The Miz Says That Arn Anderson Once Told Him That He Was Not Initially Ready For Main Event Scene

The former two times WWE Champion The Miz shocked the world when he featured on the main event of WrestleMania 27 along with John Cena. Not only he walked in as the WWE Champion on the main event of WrestleMania 27, he successfully defended the championship against John Cena by beating him.

But this match is also considered as one of the worst main events in WrestleMania history for so many reasons. Of course, there are reasons like The Rock making an interference to cost John Cena the opportunity to Grab the WWE Championship, but the weakest link of this match was the star power.

The Miz Says That Arn Anderson Once Told Him That He Was Not Initially Ready For Main Event Scene

The Miz was not a very big star back then. And he was not quite ready for a scene like the main event of the Grandest Stage of Them All. Even before the interference of the Rock, the match was never good enough to be a WrestleMania main event. In fact The Rock’s interference was the only blessing in disguise since it was a huge talking point.

The A-Lister recently appeared on RNC Radio’s ‘The A Show’ as a guest where he revealed that Arn Anderson once told him that he was not initially ready to be in the main event scene. He said;

“So my first week out [on Raw], I called out John Cena knowing he’s not going to be at TV and say, ‘I call you out right now. I want a match, I’m taking on John Cena. I’m making a name for myself.’ John Cena doesn’t show up, that’s 1-0. The next week, I call him out, I know he’s not going to be there, 2-0, then 3-0.

“I think I got up to 8-0 and then finally, I got to a pay-per-view with John Cena and he mopped the floor with me. I don’t think I got any offense. He just beat me, cleaned me up, wiped me away and I remember going backstage going, ‘Oh my God, eight weeks down the drain. I can’t believe –’ and then Arn Anderson came up to me and goes, ‘You’re looking at this all wrong’ and I go, ‘What do you mean?’

“He goes, ‘You just had eight weeks to talk about — you’re not ready’ and by the way, when you’re in WWE, you always think you’re ready. ‘I’m ready, are you kidding me?’ But now knowing what I know, I wasn’t ready at the time. I needed to grow as a performer, I needed to grow for the audience to see me. I needed wars. He was like, ‘You need the wars, the trials, the tribulations, the stories to get you to a John Cena level,’ and he was right.”

H/T and transcribed by Post Wrestling