For the majority of his WWE career, R-Truth has been little more than midcard fodder and a jobber to the stars who will dance and rap for the crowd. He has gotten a couple small pushes here and there, but nothing like he did when he turned heel in 2011. After losing his number one contenders spot to John Morrison, Truth turned on his former partner, becoming a serious bad guy. He defeated Morrison and Rey Mysterio, becoming more and more unhinged as time went on. He memorably dressed as a Confederate soldier on Raw in Richmond, Va., and tried to secede from the WWE, coining the Little Jimmy phrase that helped exemplify his paranoid persona. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhtrJ7KD6Ao R-Truth would form a team with the Miz, Awesome Truth, that would terrorize WWE for a couple months before they lost to John Cena and the Rock at Survivor Series. Immediately after that defeat, Awesome Truth broke up as R-Truth was suspended for a wellness violation, thus ending Truths viability as a top heel. When he returned 30 days later, Truth turned face and the paranoid Little Jimmy references became comical, with Truth acting as though Jimmy was an invisible kid who accompanied him to the ring.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
