R-Truth Out, Morrison In

R-Truth and John Cena were the two contenders to face Miz for the WWE Championship. That was last week. This week? John Morrison defeats R-Truth for the spot in Raw's main event, which will be a cage match.

Do politicians flip flop as often as this? If changing contenders was not bad enough, R-Truth seems to be going heel. He has been face ever since he returned to the WWE, so a heel turn may be refreshing in some sense. Then again, he was getting a main-event push. He was hanging with John Cena this week. No offense to John Morrison, who I have said many times deserves a better chance, but I was actually looking forward to seeing them try to build R-Truth into a main-eventer. Instead, Sin Cara gets a rub from Cena and The Miz tonight. Sin Cara should be proving his worth in the midcard. Knowing the WWE, it is only a matter of time before he ends up like a Sheamus anyway. Push him hard at first, then turn him into a mediocrity for at least a little while after.

This is once again another chance for Morrison to look good. It was only a few months ago when he faced The Miz for the WWE title. A few months before that, he faced Miz and Daniel Bryan for the U.S. title. Now he finds himself in another triple threat. Given his style and abilities, a steel cage match can make for some great spots, which was surely one of the ideas of wanting him in this match. Will he win the title or just be used as the guy who steals the show, yet comes up short at the end? Let's see how WWE builds it.

Speaking of build, the WWE is doing a poor job hyping Extreme Rules. You usually get lazy booking in between Wrestlemania and Backlash/Extreme Rules. A lot of rematches and easy reworking of feuds already going on. Raw's WWE title match is basically Cena's rematch against Miz, but with another guy added in. Smackdown's title match was supposed to be Edge vs. Del Rio, which would have been another Wrestlemania rematch, but Edge has now been replaced with Christian. No surprise there. Christian was already an element in the feud even before Wrestlemania. Even before Del Rio won the Royal Rumble, he was the one who injured Christian. Since Christian was already a part of Del Rio's feud with Edge, the switch has been a simple reworking of the feud. What other feuds has the WWE really been working on? Most are either continuations of Wrestlemania feuds or stupid, like Eve vs. Brie. Unless the WWE can really turn it around on Smackdown this week and the build before the PPV next week, I don't think they should be expecting gigantic buys.