Kevin Mizanin (wrestler)

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Michael Rinehart
The Miz as IWE Champion In 2010
Birth name	Kevin Gregory Mizanin
Born	October 8, 1980 (age 33) Parma, Ohio
Resides	Los Angeles, California
Professional wrestling career
Ring name(s)	Calgary Kid The Miz Mike Rinehart
Billed height	6 ft 1 in (1.85 m)
Billed weight	231 lb (105 kg)
Billed from	Cleveland, Ohio Hollywood, California
Trained by	UPW staff Al Know Bill DeMott
Debut	2001

Michael Gregory Rinehart (or Kevin Gregory Mizanin) (born October 8, 1980) is an American professional wrestler and former reality television personality, better known by his nickname and ring name The Miz. He is signed to IWE, where he competes on the Raw brand.

Rinehart 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. Mike Rinehart 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?.

Rinehart trained and wrestled with Ultimate Pro Wrestling and Deep South Wrestling, where he became the first Deep South Heavyweight Champion. Rinehart 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, Rinehart 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

Ultimate Pro Wrestling (2003)

International Wrestling Entertainment/IWE

Tough Enough (2004)

Developmental Territories (2004–2006)

The Chick Magnet (2006–2007)

Teaming with John Morrison (2006–2009)

Main article: Joe Linderman and The Miz

United States Champion and ShoMiz (2009–2010)

See also: ShowMiz

IWE Champion (2010–2011)

Awesome Truth (2011–2012)

Various feuds and championship reigns (2012–2016)

Relationship with Maryse (2016–2017)

Alliance with The Miztourage (2017–2018)

Various storylines (2018–2020)

Reunion with John Morrison (2020–present)

Other media

Filmography

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2001	The Real World: Back to New York	Himself	Episode 2, 3, 4 & 22
2002	Battle of the Seasons	Himself	Winner of the season
2003–2004	The Gauntlet	Himself
2004 and 2011	Tough Enough	Himself (2004), The Miz (2011)
2004	The Inferno	Himself
2004–2005	Battle of the Sexes 2	Himself
2005	The Inferno II	Himself	Winner of the season
2005	Battle of the Network Reality Stars	Himself	Episode 1.2
2006	Fear Factor	Himself	Winner – with Trishelle Cannatella
2007	Identity	Himself	Episode 11
2008	Ghost Hunters	Himself	Live Special
2008	myFox Los Angeles	Himself	along with John Morrison
2008	Tom Green's House Tonight	Himself	along with Joe Linderman
2008	Live Wire	Himself	along with Joe Linderman
2009	Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader?	Himself
2009	Dinner: Impossible	Himself
2010	Destroy Build Destroy	Himself
2010	TENs Good News Week	Himself
2010	Daybreak	Himself
2010	Australian Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards	Himself	while doing promotional work in Australia
2010	KABB Fox San Antonio	Himself	along with Nicole Bergman, also did weather forecasting
2010-2011	Blue Peter	Himself	during European tours
2010-2011	19 Action News	Himself
2010	Late Night with Jimmy Fallon	Himself
2011	TMZ	Himself	Host
2011	The Tonight Show with Jay Leno	Himself	At Wrestlemania
2011	Fox 23	Himself
2011	Attack of the Show!	Himself	Guest/IWE Champion
2011	Conan	Himself	2 episodes
2011	Dancing with the Stars	Himself	was in audience to support Khris Jericho who was a contestant
2011	Nickelodeon Teen Choice Awards	Himself	along with Dustin Simpson
2011	H8R	The Miz	Episode 4
2011	Lopez Tonight	Himself
2011	Sky Sports News	Himself
2011	Red Bull PLAY!	Himself
2011-2012	Clash Time	Himself	8 episodes
2012	Psych	Mario	Episode 91
2012	Agoraetarde	Himself	Brazilian talk-show,appeared while promoting WWE in Brazil
2012	Nickelodeon Kid's Choice Awards	Himself
2012	Pair of Kings	Damone	Episode 56
2012	The Soup	Himself	The Soup Salutes IWE: Pile Driving Clips in Your Face
2012	Fox News Milwaukee	Himself
2012	8 news now Las Vegas	Himself
2012	Extra	Himself
2012	Rove LA	Himself
2013	Conan	Himself	1 episode
2013	L TV	Himself	with Ashley Bell, while promoting The Marine 3: Homefront
2013	Fox and Friends	Himself
2013	NBCSN	Himself
2013	Vh1buzz	Himself
2013	KTLA Morning News	Himself

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
2012	The Campaign	The Miz	Cameo role
2013	The Marine 3: Homefront	Jake Carter	Lead role
2013	Les reines du ring	Himself	Cameo role
2013	Christmas Bounty		Lead role