Everything about Mike Mizanin totally explained
Michael "Mike" Mizanin
Biography
Mizanin, a native of
Parma, Ohio, graduated from
Normandy High School and attended
Miami University, where he was a member of the
Theta Chi Fraternity, and studied business at the
Richard T. Farmer School of Business.
Mizanin later relocated to southern California in order to attend acting classes. He also visited high schools and colleges, delivering
motivational speeches. He went on to appear in multiple
spin-offs, including seasons 5, 7, 8, 9, and 10 of The
Real World/Road Rules Challenge with contestants from MTV's
Road Rules. He appeared on the Challenge seasons,,,, and . He was known for doing well on the challenges and made it to the end of them all except for
Battle of the Sexes 2, winning
Battle of the Seasons and
The Inferno 2.
It was during an episode of
The Real World that Mizanin first displayed an alter ego known as "The Miz". In contrast to Mizanin's usually placid demeanor, The Miz was angry, confrontational and headstrong. Mizanin later realized that "The Miz" would make an excellent
professional wrestling gimmick. where his team finished second. Mizanin was also a contestant in the Reality Stars episode of
Fear Factor.
Despite losing the
Tough Enough contest, Mizanin had piqued the interest of WWE, and he was eventually offered a developmental contract.
He continued to tag with Matt Cappotelli throughout the second half of 2005 in WWE dark matches and house shows until Cappotelli, nominally of
Ohio Valley Wrestling, was diagnosed with a brain tumor after an injury at a taping in December 2005.
Ohio Valley Wrestling
On
January 3,
2006, it was reported that Mizanin was transferred to
Ohio Valley Wrestling. On the
January 18,
2006, OVW TV show, Mizanin made his debut as "The Miz", with a "Miz TV" segment, where he was shown talking backstage. In what was deemed a "disciplinary move," WWE released Chris Cage over the weekend of
March 18,
2006 making it necessary for Miz and Cage to drop the titles. On
March 19,
2006,
Deuce Shade defeated The Miz in a singles contest to win the titles for his team
The Untouchables (Deuce Shade &
Domino). On
June 8,
2007 he lost to Atlas DaBone at OVW's second Summer Sizzler Series event at Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom in Louisville, Kentucky.
SmackDown!
On
March 8,
2006, WWE.com featured a video of "The Miz" stating that he was headed to
Friday Night SmackDown! and throughout April,
SmackDown! aired
vignettes hyping his debut. However, when Mizanin actually attempted to make his debut on the
April 21,
2006 edition of
SmackDown! he was (
kayfabe) barred from entering the arena by "network executive"
Palmer Cannon who told him that he'd been "canceled" before having security escort him from the premises.
On May 31, 2006, WWE.com announced that he'd serve as
SmackDown!'s "host" on
May 31.
Miz debuted as the "host" on
June 2,
2006, announcing the planned card at the top of the show and attempting to hype up the crowd. Other "host" duties included backstage interviews and hosting a bikini contest. The hosting duties seemed sporadic at best, with some weeks having little to no Miz at all.
Starting in July, Miz, along with
Ashley Massaro, became host of the annual
Diva Search competition appearing on both
RAW and
SmackDown!. At the start of his new hosting duties, in front of the live
RAW crowd, Miz was noticeably nervous and flubbed his lines, including calling contestants by the wrong name. Though he seemed to get better as the weeks went on, he quickly became the butt of on-air jokes by other WWE Superstars.
After the end of the Diva Search competition, The Miz returned exclusively to
SmackDown! and adopted a cocky
heel persona, starting his in-ring competition with a win over
Tatanka on
September 1,
2006. After this win he, along with commentator
Michael Cole, began to note whenever possible that he was "undefeated", though he only wrestled five matches over the next two months, defeating such superstars as
Matt Hardy, and
Scotty 2 Hotty. At the same time he began a
feud with Diva Search winner
Layla El, who spurned his advances on more than one occasion, leading to Miz helping
Kristal defeat her in various competitions. Soon, however, Miz and Kristal found themselves being stalked by the returning
Boogeyman, beginning a feud during which The Boogeyman handed Miz his first defeat at
Armageddon.
Following a brief absence from TV, Miz returned to
SmackDown! to host an interview segment called Miz TV. After the segment went nowhere, Mizanin returned to wrestling with a more intense style and began to pick up wins once again. On the June 11, 2007 edition of RAW, Mizanin faced off against Snitsky in a match to determine a draft pick for SmackDown!. Snitsky easily squashed Mizanin to give ECW the pick, but after constantly attacking The Miz after the match, the referee reversed the decision and awarded the match to Mizanin, thus allowing SmackDown! a draft pick. SmackDown!'s pick was then revealed to be
Chris Masters. He was absent from the first few weeks of
ECW, though he was the subject of backstage mentions between matches and had several short
Miz TV Crashes ECW video segments. He made his debut on the
July 10 edition of
ECW in a match against
Nunzio, which he won. Following this match,
Extreme Exposé began expressing admiration in him and gave him a lap-dance, starting a new
gimmick for him of a self-proclaimed "chick magnet". Extreme Expose then became managers for The Miz. He then began a feud with
Balls Mahoney, after
Kelly Kelly began to
kayfabe fall in love with Balls. On the
October 2 edition of
ECW, it was revealed that Miz kayfabe owned the contracts of Kelly Kelly,
Layla El and
Brooke Adams, and used this excuse to stop Kelly from going out with Mahoney. He was voted at Cyber Sunday to face
CM Punk, for the
ECW Championship but lost the match.
On
November 16, on Friday Night Smackdown, Miz became one half of the
WWE Tag Team Champions with
John Morrison when they defeated
Matt Hardy and
MVP in a title match, which marks Miz's first taste of WWE gold. Along with Morrison, The Miz co-hosts a weekly segment on WWE.com called "The Dirt Sheet", where Miz and Morrison make fun of the WWE roster and show off their promo skills.
In wrestling
Nicknames » *"The (Self-Proclaimed) Chick Magnet" (First)
Ohio Valley Wrestling » *OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) - with Chris Cage
World Wrestling Entertainment » *WWE Tag Team Championship (1 time, current) - with John Morrison
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