So is Morrison becoming a face now?
 

After his match with Shelton Benjamin and his confrontation with Jericho on SmackDOWN!, it looks painfully obvious that they're looking to turn Morrison face. On the plus side, he may be allowed to pull out some fancier moves, but I'm just hoping to high hell that they don't water him down and make him a fan-pandering bitchface.

Thoughts?

I don't see why people seem to think this

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Because The Miz turned on him, and The Miz got a big "I'm the heel segment" on RAW... thus anyone he turns on is a face. Morrison got no such segment and instead wrestled a heel.

I'd say there's a good chance of them turning him face. Kinda replace MVP in the "I was a heel, but now I'm inexplicably face" department.

He seems like the perfect candidate to have a nice, long tweener run. WWE is obviously really high on him and if they give him that kind of range for feuds it could really open things up for bigger and better things.

That doesn't really make him a face, that makes him John Morrison, he thinks everyone is a loser.

That video, for one, plus his match with Shelton Benjamin earlier in the night. He was smiling and appealing to the crowd....more than usual, at least.

His match with Shelton isn't very convincing to me. It just seems like a random midcard match

But the way Jericho was working the heel side all show (that was his 4th segment on that one show, by the way), people had been waiting for him to get popped one all night.

Smackdown is amazing now though. Everyone interacts.

Huh. I totally missed that Morrison/Jericho bit. That would be another good indication.

I could deal with him being a tweener. As long as it doesn't take away from his personality.

I suppose we'll find out where they're going with him next week or so. The minute he teams with R-Truth, though, I'm going to die a little inside.

Yeah, last night's SmackDOWN! was pretty good all around. Looking forward to more, especially since I'm going to the May 19th taping. :cool:

Oh, and on a very slightly related note, wasn't that number one contender fatal four way originally billed as a six man scramble featuring Morrison and CM Punk?

Yes, indeed it was. I really wanted to see the scramble tbh but SD! was still pretty great so I'll let this one slide.

They changed it so they could substitute in CM Punk/Edge and Morrison/Shelton and get 3 matches out of the whole thing.
Makes enough sense to me.

Morrison/Shelton was cut drastically short, I feel. Plus, I still haven't seen a scramble match. I was in Baltimore for the other one.

btw, on a side note - I absolutely love that Punk just starts whistling and continues to walk past.

LOL, that's the fourth time I've seen that now, and I JUST noticed Punk. Nice.

lol @ people doubting him turning face.

He IS a face. He wrestled a heel, got a clean win and then got into a fight with one of the most over heels in the company.

It's not just him playing the character or anything really deep. He's obviously a face.

lol. How did you miss him?

#1-wwf-fan just knows it all, doesn't he?

lol. Just sayin....

When a heel is turned on by his partner, faces a heel in a match, and then gets into a physical altercation with one of the company's top heels backstage, how anyone can question him being a face is pretty dumb...

Yes, but if we have to ask whether or not he is face... was the turn very effective?

I don't really get why anyone has to ask whether or not he's a face. That's my point.

Going with a tweener. Not saying he won't be a heel at all or a face at all, I just think the concept of them turning him into a full blown face is a bit overstated at the moment. Granted that could change.

I hate tweeners. Someone is either a face or a heel. I hate the in between. That's just me though. It can work on occasion I guess but I don't see WWE actively trying to do that with anyone.

But we are asking, that's MY point.

You know, the whole "CM Punk wanders around with the MITB case looking at people" is the first thing he's ever done that I found fun to watch.

Most people in life are "tweeners". It's not often you come around people that are either a face or a heel.

No sunglasses backstage = Morrison face.

It's so simple!

Yeah, I pretty much agree: John Morrison came out smiling happy to be on SmackDown!, had JR's support without any mention of an attitude at all, won his match against a heel clean, then got into an altercation with one of the biggest heels in the company. Just because he isn't wearing a shirt that says "Cheer Me!" doesn't mean the guy isn't meant to be getting your support right now.

I'm hoping that they do keep his current character, though. That's what makes Morrison so appealing. Next week, they could have a Morrison vs. Jericho match scheduled, only for Morrison to come out and say he isn't feeling well, and that he thinks he may have swine flu or something, but he's found a replacement...Kane. Jericho then faces the man he eliminated from the Fatal 4-Way and loses after Morrison distracts him.

Theodore Long then tells Morrison that he will be facing Jericho at Judgment Day, though, to which Morrison says fine, but he also wants to face Jericho next week. Long makes the match, but the next week, Morrison again pulls out (this time due to publicity appearances), and Jericho instead faces The Great Khali, and loses in a similar fashion.

Morrison basically plays the thorn in the foot of Jericho, until they actually wrestle, and Morrison's natural talent shines through and allows him to take Jericho right to the limits.

That's why I asked if he is turning face. I didn't say he IS a face. He's well on the road to facedom, though. The only thing that really makes it foggy is that he wrestled R-Truth in his SmackDOWN! 'debut'.

John Morrison could really move some merchandise for the WWE. He's hot, so the ladies love him. He's got the legendary abs, so the ladies and the men love him. He's got the talent, so the smarks love him. He's got charisma, so the marks love him.

A feud with Chris Jericho could really make Morrison.

Khali and Morrison

dunno why I felt like correcting that since the match didn't happen

anyway Smackdown is awesome now.

kinda bummed that I'm going to Raw and not Smackdown

Yeah, SmackDown! was really good. I was a bit disappointed by the length of some of the matches, actually -- they seemed really rushed, but everything was good.

I'm glad you did, actually. I knew Morrison was supposed to be in it, but I couldn't remember the other person, so I guessed Punk. Khaki would have been a total waste in that match.

It is tough to be a full tweener. I think Morrison is being made a face just because of the whole situation with Miz and now with Jericho. We have not seen him as a face yet, so it could go over well. It is one of those wait and see kind of things