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I remember “The Miz” from his days as a Real World star on MTV. The guy was tall but scrawny back then, and when he came into the WWE with his Miz gimmick intact, I was skeptical. But as a comedy character, he’s grown on me.

While it’ll be a while before The Miz has the mic skills to go toe-to-toe with John Cena, I do find his promos somewhat entertaining these days, though he’s taken far less seriously than a life insurance quote.

Still, his new gimmick of coming out every week to call out John Cena, only to be ignored and have The Miz claim a victory over him is a smart, nicely-thought-out gimmick that hopefully WWE has the patience to play out for a nice long while before bringing on the inevitable payoff of having Cena appear and destroy him. The longer it takes to get to that moment, the better.

You don’t need best diet pill to help determine what the best undercard match was at the Judgment Day 2009 PPV for WWE. Hands down, it had to be Chris Jericho vs. Rey Mysterio.

While Rey-Rey is uneven and either rises or falls to the level of his opponent, Jericho has been WWE’s most consistent in-ring worker for the last year, and is showing no signs of slowing down at this point. The match felt a bit short at 12 minutes, but then Vince McMahon is rarely prone to run matches much longer than that outside of the main event.

It’s been predictable for a while, but Edge overcame Jeff Hardy in the show-topping PPV championship match at Judgment Day. The twenty-minute classic allowed both men high spots and plenty of in-ring psychology opportunities, but in the end, Hardy once again fell short of being trusted with the top belt in pro wrestling.

While Hardy isn’t exactly missing out on Westgate or anything, it’s unfortunate that WWE still hasn’t seen fit to give him an extended run with the strap; he’s clearly one of the company’s hardest in-ring workers, right up there with Chris Jericho.

Former WWE superstar Bobby Lashley worked his third-ever MMA fight Friday night and destroyed opponent Mike Cook in only 25 seconds, using a guillotine choke for force a submission. Cook came to the ring in a wrestling match to poke fun at Lashley’s pro wrestling background.

Lashley, currently with TNA on the wrestling side, was featured prominently in a Trump vs. McMahon “hair match,” at WrestleMania to years ago and went on to become an ECW champion, as well as a WWE champion, before an injury led to an extended absence and, eventually, his disappearance from the WWE. Lashley is 3-0 as an MMA fighter and is scheduled to face Bob Sapp next month in Mississippi. Let’s hope Lashley doesn’t put Sapp in a Bob stroller.