

 

[badboyman]

if finlay and hornswoggle win the belts its a joke hornswoggle i sjust putting people down to be honest get him out of wwe for him to win the cruiserweight was a disgrace. Anyway the problem with tag team is that they are not kept to together also such as "DVON GET THE TABLES" there are no special moves 3d double hardy leg drop etc.

 

[mrpaul]

I get the feeling this will be the first match of the night, and no doubt there'll be some pretty good spots involving Finaly and Morrison, and no doubt Miz will have to do the comedy bits with Hornswaggle. I can see this ending in a DQ for some kind of shillalegh incident. What I'd like to see is Morrison put Hornswaggle through a flaming table onto some lighttubes and barbed wire.
If you're going to put talen like morrison, Finlay and miz ina ppv, for gods sakes dont waste them with crap like this. Give Finlay a real partner and let them put on a show!

 

[Big Daddy Fool]

so i was just listening to the wrestlezone radio spoiler special. in there they discussed how miz and morrison will be dropping the title to finlay and hornswoggle.

how the hell can they give the highest belt you can get as a tag team to a midget? how is that believable? what would make a person think that a midget would beat a full grown person. why is he getting pushes like this. is he really that over and i dont realize it? i mean i nthe last year he's won the cruiserweight championship, been named vince's bastard son, and is now the tag champ.

grant it this is all speculation but if this does happen i think im going to quit watching the product all together...your thoughts

 

[RoyHahn]

I'd like to think that Creative will have Miz and Morrison drop the belts in order to place them in contention for other belts, knowing that they don't like double champions. Miz might go right into IC/US competitin, while Morrison would hopefully go to the main event. I think the reason Finlay and Horny may get it is because they are extremely over with most fans, so it would be an acceptable lack of realism. I understand your point, and I'm sick of the slapstick antics such as on ECW tonight, but I think this is for the best - to let Miz and Morrison move on.

 

[Big Daddy Fool]

the waterguns was such a joke. the marbles too. how can they call that a match, thats not wrestling its a bad three stooges movie. i havent been too up to date with smackdown/ecw but when did horny become finlays son and how did they explain that

 

[Afro-Ameri-Spawn]

I have to agree with Roy on this one. Miz and Morrison never were meant to be a tag team. They were originally supposed to be transitional champions, but ran so well with the ball and gave a decent face to the division. They helped the revitalize the Smackdown tag team scene, but now it is time for them both to move on to bigger and better things. I can see Miz moving into the US title picture or possibly the ECW title picture while Morrison will undoubtedly make his return to RAW to give another heel to the equation seeing as how Umaga has run his course and Jericho is gearing for a shift to Smackdown as well as he can't seem to get truly over as heel or a face on RAW right now.

So the switch, for all of you scoring at home, would have Miz staying on ECW, Morrison moving to RAW, and Umaga and Jericho moving to Smackdown. lol

 

[AnthonyMango/NoFate007]

I wholeheartedly do not want to see Hornswoggle as a champion. The only way I wouldn't mind it is if they won by a TOTAL fluke (ala everyone attacks Miz and Morrison ahead of time, or there's a quick roll-up by Finlay on the Miz or something) and that Hornswoggle forces them to lose the titles the very next episode of Smackdown. Having Hornswoggle score pins over ANY tag team....even Deuce/Domino...will make the entire tag team division look horrible...and Finlay isn't being booked solid enough to carry the entire team logically on his own back, since he can't even beat Palumbo without using the shillelagh.

But what really confused me was that they said Morrison/Miz would help out RAW's tag team division possibly. Why? Raw's tag team division has a storyline already between DiBiase and Rhodes, and they also have London/Kendrick and Cryme Tyme as legitimate challengers. They don't need Miz and Morrison. The INTERCONTINENTAL division needs Miz, and the WWE CHAMPIONSHIP needs Morrison. I like the two of them tag-teaming, but they need to be boosted up past the tag team sections now, especially if they'll have to take a 3rd rate spot behind Cryme Tyme and such.

I have a feeling we're looking at these outcomes here, if this happens:

1. Finlay & Hornswoggle win the titles and along with Mysterio, CM Punk, and Cena being on Smackdown, it becomes a total kids show, which will bore the living shit out of me as I don't think these comedy segments are funny.

2. Morrison and Miz, who have been steamrolling through competition lately, are de-pushed and go nowhere for months, jobbing out to Hardcore Holly and such on Raw. / OR / Morrison and Miz are allowed to move up to the spots they should be at, and we see some good feuds between the likes of people such as Kennedy and Miz, Hardy and Morrison, HBK and Morrison, etc.

3. Tag team division on Smackdown becomes 4 months of water-guns and marbles with no wrestling, to follow up matches where the Diva's Championship is contested via bikini contests, dance-offs, and so forth. Thusly, Smackdown becomes a show devoted to everything BUT wrestling, with the occasional *********ion joke from Cena, putting out the fire of any interesting "push the envelope" segments with Edge and Taker.

 

[Father:_Polley]

Please no...finlay still hasn't pulled a heel turn and ended the leprechaun. Normally, I'd say the gimmick character wins to please the fans, but with the unpredictability of booking, and the basic lack of a noteworthy feud here, I'm going with the champs to retain this time.
I understand the rush job on the feud with the JWY suspension, but Hornswoggle is just there to pull up fan interest in an otherwise bland affair. Finlay with Shannon moore would be more acceptable as Finlay could at least make the match tolerable, but the midget just cheapens the whole affair. If he wins, it shows how little WWE cares about tagging and ruins Morrison's build as a future contender for a big belt

 

[Comet Cloud]

I don't wanna believe that WWE would put the belts on Finlay and Hornswoggle right now, in a moment that the tag division is in need of talent and credibility. Cade and Murdoch broke up, followed by Deuce and Domino, and despite none of them being great, at least they were legit tag teams. Now, the last thing the division needs is a comedy team as champions. Miz and Morrison did a good work till now and are recovering the prestige of the belts. I also belive that both of them could try bigger things outside the tag teams scene, but one, two more months together helping the tag division will not hurt them. Then, at least they could lose the titles to another credible team.

Wishing too much?

I say, Miz and Morrison beat Finlay and Hornswoggle then shoot the fallen Hornswoggle with his own water-guns, washing the honor of all wrestlers that were turned into jokes by the little one, lol.

 

[TheOneBigWill]

While the match itself seems to be headed for a not so happily ever after. The thing that needs to be remembered, is nothing lasts forever. And the presumed reign of Finlay & Hornswoggle likely won't last beyond their first major Championshipd defense against a real team.

I forsee this being a great way to split up John Morrison & push him to Raw, in the Intercontinental Championship division.. while The Miz gets shoved onto Smackdown, in the United States Championship division, or finding a new partner and going after Finlay & Hornswoggle. (should they win the titles)

Meanwhile, assuming the Leprechaun duo take the gold.. I forsee it being the only available way for La' Familia' to get the Championships onto Hawkins and Ryder, by no less than likely the Great American Bash. Again, Finlay & Hornswoggle's reign won't go beyond a month. If it does, I'd be shocked. (of course I was shocked to learn the likelyhood of them winning to begin with)

 

[Agrex]

Hopefully, for the love of the tag division Morrison & Miz will retain. But Finlay & Hornswoggle have been drafted to ECW, so that kind makes it obvious that the titles will change hands. As terrible as this is we will have a midget win the titles from two competitors who have bulldozed through the Smackdown tag division since November. Really I don't see where WWE is going with this. I understand that Finlay & Hornswoggle are over with the fans, actually I don't understand why their over with the fans. But that doesn't matter.

I know the Smackdown/ECW tag division is lacking, but it's not like there's absolutely no other option for a team to win the titles. It would make much more sense for Hawkins & Ryder to win the titles, as it would elevate Edge's stable. But no, WWE gives it to Finlay, and his midget "son".

This is basically WWE slapping the tag division in the face.

 

[Mighty NorCal]

as if the tag division is something to be taken seriously anyhow. But come the fuck on. Finlay wins what basically amounts to a handi cap match every night. ANd people say Triple H is booked to look dominant. Finlay wins a two on one match every damn night LOL. But sadly enough, I can see Finlay and Swaggle going over, and the announcer's selling it like it was the fucking 16 seed winning march madness. Ugh whatever. that brings us up to *two* waste of time and money matches for the night.

 

[Kcorthe]

This match is pointless, and no matter which team wins, it sucks anyway. Morrison needs to move up to the ECW main event, and The Miz needs to go into the U.S. title huny, and Finlay needs to get rid of Hornswoggle or at least stop teaming with him and go after the ECW title, and the WWE Tag Titles need to go back to SmackDow. So basically, there are a lot of things wrong with this match and this feud, and I can only hope that all of the aforementioned things come to fruition sooner rather than later.

As for my prediction, I predict Morrison and Miz to retain the titles.

 

[Theo Mays]

The tag team division isn't that great as it is, and making Finlay and Horny the tag champs is going to kill the division. I don't have a problem with them winning as long as their run as champs last a few weeks and someone else wins them. But I'm hoping Miz/Morrison retain, cause they are arguably the best tag team in the biz right now.

 

[kingrko]

The Tag Titles are going down the drain if and when Finlay and Hornswaggle win this. Come on WWE, where is this going!? I sure can't figure it out, unless Hawkins and Ryder somehow take the titles from these two, these Tag Titles might as well be thrown in a river! Morrison and Miz are the best thing that's happned to these titles since London and Kendrick, and that was two years ago! For once, can we just see Finlay's "son" get his ass whooped and these titles retained? Also I wanna know why the hell they're so over with fans because they don't do anything to get over. If the WWE cares even the slightest bit for these Tag Titles then Miz and Morrison better retain!

Struck With Finalty

 

[Shocky]

Hmm, you know, wouldn't it be amazing if the tag titles were held by, you know, a team that was exclusive to the brand in which it represents? Such a foreign concept I know. Anywho, Doink and Dink are going to win this match. Morrison and Miz I think have gone as far as they are going to go with the titles, and with Matt Hardy as the face of ECW, both need to be split to give him proper feuds throughout the months.

Finlay and Hornswoggle will win this, but I see them losing to Hawkins and Ryder before the taping split is complete.