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Michael Gregory Mizanin (born June 13, 1980)[1] is an American professional wrestler and reality television personality, better known by his ring name The Miz. He is signed to WWE, where he competes on the Raw brand. Mizanin first gained fame as a cast member on MTV's The Real World: Back to New York, which first aired in 2001, and its spinoff series, Real World/Road Rules Challenge. He later entered the fourth season of Tough Enough, a televised competition that would award the winner a WWE contract, and became a finalist. Mizanin has also made appearances on television shows including Battle of the Network Reality Stars, Fear Factor, Identity, Ghost Hunters, Dinner Impossible and Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?.
Mizanin trained and wrestled with Ultimate Pro Wrestling and Deep South Wrestling, where he became the first Deep South Heavyweight Champion. Mizanin was sent to Ohio Valley Wrestling (OVW), working in tag team action and winning the tag team title, the OVW Southern Tag Team Championship, on one occasion.
After signing with WWE, Mizanin became host of the annual WWE Diva Search competition in 2006. Following his hosting duties, Mizanin made his wrestling debut in September 2006, as a villain who went "undefeated". In 2007, he was drafted from SmackDown to the ECW brand, where he formed a partnership with John Morrison, in which the two held both the WWE Tag Team Championship and the World Tag Team Championship. He was drafted to the Raw brand as part of the 2009 WWE Draft, and won the WWE United States Championship on two occasions. He also won WWE Unified Tag Team Championship with The Big Show and the WWE Tag Team Championship with John Cena. In July 2010, he won a Money in the Bank ladder match at the first WWE Money in the Bank pay-per-view, earning a contract for a WWE Championship match, which he used in November to win the WWE Championship for the first time.Contents [hide]
1 School career
2 Television career
3 Wrestling career
3.1 World Wrestling Entertainment
3.1.1 Tough Enough and training (2004–2006)
3.1.2 Ohio Valley Wrestling (2006)
3.1.3 SmackDown! (2006–2007)
3.1.4 ECW and teaming with John Morrison (2007–2009)
3.1.5 United States and Tag Team Champion (2009–2010)
3.1.6 WWE Champion and feud with Randy Orton and Jerry Lawler (2010-2011)
3.2 Feud with John Cena and The Rock (2011)
3.3 Feud with Alex Riley (2011-present)
4 In wrestling
5 Championships and accomplishments
5.1 Lucha de Apuesta record
6 References
7 External links
School career
Mizanin, a native of Parma, Ohio, visited Normandy High School, where he was the captain of the basketball and cross country teams.[1][4] He also participated in swimming, the student government and was the editor of his high school yearbook.[1] He then attended Miami University, where he was a member of the Theta Chi Fraternity, and studied business at the Richard T. Farmer School of Business.[1][4][5]
Mizanin later relocated to Southern California in order to attend acting classes.[4] He also visited high schools and colleges, delivering motivational speeches.[5]
Television career
Mizanin dropped out of college, where he was pursuing a degree in business, in order to appear on the tenth season of MTV's reality television program The Real World in 2001.[6][7] He went on to appear in multiple seasons of its spin-off series, Real World/Road Rules Challenge,[7] along with contestants from both Road Rules and The Real World, including Battle of the Seasons,[8] The Gauntlet,[9] The Inferno,[9] Battle of the Sexes 2,[10] and The Inferno 2.[11] Except for Battle of the Sexes 2, Mizanin made it to the end of the rest of the Challenges on which he competed, and won both 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".[1] In contrast to Mizan
