John Morrison reportedly done with WWE after being written off in Zack Ryder Internet show
by Geno Mrosko on Nov 26, 2011 8:38 PM EST
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John Morrison is officially done with WWE after his contract ran out this past Wednesday (Nov. 23), according to The Wrestling Observer.
Where it gets interesting is the manner in which he was written out of the company. He wasn't given any sort of blow off angle on Raw or Smackdown or NXT or Superstars. No, nothing like that.
He was written off on Zack Ryder's "Z! True Long Island Story" via limousine blow up death. Yes, they booked him to re-enact the horrific storyline death of Vince McMahon when he got into a white limo and it blew up after he closed the door.
After Ryder posted a link to the video on his Twitter, Morrison retweeted with the following message:
"It's better to burn out than fade away."
Except Morrison didn't really burn out. If anything, he faded away while he was ruthlessly buried for months on end, made to job to basically the entire roster before his contract finally ran out. He wasn't exactly popular in the back, thanks to his relationship with heat seeking pistol Melina, nor the fans, for his inability to create credible offense and near complete lack of charisma.
By the time the burial was over, the only actual fans Morrison had left were ladies who loved the sight of him and those few folks who simply felt sorry for his plight.
Speculation has already begun regarding whether or not he and Melina will end up in TNA and the interest is apparently there. I'm not sure either of the two will be a good fit for the company but hey, what's two more in a party of 700?
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It's a shame what happened to Morrison.
Morrison was such a great athlete that I was happy to ignore the fact that he constantly botched his finisher and had the charisma of Taylor Lautner. It’s a shame he didn’t ditch Melina after she slept with Batista, I know that in modern WWE, nothing guarantees a huge push, but what really depresses me isn’t Morrison’s lack of push, what’s depressing is how little respect most everyone in the business has for a guy who has so much talent.
You hate Mark Henry but are sad to see JoMo go?
What the hell kind of bizzaro world are you living in?
by Kyle Rancourt on Nov 27, 2011 7:46 PM EST up reply actions
I hate the slow, unathletic, overpaid fat guy with boring offense who’s failed all his previous main event pushes, but managed to get the hugest push of his career purely because of Vince McMahon’s love of big men.
I’m sad to see a great athlete with a great look and entertaining offense flush his career down the toilet because he got pussywhipped, and Vince McMahon doesn’t like giving chances to smaller wrestlers unless they go above and beyond the call of duty.
If it makes you feel any better, I think Mark Henry is a far better human being than John Morrison, but being a good human being has little bearing on weather or a guy should get pushed.
I was mostly giving you shit.
I think we’ve pretty much said all we can about Mark Henry. You have your opinion, everyone else has theirs. I wasn’t really trying to bring it up again as much as just making light of the situation.
As for Morrison, I think his in-ring athleticism is jaw dropping, but I think everything else about him sucks. His character sucks, his mic skills suck, his entrance music sucks, his finisher sucks. He does some cool stuff in the ring, but I literally hate every other thing he does.
by Kyle Rancourt on Nov 28, 2011 5:22 AM EST up reply actions
That stuff would've been really easy to fix.
Give Morrison a finisher he can hit regularly (The Nitro Blast, Moonlight Driver, any other move he hits flawlessly), give him back his old insturmental entrance music (which was awesome), give him a manager or valet so he doesn’t have to talk (Ken Patera was a credible main event player in the WWWF for this exact reason).
It’s a hell of a lot harder to find great athletes than it is to find great promos, it’s really easy to hide a great athletes lack of charisma. Hiding the fact that a big guy who cuts half decent promos completely sucks in the ring at a wrestling organization is pretty much impossible.
And we're back to Henry.
I didn’t want to bring it up. I told you I was just ribbing you dude. You’ve gotta move on.
I agree with the things you’ve said for the most part. You don’t cut a guy loose because he doesn’t wrestle the way you want, or because he doesn’t do the things you want, you teach him. I think Morrison sucked, and I’m happy to see him go because it frees up a spot for someone else.
It does suck, because it feels like he’s a wasted talent.
by Kyle Rancourt on Nov 28, 2011 4:26 PM EST up reply actions
I thought he was good enough to make it to a decent level as a single worker
based on his athleticism alone.
The way he dressed, into himself attitude, gasses etc. reminded me of a younger Miachaels. Too bad he let a pussy ruin his career.
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by *Californication* on Nov 26, 2011 10:06 PM EST reply actions
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I hope WWE management doesn’t take exception to Ryder “writing Morrison off”, and doesn’t tell him to knock it off with Z: Long Island True Story.
Feel bad for Morrison, in that he came back from his surgery early, and they basically just fucked around with him; if they soured on him after Wrestlemania, there was no reason to have him rush back from neck surgery, only to bury him. And, also, didn’t he just get new merchandise, with the “I’m gonna eat your lunch” thing?
Well, I hope he goes to TNA. He’s pretty crazy as an acrobatic wrestler, and him participating in X-Division matches would be pretty cool, I bet. The X-Division is one of like two or three things that TNA does better than WWE, and if he was there, they’d be adding to that strength (presumably).
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by Brooklyn Dodgers Mets Fan on Nov 26, 2011 11:12 PM EST reply actions
With the 800$ they will earn combined...
Let’s list the things they could buy..
A crappy used car… that could double as a love nest/place to sleep in Orlando, FL.
Charm lessons for Melina.. so her personality doesn’t cost them more money.. just in case.
A weeks worth of groceries… after all, Melina is a fatass in the making.
A slowmo machine, so who ever Mr. Melina’s name will be, he can still have that cool entrance.
Matching bedazzled pants & make some faux fur for their boots, or maybe it’ll be real possum fur.
by Rawuncutnxrated on Nov 26, 2011 11:40 PM EST reply actions 3 recs
Less than a year ago
on the first Raw of this year, he fought an excellent match with the Miz for the WWE Championship. He had a “Rumble Moment” with the scale-the-walls trick. So essentially just last season, it looked as if he was getting a legitimate push into the main event. Man, did he fall quickly over the Wrestlemania fiasco and his injury.
Sadly, he never really improved since his Intercontinental Championship run on Smackdown a few years ago. I like to watch his promo with Miz prior to Bragging Rights and see the big differences between the two:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0PGO_gxdrk
Once they got away from the comedy bits with which both of them were comfortable, only the Miz could cut the serious promo. Morrison stumbled and struggled with his words, and that was a prelude to the rest of their time on the roster. Morrison’s lack of charisma and any semblance of comfort on the mic really hurt what was otherwise an excellent performer in-ring. For most people, this isn’t a major problem, but it seemed that Morrison was so bad on the mic that no one could get behind his character, since no one knew what his character even was.
The Wrestlemania / Melina thing was the nail in the coffin, but Morrison’s problems had been brewing. His push was deflated, and WWE only needed a reason to bury him.
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And reinvent the wheel. Very strange in how they blew him off, so to speak, under the same conditions used w/ Mr. McMahon character. it was on Zack’s show and there was story line heat between the two, and yes the WWE did create a new merch line for him? Forgive the skepticism in me, but this is the WWE!
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by matz57 on Nov 27, 2011 1:20 PM EST via mobile reply actions
We wish him well/Creative had...blah...blah..
Wildcat nailed it.
He’s going to jump ship to TNA…and to be honest, I’m kind of glad. He’s TNA level talent.
he'll do better in tna if he does go
wwe really dont know how to use talent.
whilst he isnt the best on the mic or at promos. wwe could help him with that surely.
If mic work is his only problem, they would've kept him
That’s the one area that can be covered up if need be, and the easiest to improve.
Release...the KITTIES!
TNA will make Morrison and Melina interesting again for a few months
but Morrison will end up like Ken Kennedy. They look like huge mistakes and talent losses for WWE and TNA will grow for having them but in actuality they aren’t major losses and TNA won’t grow one bit. If Morrison being gone opens up a spot for Tyler Black or Chris Hero or Claudio, ALL 3 are WAY more talented wrestlers, then bye John.
In all honesty, this should show a major failure in TNA’s developmental dept. They should not be salivating for WWE reclamation talents like Gail Kim, Melina and Morrison. TNA should be the first to have the Tyler Blacks, the Jon Moxleys, the Kings of Wrestling etc. TNA being happy about getting former WWE stars is asinine.
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by Major on Nov 27, 2011 5:42 PM EST reply actions 2 recs
Seconded.
I think that the Miz/Morrison combo was one of the best teams in years and certainly shows how bad the talent development has been since.
If you can, youtube the match Morrison and Evan Bourne had on ECW a couple years ago. It was awesome. The timing was crisp and elements were all there. It shows what you can do if you let the talent work.
TNA should be focusing on tightening up it’s title picture and developing the talent that’s there, not grabbing every future endeavour. But TNA can’t grab their ass with both hands, so that won’t happen.
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