12 WWE Superstars Who Made It Big And Then Just Disappeared
8. The Miz
Miz could almost get a ditto to everything said about R-Truth, with one big addition: Hes a former WWE Champion who main-evented WrestleMania XXVII and left with the title. Miz also is still fluttering about on WWE television, but hes nowhere near the superstar he was in 2010-11. Say what you will about his WWE Championship run, The Miz was capable of making fans hate him something fierce. In some ways, its a shame he was such an afterthought in the John Cena-The Rock feud. He just happened to be the guy holding the title at the time. Awesome Truth revitalized Mizs heel career at a time when he could have slid into obscurity after losing the title. But once Awesome Truth ended, so did Mizs run at the top of the card. He went from main event in WrestleMania XXVII to a 12-man tag match the following Mania. He has tread water in the midcard since then, picking up a couple Intercontinental Championship reigns and gaining a new finisher, a badly applied figure-four leglock. Miz is definitely still around, still gets decent mic time and is always a couple wins away from title contention, but his fall from grace in 2011-12 was a sight to behold.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
