10 Reasons Why The Miz Is A Future WWE Hall Of Famer

The Miz and Daniel Bryan are currently feuding over social media and on TV. The seeds for this feud were laid back on July 19th at the WWE Draft when Bryan, as Smackdown GM, said he wanted the Intercontinental Championship on the show and so was forced to draft Miz.

The animosity between the two men grew over the months and exploded on an episode of Talking Smack, the aftershow on WWE Network (which we will get to in more detail later in the article). Miz and Bryan have brilliant on-screen chemistry, and their polar opposite characters and wrestling styles make for great TV.

These recent interactions aren't the first time they've tangled in WWE, though. Miz was actually a key player in introducing Bryan to the WWE Universe in 2010. Back then, NXT was not the travelling developmental-meets-indie-wrestling-showcase brand that it is now. In it's first inception, NXT was a semi-reality show in which a group of 'rookies' were paired up with a WWE superstar as their mentor.

Daniel Bryan, the decade-plus indie wrestling darling, was labelled a rookie and paired up with The Miz, a man who hadn't been wrestling for anywhere near as long. Miz represented everything corporate and big-time about WWE; he had a brash personality and expensive clothes, and had already wrestled on much larger stages than Bryan, who was a much better wrestler but nowhere near as charismatic.

This dynamic was aces, and the two men had some blistering interactions on the microphone and some excellent matches when Bryan debuted on the main roster. Miz, in essence, was instrumental in helping one of WWE's most popular superstars of the modern era gain solid footing in the company.