WWE Unified Tag Team Championship: R-Truth & John Morrison VS Big Show & Miz

[Mitch Henessey]

Tonight on Smackdown, R-truth and John Morrison won a triple threat tag team match to face the Big Show and Miz at Wrestlemania for the WWE Unified tag titles. It's good to see Truth get a chance to shine at the big show. After he failed to qualify for MITB, I thought he would be left off the Wrestlemania card. Morrison and Truth as a tag team could be interesting, and I wonder how far WWE wants to go with them.

There's a chance Miz and Big Show could retain here, but I think Morrison and Truth will come away with the win. I don't think WWE has long term plans for Miz and Show. This tag team was a way to give Big Show something to do for a while, and make the Miz look even more dominant by having him wear some extra gold.

Who's your pick to win?

What are your thoughts about this match?

 

[colalella2891]

Damn... this really does blow ass. As much as I like Morrison and Truth, I don't want to see them as tag team champions, let alone wrestling as a team at Wrestlemania...

This type of match is only good enough for television, or maybe a different pay-per-view, but not Wrestlemania. I suppose there may be a few spots in it, but nontheless this'll be the time I'm getting the snacks.

As to why, I don't know. Maybe they're finally going to turn Morrison heal, or maybe they wanted different talent in the money in the bank ladder match, or maybe it's just a filler to job to ShoMiz. Either way, I don't like it.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

What a terrible idea this was. This is just lazy booking. So now we have two random tag teams fighting for the tag belts. As if it wasn't bad enough to watch the Big Show and Miz be a tag team, now we get an even more random, less entertaining opponent for them?

As bad as MizShow is, Truth and Morrison will be worse. Morrison is a hell of a wrestler, and Truth isn't bad either. But what is the connection? Why in the HELL would these two decide to start a tag team? Nothing they could say would make me like it anyway, but they don't even offer up an explanation for these stupid, ramdom teams anymore. There is no reason Morrison shouldn't be in the MITB match, and I just don't care what they do with Truth. This random tag crap has got to stop, it is absolutely RUINING tag team wrestling.

 

[Undertaker the 5th]

Because the Hart Dynasty does not draw!!! They don't even get a good heel or face reaction. In fact I don't even know if they are heels or faces.

Cryme Tyme? I can't believe they still have a job. Those guys plain out suck. They don't draw for shit. They get reaction because of some UR=unidentified reason. They are jobbers. At least R-Truth and Morrison seem more suited for WM than 2 teams who honestly only the IWC cares about.

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

Because the Hart Dynasty does not draw!!! They don't even get a good heel or face reaction. In fact I don't even know if they are heels or faces.

Cryme Tyme? I can't believe they still have a job. Those guys plain out suck. They don't draw for shit. They get reaction because of some UR=unidentified reason. They are jobbers. At least R-Truth and Morrison seem more suited for WM than 2 teams who honestly only the IWC cares about.

You are most definitely correct that neither team draws. WHere you are incorrect is in blaming those teams.

If the WWE cared one ounce about their tag division, these WOULD draw. THey get no ppv matches. They get hardly any tv time. Instead, we have to watch these idiotic, random tag teams that mean nothing.

Tag teams should be made up of young guys looking to jump start their career. Tag teams should be made up of guys who can entertain as a team, but maybe not on their own. Look at the Legion of Doom. Look at Demolition. Look at The Dudleys. None of those teams had a breakout star. Those teams, as a TEAM, were sometimes as popular as main event stars.

The Hart Dynasty and Cryme Tyme could probably never be as big as the teams I mentioned. Some of those guys might go on to have good singles careers. But why not promote the ACTUAL teams you have? Why not make them the focus of the tag division? Morrison and R Truth should be in the MITB match. Or in some kind of a contest for the IC belt. Not hanging around in the tag division. Is is their faults they are where they are? No. It is lazy, lazy booking.

 

[Papa Shango]

What I wanna know is where this leaves Drew McIntire. Looks to me like the answer is "off the card". He has literally NOONE to wrestle. The only person left on the SD! roster who deserves to be on the card is Finlay, and a Finlay-McIntire match would be a filler, 5-minute-or-less squash.

I do however feel that ShoMiz and Morrison & Truth can pull off a decent match, hell a pretty good match honestly. I'm looking forward to Miz and Morrison interacting again. Honestly, I'm not sure if any two wrestlers play as well off each other as these two do. This is a decent match to start the PPV with. The way I see it is like this: Big Show & Kane vs. Carlito & Chris Masters kicked off WM22, and it was an ok match. ShoMiz- Truth/Morrison can be a better match than that without anyone of them even trying. Am I disappointed that Creative went in this direction? A little. But it will still be a good match.

 

[luis_is_king]

the only reason I see is to have morrison and miz involved in a program but other than that it's just another random pair of guys to wrestle as a tag team. I think Cryme Tyme is just a tag team jobber as for the hart dynasty the reason they don't generate interest is because of the lack of air time given to them. They could be good heels. If the match takes place at mania, I got my chips on show miz and from there Morrison would turn heel.

 

[BucsBraves8016]

I am personally looking forward to it because I love tag team wrestling and I think the tag team titles should be defended at every Wrestlemania. I am a huge R-Truth fan and he's terribly underused. I like the Rock and Rap dynamic of him with Morrison and I think the match will be entertaining. It is good seeing something unexpected at WM as the rest of the card was SO predictable, including Taker vs Hickenbottom again (I will echo it again, a HUGE mistake). Bottom line, I'm looking forward to it.

 

[Undertaker the 5th]

You are most definitely correct that neither team draws. WHere you are incorrect is in blaming those teams.

If the WWE cared one ounce about their tag division, these WOULD draw. THey get no ppv matches. They get hardly any tv time. Instead, we have to watch these idiotic, random tag teams that mean nothing.

Tag teams should be made up of young guys looking to jump start their career. Tag teams should be made up of guys who can entertain as a team, but maybe not on their own. Look at the Legion of Doom. Look at Demolition. Look at The Dudleys. None of those teams had a breakout star. Those teams, as a TEAM, were sometimes as popular as main event stars.

The Hart Dynasty and Cryme Tyme could probably never be as big as the teams I mentioned. Some of those guys might go on to have good singles careers. But why not promote the ACTUAL teams you have? Why not make them the focus of the tag division? Morrison and R Truth should be in the MITB match. Or in some kind of a contest for the IC belt. Not hanging around in the tag division. Is is their faults they are where they are? No. It is lazy, lazy booking.

Well I wasn't blaming it on those tag teams as I know it's not their fault. I just can't buy into them. I have never been a big fan of tag teams maybe because they were dying when I started watching wrestling in late 2002. The only way I would buy any of the guys in the Hart Dynasty is if they went separate ways but I would only be able to see DH Smith as potential break out star. I know the other guy is good, but come on WWE is based on big guys and he is not big plus that hairdo he has seems too dumb for me to take him seriously.

Cryme Tyme I have never taken seriously since they debuted with their "We steal everything" gimmick.

And yes I do agree Morrison and R-Truth should be in the MITB at least. But who knows maybe we get a feud for the tag titles that is actually good. It is Miz vs Morrison once again after all.

 

[Checkmate]

This just lends itself to how sad the Tag Team scene has become. Every team fits into one of three categories:

1. Unified Tag Team Champions
2. Main event or upper midcard guys thrown together.
3. Actual tag teams that aren't over.

The problem here is that the Champions usually come from group number 2, and group number 2 won't normally be booked to lose to group number 3. As stated, the Hart Dynasty and Cryme Tyme just aren't over enough to get a big match on the Wrestlemania card. Miz and Big Show definitely are, but need opponents. Anyone that they could face from group number 2 is booked elsewhere. Yet, the WWE want the Tag Titles to be defended at Wrestlemania.

The throw together team of Morrison/Truth is just sad. Yes, they are two over faces that will go up against two over heels. However, there is no motive. Other than "wanting" to become champions, why are they a team? It seems like a rushed job here, unless they have a plan to go somewhere with this. Hopefully, it isn't super-predictable.

Where this leaves everyone else is also a problem. Cryme Tyme and the Hart Dynasty seem to be off the card. McIntyre has no opponent. CM Punk and the SS have nothing going to my knowledge. Granted, Money in the Bank isn't fully booked, but there can't be 20 guys in there at the same time. I might have preferred if they did a Four Way Tag Team match with Cryme Tyme and the Hart Dynasty involved as well. They did a similar style match at Wrestlemania 20, and it worked out alright.

We still have some time before Wrestlemania, so I guess the card will fill out and reveal the bigger picture. However, this piece looks a bit off right now.

 

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Personally i see big show taking a few outside dive spots from Morrison, Truth and maybe even both(truth dives, show catches him then morrison dives knocking him down) which could make for a good match as Vince likes to include as many people as possible for the wrestlemania payoff which makes me think why they couldn't have done what was done at The Great American Bash 2008?: Jesse & Festus vs Miz & Morrison vs The Rated R Entourage vs Finlay and Hornswoggle. Granted it was a very poor match but involving THD and Cryme Tyme in the WM one would make it a good tag team match with those two teams have good chemistry together and even against each other and would make the tag division look quite good in my opinion.

 

[SHAYAN_CENA_Y2J]

The only reason to put this match at WM is lack of a decent face tag team in smack down.Both Show and Miz are in Raw and since it's UNIFIED tag team championship the other team must be from smack down.the face teams are Matt Hardy and Khali which is the biggest crap i've seen in SD in 2010 and Cryme Tyme which for damn sure will never be in a match at WM.

So the only way they could set a match for WM is to put these two youngsters into another friggin random tag team and have a high spot tag team match at Wrestlemania.

*Spoiler* They could have Morrison qualify for MITB and have Matt Hardy in the tag team with Truth.

I really think they drop the ball with Morrison.The guy must be in the MITB and he should win it cuz he deserves the world title more than any other one who is in this year MITB match.I mean we all know Morrison has a world-champion class and we all know he will be champ someday if something strange doesn't happen so the Best way will be MITB.

By the way I think Kofi Kingston could also be a good partner for Truth because I actually don't see any plan for him right now.

Finally I hope ShowMiz wins.They are hot now and should reamin.

 

[straightedge martyr]

as i mentioned in another thread, i find humour in the fact that miz and morrison are now doing exactly what they did this time last year in feuding for the unified tag titles. its meant to be irony but anyway.

I feel like the team of morrison and truth is just to give them something to do at mania, not a long term thing. leaving them off the card would hurt their push so this is the best alternative.

I don't see showmiz losing the titles yet, i reckon they'll hold them for a while longer. i see a possible morrison heel turn if they lose. maybe by attacking truth after match. it could be a good way to elevate the two of them. maybe have like a ladder match or something cool at extreme rules.

Man, i can really get off topic sometimes.

I'll put my money on showmiz, with morrison attacking truth after the match.

 

[abhilash81]

guys! I know that somet of u r pissed out on learning about this bout. But mark my words now. If everything goes well, after wm, the wwe will start working on truth n morrison n the tag match is the 1st step. Just look at d 2,both r super athletic performers, famous 4 theis flying moves, both have almost d same physique. U may laugh at me, but i'm already picturing a future wm bout between d 2! It was a scene worth watching when r truth helped john move outside d ring. They have great respect 4 each other n at wm, they'll become d tag champs n after that, they'll slowly n steadly rise 2 stardom, n to the world championship picture. Remember, r truth is d former tna champ n morrison is d former ecw champ, n wwe will not just waste them like that. Just think like a true businessman like vince, wouldn't d fans luv 2 watch d 2 battle? Hell ya they would! That's why wwe didn't did d match between d 2 n morrison got injured. All in all, this tag match is d first step to what would be a spectacular future match between 2 future world champs n believe me, wwe will do this at a slow rate so that the 'cena-batista forced push' thing does'nt happen again!
Wat do u think?

 

[Coco]

I really couldn't care less about this match. Not that I think it'll be awful or anything. Far from it. Morrison and Show rock and Truth is growing on me every week. I'm sure they can pull off something decent in this match. However, we all know none of these men will be taking up long-term residence in the tag title scene. So I won't and can't pretend that this bout is in any way significant or will be memorable in six months time. It's just there because they ran out of places to get these other men on the card without it bumping other stars. A shame, since I don't see Dolph Ziggler or Kane as people who deserve to be in MITB over Truth and Morrison. How hard would it be to trim some fat and let people down by not having them on Mania?

As usual, I'd care more about the tag scene if there was a real attempt to make tag teams draw and a real attempt to create and push actual tag teams. I'm not shocked enough about this to get riled up though. It is what it is and it's been that way for a long time.

 

[Cookie]

Where this leaves everyone else is also a problem.

Not really. Looks like they wanted to give Morrison and Truth something "more" to do than MITB (a title match in this case) and while I think they'd both be better suited within the MITB match, and would benefit from a win in it, I understand why they're not in it. The pairing of them together is just bland because it seems like creative literally went thought "well, these guys are both somewhat over faces therefore you WILL like them together and you WILL cheer for them."

As far as this match goes, I'm pretty indifferent. I like the people involved and I don't doubt that they can put on a good match with each other, but I also just don't really care much about the outcome. If it's a good match, I'm sure I'll enjoy it but I really wish I had something more to look forward to regarding tag teams in the WWE.

Cryme Tyme and the Hart Dynasty seem to be off the card. McIntyre has no opponent. CM Punk and the SS have nothing going to my knowledge.

It wouldn't be that big of a loss having Cryme Tyme and the Hart Dynasty off the card. Sure, they could've been involved in this match but I don't think they NEED to be a part of WrestleMania, there's just not enough room to showcase everybody on the roster. McIntyre is going crazy, and similarly to Shawn Michaels, is on the warpath to finding a way to get into WM. He'll be inserted in somehow, you know Vince isn't gonna leave his boy off the card. And the way they're building things up on Smackdown, it's obvious that they're gonna have Punk/Rey happen. So I'm not too worried about where everyone else stands at this point.

 

[sordidboySavoy]

Yes this match is sttpid. All 4 of these guys should be in mitb.this ruins everything. now mitb looks like a who's who of wgn Superstars now. seriously who is the last entrant gonna be? knox, goldust, how about koslov? if morrison isnt in mitb why not him mysterio put on another "This is Awesome!!!" match at mania. or a triple threat with mysterio and punk for the ic belt. have put up his hair,mysterio puts up mask and jomo puts up ic belt. but no we get a shitty tag match. JoMo better not lose to the miz again. contrary to popular internet wrestling dork belief the miz sucks... a whole lot. JoMo is much much much better than the miz and the only reason the miz is anything is because of Morrison.

 

[jarredclements]

So it's gonna be Miz and Big Show vs. John Morrison and R Truth. I was just wondering if they'll actually put this on the main card and not tape it before and include it on the DVD/Blu Ray?

 

[Dr. Stinger A. Zoidberg]

Nah, they will have it on the main card. Minus Big Show, this match has 2/possibly 3 future world champions in it. I see Morrison/Truth walking out winners on that night. Morrison has lost to Miz like 5 times since they split up. Having Morrison lose to him again would just kill the momentum he has now, and maybe even his credibility. I can see this turning into a pretty lengthy Smackdown vs. Raw type feud. With Truth/Morrison on Smackdown and ShowMiz on Raw. If done correctly, this could bring a lot back to the tag titles.

Oh, and Mods, Please move to the correct section...

 

[Big Nick Dudley]

This will definitely be on the main card. Why would they throw two random superstars like Truth and Morrison together if they weren't planning on showcasing them? The reason these two are even a tag team is to give them a spot at Mania (both should be in MITB). There is no way in hell the WWE is going to keep those four names off of the main card. I think this match is bulls**t, I hate random, garbage tag teams, and both of these teams are just that. But even though I don't like it, I understand they need to put these four guys on the main card. God, I hate the idea of this match even happening. Way to keep ruining Tag Team wrestling, Vince.

 

[wrestling fan 666]

This tag match is destined to be a dark match, without a doubt. WM has a tendency to make a match exclusively for the DVD. This is one of them. Besides, who cares about this match? It's a Smackdown match at best.

 

[One of a kind]

Ok why would they put Bigshow in a dark match at mania. Wouldn't that be strange because he's a pretty BIG star in my opinion and putting him in a dark match would be down right degrading. The Miz and Morrison are both futurre world champions too. I don't know about R Truth because he's pretty old so I'm not sure he'll het a world title reign, but to put this off the main card and into a dark match is down right stupid.

 

[skotch]

I understand why the WWE made this match as they had to fit in Morrison and R-Truth (especially Morrison) in WrestleMania, but its simply poor booking. Morrison has not had a legit feud in months: in the Royal Rumble he was a participant, in the Elimination Chamber he was a participant, and in WrestleMania he's now in the tag match. What good does that do? He should have been in a singles match for a singles title. So that's the first thing that's wrong with this match.

Second, on a related topic since Miz is the US Champion, in my opinion its poor booking to have the US Champion also a Tag Team Champion and the Intercontinental Champion in the MITB. Instead of having every title defended at WrestleMania, neither of the undercard titles will be defended. That is very disappointing. The Intercontinental and US Championships don't get the respect they deserve.

If the Miz and Show were in a long term program with a tag team, and not two singles wrestlers who formed a tag team 3 weeks before the PPV, I would understand the necessity to have the Miz defend the Tag Titles and not the US title. But that's not what happened. This match makes no sense besides the obvious Miz and Morrison history which to this point they haven't even acknowledged yet.

What about the only legit tag teams in the WWE; Hart Dynasty and Cryme Time? If they were going to make such a ridiculous match in the first place between ShoMiz and Truth/Morrison, why not make it a fatal 4 way to give all the tag teams (all 4 of them!) in the WWE a tag team title show. This match is really the only disappointment in WrestleMania so far.

 

[One of a kind]

Well actually skotch. Drew Mcintyre is the intercontinental champion but he isn't in money in the bank so it is still a chance for the intercontinental championship to be defended at Wrestlemania.

 

[mr zace]

well if this match makes it 2 the main card i see this match as a way of starting a morrison r-truth fued/program with morrison turning heel (which was reported on wz a week or so ago) on r-truth
but if its a dark match/dvd match i see big show and miz going over