[Bramer]

Are we just going to accept that AJ Styles made SmackDown interesting?

His run:
-Cena and Ambrose feuds
-That really bad ELLSWORTH angle

and that's pretty much it.

His promos with Cena and Ambrose were great, but he was basically rehashing promos of other guys in the past vs Cena and Ambrose. The guy was never too good in the mic and his promos were extremely redundant. House that AJ Styles built, Face that runs the place, etc. His matches with Cena were great, but how many GREAT matches did he have besides Cena during his run?

THE MIZ should be given more credit. The guy exploded with his Talking Smack promo and cut TRUE heel promos week in and out. He made SmackDown interesting and he made it the land of opportunity.

Miz's run:
FACE of SMACKDOWN LIVE
Best heel in the company
Focal point of BEST SD PPV NO MERCY
Main instigator of SMACKDOWN LIVE'S PEAK

Sorry, but for 2016, MIZ>STYLES when it comes to making SmackDown interesting.

 

[Kink_Brawn]

Disagree.

AJ Styles was the only reason I, and several other people I know watched Smackdown live for the past year.

Miz sucks. He gave one good shoot promo where he almost started crying last year and everyone jumped on his tit.

 

[BigDaveBatista]

cheesy line imo
they should not be arsed in the slightest about the rest of the show. only themselves

 

[Jam]

lol to quote Miz, really???

Honestly stop overrating Miz now guys, he had some great Talking Smack moments & the Ziggler feud but almost everything else has been vastly overrated

AJ was the MVP & Ambrose was the underrated workhorse of it (despite the lazy talk & mostly looking like he was phoning it in at points), the whole "bla bla built" is very lame though

 

[THE MAN.THE MYTH.THE SHIV.THE END.]

No one built it. It was already there.

 

[Sweggeh]

AJ Styles carried the title for the most time during Smackdown Live establishing itself.

He main evented (and still continues to main event) the majority of house shows since the split happened.

He was involved in the majority of the biggest feuds on the show throughout its history.

The Miz definitely contributed a lot, but he didn't really come close to having the same impact on establishing the show as AJ did.

 

[Ace]

Just me, but I only gave it a chance because of AJ, Cena and Orton.

Those three and the WWE title gave it legitimacy, The Miz as good as he was never was positioned to be anything more than mid to uppercard on SD. He had a chance of breaking through to main event level but was traded to Raw before he could do that.

Don't get me wrong, Miz was great no doubt, but he was never truly the main event or involved in the main program for the show i.e. the part that should draw the most.

 

[BehindYou]

Smack Talk is the house that Miz built.

It's ridiculous they didn't keep Miz on SD and the belt on AJ, could of been a fantastic feud for Summerslam.

 

[SmackdownvsRAW2005]

Who built Smackdown Live?

This guy :vince3

 

[Laughable Chimp]

Are we just going to accept that AJ Styles made SmackDown interesting?

His run:
Cena and Ambrose feuds
That really bad ELLSWORTH angle

and that's pretty much it.

His promos with Cena and Ambrose were great, but he was basically rehashing promos of other guys in the past vs Cena and Ambrose. The guy was never too good in the mic and his promos were extremely redundant. House that AJ Styles built, Face that runs the place, etc. His matches with Cena were great, but how many GREAT matches did he have besides Cena during his run?

THE MIZ should be given more credit. The guy exploded with his Talking Smack promo and cut TRUE heel promos week in and out. He made SmackDown interesting and he made it the land of opportunity.

Sorry, but for 2016, MIZ>STYLES when it comes to making SmackDown interesting.

A bit of revisionist history here mate. Actually a lot. Just the Dean Ambrose and John Cena feud. Yeah mean, just. Its not like those feuds in total extended for like 7 months and something. And its not like the Ellsworth fiasco was anything that bad. It was just bad because most people thought it would damage Styles' credibility. As a piece of TV, it was somewhat entertaining and not really bad segments. And it lasted for no more than a month and Styles got his win back in domination fashion.

Miz really did explode once he did that Talking Smack promo, but people forget prior to that he had heatless PPV matches with Darren Young and Apollo Crews. And post that he had an amazing 2 month long feud with Ziggler but that was it really. The man has always been consistently somewhat entertaining even without a feud, but he just didn't do much on smakdown more than Styles. I mean after the Ziggler feud he had a short feud with Ambrose which he lost, then went into an EC match where he lasted for one minute and then got into an entertaining feud with Cena that ended on a damp note for him. You could argue that Miz's booking hurt him, but in the end that doesn't really matter because the bottom line is Styles did more for the recognition of Smackdown over Miz. Miz held down the midcard, but it was just that the midcard while Styles was in the main event and was in consistently entertaining feuds with Ambrose, Cena and admitttedly Shane.

 

[ReekOfAwesomenesss]

lol to quote Miz, really???

Honestly stop overrating Miz now guys, he had some great Talking Smack moments & the Ziggler feud but almost everything else has been vastly overrated

Well tbh, The Miz & Maryse carried the RTWM for Smackdown. Their Total Bellas skits was the only thing that was consistently entertaining for the show.

I think AJ and The Miz were the main stars. Cena was not there all the time, Dean fizzled out after he lost the title, Orton and Wyatt never got on a real roll.

 

[Ace]

No one built it. It was already there.

This.

The show isn't anything great anyhow :lol

It's just an old TNA line they ran with (AJ use to say TNA was the house he built).

 

[3ku1]

:rock1.

SD was named after The Rocks catchphrase. Ppl seem to forget. No one currently on the show had anything to do with building it.

 

[Chris JeriG.O.A.T]

I agree with OP but then again, I'm not a big fan of any of tthe other faces of SDL so he made that show not just watchable, but must watch. I think people forget that Miz would have multiple segments every show, he made the IC prestigious again, revived Ziggler's career, Miz tv facilitated feuds he wasn't even in and he put Talking Smack on the map; all Styles did was put on good matches and keep an already prestigious title at the same level and Cena was barely ever there.

 

[Ace]

I agree with OP but then again, I'm not a big fan of any of tthe other faces of SDL so he made that show not just watchable, but must watch. I think people forget that Miz would have multiple segments every show, he made the IC prestigious again, revived Ziggler's career, Miz tv facilitated feuds he wasn't even in and he put Talking Smack on the map; all Styles did was put on good matches and keep an already prestigious title at the same level and Cena was barely ever there.

SD Live is still more or less on the same level with Miz gone, take AJ out and it's a different story. He's the top dog, the face of the show and the man who was a big reason behind their highest rated shows.

Miz is pretty much doing the same stuff on Raw and feels like just another guy. He was great in the lead up to WM but then put on a dud at WM (no fault of his own). Breezango have taken his spot on SD and are also killing it, is SD now the house Breezango built?

There's a lot of revisionist history going here and lack of understanding on a how a wrestling show works. It's the main event that sells shows, not the undercard. Miz helped to hold the midcard down, but he never got to the top to truly make the show his.

 

[TD Stinger]

I hate to give the boring, cliche answer but it was a joint effort.

AJ fit in perfectly as the face of the brand with Cena away delivering great match after great match. Miz reinvented himself as the top heel and had several great promos and matches with Ziggler. Ambrose, besides one bad match at Summerslam upped his game in the ring against AJ and the Miz and on the mic. Cena did his thing while he was there. Ziggler for a short run was great. Bray and Orton, when they were together, were great.

Again, it was a joint effort.

 

[Bramer]

SD Live is still more or less on the same level with Miz gone, take AJ out and it's a different story. He's the top dog, the face of the show and the man who was a big reason behind their highest rated shows.

Miz is pretty much doing the same stuff on Raw and feels like just another guy. He was great in the lead up to WM but then put on a dud at WM (no fault of his own). Breezango have taken his spot on SD and are also killing it, is SD now the house Breezango built?

There's a lot of revisionist history going here and lack of understanding on a how a wrestling show works. It's the main event that sells shows, not the undercard.

List down the revisionist history here, genius.

 

[JC00]

Only thing that made SD interesting for me was, Styles/Ambrose and Alexa/Becky, My interest started to fade during RTWM. With Styles/Shane being built and them going away from what seemed like it was gonna be Alexa/Becky/Mickie at WM to hot-shot the title to Naomi and then make an open-ended clusterfuck match because they didn't know if she would be back for WM.

 

[Ace]

List down the revisionist history here, genius.

Miz's importance to the brand is being grossly overstated here.

He main evented one PPV in his time on SD and that was an EC match where he didn't last long.

Every show is built on the main program and Miz was rarely involved in that part of the show.

How the fuck does someone in the midcard build a show, it just doesn't happen unless you're SCSA or The Rock levels of good that you kill it every night and overshadow everyone else. Miz didn't do that, he wasn't the most over and his stuff wasn't the most anticipated stuff on the show either.

 

[Jam]

Well tbh, The Miz & Maryse carried the ROTW for Smackdown. Their Total Bellas skits was the only thing that was consistently entertaining for the show.

I think AJ and The Miz were the main stars. Cena was not there all the time, Dean fizzled out after he lost the title, Orton and Wyatt never got on a real roll.

The total Bellas skits were shit imo, & they were just set up for Cena to retort & destroy them at every turn following that, Maryse didn't even get a single move in at Mania

Dean following the rumble was shit but was everpresent & a strong backbone throughout, Corbin played an underrated role, Orton played a good role until that shit burning down of whatever it was, Wyatt was pants as always