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 time things ended in France, Hayes was looking up at the lights, his shoulders pinned the ground, and nothing had changed.
I am so sick and tired of WWE constantly putting disrespect on Hayes name. I know this is my third or fourth time taking to one of these crowdsourced pieces to express my discontent, but when Hayes himself has taken to social media to tell WWE to “pass him the ball,” I don’t think I’m alone in my dissatisfaction. It’s one thing to chain Hayes’ feet with a sinking anchor like The Miz, but it’s another thing to give 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 the most (like The Miz hasn’t been the problem in this entire tag run).
Why The Miz refused to take the pin when he is being positioned as Hayes’ anchor is beyond me. It is The Miz that keeps Hayes locked into this partnership, week in and week out. Hayes tries to break up with The Miz, Miz shuts him down. Hayes tries to go out on his own, The Miz has other plans. Logically, The Miz, in all of his stifling, selfish behavior, would be the heel going into this incoming Melo Don’t Miz implosion storyline, so why don’t they let The Miz act like the dead weight that he is? Why make Hayes take the pin, as if any of this is his fault? Why not put Hayes over, for once, even in loss?
To this day, I don’t know why WWE refuses to push Hayes. He’s a great performer with a great look and a lot of innate charisma — just look at all of the edits on TikTok, X, and Instagram. He is literally the full package, and with a few years on the main roster at this point, I don’t quite know why WWE is hesitating on pulling the trigger. It’s not like there’s too many people on the main roster — not ones that can do what he does, at the quality he does it, anyway. He has been a consistently great performer who deserves a big push. I don’t necessarily want to rush the story between The Miz and Hayes, but that’s only because I want Hayes to have a cohesive storyline in order to offset, at least a little, the damage that this partnership with The Miz has done for his career. Otherwise, Hayes needs to get out of this sinking Melo Don’t Miz ship, and fast.
Written by Angeline Phu
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