10 WWE Employees Triple H Should Be Pissed At Right Now

7. The Miz

This has absolutely nothing to do with The Miz's current run with Damien Sandow, and everything to do with The Miz as WWE World Heavyweight Champion in 2010. There's a good reason why The Miz is the only competitor in the history of Tough Enough to be the World Champion. As well, that reason has everything to do with the fact that The Miz is the only member of the cast of MTV's The Real World to be champion, too. At some point at the height of the Attitude era, it's relatively obvious in retrospect that World Wrestling Entertainment's front office became obsessed with the idea of celebrity and having the company associated with a higher level of mainstream respectability than ever before. When The Rock and Steve Austin crossed over though, WWE had their first wrestler since Hulk Hogan to hit the mainstream (and it's easy to argue that they crossed over bigger than Hogan did). When "the guy who used toact like he was a wrestler on The Real World" became WWE champion, it was a story that spread instantaneously. Here's where things get intriguing, though. The Miz is not the in-ring professional that Austin, Rock or Hogan were, and he's not a big enough mainstream star to really push the company ahead. He's really good at both though (which makes him valuable) but not the WWE Champion. If Triple H ever wants to irrationally assign blame to someone, he can easily punch Mike Mizanin in the face. In WWE mis-judging his level of both talent and appeal, it ultimately turned into a failure that has plagued the company for years to come.