Why Miz could still be the top star of WWE...

April 3, 2011 should have been the greatest day in the life of The Miz.Entering the Georgia Dome in Atlanta as the WWE champion, he was scheduled to defend his title n the night's main event. He had new ring gear made for the special occasion and WWE's production team had put together an outstanding video to be played prior to his entrance.

In many ways, it seemed as though WrestleMania 27 would be WWE's announcement to the world that The Miz was the man to lead the company into the next generation.

The Miz and John Cena delivered one of the most uninspiring main events in WrestleMania history. The match itself was fine but there was absolutely nothing about it that set it apart from any other Monday Night Raw or Friday Night SmackDown main event.Making matters worse was the fact that the centerpiece of the match was The Rock, who was not even involved in the bout.

For Miz, the match was a disaster. He was a complete afterthought in what should have been the biggest match of his career so it was no big shock when he lost the WWE title to Cena at the very next pay-per-view.

Miz never recovered from his WrestleMania blunder. He briefly sniffed the main event again in November of 2011 when he teamed with R-Truth to defeat CM Punk and Triple H on Raw before losing to Rock and Cena in Survivor Series headliner.

A long line of meaningless mid-card feuds kept Miz busy throughout 2012 and most of 2013.

The company threw him a bone in the form of an intercontinental or United States championship every once and a while but he was essentially left for dead with several other Superstars who went from pushed to punished in short order.

Then, in the middle of the biggest angle in World Wrestling Entertainment, Miz was suddenly presented as opposition to the power hungry Triple H and Stephanie McMahon.

There was little build to his involvement in the storyline. Instead, he was simply featured in a backstage segment talking to Brad Maddox and then he found himself in a match with Randy Orton.

On September 16, in his hometown of Cleveland, he was brutally and savagely beaten in front of his friends and family.

Unkind words directed at Stephanie earned him her scorn and a knockout punch from The Big Show.

It has only been three weeks but Miz is already more relevant now than he was a month ago.

He is immediately elevated due to his work with Triple H and, more recently, Stephanie. There may be no two more high profile performers on WWE programming right now and for him to be working with the two of them indicates that management is interesting in once again making one of their most marketable talents a featured star.

His change in demeanor and the lack of jokes since being brutalized and humiliated in front of his mother and father has been a refreshing change of pace and will only help to continue evolving a character that was very close to staleness just a few weeks back.

Of course, the amount of success Miz enjoys in what would amount to his second major push will depend on how much he learned from his first failed stint as WWE champion and whether he is capable of correcting his weakness so that he does not repeat the same mistakes.

Being involved in the top angle in the top sports-entertainment company in the world, with two industry giants will provide Miz with every opportunity to escape the doldrums of the WWE midcard.

A talented individual who has been an outstanding spokesperson and hard worker for WWE over the course of the last three years, Miz deserves to be relevant.

Maybe we need another good heelturn never to be buried by Cena again...