Oh, I see a lot of threes.

There's only one right number one.

I'm putting it at number three.

Boo.

And the audience does not like it.

Why? Because when he cashed in, it was in the, the rowdiest, the rowdiest audience, which is the day after WrestleMania.

He pins, one, two, three, [bell rings] and I have never, and I mean never, heard a pop quite like that.

Miz, what did you do?

What intrigues you the most?

Intrigues me the most? Oh, I don't know, maybe Bron Breakker and the future of WWE.

Is it Bron? Is it Oba Femi? If I'm Bron, I feel replaced.

A few years ago, Bron Breakker came into WWE and what did everybody say? "This is the future.

This guy has it.

Aroo, roo, roo, roo." A few years later, we get a meteoric rise of one Oba Femi.

[audience cheering] This audience has connected to Oba Femi like I've never seen.

Who does that history favor, and how does it impact this match?

Wow.

Makes you wanna watch her.

And so that's one thing.

Uh, another accolade in WWE that, that I've, I mean, WWE Championship is so easy, right? I mean, that's, that's a standard fare.

Being, making the Intercontinental Championship, what it was, like, lo- what I remember it as a kid, and now today I feel like it's still a prestigious title because at the time, maybe 10 years ago, I got fed up with it just being a title that people were just thrown on a title.

Like, I made, I wanted to make stories out of it, the people that I was working with wanted to make stories out of it, and we made the title, the Intercontinental Title, like, the most important title in WWE at that time, which is very difficult to do because it's usually the WWE Championship and the World Championship.

Those are the two.

... stock gone up in your mind, Miz?

You've paraded that.

I definitely paraded.

Well, I mean, that is one of the, well, I still remember when she walked into the room for the Diva Search and seeing just, something about like you know when someone walks in a room and you just can't stop staring at them yeah that was you today that's thank you that's but that's what the way i was with my wife i i well the person i didn't even know at the time i was just in awe of her so you believe in love at first sight then Yeah, I guess you could say.

I mean, I didn't know it was love, right? I was just more of like an infatuation, like a like, wow, that is true beauty.

Wow.

There's something about this woman that just drives you towards her.

Wow.

Is there anything that surprised you last night, night one? Any one stock? gone up in your mind, Miz? I think

Amplifies it up.

But then when you're in a stadium, it, it bounces back.

So you'll...

The crowd reaction, and that's what I'm always listening to whenever I'm in an, like, in a match.

Like, I'm listening to the audience to hear where they are.

"Okay, I need to do X, Y, and Z to get them to where I need to be to either start this comeback, go for my finisher, do certain things." So I'm always thinking, always listening to an audience to get them where they need to be.

And so for an arena, it's simple, 'cause that's where we've, we've basically known, and we know.

Wow

[laughs]

About being someone else whose name is spelled M-I-S, not M-I-Z.

I am The Miz.

I am not The Mic.

I am great on the mic.

Uh, there's no one better than me on the mic.

Yes, I agree with that.

Okay, last question from us to you is what should we look forward to at Summer Slam, and is The Mic gonna make an appearance in there?

Mm-hmm.

When I said, "Hey, let's do a little thing on 17." He goes, "Ah, I don't know." I go, "Dude, you can sack me." He goes, and then I, the, in my head I'm going, "God, he has no off switch.

I know he has no off switch."

Another one.

Because you did it 10 years ago.

We saw you guys go out and do a vacation like no other.

I wanna see you do a vacation 10 years from now about the championship you win this year.

Snowball here.

And then it's gonna, it's gonna go, so let me get out of here.

I apologized, walked out, and then I remember I was watching, we used to watch them on VHS tapes, our matches back.

Mm-hmm, mm-hmm.

Remember that, those days? Yep, yep.

And so I was watching my match back and I just hear, "Miz." Wasn't you.

[laughs] Um, uh, and I got yelled at, probably the worst I've ever been yelled at in my entire life, and I didn't get kicked out there.

It might have, it may have behooved you to go to court.

[laughs]

And not really caring what we're doing or whatever, but it was just- [laughs] It was learning.

Yeah It was learning the art of professional wrestling until Tough Enough came along and I tr- I wanted to try out.

They wouldn't let me because I was on MTV, and Tough Enough was on MTV, so they were like, "You can't be on two MTV shows." I was like, "But I'm on The Challenge and Real World." Like, "Yeah, but those are sister shows.

This is not part of that." It's like, "All right, fine.

I'll just keep doing it the right way." And so I went on Tough Enough, uh, finally when it went to The CW.

Mm-hmm.

FBD Insurance PLC is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland

Wow.

They are, they are doing such superb things out there.

But for me, I had to go f- to one developmental territory, because it was before the NXT, and I went to Louisville.

And when I went, and when Paul Heyman brought me to Louisville, I was like, "I don't understand why they're not connecting the way they did in McDonough." Like, McDonough, I was the ultimate babyface.

No one was bigger than me.

Then I go into Louisville, and it was just, it was, there was still a connection, but it wasn't as high as it was.

He goes, "You wanna know why? You're a heel.

Yeah.

Love it

... and see what we have in him.

And if we don't have what we need, I hear there's a lot of good quarterbacks coming out in this next draft.

Let's go get one.

But let's give Shedeur a chance to be a franchise player, because I feel, and I don't know about anybody else, but I feel he has taken Cleveland as his community.

And whenever someone comes into Cleveland, you have to represent Cleveland, and I feel like he's been doing that.

He does the little things around the community that a lot of people may see or may not see, but I, I look at it on social and I'll be like, wow, he's really being a part of the community, and that I love.

[laughs]

Any turnovers?

... right in the beginning when we first got Harden, I was like, "Oh, no, like we have a problem in the playoffs.

Harden has a problem in the playoffs." But then, but then he comes on the team and it changes everything.

Like, am I insane to think that Harden could be the answer to where we need t- what we need to go to the playoffs? I think it can be done.

We just gotta get rid of the sloppy play.

We gotta get rid of the turnovers.

Once we do that, we're gonna beat the Pistons, and then we're gonna go to the Knicks, because the Knicks are going to beat the Sixers.

[laughs]

As a father who is very annoyed by this person who may or may not have cursed you, how did you feel when your daughter said, yeah, the guy who stole my bike, I think he's funny, even though he's your opposition?

Imagine this.

Imagine you buy your daughter a bike, her first bike, and she's riding around in it.

And you're just like, wow, this is amazing.

It reminds you of like the good old days when you used to have a bike and you love that bike.

And then this ghoul comes in and steals that bike.

And I'm like, my daughter's going to be crying.

Well, I wanted to ask him about potentially being cursed about his Cleveland Browns and what you would like to see them do with the quarterback situation.

What is your message to Dan Housen? Dan Housen, you stole

my daughter's bike, a bike that I bought her.

It is her first bike.

And when I told her Dan Housen stole your bike, sweetheart, you know what she told me? She said, that's okay, Dad.

You'll buy me a new one.

I like Dan Housen.

He makes me laugh.

What is your expectation?

Mm-hmm.

Like, since the first meeting with, um, uh, Prime Video and MGM, the, the first meeting I was like, "This has to be..." If, if, if I'm gonna get the job, like, this was, my first meeting was basically like, "Am I gonna get the job?" Like, there was a bunch of people out for this.

Am I gonna get it? And I basically was, I told my agent, I was like, "I'm getting this." Like, I am so driven to get this one because I remember it as a kid, and I want my kids to grow up remembering this version of American Gladiators, and we, it has to be done right.

And I honestly, truly believe we did it right.

We have gladiators that are bigger, faster, stronger than I've ever seen.

There's harder hits than I've ever seen.

The events are second to none.

Mm-hmm.

... you were an anomaly.

Yeah.

Nobody wanted you because you were taking...

One, in Hollywood you were taking jobs from actors, real actors.

Like, you're a no-talent hack.

All year on, you're on a reality show.

You're, you're...

A little bit

[laughs]

You can't practice for Powerball.

You think you can, but when you go up against our gladiators, there is no practice.

It is nonstop, action-packed, hard-hitting.

And I'm telling you, people really fall for our, our contenders because their stories are literally heart-wrenching.

You want them.

You, you want...

[laughs] Oh, no. That's-

You guys are great at it.

it.This isn't the first time that we've, uh, hosted a show together.

It was really random and, uh, interesting the way this all came about.

Uh, we did Cannonball probably about five or six years ago, uh, on the USA Network.

And then now, you know, to be able to regroup again and come back and bring along Chris Rose, who is an NFL analyst, who does all our commentating, who brings a level of professionalism, but also brings a level of comedy, as well as the team of the gladiators, who really put forth a maximum effort, the entire production team.

Yeah.

Everyone was on the same page.

We want to make this what we remember, but bring it to the now, and I feel like we did exactly that.

I am here with a couple future WWE Hall of Famers, The Miz, and the reason we're really all here, to, to speak to, Maryse, if I'm being honest.

Couldn't agree with you more.

I am just trying to keep my composure.

I just saw Danhausen, and he is very, very lucky that this is the Hall of Fame and we are honoring the people that have paved the way for us.

And so I'm gonna keep my composure, keep calm, and relax.

She actually got me, like, to tone it down.

[laughs] What? [laughs]

Stephanie McMahon.

I'm, like, trying to visualize your weekend

On Friday, American Gladiators will premiere on Amazon Prime, and then you can watch me on USA Network's SmackDown.

And then right after SmackDown, I'll be hosting the Hall of Fame ceremony.

And then Saturday, I will have, uh, WrestleMania, and Sunday I will have WrestleMania.

And I have a bunch of stuff that I have to do at WrestleMania that people don't know about yet, but, uh, we always like to sneak things in.

[upbeat music]

Yeah

... human beings, and elite athletes at everything.

He says, you're grabbing that, right? And it's like, oh, I get it.

But you look great.

You look in shape.

You look ready to go.

You look like one of our contenders.

So you're hosting the gladiators.

You're the host of it.

Where is it

Just love, kisses and hugs

and tons of street cred.

Yeah.

You got to remember, I mean, back in the day, MTV was the show, right? Like it was, it was MTV was the, the network.

That's what everyone was watching.

And then you would go onto the real world, which was the biggest show.

Out there.

Dude, I

It

did start at a live event.

I ate a piece of chicken over someone's bag, and the way it was brought to the attention... was that I was in the locker room throwing chicken everywhere, right? And it was like, I remember, and I kind of dismissed it, I guess you can say, and it probably wasn't the wrong way to do, right? So the person walks in and goes, oh, you're eating chicken over my bag.

Like, oh man, I'm sorry, you know? And then another person walks in, oh, you were eating chicken over his bag.

Oh yeah, and I knew what was happening.

So I literally got up and left.

Because I saw the, oh, it's going to start going here to here to here.

Yeah, you seemed really mad.

By the way, it's

exactly what everyone wanted.

Yep.

And it was a, like, you can sit there and go like all these people, five-star match.

That is a five-star match.

Why? Because the crowd was on the edge of their seats the entire time.

I mean, I remember watching that match going, that was perfect.

It was

It did start

at a live event.

I ate a piece of chicken over someone's bag, and the way it was brought to the attention was, was that I was in the locker room throwing chicken everywhere, right? And it was like, I remember, and I kind of dismissed it, I guess you can say, and it probably wasn't the wrong way to do, right? So the person walks in and goes, oh, you're eating chicken over my bag.

Like, oh man, I'm sorry, you know? And then another person walks in, oh, you were eating chicken over his bag.

Oh yeah, and I knew what was happening.

So I literally got up and left.

Because I saw the, oh, it's going to start going here to here to here, and it's going to go.

Yeah, you seemed really mad.