WWE’s “Speaking Smack” ran as a weekly collection on the WWE Community for slightly below a yr, and its most well-known second got here shortly after the present received underway. In August 2016, then-Intercontinental Champion The Miz went face-to-face with “Speaking Smack” co-host Daniel Bryan, in a fiery section the place the then-retired Bryan advised Miz he was a coward and did not like the best way he wrestled.
Miz perceived it as Bryan pondering much less of him for not being an unbiased scene darling, like Bryan, and went off. Through the promo, Miz mentioned that whereas Bryan known as him a coward, Bryan was “the one that does not get within the WWE ring once more.” The surprising line precipitated Bryan to stroll off the set, although Miz thought he was going to get punched, and it additionally led the “A-Lister” to consider he was going to be in loads of bother, one thing he defined in a video of his best moments posted to WWE Vault.
“In my head, I am going, ‘What did I simply say? What did I simply say? Did I simply get myself fired?'” Miz defined. “I keep in mind getting a textual content from Kevin Dunn and Vince and so they had been like, ‘We’re popping off of this. That is superior.’ And I am like, ‘Wow. I did it.’ The subsequent week, I received to be the beginning of the present. From then on, that title was made to appear like a principal occasion title.”
Miz defined that he already had a nasty evening earlier than the heated section, as he had simply been drafted to “WWE SmackDown.” When he arrived on the present that evening, he came upon that he’d simply be in a darkish match, which he wasn’t completely satisfied about.
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