The Miz Was Embarrassed At WrestleMania 28 After Headlining The Previous Year
Although WrestleMania 28 was the biggest WWE event of 2012, The Miz would want to forget it.
The Rock’s involvement let The Miz to win the WWE Championship over John Cena in the main event the year before.
By the following year, The Miz had fallen farther down the card and would be one of many names in the tag-team fight between “Team Teddy vs. Team Johnny.”
The Miz compared hosting WrestleMania 27 to his part at WrestleMania 28 in a recent episode of the “Unbreakable” podcast. He stated:
“I was at the top … I lost the title, then I started losing every single match and by the time we got back to WrestleMania, I was almost not even on it. It was very embarrassing for me, I don’t know what happened.
“I couldn’t figure out how to maneuver myself to be a top-tier talent. It took I would say six years … it wasn’t until a guy named AJ Styles came in. When he came in, we started having a program together and it elevated him — I think we just elevated each other.”
Close to a decade after losing the WWE Championship, The Miz regained the title in 2021 but would only hold the gold for eight days.
