WWE RAW SUPER SHOW December 4 2011 Monday

Who's Next for The Miz?

                      What first looked like a spat between two former tag-team champions took on a new life on Monday night’s Raw SuperShow during a Falls Count Anywhere Match between The Miz and John Morrison. After bashing Morrison’s leg with a pipe, The Miz hit his former partner with the Skull-Crushing Finale on the entrance ramp, incapacitating the high-flyer and prompting the referee to stop the match. It was eerily similar to The Miz’s attack on R-Truth the previous week, and that, it seemed, was the point. While the paramedics tended to The Prince of Parkour, Miz took to the ring and made his intentions clear: the assaults on Truth and Morrison are part of a larger plan the former WWE Champion has set in motion.
            “Last week, it was R-Truth. This week, it’s John Morrison,” Miz said. “And next week? We’ll see.”
So, with The Miz on the warpath and the locker room on notice, WWE.com runs down the potential candidates who could make The Awesome One’s hit list.

THE ROCK

               

             The Miz refers to himself as “The Most Must-See” Superstar in all of WWE and prides himself on his reality TV background. He is a man who loves the spotlight. And yet, no Superstar turned more heads in 2011, both in the WWE ring and the entertainment world at large, than The Great One. Given Rock’s victory over Awesome Truth at Survivor Series, taking him down would be a tall order. But our guess is that The Miz is still steaming over his Madison Square Garden defeat at the hands of The People’s Champion, and the temptation to try his hand against The Rock one-on-one might outweigh the risk of another loss.

 JOHN CENA

             

             The Cenation leader was humbled by The Rock at Survivor Series, and his provocative appearance on Piper’s Pit seems to have thrown him into a rare vulnerable state: For the first time, Cena’s standing as WWE's top dog seems uncertain. Similarly, Miz’s own fortunes began to fade after he suffered a humiliating defeat, losing the WWE Championship to Cena in a Steel Cage Match at Extreme Rules. With the alpha dog on his heels, this could be Miz’s chance to sweep in for revenge and supplant Cena as the face of WWE. Plus, they were Tag Team Champions that one time...

BIG SHOW

            The Miz achieved great success – and a WWE Tag Team Championship reign -- with the big man as part of ShowMiz in early 2010. Given Big Show’s preoccupation with World Heavyweight Champion Mark Henry, an attack by “The Cleveland Screamer” seems unlikely at the moment. But The Miz’s first two targets were former tag partners of his, and he is clearly one for continuity. Toppling The World’s Largest Athlete would certainly be an appealing way to achieve the hat trick.

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WWE TLC 2011

At WWE TLC, World Heavyweight Champion Mark Henry will once again lock horns with Big Show in a World Title slug fest of gigantic proportions. The fuse for the colossal competitors' explosive showdown was lit at WWE Money in the Bank, when Henry sent The World's Largest Athlete to his infamous Hall of Pain – trapping his giant adversary's leg inside a chair before dropping down onto it from the ropes. A rage-filled Big Show returned from injury with retribution on his mind, igniting a World Heavyweight Title battle between the two Goliath Superstars at Vengeance that literally could not be contained. When Henry suplexed Big Show off the top rope, the shock waves made the ring collapse beneath them. Though the earth-shattering impact made history, the WWE Universe was denied a clear victor in the mega clash of the titans.Their brutal rematch at Survivor Series would prove just as intense and just as inconclusive. Though the ring was reinforced, the bitter collision between the two larger-than-life grapples could not be so easily controlled. After Henry got himself intentionally disqualified and failed to once again induct his giant foe into the Hall of Pain  The World’s Largest Athlete turned the tables – injuring Henry to such an extent that the World Heavyweight Champion would not walk out of the arena. Their brutal rematch at Survivor Series would prove just as intense and just as inconclusive. Though the ring was reinforced, the bitter collision between the two larger-than-life grapplers could not be so easily controlled. After Henry got himself intentionally disqualified and failed to once again induct his giant foe into the Hall of Pain – The World’s Largest Athlete turned the tables – injuring Henry to such an extent that the World Heavyweight Champion would not walk out of the arena. Despite his injury, Henry overcame Mr. Money in the Bank Daniel Bryan in a Steel Cage Match on a special live edition of SmackDown – clearing the road for the monumental third act of this World Title trilogy of pain between Henry and his humongous No. 1 contender.

WWE TLC 2011

World Heavyweight Champion Mark Henry vs. Big Show