Now, I say this in full truth, Kennedy sucks. Kennedy happened to have a look that Mr. McMahon liked, and got pushed to the moon. People have been rambling on about his great matches, well yeah, you're right. But anyone feuding and having matches with the likes of Undertaker and Michaels better damn well have good matches in their initial debut. Who in the hell gets the benefit of getting to feud with the likes of Benoit when they're a rookie in the WWE?
How he got them is irrelevant, the point is is that he had main event matches, and has competed for and won singles' titles and the Miz hasn't. Kennedy may not have done anything with those matches, but he was seen as a legitimate threat to tope performers, and has beaten The Undertaker and Bobby Lashley, amongst others. The Miz hasn't really beaten anyone one on one, apart from jobbers and Matt Hardy. Once. Three years ago.
As much as I like Kennedy, I've got to go with The Miz here, and I have absolutely no problem with saying that as I enjoy the Miz's work and I think he's got Kennedy beat in all realms basically.
Miz started at the bottom of the barrel and worked his way up. Much harder to do than to start at the top of the barrel and continue falling like Kennedy has.
In his prime, Miz is where he is now somewhere in the middle of the barrel, as is Kennedy. But in Kennedy's prime he was much nearer the top of the barrel, meaning that he would beat Miz. It's hard because looking at them now, Miz might realistically win, but The Miz now against Kennedy two years ago has no chance.
Kennedy runs into an issue with his suspensions and his injuries, so would he even be cleared to wrestle for this match?
If Kennedy gets to the latter stages, his injury proneness matters, but right now it doesn't.
The Miz doesn't need to be edited on TV. Kennedy does, apparently.
This might be true, but they didn't edit in the outomes of the matches. Kennedy might be sloppy, but he still wins more singles matches than Miz.
There was a time period where Kennedy was incredibly over and we had the crowd chanting his name when he wasn't even involved in a match. Now, he can come out and cut a promo and its dead out in the audience. The Miz is still able to get the crowd to boo him.
The reaction Kennedy got when he came out to confront Regal the first time was huge. The reaction he got when he got Regal fired was huge, he got injured immediately after that. Even so, in his prime, he was drawing more heat than The Miz does now.
So who is more reliable and worth more to the company? The Miz.
This is true now, but two years ago, when they were both new the opposite is true.
Now, in the ring, The Miz is faster. Kennedy has the edge with the finisher, as Miz just uses a normal neckbreaker, but is the Mic Check really that much better than the Reality Check anyway? Battle of the checks, Mic is a little better, but we're not comparing Sweet Chin Music to a roll-up. They're almost equal.
No, but Kennedy has versatility in how he can end a match, with three different finishers, The Miz has nothing but the Reality Check.
The fact that this is in WCW is an equal playing field. Both fit better in the WWE.
So really, if Miz has the edge in youth, reliability, improvement, and in the ring, there shouldn't be any real reason to vote for Kennedy over him.
Now, I'd be inclined to agree, but if they fought when they were both at their peak, the title challenging, MITB winning, US Champion beats the number two guy in the best tag team.
He shouldn't though.
Kennedy can't get out of his own way. He's a heel with babyface mic skills and little else. And that's fine, he's charismatic, but his character has an identity crisis.
So what? It doesn't stop him winning matches. Look at the contradictions in Triple H's character: when he's a heel he's cool, and when he's a face he's a bad ass, doesn't stop him winning matches.
Miz, on the other hand, can't seem to stop getting better. When he came from MTV to Tough Enough and now to the main roster, everyone (myself excluded) railed against him, shouting from the mountain tops that he was a reality TV reject and had no business in a pro wrestling ring.
Since then, he's been a student of the business, he's earned respect backstage (unlike his partner Mr. Morrison), his in-ring product has been ultra strong, and even led to a clean singles victory over CM Punk, after Punk had won Money in the Bank.
But Kennedy has actually won the money in the bank match. If that is a mark of quality your pinning on Punk, put it onKennedy too. The difference is Kennedy was supposed to get it, and wan't Jeff Hardy's substitute. So Punk was HArdy's replacement, and guess who's beaten Jeff Hardy? Mr. Kennedy!
Furthermore, fans voted for The Miz to face CM Punk at Cyber Sunday for the ECW Championship, OVER Big Daddy V and John Morrison! The match ended up being excellent overall.
Given the choice of three heels to go against a face, the fans will pick the one with the least chance of winning.
Want more? Miz is not only a two-time tag team champion, but last year was one of only two men who won two Slammy Awards - best tag team and exclusive of the year. That may not seem like much, but think about it - Kennedy is known for his mic skills, yet Miz is one half of the most watched WWE.com display of mic skills there is. So the one thing Kennedy does really well, Miz does as well or better.
Want more? Mr. Kennedy has not only actually won a singles title, beating flavour of the month Bobby Lashley, but was the first person to win a match that Edge was a part of at Wrestlemania to win the Money in the Bank briefcase. Slammy awards mean absolutely fuck all, especially ones where your main opponents are Cryme Tyme doing a shit send up of Urbandictionary.com. The Rock has never won a Slammy for best WWE.com show, so I assume The Miz has better mic skills than him too?
Wrestling Observer also named Miz "Most Improved of 2008." That's a nice title to have. What did Kennedy do in 2008?
Fight in the Royal Rumble, last longer than The Miz and get eliminated by someone that wasn't Hornswoggle. He then went on to fight Ric Flair at No Way Out, a PPV The Miz didn't get on, he then fought at Money in the Bank at WrestleMania, another show that The Miz failed to get on the card for. Then he made a movie, turned face, got the heel GM fired, got drafted, then got injured.
He failed to get out of his own way.
No, he did what I just said.
Seriously this argument is just sad, I mean yeah CS voteing as always been considered legit, not to mention the fact that the other otions were Big Daddy V, which is a joke, no one wants to see that fat ass in the ring ever (except maybe you, but then you always seem to get hard when a fat piece of crap gets near a wrestling ring), and Morrison which up to that point had been done to fucking death
Kennedy bashing, really?, Kennedy has not had as many injuries as people want to think he has, he had one fucking injury that has rehabbed improperly, and as a result has been reoccurring as a result, that issues has been resolved now, and this goes for everyone, using injuries as an argument is just weak, that would be like me saying Owen Hart would lose because he would prolly die on his way the ring