WWE Raw star and a former two times WWE World Champion The Miz who is also a former eight times WWE Intercontinental Champion recently revealed that WWE wanted to bring him as an announcer after his work in WWE Tough Enough competition.
The Miz was introduced to the WWE Universe through the WWE Tough Enough competition of 2004 where he came up as runner up. He worked on the development territories of WWE after that for a couple of years before his in ring debut in 2006.
The Miz Reveals WWE Wanted To Promote Him As An Announcer
He was mostly treated as a lower mid card in his early days but WWE had big plans for the American Professional wrestler. First he got some success as a Tag Team wrestler along with John Morrison.
In 2010 he got his first main roster break as he won the RAW Money in the Bank ladder match and cashed it in on Randy Orton to win the WWE championship. He also main evented WrestleMania 27 along with John Cena and surprisingly he defeated John Cena in the mentioned event.
It took him 10 long years to win his second WWE Championship which also came from a Money in the Bank cash in. Earlier last year he cash in his Money in the Bank contract on Drew McIntyre to win his second WWE Championship.
Apart from having these two World title runs, he had mostly been a mid card in WWE. He had been an eight times WWE Intercontinental Champion, a two times WWE United States champion, and also an eight times WWE Tag Team Champion.
He is still going pretty strong in WWE but it does not seen like he would ever post as a main event star ever again. But without any doubt he is a legend of WWE and he is also a future WWE Hall of Famer.
The Miz who is also a former eight times WWE Intercontinental Champion recently spoke to Off The Beat program where he revealed that WWE wanted to bring him as an announcer after his work in WWE Tough Enough competition. He said;
“I’ll never forget, they were like, ‘You impressed us so much that maybe there is something for you here.’ They brought me up to Connecticut to commentate. Joey Styles brought me up with Todd Grisham and Michael Cole, they brought me up and I had to do a take of commentating.
“They told me, ‘we might bring you in as a commentator or interviewer.’ It was the first time I said, ‘but I want to be a WWE Superstar.’ They didn’t look at me like a WWE Superstar, they looked at me as a personality. I saw something different, ‘I love what you guys do and you do a great job, but I want to be bigger than The Rock and bigger than (Hulk) Hogan. I want to be a Superstar.’ ‘Alright, okay.
“They gave me a developmental deal to go down and they didn’t think I was going to be much of anything, to be honest, you could kind of tell, ‘let’s see what we got here.’ They gave me this developmental contract and I was like, ‘I’m making more than this doing Real World and The Challenge. I’m not taking a paycut to do this.’ I had to think about that. Are we looking at this as a career move? Sometimes, you have to take less because you see the big picture. That’s what I did. I took less money to go there, train, and prove everyone wrong.”
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