WWE Star Confesses The Major Flaw In Their Character

This WWE star feels his character doesn’t work as a babyface

The Miz has been one of the most consistently present names in WWE in the past two decades. Miz is known for playing the cocky, arrogant, overconfident heel, who can go toe-to-toe with everyone from developmental upstarts to main-event stars.

His character is full of himself and tells everyone how he’s better than them and what he deserves as compared to what he gets. This makes for entertaining television, and The Miz has had an ironclad grasp on the style, slowly perfecting it over the years.

However, this also means that he gets constantly put down by babyfaces in the roster, or whoever his opponent is, more often than not making Miz the butt of the joke. This leads him to lose many of his matches. His partnership with R-Truth in 2024, labelled Awesome Truth, was one of the few times that Miz was a babyface and managed to pick up some victories.

The last time he won a singles bout in WWE was on February 5th, 2024, where he defeated JD McDonagh.

WWE Star The Miz Opens Up About A Flaw In His Character

In the past few weeks on WWE programming, The Miz has had several losses and taken several beatings. He was seen getting roasted by and losing to Joe Hendry on the WWE SmackDown Christmas special episode. Last week, he came out to confront Randy Orton only to get RKO’ed by the Viper twice.

Despite these beatings, he has come back week after week and even earned himself a spot in qualifying for the WWE Undisputed Championship, for which he will first face Randy Orton next week on SmackDown. If he were to win, he would put himself into a fatal four-way match at Saturday Night’s Main Event with six other wrestlers also attempting to qualify for the same next week.

Speaking to Chris Van Vliet on his Insight podcast, The Miz opened up about how being a babyface doesn’t work as well for him as being a heel because losing as a babyface is not the same as losing as a heel. He explains how he makes everyone forget his losses as a heel by cutting a great promo afterwards. But as a babyface, those losses have consequences.

My character doesn’t really work as a babyface, if I’m being honest. It’s a person that can lose, and then the next day, you’ll forget about that loss, because I’ll just cut a promo and just make you believe.

But with the babyface, babyfaces can’t really lose a lot. If a babyface loses too much, you lose [appeal].

Everyone always says winning doesn’t matter, winning doesn’t matter. It matters. It really does matter. Especially if you’re a babyface, because in my opinion, if you’re a babyface and I’m a kid out there, my kids always ask me, ‘Did you win? Did you win? Did you win?’ I always have to go, ‘Ah, daddy didn’t win this week. But you know, I’ll get him next week.’ You can only say that so many times to a kid where they’re just like, I want a winner. I want a winner. I want to cheer a winner.

People like winners, people like first place, they don’t like second place, they don’t like third place. They want the guy, their guy, and they want their guy to win, so if he doesn’t win… So that’s why I feel like my character, I’m so good at losing and then making you forget about that loss, and then making you believe the next day that I can beat the biggest superstar in the world.

I could lose to whoever. Guy comes up from NXT, Je’Von Evans, and beats me. The next day, I can be in the main event. I can go up against John Cena, not anymore, but I go up against your biggest superstar, and I can make you believe I can beat that person, and you will believe that I will beat that person.

But as a babyface, it’s a little tougher. It’s been weird these past couple of years, though. I would say this past year has been weird.

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