John Morrison's 2011 Losing Streak Ends

As I said last week, you can usually expect things to be a little messy around this time of year. I don't mind leaving a little room for that and not being too hard on the WWE. Nevertheless, this Raw once again looked like an inconsistent mess. The direction the WWE seems to be going for several storylines seems very shaky.

With so much I could talk about, I decided to bring up John Morrison's losing streak coming to an end through his victory over Dolph Ziggler. He had been losing for months, which led many to speculate on him possibly being punished, on his way out of the company, and even potentially being the one jobbing to Brodus Clay tonight. I'm glad the losing streak is finally over. Wasn't very entertaining. The commentators were putting over that losing streak, and even though he did go over the United States Champion, I still feel more could have been done to develop this first victory to be worth more. The match was good, but I have definitely seen Morrison in better, without even bringing in his fancy stunts.

One thing I could not believe, they actually teased Dolph Ziggler possibly having a losing streak now? He lost to Zack Ryder last week. So what if he loses to John Morrison this week? There have been a lot worse than that. This can all be leading to the split of Ziggler from Vickie Guerrero and Jack Swagger, who won his match on Raw.

I have to bring up that inconsistency with who Ziggler is feuding with. Riley, Ryder, Ryan. It seems like the WWE is still building back up for a rematch with Zack Ryder again, but the development in that direction could have been better. Ryder was in the main event tonight, teaming with Cena to face Miz & R-Truth. A good enough feud is not really developing between Ziggler and Ryder in terms of a storyline. It's all Internet, isn't it? Having Morrison beat Ziggler tonight just makes things even more complicated. If you wanted to end Morrison's losing streak, there definitely were other options. If they wanted him to go over someone with some credibility, not an absolute jobber, have him be the one beating Swagger tonight. Have Ziggler beat Santino. Or have Morrison enter a feud with Otunga and beat him on Raw. The way things are working out, they might as well have Morrison feud with Ziggler over the title too. What else does Morrison have to do? Seems rushed and not built well at all. It almost looks like the WWE is more concerned with what may be coming up after the title feud, not developing a good title feud itself. If they fail to develop a good rivalry between Ziggler and Swagger over this, a good midcard title reign for Ryder, or John Morrison entering a good midcard feud after his losing streak was broken, this lack of clear focus would not have been worth it.