The Miz: 20+ Years Of AWESOME, Headlining WrestleMania, Tough Enough, Maryse, The Rock
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What is discussed at the start of this section?
Ladies and gentlemen, Chris Van Vliet!
How do you want to start it?
I guess we're starting it right now.
Are we starting it right now? Is that how you want? That's how you want to start it? That's how we're going to start it. You don't want to introduce.
You don't want to do a whole introduction. Do you need an introduction? Really?
I do need an introduction. I would like to know what your introduction of me would be. Right here, right now? Right here, right now. You don't get to look at your notes. Just off the top of my head? Off the top of the dome. What would it be?
Is it a two-time Grand Slam champion?
It is. Wow. Did you not know that? No, I did know that. Then why would you say, is it? Is it just your interviewer coming out? Everything has to be a question?
Everything's a question.
How did The Miz's journey in wrestling begin?
Okay.
Yeah. But you're introducing. I'm introducing. Ladies and gentlemen. Okay, here we go. Should I look at you? I should look at the camera. Look at the camera. Okay. Make it really big. Ladies and gentlemen, this is a man who needs no introduction. One of my very first wrestling interviews dating back to my time at WOIO in Cleveland, Ohio. He is a two-time Grand Slam champion, walked into WrestleMania 27, the WWE champion, walked out of WrestleMania 27, the WWE champion. He is a future Hall of Famer. He is The Miz.
Nice. That was really good. Is that accurate? I mean, yeah. Those are all my accolades. Not all of them. Some of them. You missed a couple, but it's okay.
What are some of the main ones I might have missed there?
What is it? Eight-time Intercontinental Champion, two-time United States Champion, two-time Mr. Money in the Bank, Star of Marine 3, 4, 5, and 6, Santa's Helper, Christmas Bounty, and let's just say 10-time Tag Team Champion because I'm not quite sure. Sometimes people say world and WWE when they combine is this and that, so it's hard to decipher which one is which, but though I would say 10 time tag team champion with all of that said, it's a hell of a career. It is a hell of a career. Yeah. I, uh, I've had a, a career that wasn't supposed to happen. Let's, let's put it that way. At what point in your career do you feel like it wasn't supposed to happen the entire time? Uh, as soon as I started at UPW and feeling my first bump that I ever took, I was like, Oh my God,
This is rough. Am I really going to be able to do this? And then going through the three years of basically trying to go into dark matches, trying to get a notice from WWE or even Japan was very difficult. Trying to get any type of booking was very tough. I was getting booked on college circuits because I was on the real world. I was going to these colleges and everyone would always ask me, you know, could you do the Miz? And I would cut promos as The Miz. There would be thousands of kids there listening to my speech, listening to my stories. And then I would go and perform in... like back alleys for like 20 bucks. Not even, I wouldn't even get paid. It was in front of 20 people. And literally it was like that kind of contrast.
But I was learning the art of professional wrestling while also doing speeches in front of thousands of people.
It was preparing me. You are the absolute perfect embodiment of having a dream, chasing after that dream. And whatever is thrown at you, it doesn't matter because you are still like just laser focused on that dream and accomplishing it.
Yeah, but when you're doing it, you don't sit there and you go, oh, I'm accomplishing this dream. You're going through it. And it's funny. Now you see on TikTok or Instagram or any type of social media, you'll see like, yeah, you don't see the grit, the grind, the blood, sweat, tears. You just see the championships. You just see... the final product and you're like oh that must have been so easy but you don't realize all the stuff that everyone has to do to go through it people don't realize like you when you're sitting there talking about you know matches or who you like and you don't understand what goes through you find out through unreal a little bit of behind the scenes stuff but you really don't understand what a superstar in wwe
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is discussed at the start of this section?
0:00–0:53
2
How did The Miz's journey in wrestling begin?
0:53–16:43
3
What challenges did The Miz face in Tough Enough?
16:43–19:15
4
How did The Miz adapt to the pressures of being a WWE superstar?
19:15–55:36
5
What does The Miz say about the pressure of being a champion?
55:36–56:33
6
What was The Miz's experience when he cashed in for the WWE Championship?
56:33–1:00:22
7
How does The Miz describe his iconic promo on Talking Smack?
1:00:22–1:02:54
8
What are The Miz's thoughts on his legacy and the future of wrestling?
1:02:54–1:48:12
Speakers
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