It annoyed me too, but I wondered if it was , in a sense, somewhat of a bit of a push for Truth. Although, WWE always tries to make a number of superstars look strong going into the Rumble every year to add to the Rumble match itself. This could be one of those situations. He really dominated the first half of the match and had a good showing. It wasn't until Del Rio focused his full attacks on the shoulder did he gain the upper hand. It was one of Del Rio's closer singles matches which I thought was interesting. They may be just trying to "weaken" the move a bit so that when he becomes a solid main event player the move can be locked in to add suspense to a match but also as a legitamite finisher. Until Truth last night, everyone had tapped out to it so quickly that you wondered if there was ever going to be a way to crawl to the ropes.
However, if it indeed was just Truth trying to get more air time or give himself some credibility, then I wish Del Rio would have really put the pressure on and see how fast Truth would have tapped.
