The Miz Talks About Being Compared To Cena, The Rock Hosting Raw & More; UFC 104 Fallout
– The Miz recently spoke to ESPN about the new Smackdown vs. Raw game, the Rock and more. Here are some highlights:
John Cena told me that the way you assaulted him verbally reminded him of himself when he was first trying to mark his spot in the business.
The Miz: That's what you have to do in this business, you have to go after the best. You're not going to get anywhere by just sitting around. I remember going over my promo and telling people what I was going to say and how I was going to go after him, and everyone was like, 'Are you sure you want to do that? You can't do that to John Cena. He's the poster child. You can't talk that way about John Cena.' But the thing is, nobody has talked that way about Cena, and since he just got thrown through a searchlight, it wasn't like he was going to come out.
So what do you do when you know nobody is going to come out? Put it this way, when you see a bar fight and you see two guys going at it, as soon as people start to break it up, that guy getting held back starts yelling more than he did before. That's how I felt. He wasn't going to do anything to me, and I wanted to say everything I wanted to say because I knew as soon as he got his hands on me, it was going to be the end of me. But the fact is, I think I turned some heads. I think I made some things happen, and I made some entertainment. I think I also showed that I could hang with him, because I hung with him in a match for 17 minutes, which is a hard thing to do with John Cena these days. These days, you need to drag him into a Hell in the Cell to beat him.
Are you going to set this in motion when The Rock hosts his upcoming episode of 'Raw?'
The Miz: I would love to start it when he's the host, the thing is, I think he's too much of a girl now. He's no longer The Rock, he's Dwayne Johnson. 'I'm Dwayne Johnson [in his best girlie voice].' I think now that he's Dwayne Johnson, I can take him. He's skinny. He's like a toothpick. He's what, 150 pounds soaking wet?
Who was your favorite guest host of the show so far? I thought Shaq was pretty amazing.
The Miz: Bob Barker was by far my favorite. I loved Bob Barker, but then again, Big Ben was my favorite because he was the reason I got a chance at the United States title and won. ? And he said I was awful. That even made it on 'SportsCenter.' I also got to tell him, 'If you had another chance to beat the Bears because you blew it the first time, wouldn't you want that chance?' How many people get to say that to Big Ben?
For the full interview at ESPN.com, click here. (Thanks to Bucky for passing this along)
– FightLine.com has several articles about last night's UFC 104, including post-fight comments from Lyoto Machida and Shogun Rua. UFC President Dana White announced that there would be a rematch, and that he felt that Shogun won the fight. He also went on to note that he wasn't happy with how Shogun and Machida fought. For those articles, check out FightLine.com for all the latest UFC news by clicking here.