R-Truth Suspended

R-Truth has been suspended, which explains Awesome Truth breaking up on Raw this week. Same thing that got Evan Bourne. R-Truth will be out for a month.

In my opinion, this is much worse that Evan Bourne being suspended. Even though Evan and Kofi Kingston have the tag titles, Miz & R-Truth were the top tag team in the WWE. They were higher up the card, were being given more interesting storylines and feuds, and had a lot more potential. The real problem here is that the WWE actually broke up the team. They did not have to do that at all. Have the two heels try to attack Cena. Have Cena take care of them both. Considering that this is Cena, it would have been completely believable. Then have Cena put R-Truth through the announce table, or something like that. Use that to write R-Truth off with a kayfabe injury. Treat it as Cena being enraged at what The Rock had done to him at Survivor Series. This can then branch off to Miz seeking revenge for his tag partner being taken out by Cena. Did I mention tables? Table Match at TLC between Miz and Cena. Don't want to use tables? Even though there is a possibility that Big Show and Mark Henry might take the chairs, have Cena take out R-Truth with several chair shots. Have Miz attack Cena from behind with a chair the following week. Chair Match at TLC between Miz and Cena. Since the announce table has been used in the feud between Big Show and Mark Henry, you could easily continue in that direction to have their match be the Tables Match. In the end, Awesome Truth would not be broken up. In terms of storyline and creativity, the WWE could have handled this better.

There is one last point I want to make, which relates back to what I talked about yesterday about CM Punk still being outside the main event, despite winning the WWE Championship. This segment with Cena and Awesome Truth was the closing segment. Was it worth it? I believe not. Cena's promo was dull. I am not knocking his promo skills, but what he was out there to do was just not too exciting. He basically put over The Rock. After that, the way he led to Miz and R-Truth splitting up was also dull. Unless the WWE pulled the trigger on suspending R-Truth and writing him off like they did without much time to prepare, this was not a good promo for a closing segment. How about the attack on R-Truth itself? Once again, not too much. Had the WWE done more to develop these two guys, their eventual split and turning on each other may have been something epic enough to warrant closing the show. The way things turned out, I would have switched Punk's match with Cena's promo with Awesome Truth. That's right, demote Cena out of the main event segment for at least a night. After Punk defeated Dolph Ziggler, have Alberto Del Rio come out and either attack Punk, try to attack Punk and fail, or just stare him down from the stage. Hype the rematch. That would have been a smarter way to close Raw.