Rolling Stone Magazine Names RAW Superstar The Miz WWE Wrestler Of The Year
In a somewhat surprising turn of events, Rolling Stone Magazine has named The Miz as their WWE wrestler of the year for 2017. Find out why they chose the former Intercontinental Champion after the jump...
There's no denying that The Miz has had a great year - especially when you take into account that he was struggling on the lower-mid card for most of 2016 - but was he the WWE wrestler of 2017? He was as far as Rolling Stone Magazine was concerned.
Here's an excerpt from their article:
That's right: The Miz. I don't care if he's off shooting The Marine Part XL or on the precipice of paternity leave. It doesn't matter that he's not in contention for a world title any time soon, or that he's left his poor Miztourage of Bo Dallas and Curtis Axel to fend for themselves during his absence. He is still a leader. In fact, he's been the de facto leader of Raw for most of the past several months, stepping up when others were hurt or stuck in storyline limbo, taking his licks against the biggest names in the biz and coming out scathed but frequently hoisting Intercontinental gold above his shoulders. Mike Mizanin and that prestigious belt have become synonymous over his frankly illustrious decade-plus career, itself an improbable manifestation of a publicly documented quest to flower from Midwest naïf to eponymous sports entertainer.
RS reference The Miz's scathing promo on Daniel Bryan a while ago on the now cancelled Talking Smack for lighting a fire in the former reality TV star, ad it's hard to argue with that assessment.
Miz may have lost the IC title to Roman Reigns right before heading off to shoot the new Marine movie, but he'll no doubt be back as soon as production wraps, ready to reclaim the gold.