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John Morrison and R-Truth were a professional wrestling tag team in WWE. The two, originally successful singles wrestlers, competed on the SmackDown brand and were quickly placed together in pursuit of the WWE Tag Team Championships. After the two were drafted to the Raw brand in result of the 2010 WWE draft and continued to team, Truth turned on Morrison and began a prolonged feud.

Background
Prior to teaming together, Morrison and Truth had successful wrestling backgrounds. Morrison debuted on the main roster in 2004 as "Johnny Nitro" and was a former ECW World Champion, Intercontinental Champion, and held both the World and WWE Tag Team Championships. Truth, originally named "K-Kwik", debuted on the main roster in 2000 (WWE was then known as World Wrestling Federation) and was a two-time Hardcore Champion. He was released from the company in 2002, but returned in 2008 under the name "R-Truth" and began pursuit of the United States Championship.

Formation and Tag Team Championship pursuits (2009–2010)
Morrison began an alliance with Truth on December 25, 2009 when they teamed alongside Matt Hardy and Finlay to defeat The Straight Edge Society (CM Punk and Luke Gallows), Drew McIntyre and Dolph Ziggler due to Morrison and Truth's separate rivalries with McIntyre and The Straight Edge Society. The two continued to tag together in each others' singles feuds. On the January 22 episode of SmackDown, Truth teamed with Morrison in his feud against Drew McIntyre with the two defeating McIntyre and Chris Jericho. On the February 19 episode of SmackDown, Morrison fought alongside Truth in his feud against CM Punk, but were defeated by Punk and Luke Gallows.

On the March 5 episode of SmackDown, Morrison and Truth defeated The Hart Dynasty (Tyson Kidd and David Hart Smith) and Cryme Tyme (JTG and Shad Gaspard) in a triple threat tag team match to become the number one contenders for the Unified WWE Tag Team Championship. The week after on Raw, Morrison and Truth fought in a non-title match against the reigning champions ShoMiz (Big Show and The Miz), but the match ended in a no contest after both teams continued to brawl outside the ring with Morrison and Truth laying out ShoMiz as a result. At WrestleMania XXVI, Morrison and Truth were unsuccessful in defeating ShoMiz for the titles. Morrison and Truth faced ShoMiz once again at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view as part of a tag team gauntlet match, but were eliminated via disqualification after Morrison applied a triangle choke on Big Show and held it over the referee's five-count while Show holding onto the ropes.

The day after the event, Morrison and Truth were both drafted to the Raw brand as a result of the 2010 WWE draft. After the draft, despite never falling out between each other, the two continued their paths as singles competitors in pursuit of the United States Championship. On the May 24 episode of Raw, Truth won his first championship since returning to WWE by defeating The Miz to win the vacant United States Championship. However, on June 14, Truth lost the United States Championship to The Miz in a fatal four-way match, also involving Morrison and Zack Ryder. After Morrison was attacked by The Nexus, Truth reunited with Morrison as part of "Team WWE", a group assembled by John Cena, to fight The Nexus at SummerSlam. At the event, Team WWE (Morrison, Truth, Cena, Chris Jericho, Edge, Daniel Bryan and Bret Hart) defeated The Nexus. In the following weeks, Morrison and Truth continued to compete as a tag team against The Nexus' David Otunga and Skip Sheffield, as well against the team of Cody Rhodes and Drew McIntyre. Morrison and Truth qualified for the 14-man elimination tag team match at Bragging Rights as members of Team Raw, but were defeated at the event.

Dissolution and feud (2010–2011)
On April 11, Truth became the number one contender for the WWE Championship alongside John Cena after their match ended double disqualification after The Miz and Alex Riley attacked both of them. The week after on Raw, Morrison confronted Truth and jokingly questioned his capability on being WWE Champion before challenging him in a match for his number one contendership. Morrison then defeated Truth, thus becoming the new number one contender for the world title and replacing him at the Extreme Rules pay-per-view event. After the match, Truth turned heel when he viscously attacked Morrison out of frustration, ending their partnership.

At Extreme Rules, Truth prevented Morrison from winning by attacking him before he could exit the steel cage. Over the next few months, Morrison and Truth traded numerous wins and losses, with Truth allying with Morrison's rival and former tag team partner The Miz. Morrison teamed with Rey Mysterio and Kofi Kingston to defeat Truth, Miz and Alberto Del Rio at the SummerSlam pay-per-view. After Morrison defeated Truth multiple times, their feud ended in November 2011 after The Miz betrayed Truth by executing his Skull-Crushing Finale finisher on him at the top of the stage. The week after, Miz attacked Morrison and executed the same manuever at the top of the stage in similar fashion to his attack on Truth.

In wrestling

 * Morrison's finishing moves
 * C-4 (Standing moonsault side slam)
 * Starship Pain (Split-legged corkscrew moonsault)


 * R-Truth's finishing moves
 * Corkscrew scissors kick
 * Lie Detector (Corkscrew flying forearm smash)


 * Entrance themes
 * "Ain't No Make Believe" by Stonefree Experience and Jim Johnston – John Morrison
 * "What's Up?" performed by Ron Killings and remixed by Jim Johnston – R-Truth

Championships and accomplishments

 * Pro Wrestling Illustrated
 * PWI ranked Morrison No. 27 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 in 2010 and 2011
 * PWI ranked Truth No. 51 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the year in the PWI 500 in 2011


 * WWE
 * WWE United States Championship (1 time) – R-Truth