5 Ups & 7 Downs From WWE Elimination Chamber 2021

1. An Awesome Champ?

The Miz
WWE

Before The Miz cashed in his Money in the Bank briefcase and won the WWE Championship on Sunday night, he had been on quite a dry spell.

Miz’s last single win came in October – four months ago – against Otis for the MITB briefcase. Before that, it was January 2020. During these past four months, Miz has lost to Drew McIntyre, Bray Wyatt, Kofi Kingston, Damian Priest and Gran Metalik.

Miz has been booked as little more than a mid-card goof for the past several months, with the likely belief that holding the briefcase was enough to make him a threat, and that once he won the title, the championship would help elevate him. But instead, it looks more like an undeserving loser winning the most prestigious title in the company.

The only saving grace here is that Miz is likely just a short-term champ, probably losing it right back to McIntyre so he can face Bobby Lashley (or Lashley winning the title from Miz to face McIntyre). WWE isn’t foolish enough to try to go to WrestleMania again with Miz as their champion.

Are they?

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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.