WWE News: More on Miz's Heat, Management's Current View of Him
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As noted previously, WWE star, The Miz, garnered himself a great deal of heat from management and the locker room after R-Truth hurt himself attempting a dive onto him during Raw's Six-Pack challenge this past Monday night.
The fallen R-Truth, who worryingly looked to have hit the back of his head on the mat after he crashed onto the floor, was deemed unfit to continue with the match by WWE officials and was quickly escorted to the backstage area to be evaluated by medical officials.
Thankfully, according to the company's official website, he managed to avoid serious injury and is fine after the accident, if a little banged up.
Per these reports, the feeling internally was that Miz had badly botched catching R-Truth and should have been better prepared for the move.
In this week's Wrestling Observer Newsletter, Dave Meltzer confirms the widely circulated story that an irate Triple H scolded Miz in the locker room in front of everyone after the show was over. Meltzer also gives some interesting insight into how Miz's status in the company has fallen, even prior to the accident on Raw.
HHH gave Miz a tongue lashing backstage about not catching R-Truth. Miz was a big favorite of management a year ago because his notoriety was such from "Real World" that they got so much publicity when he won the title that nobody else in the company could have gotten.
But the feeling now is that he's regressed, both in the ring and on promos. Certainly, he's booked a lot lower than a year ago but the feeling is when he was in the same position before he was hungry and forced them to make him a headliner. Now, he's mid-card and he's doing no such thing, and this mess up can't have helped him.
The state of Miz's floundering career has been commented on several times before, certainly, he has greatly struggled since the Survivor Series programme late last year, which saw him and partner R-Truth treated as little more than jobbers in their storyline and match with The Rock and John Cena.
After emerging from that debacle with his credibility in tatters, he has continued to be subjected to less than flattering booking, even losing clean to lower carder Kofi Kingston on Raw last week as part of the build up to the Elimination Chamber pay-per-view later this month.


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