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Rollins could end up like the Miz

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#1 · (Edited)
Let's face it. Rollins isn't even close to what Edge, Orton, Punk, Jericho were as heels and he got this big WM moment those guys never had. Fact is he was lucky thanks to a failed attempt to create a top face with Reigns.

Look at past heels and most of them fail to become top stars if they don't become popular enough to become top faces.

HBK, Austin, Rock, Bryan, HHH to name a few... those guys were awesome heels and became top faces thanks to their amazing charisma. A charisma that I don't see in Rollins. Not even close. I see Rollins more in the category of Miz. A top heel who had a big WM moment, but not charismatic enough to be truly loved by the fans.

You can say he could be the 100% TOP heel, but being honest that place belongs to HHH. There's no way he will surpass HHH as a top heel. At the moment he is just HHH's puppet just like Orton was a year ago.

If Reigns wasn't ready, Rollins wasn't either at all. I really hope to see him succeed and become a tops star, but honestly I don't think he's got it. I hope I'm wrong, but I won't be surprised if he ends up in a similar status like the Miz.

All the pressure is on Rollins. Time will tell if he really deserved this immense push.
 
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#12 ·
Honestly he isn't charismatic enough to be a top face. He is talented in the ring... No doubt, and he plays the coward heel in an acceptable way. but he is too far from having the qualities of being a top face. By top face I talk about guys who have won a WM main event. Hogan, Macho Man, Bret Hart, HBK, Austin, Rock, Bryan... He isn't even close to Jericho or Edge.
 
#63 ·
Rollins and Miz have backgrounds that could not be more diametrically opposed. Miz as a reality star and Rollins as an Indy star that made good on his potential. Fans will be far more loyal to Rollins. Not to mention he's more talented in every way.
Except for when it comes to mic skills, playing a gimmick, being a heel, basically everything except for the ring work where Miz is no slouch himself despite the fact he never wrestled in high school gyms.
 
#15 ·
Enough with this "didn't earn it". Nobody over the past year has earned it more than Rollins.


And I hope he'll defend it against actual wrestlers on PPVs. Remember the Miz only defended it against Jerry Lawler before facing Cena at Mania, and the match being all about setting up Cena vs Rock for the next 2 years. That wasn't Miz's fault but you can see how little WWE cared about him.
 
#16 · (Edited)
That's exactly my point. WM32 is coming at the AT&T Stadium. Is Rollins good enought to make it to the main event? In fact is he good enough to make it to the top three matches?

What will happen next? Is he going to start getting loved and become a draw like Austin or Rock?

By having him win the main event of WM the message is clear. He is already better than Edge, Jericho and Orton. And in the same league as Austin, Cena, Rock, HBK, Taker etc... Ok let's wait and see if this is true.
 
#6 ·
I've always held the belief Rollins = Orton, Reigns = Batista and Ambrose = Cena among the Shield trio. Rollins is just like Orton, boring on his own and need to rely on some authority figure to draw heat. His push is just like Orton's in Evolution, except Orton won his first heavyweight title as a babyface.

Miz can draw heat entirely on his own as a heel much better than Rollins, but the Miz's place is in the mid card and not as a main event heel.
 
#8 ·
Rollins would've made it as champion and to the top, regardless of what happened with Reigns. I wish people would stop acting as though Rollins needs to be thanking his lucky stars that Reigns hasn't been accepted as the emerging face of the company.

I see Rollins and Reigns battling it for the belt at Summerslam. Neither, especially not Rollins, is going down the rabbit hole that easily. Rollins has all that it takes and then some.
 
#51 ·
Rollins is the best performer in the entire company, he'll be a fine champion as long as WWE books the guy right.
 
#17 ·
I don't see him holding on to the title until Mania 32, Brock or Reigns is winning the title before then.

As for top 3 matches? That's kinda uncertain too, since it's in the 100,000 seater stadium and they'll undoubtedly have a truckload of part timers. He'll be in a prominent match for sure but the top 3 will likely be Taker/Sting, Rock/Brock or Rock & Ronda vs HHH & Steph and Reigns vs Cena or Reigns vs Brock 2 maybe.

In another 10 years or so, I don't see any reason why he can't be mentioned in the same breath as Edge, Jericho, Orton etc. He's just getting started.
 
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I don't see him holding on to the title until Mania 32, Brock or Reigns is winning the title before then.

As for top 3 matches? That's kinda uncertain too, since it's in the 100,000 seater stadium and they'll undoubtedly have a truckload of part timers. He'll be in a prominent match for sure but the top 3 will likely be Taker/Sting, Rock/Brock or Rock & Ronda vs HHH & Steph and Reigns vs Cena or Reigns vs Brock 2 maybe.

In another 10 years or so, I don't see any reason why he can't be mentioned in the same breath as Edge, Jericho, Orton etc. He's just getting started.
In another 10 years? The guy already achieved the biggest thing a wrestler can do and he still needs 10 years more to actually be considered in Edge, Orton and Jericho's league when those guys never won the main event of WM.

That's where the mistake is. Rollins wasn't ready for that moment. He may be more talented than Reigns, but he wasn't ready either. He won a WM main event that he didn't even helped to draw.
 
#42 ·
I think you maybe right OP, WWE always treats there chickenshit Heels badly and I don't see Rollins as the exception. Like Miz, Rollins was way over as a Heel but because of Miz's shitty booking he'll end up an afterthought like the Miz was :(
 
#47 ·
Rollins like the Miz?! BAHAHAHAHA is this a troll? Anyone who has to tell you that they are awesome is guess what?! Not awesome! Rollins has the talent to be awesome. He can fly around the ring better than anyone! The athletic ability that Rollins has is amazing. The future is bright for him. Even more once he goes face. He move set as a face gets the crowd hype.
 
#66 · (Edited)
The Edge comparisons still bother me. Really people? Between that and calling 31 a great Wrestlemania and praising Reigns I've just about had it.

He's a poor man's Jericho at best.

As for the Miz comparisons, I think he's got more on his side than the Miz. Clearly he's a far inferior speaker, but he's got a better look, he's a vastly better wrestler, he's got a bigger gimmick on his side...
 
#73 ·
Rollins is in a great spot, but so was Miz. Miz isn't the wrestler Rollins is, but Rollins isn't the mic worker Miz is. Miz can't perform at a top level match like Rollins can, and I very much doubt Rollins could perform at a top level in terms of building feuds through promos, facials, etc, like Miz is.

Not that Rollins can't cut a great promo or doesn't display some solid character work, but Miz is just flat out better in those regards. The good thing with Rollins right now is he has The Authority to play off of and back him up on certain things, where with Miz you don't really get that luxury wrestling in the main event as a singles star.

That is what I think is the difference maker between the two. Rollins eventually will have to be on his own to carry his own promos, his own parts of the feud/build up to the match, but for now he's safe. Miz didn't have that outside of the worker on the other side of the ring, and Riley who can only be used so much in a 20 minute match. He was going to be exposed during his title run no matter what, where Rollins doesn't have to be. That's the issue with being a great mic worker but only an an average or below average in ring worker.

Eventually though, Rollins will be split from The Authority and we'll see at that point just how well Rollins can stand on his own two feet. Obviously we know his matches will be great, but will he be rounded enough so that that's not the only great thing about him? I'd like to believe so, especially since Rollins seems to be the one good guy who WWE is giving a chance right now. At the end of the day though, 3-4 years down the line he could very well be in a similar spot to where Miz is now. I hope not, but this is WWE so don't put it past them. They'll hold down any and everyone to put over the guys they ultimately want to. If it can happen to Bryan, a guy who's an even better in ring and mic worker than Rollins and who is the most over guy in the last decade, it can no doubt happen to Rollins. Not that Bryan is down at Miz's level, but he's in the mid-card and I'd be surprised if he's ever consistently in the main event again.
 
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#76 ·
the most well explained post in this thread .
 
#81 ·
So far, Rollins has proved time and time again that he's ready. And even if he's not 100% ready, he's taking advantage of all the chances being given to him and not wasting one bit of it.

Sorry to you Reigns fans that can't accept your boy isn't even 5% ready to be on top. :jordan
 
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