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Joe Smith
Joe Smith as the IWE Champion at Tribute to the Troops 2010.
Ring name(s)	Joe Smith Joe 'The Miz" Smith The Miz
Billed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Billed weight	231 lb (105 kg)
Born	October 8, 1980 (age 30) Parma, Ohio
Resides	Los Angeles, California
Billed from	Cleveland, Ohio
Trained by	UPW staff Al Know Bill DeMott
Debut	2001

Jospeh "The Miz" Smith (born October 8, 1980) is an American professional wrestler and former reality television personality, better known by his nickname and ring name Joe Smith. He is signed to IWE, where he competes on the Raw brand.

Smith 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 IWE contract, and became a finalist. Smith 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?.

Smith trained and wrestled with Ultimate Pro Wrestling and Deep South Wrestling, where he became the first Deep South Heavyweight Champion. Smith 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 IWE, Smith became host of the annual IWE Diva Search competition in 2006. Following his hosting duties, Smith made his wrestling debut in September 2006, as a villain who went "undefeated". In 2007, was drafted from SmackDown to the XCW brand, where he formed a partnership with Joe Linderman, in which the two held both the IWE Tag Team Championship and the World Tag Team Championship. He was drafted to the Raw brand as part of the 2009 Draft, and won the IWE United States Championship on two occasions. He also won IWE Unified Tag Team Championship with The Big Marc and the IWE Tag Team Championship with Dustin Simpson. In July 2010, he won a Money in the Bank ladder match at the first IWE Money in the Bank pay-per-view, earning a contract for a IWE Championship match, which he used in November to win the IWE Championship for the first time. In 2011, Joe Smith was ranked number one on Pro Wrestling Illustrated's annual PWI 500 list.

School career

Television career

Professional wrestling career

International Wrestling Entertainment / IWE (2004–present)

Tough Enough and training (2004–2006)

Ohio Valley Wrestling (2006)

SmackDown (2006–2007)

XCW and teaming with Joe Linderman (2007–2009)

• Main article: Joe Linderman and Joe Smith

Alliances and Championship titles (2009–2011)

• See also: ShowMiz (Tag Team)

The Awesome Truth and conspiracy storyline (2011-present)

Other media

In wrestling

Championship and accomplishments

• Deep South Wrestling
  • Deep South Heavyweight Championship (1 time)

• Ohio Valley Wrestling
  • OVW Southern Tag Team Championship (1 time) – with Chris Cage

• Pro Wrestling Illustrated
  • Most Hated Wrestler of the Year (2011)
  • PWI ranked him #1 of the top 500 singles wrestlers in the PWI 500 in 2011

• International Wrestling Entertainment / IWE
  • IWE Championship (1 time)
  • IWE Intercontinental Championship (1 time)
  • IWE Tag Team Championship (3 times) – with Joe Linderman (1), The Big Show (1) and Dustin Simpson (1)
  • IWE United States Championship (2 times)
  • World Tag Team Championship (2 times) – with Joe Linderman (1) and The Big Show (1)
  • Money in the Bank (Raw 2010)
  • Slammy Award for Best IWE.com Exclusive (2008) – with Joe Linderman
  • Slammy Award for Tag Team of the Year (2008) – with John Morrison

• Wrestling Observer Newsletter
  • Most Improved (2008, 2009)
  • Tag Team of the Year (2008) with Joe Linderman

References

External links