8 Ups & 8 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (Mar 26)

4. A Procession Of Dorks

Sanity Shelton Benjamin Primo Colon
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We'll have more on last night's Miz/Shane McMahon segment later, but look at this procession of absolute dorks. Just bloody look at them. Shelton Benjamin, Primo Colon, and Sanity. Though each is a talented worker, they were made to look like impotent goobers last night, as WWE decided to feed them all to the infamous shoot badass that is... err, Mike Mizanin, at the conclusion of the Shane confrontation.

This monster trope doesn't suit Miz. At all. He's not Braun Strowman. He shouldn't be fighting off hordes of guys at once, particularly not full-time roster members. Miz has spent too much of his career playing a coward for this to be even remotely believable, and while the angle would've been easier to swallow had he only dirtied his hands with security guards, battling multiple wrestlers at once was daft.

If Shane was feuding with Samoa Joe, then fair enough. Samoa Joe is a bad motherf*cker. The Miz, while he has already proven himself an effective babyface, is not. This was silly.

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