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For the last six months, The Miz has been doing the best work of his career. WWE should acknowledge that. 2016 was the year of AJ Styles, but 2017 should be the year of The Miz. No more Intercontinental Championship feuds. It's time to go after the WWE Championship. This would not be The Miz's first rodeo. He won the Money in the Bank briefcase and became WWE champion in 2010. He main-evented WrestleMania in 2011, where he successfully defended his championship against John Cena. But he then lost the title to Cena at Extreme Rules. CM Punk, Daniel Bryan and The Shield ...

The Royal Rumble is the perfect opportunity for new stars to emerge. Lasting in the Rumble match for over 30 minutes is a feat. Making the final four is even better. And winning the thing? It's the stuff that legends are made of. Part of the Royal Rumble's appeal is its unpredictability. WWE likes to promote that "anyone" can win the Rumble. But for that idea to work, the fans must perceive multiple Superstars as threats. Otherwise, the booking becomes obvious, and if there's one thing that sinks matches, it's predictability (see: Royal Rumble 2015). Here are six Superstars who deserve the ...

WWE is pushing Braun Strowman to the top of the roster. It's easy to imagine him, years from now, feuding with Seth Rollins, Roman Reigns, Kevin Owens, Finn Balor and other top stars. There's a lot of promise to this Superstar's blossoming career. WWE had better not blow it. Lest we forget, it is easy to blow a monster heel's career. In fact, WWE almost ruined Strowman the first time around. Strowman made his main-roster debut in August 2015. He single-handedly dismantled Reigns and Dean Ambrose in minutes. But in the following months, his debut remained the most memorable thing about him. Strowman was ...

It's easier to find bad matches in Royal Rumble pay-per-views than good ones. That's because the Royal Rumble PPVs are all about the Rumble itself. Usually, the remaining matches are filler—unfulfilling appetizers to the main course. The classic, non-Rumble matches, such as The Rock vs. Mankind (1999), are few and far between. This list is split into two types of "bad." There's the less ambitious "bad," where the match wasn't given the time or consideration to ever be good. And then, there's the more spectacular "bad," where WWE Creative attempted to book something special, but instead booked a match that fell on ...

We're still several weeks away from WWE Royal Rumble 2017 on Jan. 29, but some of the big pieces are already falling into place. Goldberg and Brock Lesnar will both participate in the Rumble, Roman Reigns will take on Kevin Owens for the Universal Championship and John Cena will take on AJ Styles for the WWE Championship. That all sounds great on paper, but as WWE has proved in the past, the journey matters more than the destination. All three of those feuds are hot right now, but will they still be hot in one month's time? Here are the latest rumors ...

The last pay-per-view of the year was aptly named WWE Roadblock: End of the Line. And for the Raw Superstars, it must have felt like the last chance to prove themselves before career-making and career-breaking creative decisions are made. After Roadblock is the Royal Rumble, and that's where the big gears get set in motion for the build to WrestleMania. Who killed it on Sunday night? Who showed that they have what it takes to carry WWE through its most profitable quarter? Here are the biggest stars from Roadblock: End of the Line.Begin Slideshow

WWE fans haven't seen John Cena on company programming in over two months. Slowly, the company is learning to live without him. But three days ago, WWE announced that he would be returning to SmackDown on Dec. 27. Whether this is a good idea depends entirely on how he's booked and how long Cena plans to stay. The post-Cena era hasn't been easy for WWE, but it's reaping what it's sowed. It booked Cena as Superman for close to a decade. Even when he lost, it was usually in some fluky, conditional manner that protected him. And many of the wrestlers ...

WWE TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs is a minor pay-per-view with potentially major consequences. That's what happens when you base a pay-per-view around a dangerous match stipulation—we end up watching the sort of rare brutality that is usually reserved for a bigger platform. Thus, one would hope that these matches mean something from a narrative standpoint. It would be lousy if the Superstars put their bodies at risk for no reason. Thankfully, this was one of the strongest PPVs in recent months. It wrapped up a lot of feuds that had run their course, and it foreshadowed some new storylines that we ...

The TLC: Tables, Ladders & Chairs pay-per-view is only a few days away, but already WWE Creative is looking beyond that to Royal Rumble, which unofficially begins the Road to WrestleMania. Main event planning must take place months in advance if the storytelling is to be effective. Every year, there's drama and speculation over WWE Creative's backstage machinations. Who's in the main event? Who wants to be in the main event? Who's got a beef with Vince McMahon? And, most importantly, is the main event something that the fans want to see? This, in turn, affects every booking decision that builds toward ...

Survivor Series is the odd child out of the Big Four pay-per-views. Along with Bragging Rights, it's the only PPV where individual glory matters less than team glory. It's probably the most difficult PPV for new wrestlers to break out and make names for themselves. There's just so much going on, and it's tough to stand out. But it can happen, and it's happened before.  The Undertaker made his debut at Survivor Series in 1990. And Roman Reigns got a lot of mileage out of his Survivor Series performance in 2013, where he dismantled his opponents nearly singlehandedly. Were there any similarly legendary, career ...