Holy airball.
Carmelo Hayes and The Miz locked up with The Street Profits’ Angelo Dawkins and Montez Ford on Friday’s special, Lyon-based episode of “WWE SmackDown,” and things went even worse than you expect. Hayes, who has been suffering in his partnership with The Miz, walked into the match with the tiniest glimmer of hope for a title opportunity, as promised to him by his senior partner, but by the point things resulted in France, Hayes was looking up on the lights, his shoulders pinned the bottom, and nothing had modified.
I’m so sick and bored with WWE always putting disrespect on Hayes name. I do know that is my third or fourth time taking to certainly one of these crowdsourced pieces to precise my discontent, but when Hayes himself has taken to social media to inform WWE to “pass him the ball,” I do not think I’m alone in my dissatisfaction. It’s one thing to chain Hayes’ feet with a sinking anchor like The Miz, but it surely’s one other thing to offer Hayes this glimmer of hope with victories over teams like Fraxiom and Motor City Machine Guns, only to have him take the pin when it arguably counted essentially the most (like The Miz hasn’t been the issue in this whole tag run).
Why The Miz refused to take the pin when he’s being positioned as Hayes’ anchor is beyond me. It’s The Miz that keeps Hayes locked into this partnership, week in and week out. Hayes tries to interrupt up with The Miz, Miz shuts him down. Hayes tries to exit on his own, The Miz has other plans. Logically, The Miz, in all of his stifling, selfish behavior, could be the heel going into this incoming Melo Don’t Miz implosion storyline, so why don’t they let The Miz act just like the dead weight that he’s? Why make Hayes take the pin, as if any of that is his fault? Why not put Hayes over, for once, even in loss?
To at the present time, I do not know why WWE refuses to push Hayes. He’s an incredible performer with an incredible look and numerous innate charisma — just have a look at the entire edits on TikTok, X, and Instagram. He’s literally the total package, and with a number of years on the major roster at this point, I do not quite know why WWE is hesitating on pulling the trigger. It is not like there’s too many individuals on the major roster — not ones that may do what he does, at the standard he does it, anyway. He has been a consistently great performer who deserves an enormous push. I do not necessarily need to rush the story between The Miz and Hayes, but that is only because I would like Hayes to have a cohesive storyline with a view to offset, not less than just a little, the damage that this partnership with The Miz has done for his profession. Otherwise, Hayes must get out of this sinking Melo Don’t Miz ship, and fast.
Written by Angeline Phu