The Miz
 

Personally, I think he's doing a decent job, as the guy can work and he seems to get decent heel reactions when he comes out.

Now I know there's alot of X-Pac style hate for him on the boards here, but if you all try jumping off the bandwagon and just taking him for what he is, I actually think he's a fairly solid worker

Nah, sorry, I can't stand the guy. Can't stand his promos and he hasn't really had a good match yet. I have no reason to care about him, he'll be released soon enough. He's the modern day X-pac, certainly. In future people will be saying ' The Miz heat' instead of 'x-pac heat'.

He's annoying, and stupid.

I haven't seen Smackdown in a long time, so I haven't seen him wrestle yet.

He's nothing much to speak of in the ring, but he can fire up a crowd (and that is what matters second most in my book.) So I cant really speak too badly against him. He's annoying, but he tries to be. That translates to job well done. Unfortunately in this day in age being an annoying heel isn't good for business. People turn the channel. Sucks for Poochy.

I love how it's always about a bandwagon.

Sorry, I've defended Cena, and I still gloss over Miz matches. I know it's cool to be anti-bandwagon (Which is pretty much a bandwagon of its own), but if you can't respect that, fuck off.

I see, my we are in a good mood today.

I'm not trying to be anti bandwagoning here, but the guy's been wrestling on TV for a little over a month and since the whole Poochy thing got started on here, every seems to hate him because it's cool to do it.

The guys got bags of charisma, a decent look, decent mic skills, yes his mat skills ain't at the Benoit level, but I think he's got the tools to be a solid mid-carder.

Just seems like no one ever gives anyone a chance anymore which is one reason why the new talent inititive is like a revolving door right now, guys can't get themselves over because the fans attention span seems to only last about 2 minutes before they get bored of a new guy

I've seen you make several references to you taking an anti "smark" stance because you had a problem with people hating something because it's "cool." Why should I really see this example as anything different?

I'm not sure what you're talking about in terms of nobody getting a chance. Who isn't giving people a chance? The smarks who fawn over the Boogeyman, Burchill, the Highlanders and the Spirit Squad? The crowds who respond? Who?

Oh, and telling you to fuck off has nothing to do with a mood.

If you can't respect the fact that people might have given him a chance (It's not like he's even new to our TV), then fuck off. Your statement that people need to give him a chance strikes me as nothing more than proseltyzing from someone who seems to think he's the first guy to ever have this come to him.

Jump on board my bandwagon and FIGHT BANDWAGONS!

Nah, seriously though, I kinda agree that, while he is GOOD at being annoying, it's still channel-turner or a piss-breaker.

I hated The Miz long before he even appeared on WWE TV.

I'd love to see a S2H counter-culture revival..."You only hate the Worm because it's cool to do so..."

I think he's good at being annoying too. He's just so annoying I don't watch him.

My fav part about The Miz is how JBL talks about him. Hearing JBL talk about The Miz is worth seeing The Miz on tv.

everyone knows the twat won't be in WWE by this time next year.

^What he said.

The Miz is fucking annoying. I hate him, and not in a wrestling heat sort of way.

I like him

I do enjoy my Slayer

Dave, I agree with you 100%, but you're wisdom is falling on deaf ears here. I guess there must be a reason for it, but no one here wants to give a guy with decent ring skills and great heel abilities a chance.

I would willingly place a bet that this guy will be a major heel by this time next year. Not in the main event, necissarily, but a solid player in the mid-card, or in a lackey role to someone.

Most people here still think he's meant to be a face. His character is meant to be obnoxious, and before anyone says he makes people change the channel, find evidence of it. The fans are reacting perfectly to him in attendence. "Hoo-rah!" is met with "You suck!", and JBL's rants are great. Put him in a feud with Chris Benoit, or something, and people will be jizzing over the guy like they are Mr. Kennedy.

I think a lot of the hate in his direction is based more off the fact he's only really had two years to train than what people have seen in the ring from him. People were shitting all over him before he debuted (as KoOS said), and that's kind of given him the stigma of a guy who has a job because he fits in with the WWE's idea of "cool".

At first, I truely enjoyed him. I saw hm as someone who finally achieved his dream, and showed REAL passion for what he was doing. Tonight changed everything. After how he performed on Smackdown, I'd like to see Benoit "break him in" to the business.

The only reason people think The Miz is a face is because Smackdown's play-by play announcer(Michael Cole, who IS A FACE) treats him like one. :nono:

Yeah, that is kind of a weird move. I honestly think Michael Cole is sticking to logic, though. He's taking a more logical view, whereas JBL is taking the pre-disposed view. JBL started shitting on The Miz before he started to wrestle. There's no reason for him to do that, and it is illogical. That is kind of a heelish thing to do in itself. JBL was playing the no-nonsense cowboy character he's been playing for the last few decades. Of course he wouldn't like The Miz's antics. Michael Cole kind of did the natural thing, and applied logic to the situation. Cole points out he is undefeated, shows athletic ability, etc.

They did start The Miz out as a face (back when he was a "host"), and he never really changed his personality, so Michael Cole had no reason to go "anti-Miz". The WWE kind of caught itself in a trap. I liked what they did at No Mercy, because it gave Michael Cole a reason to turn against The Miz. He just needs to stop playing Devil's advocate, and just talk about how the guy disrespects Layla, and how he's so obnoxious. JBL should probably adapt to the "if you want to stop T.O. from dancing, stop him from scoring" commentary shtick he often uses, with The Miz. Just have him justify it because he's "betting on a winning horse", as The Miz just keeps on winning.

Thanks Alienoid06, you basically said waht I wanted to, but with better words and stuff

I'd like to also point out that throwing this shit around is merely guesswork, as it's as often as not wrong. It's not some insightful talent for prescience.

Same's also true of the people who tell you "just wait and see," though.

I fucking hate The Miz.

You're just too narrow minded to understand the greatness that is "as." I know it's cool to hate "as," but if you could get off the bandwagon and just give it a shot...

The Miz ended up being one of the best mid card heels down at OVW and i expect the same will happen in WWE.He can work better matches the 90% of the smackdown roster,the just havent really given him a shot yet.Only thing that really held him back in the first place was his tag team partners consistently getting released(was originaly getting called up with Chris Cage but Cage got released due to drugs).Hell i can still go into a OVW crowd and yell HOO-RAH and the whole crowd will still respond with "YOU SUCK".

Dude, you lost all credibility in The Miz arguement when you admitted to not watching SmackDown!.

http://www.obsessedwithwrestling.com...nijonah/02.jpg

The Miz has so much potential to be a pitch-perfect girlfriend-stealing, arrogant fuckhead character.

:y:

I kind of like him

Miz sucks, but he's not quite X-Pac.
X-Pac was legitimately trying to be "cool" but ended up sucking in the process.
Most people that hate Miz knows what's up with him...it's intentional.

The modern day X-Pac is Jeff Jarrett (actually, he's worse than X-Pac ever
was...)