From Taking Out The Trash To WWE Title Shot

Not happy with how the WWE has chosen to run with Miz. No, not because my prediction about him continuing his storyline of trying to take out those who held him back was wrong. I'll get to the reason. In any case, Miz won a spot to compete against CM Punk at TLC for the WWE title by defeating Randy Orton on Raw this week.

He took out R-Truth and John Morrison in two consecutive weeks, they treat it as an actual storyline, and they fail to really follow through on the third week. I heard them talking about it on Raw, but that is not the same thing. If anything, that makes it kind of worse. You talk about Miz taking out those he feels held him back, but you have him setting his eyes on the WWE title right away? CM Punk was never aligned with Miz. Alberto Del Rio and Miz were never friends. Even Randy Orton, the guy Miz got the win over to get into the title match, was never really a partner with Miz. That brings me to that pic I put up there. How hard would it have been by switching some of the booking around? Have the first match be Randy Orton vs. Alberto Del Rio. Del Rio could win the same way Miz ended up winning, through Barrett. That would leave Miz to take on Daniel Bryan. Those two actually do have a history together, even though it was a forced pairing. Back on NXT, Miz was Bryan's pro. Miz can then beat another guy he was associated with. Whether Miz cuts a promo on that or not, it would be something for the commentators to get into and it would keep the storyline going, or at least ease it to the wasteland a little smoother.

I don't even think Miz needed to be in this match. John Cena, Alberto Del Rio, Miz, and Dolph Ziggler are not the only guys on the Raw roster to have held a World title in the WWE. I'm not talking about Kevin Nash or Triple H. What about Jack Swagger? He held the World's Heavyweight Championship longer than Dolph Ziggler did. Why not have Swagger go out there with Vickie and Ziggler for that segment that started the show? They are already teasing tension in the heel duo Vickie manages, so why not push it up a notch to get Swagger into a main event? Considering Miz would be left with an interesting storyline in the midcard, I do not think it would hurt him. Just have Jack Swagger be the one going over either Randy Orton or Daniel Bryan instead of Miz. Jack Swagger would not fit a TLC match? Swagger won Money in the Bank. That was a ladder match. Miz could have still gotten a match to qualify for the TLC match, but just have the guy lose. CM Punk vs. Alberto Del Rio vs. Jack Swagger would have been fine, in my opinion.

What really bothers me, once again, is the lack of continuity and passing up a good chance of having an interesting angle in the midcard. It really is not even about making better use of Jack Swagger, rather running with Miz's angle. One of the last really good midcard storylines was Sin Cara vs. Sin Cara. It was a feud with a real storyline. They could have had something like that with Miz. Looking at Raw this week, the whole structure of the show reminded me of that night they tried to crown a new WWE Champion after CM Punk left. Almost every segment was devoted to that on that Raw. This week's Raw, almost every segment revolved around the main event. Even Kevin Nash's segments have to do with Triple H. That being said, there's main-event potential there too. Triple H could pop up and enter a feud with JTG, and it would still have a shot at being in the main event of at least Raw. In fact, the only match I recall on Raw that did not involve at least one former World Champion was the diva match. Where's your midcard picture? Dolph Ziggler vs. Zack Ryder? John Cena was sticking his nose in there a lot this week. The midcard was full of things that had major focus on title matters. Where are the interesting storylines? They could have had one with Miz. No title needed.