I know how to make myself very, very cocky and annoying. That’s my character. I enjoy doing it. People hate it. But I don’t mind it when people hate it...Just because I’m confident and will tell you that I’m awesome and that I’m great, I’m all of the sudden the bad guy? Why am I always the bad guy? - WWE Superstar The Miz
While “the heel” is an established element in today’s professional wrestling, the roots of the heel go back less than a hundred years, to one George Raymond Wagner, born in Nebraska in 1915 to a family of German descent.