I think you're all missing the point of this, the 'PG Era' of Vince McMahon's WWE. NO ONE puts on a great in-ring performance on a nightly basis anymore, NO ONE! The days of Chris Benoit, Bret Hart, Eddie Guerrero, Shawn Michaels, guys like that, are long gone and they aren't coming back anytime soon. The aspect of being able to play your character and make the people believe THAT is far more important in today's WWE than the ability to put on a solid "wrestling match". So from that standpoint, Miz isn't doing all that horrible of a job. Who on Raw has more heat right now? Yes CM Punk joining Nexus, but that's just a few weeks in the making right now. And Sheamus? Sheamus has already had his feuds with Cena and Orton throughout the latter stages of 2009, and relatively all of 2010. So it's time for someone else. Personally they probably should have left Edge to be the top heel on Raw and had Miz cash in his MITB on Smackdown and be the top heel there, as they are in DIRE need of a top heel, but it isn't that bad the way it is playing out right now either. For the first time in a few years, I really don't know what's going to happen between now and Wrestlemania. In several past years it was pretty apparent around the time of the Royal Rumble who was going to be in the Main Events at Mania. This year....no freakin clue. Like I have ideas, but that's all they are at this point. And it's clear WWE is giving a massive push to it's "youth movement". Miz, Dolph Ziggler, John Morrison, Sheamus, Daniel Bryan(ugh), Kofi Kingston, Drew McIntrye, Cody Rhodes, Alberto del Rio...they're all being built to take over the company in the next 5 years. With the losses of HBK, and sooner rather than later Edge, Taker, Kane, and Triple H they need to build these guys now for them to be established and credible with the fans come 2013, 2014, 2015. Mysterio, Orton, Punk, and Cena can not carry it themselves once those other 4 HOF'ers are gone. And yes Kane IS a HOF'er. 2-time World Champ, multiple time tag champ, involved in probably the longest running, most well thought out storyline in WWE history with his "brother" the Undertaker. So don't even start about that.
I guess what I'm trying to say is if you want to argue that the Miz is boring in the ring....well so is Randy Orton. So is John Cena. So is just about EVERYONE! With the exception of a couple Dolph Ziggler/Daniel Bryan matches there hasn't been one....NOT ONE....great wrestling match on television or pay-per-view in several months.
