Miz didnt earn anything. Just because u work hard or just because u love the industry doesnt make u "earn" anything. How much work he puts on isnt important, whats important is that how much impact he has in the end.
Yes it does. If you're in a job, and one worker earns more money for the company than the other worker, and helps advertise the company - and has the skills to work in a higher position, who do you promote?
The ones that like talentless superstars like Miz and Del Rio obv has no idea what WWE is.
Miz - In everyone's list for top 5 mic workers. Is also the best at media in WWE, including Cena & Rock. Is decent in the ring, not too bad not too good.
ADR is in the top 5 most talented technical wrestlers in WWE at the moment. Calling them talentless is hilarious.
The so called "talent era", the only 2 talents that have impressed me so far are Dolph Ziggler and Cody Rhodes, and i still dont see either of them being the next rock or hogan or stone cold or goldberg or tripple h or shawn. Thats exactly how much WWE has downgraded.
We already have the new Hogan/Rock in John Cena, he made a $101 million dollars for WWE last year. CM Punk can easily be the new Stone Cold, just have his original swing to it. You need to realize, the AE is completely different now. Say the AE never happened, and we had The Rock and Stone Cold in this modern era, you wouldn't see 15.0 ratings at all. Stop comparing them, it's redundant.
WWE as a company hasn't downgraded at all. Last year was there most profitable year to date.