A top WWE Superstar explains why his character works well as a heel and not as a babyface.
Former WWE Champion The Miz was a recent guest on the INSIGHT with Chris Van Vliet podcast. Talking about his journey from reality TV to WWE, he also opened up about his on-screen heel character. He explained that as a heel, he can lose matches but still recover with just a single promo, which is something difficult for babyfaces to pull off.
“My character doesn’t really work as a baby face,” The Miz began, “if I’m being honest. It’s a person that can lose, and then the next day, you’ll forget about that loss, because I’ll just cut a promo and just make you believe. But with the babyface, babyfaces can’t really lose a lot. If a babyface loses too much, you lose [appeal]. Everyone always says winning doesn’t matter, winning doesn’t matter. It matters. It really does matter.
“Especially if you’re a babyface, because in my opinion, if you’re a babyface and I’m a kid out there, my kids always ask me, ‘Did you win? Did you win? Did you win?’ I always have to go, ‘Ah, daddy didn’t win this week. But you know, I’ll get him next week.’ You can only say that so many times to a kid where they’re just like, I want a winner. I want a winner. I want to cheer a winner. People like winners, people like first place, they don’t like second place, they don’t like third place,” The WWE star said.
The Miz says being a heel in WWE allows him to lose and stay in the main event
“So that’s why I feel like my character, I’m so good at losing and then making you forget about that loss, and then making you believe the next day that I can beat the biggest superstar in the world. I could lose to whoever. Guy comes up from NXT, Je’Von Evans, and beats me. The next day, I can be in the main event.
“I can go up against John Cena, not anymore, but I go up against your biggest superstar, and I can make you believe I can beat that person, and you will believe that I will beat that person. But as a babyface, it’s a little tougher. It’s been weird these past couple of years, though. I would say this past year has been weird,” the former WWE Champion said.
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