Former WWE Champion Discusses Never Recapturing The Title

Former WWE Champion Discusses Never Recapturing The Title

A former WWE Champion has spoken about his career trajectory and why he has never recaptured the top title he held several years ago.

The Miz held the WWE Championship for 160 days from November 2010 to May 2011, a reign which included him retaining the title over John Cena in the main event of WrestleMania 27 thanks to The Rock.

Since then, he’s never managed to get to WWE’s top prize again, and he spoke about his career on Busted Open Radio, saying:

“I felt the momentum start going another way. When I lost the WWE Championship to John Cena, there was a kind of a role shift in the writing process, and I saw where I was going. I was going to be used to develop new talent because I was just utilized for the past, I don’t know year, to make me to get me to where I am. Now it’s time to make other people, and I didn’t have the wherewithal to make sure that I was being made as well. I didn’t have the experience, and I think it took me a little while.

“Honestly, I think I started developing and knowing my worth when I had a feud with AJ Styles, and AJ is such an amazing performer inside the WWE ring that I think he made me look so good. His first matches were against me, and they were great matches. People thought, ‘Oh, it’s The Miz,’ but honestly, I think it’s the talents of AJ Styles being able to bring talent up in the WWE ring, and then I went on to go to WrestleMania. From then on, I kind of started going up, and up, and up, and up, and up, and it just kept going.

“It’s funny, every time people get drafted, people don’t realize this, but when you get drafted, obviously, you know, you’re going to a completely different show, but it changes your career. It changes everything. I remember being on SmackDown and thinking, ‘Alright, I’m primed up and ready for the WWE Championship,’ and this is when I was doing the Intercontinental Title stuff. I felt like it was it was the title that was more talked about than any other title in WWE. I was like, ‘Oh, I’m on the wave right now to get to the WWE Championship,’ and then I got drafted to Raw.

“Once I got drafted to Raw, I felt like I went from here and I had to build myself back up, and I was able to do that. I did it once again, and once I felt like I was ready and primed up for the WWE Championship again, I got drafted again. It keeps going back and forth, and you having to build yourself up. Granted, some people don’t have to do that that build up. Some people are already there and they just are able to get it. I’m not. I have to be built up and build myself up all the way up there to do it.”

He elaborated on why he’s never really gotten back into the WWE Title scene, adding:

“If I look at myself in the mirror and I’m completely honest with myself, I look at myself and I’m like, ‘Well, you’re only 6 ft 1. You’re only 200 something pounds.’, but then you sit there and go, well, Daniel Bryan, but Daniel Bryan is known as a technical wrestler. I always drive it back to I’m known as a reality star.

“Reality stars aren’t supposed to be butt-kickers, but I think I’ve proven myself to do that. And honestly, I think it’s just bad timing sometimes. I wish there was just a clear-cut answer on why I’m not the guy. Maybe the creative thinks differently. I always have this problem. Whenever someone comes out of a meeting or something, I’m like, ‘Man I lost,’ and they’re like, ‘Yeah, but tomorrow you’ll get back on the microphone and nobody will remember that loss,’ but then I’m like, yeah, but once you start losing quite a bit in WWE, people start looking at you like a loser.

“You need to have wins under your belt, big wins. And I’ve always been a bad guy. I’m really good at being a bad guy. I’m not good at being a good guy. I know I’m not, and sometimes I think that’s the reason, because if you look at WWE, it’s a good guy business. You look at our biggest stars, they’ve always been good guys.

“I’ve always been that catalyst, that person that’s a villain, that will do whatever it takes to cheat, lie, or do whatever. Whenever I am going over the hump where people are starting to respect me and say who were cheering this guy now, I’m just so good at being bad that it just doesn’t work in my opinion. Maybe that’s it.”

Thanks to Wrestling Inc for the transcription

4 years ago by Liam Winnard

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