10 Unlikeliest WWE WrestleMania Main-Eventers

At this point, The Miz is a WWE institution. One of the more active mainstream ambassadors for the company, Mike Mizanin has earned his spot as one of the more respected veterans on the roster, as well as a pretty sweet gig as the perennial star of the Marine franchise (although, spoiler alert: in Marine 6, Miz's Jake Carter character is killed by Becky Lynch, so that run has come to an end). Given how he started, however, you'd think he wouldn't have lasted a year in the company, let alone headline their biggest show.

The Miz's rise to the top is basically WWE lore nowadays. Emerging on a season of The Real World in 2001, Miz made it known that he had aspirations of becoming a professional wrestler. He used this exposure to get on WWE's Tough Enough series, where he earned a developmental contract. For years afterwards, Miz had to endure disrespect from the fans and the locker room for his reality TV roots, despite being a lifelong fan of the business. Even by the time he won the WWE Championship in 2010, it was seen as a joke by most watching.

Although Miz's true creative renaissance didn't come until after his lone WrestleMania main event against John Cena, the fact that it happened so relatively early in his career shows what he was capable of when given the opportunity.