Mike Mizanin has become one of the greatest wrestlers in WWE, but he wasn’t always this amazing. Starting in WWE, Miz started out as essentially a reality TV type character that was incredibly irritating. He dressed kind of like an overgrown teenager, then he moulded himself into The A-Lister and slowly but surely he became his catchphrase – Awesome.
Mike Mizanin joined WWE in 2004 in the 4th season of Tough Enough, he made it through to the final, where he fought against Daniel Puder, in a boxing fight and whilst neither man achieved knockout, Puder was declared winner due to crowd reaction. Al Snow declared Puder the winner, but due to a pique of interest Miz was offered a contract. Miz then joined Deep South Wrestling, where he entered in a tournament to determine the inaugural Deep South Heavyweight Championship, he also teamed with Matt Cappotelli in various tag matches. Miz was transferred over to Ohio Valley Wrestling, after Cappotelli passed away after fighting brain cancer. At the start of 2006, Miz made his OVW TV debut as Miz in the very first Miz Tv segment.
Miz entered the 2007 Royal Rumble where he was eliminated by The Great Khali after only 7 seconds in the match, his debut was set to be for SmackDown after videos and vignettes showed that’s where he’d be going. Miz made a failed debut in April of 2007, but was Kayfabe banned from entering and was ‘cancelled’ and escorted away by security. His actual debut was June 2nd as a SmackDown host hyping up the show, his hosting was sporadic but in July it was announced he would be hosting Diva Search with Ashley Massaro.
After Diva Search was over, Miz returned to SmackDown and settled into a heel role. Miz went on what Micheal Cole called an ‘undefeated streak’ the reality was he fought only 5 matches over the next couple of months, during this time, Miz began a feud with Diva Search winner Layla after she spurned his advances several times. Miz then teamed with Kristal to help her defeat Layla. Miz and Kristal gained interest from The Boogeyman who began to stalk them, they feuded and Boogey ended Miz’s undefeated streak.
Miz was selected for the new ECW in the brand split of 2007, the first few weeks of being on ECW, Miz was absent but had several Miz TV Crashes ECW segment, his actual ECW debut came, in a winning match against Nunzio. After this match, trio Extreme Exposé showed interest in Miz, he then became the self-proclaimed chick magnet. Extreme Exposé became Miz’s managers, and Miz feuded with Balls Mahoney after Exposé member Kelly Kelly ‘fell in love’ with him. It was then revealed that Miz owned the contracts of all Exposé members stopping Kelly Kelly from being with Mahoney.
The Miz then went back to SmackDown and teamed with John Morrison and won tag gold twice whilst tagging with him. Miz and Morrison were good tagging together, and they even had a streaming segment on the WWE website called The Dirt Sheet in which they mocked other wrestlers and parts of pop culture. Miz and Morrison even feuded with Cryme Tyme in a battle of web series, Cryme Tyme’s being called Word Up, Miz and Morrison defeated Cryme Tyme at Cyber Sunday. Miz and Morrison took on Degeneration X and constantly mocked them, they got then little known The Young Bucks in as Triple H and Shawn Micheals, The Young Bucks parodied DX hilariously and the segment ended with Miz and Morrison attacking them. The feud with the actual DX ended with Miz and Morrison losing. The team ended with Miz turning on Morrison after Morrison inadvertently interfered in Miz’s match against Kofi Kingston causing him to lose.
In 2009, The Miz was drafted to RAW and set his sights on Kofi Kingston and the United States Championship, after 3 unsuccessful attempts, he finally defeated Kingston for the Championship the night after Hell In A Cell. At Bragging Rights, Miz took on former tag Partner John Morrison of SmackDown who was Intercontinental Champion, Miz defeated Morrison and became the only RAW member to win that night. Then in 2010, Miz began a feud with MVP which was cited to be verbally brilliant, at Royal Rumble the two had an unsanctioned match for the United States Championship in hwich Miz retained. Miz during this time, began to tag with Big Show, the pair defeated DX and Straight Edge Society (CM Punk and Luke Gallows) to win the Unified Tag Team Championships. Miz held 3 Championships – United, WWE Tag Team and World Tag Team, he was the first wrestler in WWE to do so.
Miz appeared on NXT as mentor to Daniel Bryan. During his time mentoring Bryan, he attacked Bryan causing him to lose against Chris Jericho as Miz felt Bryan disrespected him, thus beginning the start of their long rivalry. At WrestleMaina ShowMiz successfully retained their Unified Tag Team Championships against John Morrison and R-Truth, however they lost the Championships to The Hart Dynasty, this caused Big Show to turn on Miz and be drafted to SmackDown. Tyson Kidd of Hart Dynasty defeated Miz in a match which any member of The Dynasty could take on Miz for the United States Championship. Miz selected to go against Bret Hart and lost, despite attempted interference from Chris Jericho, William Regal and Vladmir Kozlov. Miz went back to NXT again to mento Alex Riley, upon his return he then won the United States Championship, for a second time defeating; Zack Ryder, R-Truth and John Morrison.
At Money In The Bank, Miz was successful in grabbing the briefcase and becoming Mr Money In The Bank. Miz had many attempts at trying to cash the briefcase inon WWE Champion Sheamus, but kept being interrupted by other wrestlers before he even had a chance to do anything. Daniel Bryan returned and took Miz’s place on Team WWE at SummerSlam causing Miz to attack him, this reignited their feud, Bryan defeated Miz for the United States Championship at Night of Champions. Miz finally cashed in the Money In The Bank Briefcase on Randy Orton becoming WWE Champion.
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