Why LOSING MITB would benefit for Miz

[The Pagan]

What if Miz were to hold on to his MitB for a while....and then end up winning the Royal Rumble? If they really want to make him a main eventer this would be a truely AWESOME way to unify the titles.

 

[MizterMITB]

Why can't anyone juss accept the Miz as the future I mean come on he must be doing something great if he is having such a wonderful year and Management must know what dere doing if all of us are stil watching. Miz haves alot of people talking about him more than ever now since he won mitb and I'm proud of da fact dat people hate because dats wen you kno he made it so juss live with it!!.

 

[LigerBomb]

Different is good. It stands out. If it were to, say set up a full program, I can see the logic behind a loss. First, as has already been said, Miz is a heel and should be getting heat. However he does get cheered as well and that's a bit of a no-no.

Beating someone like Sheamus, especially in a surprise (but not really)cash-in, while he was down and out wouldn't get Miz any heat at all. People almost always pop for title changes and don't especially like Sheamus (which they shouldn't), making The Miz technically the "face" between the two.

Now examine if you will the opposite side of the heat/over coin. Besides getting yourself heat as a heel your job is to get the face over. In that way losing in an unsuspected fashion could be a great way of accomplishing it.

Say for example Randy Orton, who appears to be on fire these days, wins the belt and after his match is challenged on the spot by Miz. The crowd assuming it'll go down as it always has is pretty certain Miz is about to walk out the champ. But if he loses, it prevents Miz from getting cheered (either from the faux-surprised audience at large, or from the smarky rebels who like to cheer heels), and makes Orton look like even more of a beast. Thus it keeps everyone in their prescribed roles and could be the the foundation for a long term feud between the two.

Now, before someone complains: that'll "bury" The Miz. Let me say it won't simply becuase it's chapter 1 of the story rather than the ending of it. Miz can still be built up over the course of the feud. In fact the lose can act as sort of motivator now that he has to "prove himself" all over again and he'd be made to look legitimate—perhaps even more than he did during the first encounter—by the time the rematch roles around.

Is this the best way to do it? I'm not sure. Maybe not. But, it is at least one way to do it which actually has The Miz losing his cash-in attempt, preserving his heat, and really making the face in a big time way.

 

[Ferbian]

It really depends how WWE plans on handling him afterwards. If he is booked as dominant or something like that, angry and enough to get over in one way or another then it would definitely work. Especially if he's actually booked to feud with the very champion, for the championship or something.

There's a lot of different ways I guess, with a little bit of right booking, that WWE could make Miz benefit from loosing the briefcase.

Of course, we have to think about the fact that it could crash and burn pretty hard for both The Miz, as well as the WWE. If The Miz crashes and doesn't manage to cash it in, it could kill everything for The Miz, is not handled properly afterwards. While I know it might be pushing it drastically, there's a definite chance that it could be fucked up pretty god damn badly.

Either way, I'm not sure where to put myself on Miz loosing, or winning through the briefcase. But I will definitely like either things, if it's handled right.