The Miz Is Capable of Being a Main Event Star in WWE

The Miz was once the WWE champion, but he’s been going through a very difficult stretch for the better part of a year now.

It’s hard to pinpoint exactly where it all went wrong for The Miz. He seemed to start losing a ton of momentum shortly after losing the WWE title in 2011, but it wasn’t until 2012 that he really started falling off the map. 

He was off TV for a while in 2012, returned to some fanfare later that year, won the WWE Intercontinental Championship and then eventually turned babyface in December. It was that babyface turn that doomed him, though. 

The Miz has struggled mightily since then, and it’s been quite a while since he’s done anything all that memorable. Now, there seems to be little hope that he’ll ever get out of this rut he’s been in.

But despite everything that The Miz has been through over the last two years or so, he is still capable of being a main event star in the WWE. 

Why? Because he’s been one in the past. 

From late 2010 to mid-2011, The Miz was firmly entrenched as a main event Superstar. After he cashed in his Money in the Bank contract to become the WWE Champion in November 2010, he solidified himself as one of the WWE’s top heels.

He was hated—truly hated. He aggravated the hell out of the younger fans with his obnoxious and arrogant antics, and he angered the older fans by becoming the WWE champion despite coming from a reality TV background and not really fitting the prototypical look of a wrestling world champion.

Regardless of why he was hated, though, The Miz was, in fact, hated. He proved to be more than capable of holding his own as a main event star and did so by feuding with the WWE’s two biggest babyfaces at the time in John Cena and Randy Orton. 

And how was The Miz able to reach that level in the first place? Through nothing but hard work.

You can certainly say some negative things about The Miz. But you absolutely cannot say he isn’t a hard worker. 

In fact, The Miz might be one of the hardest working men in professional wrestling. He proved that when he overcame the odds to become the WWE Champion and wrestle Cena in the main event of WrestleMania 27. 

When The Miz first made it to the WWE, no one—except The Miz himself—ever expected him to amount to much of anything in pro wrestling. He was a laughingstock and a locker room outcast, thanks in large part to his reality TV background.

But The Miz didn’t give up. He persevered and went on to win the Money in the Bank match and every active title in the WWE (with 10 total reigns) except the World Heavyweight Championship. 

If The Miz can accomplish all of that, there’s no real reason to think he can’t get back to the main event spot he worked in from late 2010 to mid-2011.

After all, The Miz has another major thing going for him: He’s the WWE’s go-to media guy.

Other than perhaps Cena, there is no WWE Superstar upon whom the WWE relies more for media appearances than The Miz. Quite simply, The Miz knows how to talk up the company and promote its PG image, and it’s resulted in him becoming one of the most recognizable faces in the industry.

The Miz is a guy who’s known all around the world, who appears on TV and radio shows on a consistent basis and who can be a better advocate for the company than virtually anyone else on the roster. 

That’s got to work in his favor eventually, right?

When you consider The Miz’s previous main event experience, his work ethic and his status as one of the WWE’s go-to media guys, there are plenty of reasons to be excited about the guy’s future. 

The Miz has a lot of things going for him, and if they keep going this well, his next stop might very well be the main event picture. 

Drake Oz is a WWE Featured Columnist for Bleacher Report. Follow him on Twitter!