Last week, the Miz fired Damien Mizdow as his stunt double, only to rehire him as his personal assistant. The shift in the duos relationship was likely because the stunt double gimmick has reached the end of its shelf life, and this could not only stretch out the angle, it could advance it in a huge way. It looks like that is exactly what is happening. During Mizdows match against Sin Cara, Miz took up a seat (in a directors chair, no less) and barked advice, criticisms and orders to Damien over the microphone. He ordered him to open a bottle of water for him, chastised Mizdow for using the figure-four leglock and shot back at the Ohio State University crowd which noted that Miz was from Cleveland, Ohio Better than Columbus! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5DwqvwM0bg Miz as a smug heel is highly entertaining, especially with him playing off of Mizdow, who has the fans firmly being him. You can feel the tension rising as the crowd is just begging for Damien to haul off and deck Miz, which is exactly what you hope for in this situation. WWE has a great turn coming, but then again, they did with a Miz apprentice once before. Lets hope things go better for Sandow than they did for Alex Riley.
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.
