8 WWE Night Of Champions Opening Matches - From Worst To Best

7. John Morrison & The Miz Vs. Finlay & Hornswoggle - 2008

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John Morrison and The Miz were a rather fantastic tag team, and acted as something of a coming out party for both characters who were floundering at that point. The problem they had was that they weren't surrounded by a whole host of credible challengers, which led to such matches on PPV.

Somehow, it worked. 

Finlay and Hornswoggle had no right to be challenging for the tag titles at any point, but Hornswoggle showed on a number of occasions that he could seriously go in the ring and Finlay had a legitimate toughness that made pseudo-handicap matches believable, especially when up against a prima-donna style team such as Morrison and Miz.

The match went exactly as expected, with Finlay carrying most of the match and Hornswoggle getting a few moments of fun in, and of course the Morrison/Miz beatdown of Hornswoggle that the crowd ate up. The champs retain after isolating 'Swoggle.

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