6 Ups & 5 Downs From WWE Raw (22 August - Results & Review)

5. How Miz Should Be Used

Akira Tozawa
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If WWE is going to stick Miz on television every week and let him read off his Wikipedia page, then at least let things go down like they did Monday night.

Miz came out, insulted the host city, insulted LA Knight, and called out his “suitable competition,” Akira Tozawa. He then proceeded to lose his cool during an exchange with Tozawa, got rattled by Knight’s arrival, and ultimately lost the match to Akira.

And then he got laid out by LA with a BFT. Miz was a human punching bag, a comedy act foiled by Knight and losing at every turn. Unfortunately, this was more tit-for-tat from SmackDown last week, where Miz cost Knight a match for a United States Championship title bout.

However, if WWE would recognize that they’ve got someone who should be a comedy jobber like this every week rather than an actual threat, maybe Miz would be less groan-inducing.

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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.