Consider this, my official part two to this old article – http://wrestlingrambles.com/2011/05/25/why-the-wwe-really-doesnt-have-faith-in-the-miz/
Miz in the dog house?
Around a year ago I wrote an article on how WWE really doesn’t have faith in the Miz… so in light of recent events, I am forced to ask, who the fuck is shocked? I went into detail last year on how his “push” was a joke, stating that he needed the help of an outside source to defeat any opponent he had, giving up almost instantly in his ‘I Quit’ match with John Cena, tapping out to an aging Bret Hart, being brutally beaten down by Alex Riley (which reminds me, hasn’t been noticed since then). In that same article I also go on to show how accident prone the Miz is, at back to back pay per views, he suffered concussions. I also explain how as title holder, his feet was never held to the fire. Last year at the elimination chamber, he was in his own match, while this year, Punk and Danielson must defend their titles against 5 other opponents each in the elimination chamber. I also did multiple recaps, one example being that R-Truth VS Cena at capital punishment had a higher sell rate than Cena VS Miz at Over the Limit.
Basically what I am saying is this… why all the talk now. What changed… from what I have seen, nothing really. He is still a terrible wrestler, a terrible mic worker, and right now, in the same booking he was a year ago. Ladies and Gentlemen, despite what dirt sheets and rumors say now, I was here, around one year ago, when I said, that the WWE didn’t have faith in Miz in the first place. I gave the examples, I showed the facts, and I presented an article, that I was told by many ‘Miz-takes’ that I was wrong. Miz hasn’t been in the title picture since his lost to Cena, and no, I am not counting TLC, I am willing to say that Ricardo the announcer did more work than the Miz at that event then the Miz did.
But to get a better understanding, let us look at post Wrestlemania… He loses the title at Extreme Rules, in a cage match with John Morrison and John Cena. During this match he gets double suplex by Morrison and Cena and gets a concussion, Someone with the agility and ability of Morrison and years of experience of Cena, gets injured… He is so far 0-1 for the ‘season’
(Before we continue, WWE tries to put into peoples head that WRESTLEMANIA is the Superbowl of wrestling, I mean sports entertainment… which means the season doesn’t start until after mania, and to keep things simple and sweet, we will be looking at PPV, win to lose ratio)
Move on to over the Limit, where in a match he and Alex dominate, an ‘I QUIT’ match, Cena grabs him for 4 seconds, and instantly, INSTANTLY, yells I quit. The next night, he gets his ass handed to him by Alex Riley, and gets into a feud with him. Miz is so far 0-2 for the season.
Capital Punishment roles around, and he loses to Alex Riley… putting the Miz 0-3 for the season. We are already three pay per views into the set, and Miz has not one a single one.
Money in the bank, The Miz returns to see if he can become the second person to win the money in the bank case twice, during the match, he lands badly and is taken to the back. While later in the match he hops his way to the ring and tries to win, he ends up losing the match. Now you could say this was a way to make Miz look strong, coming back, fighting injury to return, however he wasn’t the only one to take a fall, he was on the ladder with Evan Bourne, and Bourne stayed in the match. So either way, fake or real, this just made the Miz look weak since he didn’t win. 0-4
Summerslam. I Forgot why this match took place, but it is Kofi Kingston, Rey Mysterio, and Morrison, VS Truth, Miz, and Alberto Del Rio. Needless to say, that the result will be… Team heel losing, Miz is 0-5 for the year.
Night of Champions, AIR BOOM, VS THE AWESOME TRUTH… both dumb names, but only one can win, with the abilities of Truth VS Kofi, you would think that twatface Miz could get one match in right, just one… what is this, Awesome Truth was disqualified… While it does make the champs hold on to their belts (Air Boom were the tag champs at the time) it also does one more thing, it adds another lose to the Miz’s record. 0-6
12 ppv not including Wrestlemania, and The Miz has already lost half of them. At this point the Miami Dolphins would have a better record than the Miz. With that in mind, Miz was not in any official match at Hell in a Cell, so we will just call this a “bye week”.. all the NFL teams get one week off, so why not wrestlers getting a ppv off?
Well it took almost… 8 pay per views later, but twatface has finally got a win, and I will ignore the fact that it was in a tag match, I will ignore the fact that it took Nash to take out Triple H to do it, a win is a win in this case, this would be twatface’s first ppv win since Wrestlemania (in which he also had help from the outside). 1-6
Survivor series, Miz and Truth vs Cena and the Rock…. 1-7. Don’t need to explain this one do I?
Tables Ladders and Chairs, a triple threat for the WWE championship, with CM Punk and Alberto Del Rio. This would be Miz’s first chance at the title since Over the Limit, (some main event star) and with that, he loses badly. CM Punk wins the title and putting Miz at 1-8 for the season.
Since he wasn’t in any singles match or traditional match, I won’t count his run with the royal rumble as a lose. The Royal Rumble is like the all stars game, the ‘best’ show up for a chance for home field advantage, (in this metaphor, WWE=Major League Baseball) and if they win, they don’t get a ‘W’, or if they lose they don’t get a ‘L’. another break for twatface.
And with that, The Miz has only been in ONE, pay per view win. Just one. WWE didn’t suddenly change their mind and thought the Miz was terrible, no, They knew, and they knew for a long time, they knew for a long time he was accident prone, that he wasn’t that good, and that he is terrible on the mic and in the ring. These are the PPV outcomes, no ‘Main Eventer’ has a 1 and 8 session. No main eventer only wins one ppv a season. Elimination Chamber is around the corner, and of course he has a chance to win, and win big, by being 2-8 and being the WWE champ in the same night, but lets face the facts, last Monday, he botched the R-Truth catch, was blamed for poor ppv sales, and hasn’t won a ppv on his own in what felt like ages. The WWE has never given him the spotlight, and to be honest, he never deserves it.
Now with all of this out of the way… No, as much as it pains me to say this, the Miz isn’t on the future endeavored list. He should be, all things considering, but he is still with the WWE, when he knows he shouldn’t be. Maybe he will follow suit with his bitch Maryse, another over rated talentless superstar who is famous not for wrestling but for wanting to be one, and leave on his own. In the end, as said earlier, despite what the dirt sheets are printing now, about Triple H, yelling at the Miz for his fuck up, and how he was being de-pushed since Survior Series, I can safely say, and honestly go on saying, that the de-pushing of Miz never happened at all. With a PPV track record of 1-8, I ask again, what de push is everyone talking about? With a failed sloppy put together team of R-Truth just to have Cena and Rock team up, I ask you, what de-push. I ask you, after watching Over the Limit 2011, what De-push, he tapped INSTANTLY to Cena, He tapped to Bret Hart, he hasn’t defended a title without outside help for years, he has always been always has been carried in every match, so I ask you, what De-push. He is in the same spot he was last year…
…A joke of a wrestler, a weakling, a terrible mic worker, and one of the worst things to happen to WWE in ages. He isn’t being de-pushed, if he was, he would be fired.
@Tim5000
I’m the Miz, and I…just dropped you!
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Jolly good. Dropped like his career.
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It’d be funny if this was a work.
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That would be terrible. It would be a good way to get the IWC marks to shut the fuck up, but any ‘work’ with miz will be lazy, drawn out, and boring.
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I wouldn’t be opposed to Miz reexamining his life and this being a launching pad for a turn. That’s what I was trying to say.
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Since WordPress won’t let me reply to all your comments, I will just leave one here. The 6Million Dollar Miz is still not worth 6 million Dollars.
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Well, with how weak the dollar is, you’d probably be right. lol
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also going with how weak the miz is.
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He needs a face turn. Something to change his character. The BoogeyMiz?
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Fired would be a good turn for the miz.
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He’d be a good announcer.
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For the Deaf
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What?
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The Miz has become a classic case of WWE pushing a guy with the title too soon, and then changing to another guy. They need to learn how to get behind a few stars, and really push them.
But as for that drop, I can’t defend him on that one; just horrible.
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To be fair, the more that I think about it, The Miz was there at the right time, and the right place, just to get the title and hold it until post mania to be the huge asterisk on the John Cena VS Rock Feud. Never felt he was ever being pushed properly, and never think he will. and Thank god he isn’t that good anyways.
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The shock cash-in way of winning the title doesn’t help. All he did was beat Orton’s scraps. The fans knew it and couldn’t buy him as champion.
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You watch your goddamn mouth, The Miz is a wrestling God. Ok, maybe not.
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The word is Defiantly, not maybe.
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I can’t disagree with you on any areas. You covered and backed all your points well. He could of seriously injured R-Truth, Truth is a big reason why I watch RAW every week. So Miz just made me hate him again. I was easing off on him a bit before his careless botch.
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Well accidents happen, Owen Hart injured Stone Cold. That is what the business has. However watch the drop again. It looks like there was no effort on Miz’s part to even try to protect Truth. Won’t fault him for one accident, but The miz is known for this kinda shit. He has had multiple concussions, and terrible spills over the past year.
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I think Cena and Miz both got concussions during their WM match last year and that it changed the way the match was supposed to go.
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Botches do happen though. I have made mistakes in my job. And I wouldn’t expect my boss’, daughter’s fella to rip me a new arsehole because I did.
I like the Miz and i was happy to mark for him retaining the belt at last years mania. Even if the double DQ, Rock interference after the restart finish pissed me off as it was MANIA.
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I gotta go with J on this one, I don’t like The Miz, but the way the WWE treated him after Survivor Series was a joke, they want to pin the bad numbers on him, but if the PPV would have drawn a whole lot more buyrates it would be because of The Rock. Don’t blame Miz for the bad numbers when you would have praised Rock if they were good, that’s hypocritical. I think The Miz realizes now that no matter what he does now, he’s never going to get back into that spotlight and he just stopped giving 100%
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Hold up, did you even read the article. He wasn’t being treated any differently after survivor series. He was loosing to the mid card since Capital punishment. He hasn’t won a ppv except for one since Mania. He really isn’t being booked differently. You are just thinking that since the “reports” are coming in.
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You could easily make the same case for CM Punk prior to Money In The Bank, when everyone began to think he didn;t ‘care’ anymore, and was leaving….yet, now he stands as your WWE Champion, the best in the world. I honestly think the media is once again just making you all believe inaccurate information about The Miz, it’s their job to over-hype shit to create traffic on their beloved websites.
Now as far as The Miz goes, yeah, he has been on a down side as of late and I’ll admit that, but this has nothing to do with him, it’s WWE Creative once again dropping the ball on this guy like they’ve done with others….Swagger, Barrett last year, Sheamus last year, etc. I’m happy The Miz is a mid-carder again but not for the reason of because he sucks, it’s because he will able to re-invent himself to get back into the main event, and start over freshly. If he still stood as main eventer, no one would take him seriously with how much shit WWE Creative has given him, so he’s going back to the mid card, only to get better.
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http://wrestlingrambles.com/2011/05/25/why-the-wwe-really-doesnt-have-faith-in-the-miz/ This was around 9 months ago, sometime after The Miz lost the WWE Title. This was months before the dirtsheet rumors and media made the front page about this. I have never taken or believed that the miz was any good, and never thought he was going anywhere after his push.
As for CM Punk, I don’t have another year old article to present to you, but I can say I was a CM Punk fan way before the first WWE title run. Loved his work on smackdown, with SES, his matches with Jeff Hardy, and when he was on Team DX, with a than GOOD hardy bros, CM Punk got the loudest chants. I don’t have massive proof that I was a punk fan then, but I can at least say I was.
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For me The Miz was always pushed due to the connections he has outside the WWE. Clearly as time moves on, whoever is going to be able to hold their own on a mainstream platform will be pushed at some point within the WWE.
I was a fan of both the Miz and Morrison when they were Tag Champs and they had the funny cocky gimmicks but after they broke up they both eventually became irrelevant. I am bored of the Miz’s slow promo’s and I have never been high on his in ring ability, nor does he have the look in my opinion to go to the next level like someone like Cena.
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Agreed. Not a fan of the little twerp when he was with Morrison though. He just doesn’t have what it takes.
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I do think this could be used as a way to rebuild him. The 6 Million Dollar Miz?
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The Miz needs to get back his fire. In 2009, he was like Zack Ryder…he was doing whatever it took to get noticed and to get pushed. Now, he doesn’t do that anymore. He’s still more impressive than the guy I saw in ECW but he’s not the same guy whose will to succeed got him the U.S. Championship, WWE Championship, and Tag Team Championship. The WWE needs to make R-Truth the U.S. Championship so Miz can have a championship feud with R-Truth. It’s not a WWE Championship feud but Miz needs to start competing for titles again. The Miz can get better. He did it once…he can do it again. He just needs to get more hungry.
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Let him starve! If he is never in the main event again, It would be the best choice WWE has ever made. He was never a believable champion on any level. Tag Champion – With partners like Morrison and Bigshow to do 90% of the work, all he needs to do is just in the corner grinning like an idiot. As US champion he didn’t even defend the title as often, the time he did, he lost…. TO BRET HART. Yes you could argue it was not a normal US title match, (it was either hardcore or tag match I forget) but still the fact remains that he lost to an aged bret hart. As WWE champion, he had 0 title defense that involve him having help from someone else. To top it off, his rematch with Cena to get the belt, he gave up instantly.
Shit Ring Skills,
Shit Mic Skills,
“He needs to get hungry”
I say let him starve and be a jobber on superstars.
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I was mad when he lost to Bret Hart but then he regain the title like 29 days later and later won the WWE Championship so I just pretend that never happened just like Batista’s title reign after Extreme Rules 2009.
I liked The Miz and he was one of the few post-WWF stars I really liked. I hope he can get better.
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Well we are on opposite worlds there. I don’t like, never will like, never had like the twerp. I think his promos are lack luster at best. His ring work is nonexistent, and doesn’t deserve another push. But the least I can say, Thanks for reading and not being like the Miz-takes of the past and just having random insults that have no value.
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The Mizasaurus?
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I think The Miz is capable of proving you wrong.
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He’s lost 10 straight weeks on TV in a row.
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Just wait…Miz is rise again.
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again, My good sir, he needs to rise first. Please read my first article about how his title run last year was a joke. How he hasn’t proven anything holding any of the titles.
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Miz losing a match is like finding a penny on the ground, big fucking deal, it happens more often than you think.
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