The Miz's Face Turn

As a fan of his since his Miz/Morrison days and even more during his "Whose the Jannetty" feud and singles career departure, so far, I've been into it. Always thought after years of being a heel, he could make the switch and pull off a good face role. But Holy Crap, Punk completely annihilated him on RAW and when a clearly flustered Miz retorted back with "No, but your Mom does.... ooooooohhhhh!!!!!" I *bleep*ing cringed, I cringed really hard.

Thoughts on Miz as a face.

All I watched so far from him was his Miz TV segment with John Cena on SD!, but if he really said that.. lol.

I had high hopes for Miz as a face too, mostly since I wasn't riding his dick as much as others during his heel stint. Point blank I wasn't a fan of him then. He came across as over the top sometimes but I still respected his work ethic in making himself stand out.

I hope he finds his niche soon, because all these rising much-more-natural-at-being-heel stars are getting pretty tedious, and some of them will end up getting the short end of the stick sooner than later. You'd think a wrestler today would've taken notes from Rock or something by now.

I'm sure he can work as a face (but I will never take him seriously, whatever his disposition), but the cookie-cutter "good guy pandering to the crowd and making terrible jokes" really doesn't help his cause.

But I've never liked him and I doubt I ever will. Each to their own, though

It's piss easy to generate heat as a heel but it's very difficult to get cheers as a face based off of promos which is why he's resorting to cheap gags for cheap laughs from children as they're the easiest way to at least get some reaction from the crowd.

I'm just loving seeing him work as a face in his matches, honestly. After winning at WM27, he had pretty much gone as far as he could with his heel gimmick and it showed with him floundering for the past year and a half. Of course the face turn is going to start off slow with a lot of cheap pandering to the fans, but let him settle into it. Dude was a heel for about six years straight, once he catches his stride I'm sure things will seem more natural. Although tbh I'm such a mark he could keep sucking it up for months to care and I wouldn't care as long as he's back in the main event.

quote DjedwardSmith

It's piss easy to generate heat as a heel but it's very difficult to get cheers as a face based off of promos which is why he's resorting to cheap gags for cheap laughs from children as they're the easiest way to at least get some reaction from the crowd.

And I think that's the problem. A lot of these guys in the back end up settling. "yeah I'm gonna work my craft on being the biggest jackass the WWE has seen"

yeah well, get in line buddy. Then people wonder why WWE are doing these short-stop pushes or whatever the IWC likes to call em. People wonder why certain past World champions end up as midcarders. Here's the newsflash, that's not on the creative team.. that's not even on Vince. It's on the oversaturation of heel acts through the roster.

Management would love to capitalize on the potential of these guys, but to do it they have to set certain guys to the back of the barn for a bit.

Being a great babyface will earn you bigger points on the ranking scale because there's a smaller pool of workers to push through.

When it comes to Miz he has a lot to work with. He can cut 20-minute promos.. he can hold his own on the mic with the best of them. So this face run is where he should look into capitalizing and pushing himself through new heights. He has his own show now, he has more than the platform he needs to make it. Just pray that he does.

quote The Living Angelus

As a fan of his since his Miz/Morrison days and even more during his "Whose the Jannetty" feud and singles career departure, so far, I've been into it. Always thought after years of being a heel, he could make the switch and pull off a good face role. But Holy Crap, Punk completely annihilated him on RAW and when a clearly flustered Miz retorted back with "No, but your Mom does.... ooooooohhhhh!!!!!" I *bleep*ing cringed, I cringed really hard.

Thoughts on Miz as a face.

I say give him a chance, he may come good of it as he's not the usual mould for a face.

Truth hurtz

His inability to cut an even remotely interesting promo held Morrison back, nothing else.