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#3 SmackDown Superstar The Miz reveals why his push got canned

SmackDown Superstar, The Miz, was at the height of his career at WrestleMania 27. The Must-See Superstar was involved in a program with The Rock and John Cena while holding the WWE Championship. 10 years later, he can be seen singing 'hey hey ho ho' on SmackDown.

While speaking on the Busted Open radio podcast, The Miz revealed what led to such a drastic change in his position in WWE. The SmackDown Superstar talks about the possible reason why he was never again given a main-event push after he lost the WWE Championship.

Creative changed in the background. I’m talking about people. Whenever you hear about heads leaving and then another head coming in, obviously Vince runs the entire thing, but there are different creative people that are different writers. When you have a head leave and you have another one come in, he will have his guys. When I lost the WWE Championship to John Cena, there was a role shift in the writing process and I saw where I was going. I was going to be used to develop new talent because I was just utilized for the past, I don’t know, year, to get me to where I am. Now it’s time to make other people and I didn’t have the wherewithal to make sure I was being made as well." (h/t WrestlingNews.co)