That's nothing against Miz, and it has more to do with the lackluster booking of Hayes from the beginning on the main roster. Sure, Miz is a WWE mainstay, but I just don't feel like this feud is going to elevate Hayes any higher. A match against Miz isn't going to headline any episode of "SmackDown," and it's certainly not going to fit onto a five-match premium live event card. The in-ring action is likely going to be very good, but it's not going to be memorable in the grand scheme of things, especially with everything else WWE has going on at one time. There is always going to be something more exciting and bigger than this feud, and it's going to get lost in the shuffle. While, yes, of course, WWE needs its mid-card and mid-card feuds to supplement all its other big angles, it just sucks for Hayes.

That being said, when it gets lost in everything, where is that going to leave Hayes? Maybe I'm more tuned out when it comes to the IWC these days, but the #WeWantMelo trend has seemed awfully quiet. Sure, he's on our TV screens more than he was before, but after that hashtag trended, what did WWE do? They brought him back alongside Miz, to a collective groan from the Twitter/X-verse, rather than as a singles star. That would have been the cleanest break possible, just bringing back Hayes and forgetting about Miz, since they hadn't been on TV together in so long, but WWE fumbled that and had to reunite them. Fans should get another hashtag trending to get the eye of the chronically online Triple H, maybe a #MeloDeservesBetter or something.

Written by Daisy Ruth