now that the Universal belt is gone with Lesnar , it's the perfect time for Miz to steal the spotlight with a great reign with the IC title again , hell they should consider having Miz in the main event with the IC title , it will be treated like a world title , and it would be even more credible than the WWE title , because let's face it if Jinder Mahal is challenging for a title , and Miz , Ambrose , Rollins and Joe are challenging for another it's obvious who's got more credibility .
I'm 50/50 on it. On the one hand being IC Champ is probably the best Miz can hope for, for the rest of his career. And with Brock never around he will be the top Champion on Raw most of the time. And being IC Champ is better than just randomly floating around the midcard jobbing to the Shield, Balor, Joe and whoever else HHH is pushing, he'd probably have to job to Alexa at some point as well. So there is a definite upside to Miz being IC Champ, and on top of that the IC Title just really suits him. Miz + Maryse + IC Title just works so well. And of course he made the IC Title important again, he made it prestigious, Ambrose has undone that hard work immediately as its just become a useless prop again, but Miz can make it important again.
The flip side to all this though is that after everything. After making the IC Title important again. After a string of amazing promos and matches. After winning the Smarks over, who had previously despised the fact he was even allowed to be a wrestler. After losing the IC Title and flirting with the WWE Title picture. After all of that he's just right back where he was a year ago. It feels like he's hit that ceiling WWE only open up for Vince and HHH's boys and now he's dropped back down to his allocated spot in the midcard.
I will be happy though if Miz wins the IC Title back, its his best option, his best hope.
Eva Maryse is correct. Sure, Miz would be a better option than Ambrose, who isn't doing shit with it, but it's always the same cycle. Miz holds it for 2-3 months, makes people care about his feud, then transfers the belt to *insert random mid carder here* who invalidates all of his hard work with a mediocre reign, thus making us care less about whatever Miz does next because we know how the story ends. It's Bray Wyattesque. The difference is The Miz is a way better promo than Bray and not a repetitive, inconsequential fuck, so his segments do a much better job of capturing your attention.
The Miz deserves MORE than the IC title, but since the Universal title is held up for the next 12 months, I would be happy to see him keep the IC title and make it relevant.
The Miz deserves MORE than the IC title, but since the Universal title is held up for the next 12 months, I would be happy to see him keep the IC title and make it relevant.
Yes, he should and hold it for a long time. I'd rather have him hold the Intercontinental Championship than the Universal honestly.
I don't see why everyone is pissed about this. He was brought on RAW for a reason. RAW is the flagship. He is going to be a major part of the show forever. Even if he loses, it doesn't matter because they give him the mic the next week and everybody forgets. He is only 36. A.J. Styles is 39. Christian won one at 37. Mark Henry won one at like 40. He is fine. He is going to be a focal point of the show for the duration of his career. His mic work will make RAW more entertaining. He is going to be a world champion champion again at some point in the next few years, if anything as a service to him. He has a job with them for life. Not everybody has to be the guy all the time. He doesn't have to main event to be entertaining. Just enjoy the show and enjoy his work. When he does win it will be that much sweeter as a fan of him.
This is the most obvious option to do. He needs to win it to start raising its credibility and then have a bunch of various faces chase it to give them credibility too. He repaired Ziggler a bit with that and I think he could do wonders having Ambrose, Balor and others chasing it.
No. His job should just be putting over the better talent. You Miz marks can still go nuts during his Miz tv garbage, but he should just be putting guys over at this point.
I'm cool with it. If he could heat up the belt that would be great. It's dead weight at the moment so anything that makes it feel important and worthwhile again is fine by me.
Yep because Dean is one of the worst and laziest IC champions in recent history. Since Miz has no chance getting near the Roman Universal Title then I'll settle for him winning the IC title back.
Miz should have a lengthy title reign with the IC title, it makes sense. It's not the universal title, so they don't have to worry about him being more important than their chosen guys. And Ambrose and Reigns both are terrible at holding midcard titles, they make it seem like an after thought. Miz on the other hand always makes the title seem important and whoever feuds with him for it is elevated like Ziggler.
He's gonna lose to Ambrose again likely at the ppv. Competition is too tough on Raw for Miz to hold a title for too long. Because he won't win enough matches vs guys like Ambrose, Rollins or Reigns to hold the title. There's no Ziggler or Zayn type on Raw for Miz to get wins over. Especially with Cesaro in tag team with Sheamus. While Crews/Kalisto are too down for IC title feud at this point. So if Miz does win it at Payback. I would just to make him credible for a feud with Rollins. But just will have it as a placeholder then he will drop it to Rollins or something. I still think Ambrose beats Miz and drops IC title to Samoa Joe at Extreme Rules or Bad Blood.
I wish that The Miz had stayed on Smackdown. He'd have been an ideal opponent for Randy Orton at Backlash. Not to disrespect the effort that Jinder's put in recently, but The Miz has been bringing his A-Game for months and months, and it would awesome to see him get a championship run.
If the Miz wins he'll be a 7 time champion, 2 away from Jericho's record 9.
They need to give him a long run with it again, as his last run made it mean more than it has in years since Cody Rhodes held it. I think a massive part of it was how the both of them put over the title incessantly in all of their promos. The Miz especially always talked about how prestigious it was and mentioned it's history constantly in his promos, and rubbing in how he's held it for ____ long added more heat to him. That and the fact they are consistently entertaining. He should break the Honky Tonk Man's record, like he should have last time before they gave it to Ziggler and then Ambrose who both did nothing with it (not trashing them, I like both).
Kevin Owens was Universal Champion from like September until March and The New Day are the longest reigning tag champs ever so I don't see why The Miz can't/wouldn't get a long reign with the Intercontinental Championship (if he wins it).
If Miz was still on SmackDown then he would have won the 6-pack challenge and would be facing Orton at Backlash like he deserved. As much as I like Jinder's opportunity, it really should be Miz getting the shot.
I am all for a lengthy Miz IC title reign, but they can never have faith in him long enough to do so, if I could be happy with anyone beating Honky Tonk Mans IC title reign it would be Miz.
Let Miz win it. Or anyone for that matter. Let them carry around a worthless piece of trash, as opposed to someone like Ambrose, who should be far above it.
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