WWE veteran The Miz recently appeared on Q1043 New York, where he discussed several topics, including his surprising journey to the wrestling world. He revealed that becoming a WWE superstar was never his goal while growing up. He thought he lacked what it took to fit the typical mold of a WWE performer.
The Miz said, “Well as a kid, I never thought I could be a WWE superstar. Like the guys back then — Hulk Hogan, 6’7″, you know — ‘Pythons!’ He had huge muscles, and I didn’t have that. I wasn’t big by any means. So that was out of the question. I wanted to be a baseball player, basketball player, football player. Like, that was the dream. I was average. My dad would say I was average; I would say I was really good. I was the captain of my baseball team, captain of my cross country team. I mean, I was very good at all sports. But I wasn’t exceptional. It takes the top like, 0.1% to become a professional in anything, correct? So, it never really dawned on me that I could become a WWE superstar.”
On his road from Real World to WWE:
“Then I got on The Real World, which was literally kind of right down the street in Greenwich Village. So I got on The Real World and from there, I said, ‘You know what? If I could be on The Real World, maybe — just maybe — I could become a WWE superstar. Because I always loved the theatrics. I loved the athleticism; I loved the storylines, the larger life characters. I loved everything about it. I just never thought I could do it until I said, ‘I’m gonna try it.’”
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