The Miz Reveals His Potential WM 29 Opponent & Recalls His Concussion At WrestleMania 27

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The Miz recently did an interview to promote The Marine 3, which was released today. Among talking about his potential film career and doing his own stunts, Miz also spoke about his upcoming WrestleMania 29 opponent and tells a funny story about what happened after his WrestleMania 27 main event match against John Cena.

Did you get any advice from The Rock about how to balance wrestling and movie life?

I did, actually. I texted The Rock, because let’s face it, The Rock is the biggest action hero right now in movies, so I was like, listen, Rock, what’s your best advice, and he told me to just be natural. He said that too many times guys try and be this big guy, but it ends up looking robotic. He told me to act natural, have fun, and enjoy the scenes, enjoy yourself. It sounds so simple, but when you get in there and there are all these cameras and you have different takes and different feelings, being natural is great advice, and it actually helped out a lot.

Speaking of The Rock, do you think the criticism he receives for being the WWE champ while only working part time is fair or unfair?

Listen, anytime The Rock wants to come back to WWE, I welcome him back with open arms. The Rock is the reason I wanted to become a WWE superstar, and not only that, but he brings his movie crowd to the WWE, and if the ratings are going up and you’re watching Raw, guess what, people are seeing The Miz, and more people are going to stay and watch The Miz. So if The Rock wants to come back, I open my arms to it because he always brings a whole new set of WWE fans.

You’ve been locked in a great feud with Antonio Cesaro of late. What was it like getting swung into the outside rail like that, over and over and over?

Really, that’s what you want to talk about? Not me making him tap out with the figure-four leglock, you want to talk about how he swung me from banister to banister and hurt my shoulder? Thank you very much for reminding me of that, by the way. I don’t think people realize how hard that barrier is. I really did hurt my shoulder, and I couldn’t lift it for like two weeks. I’ve finally had some rest and it’s starting to feel OK, but we do have Wrestlemania 29 coming up at MetLife Stadium on April 7, so I’m really excited about that, because you’ll have The Rock versus John Cena for the WWE Championship, but I plan on stealing the entire show. What you’ll remember on Monday Night Raw the night after will be what The Miz did, hopefully to Antonio Cesaro.

So is that match officially on the card?

That’s what I’m hoping for, but with WWE, you never know what’s going to happen. It’s live, it’s in your face. You never know what is going to happen. We love shock value.

As an old-school wrestling fan like yourself, what was it like to have the figure-four passed down to you by the one and only Ric Flair?

One of the greatest moments of my life. Growing up watching Ric Flair, wooing to all my friends, and trying to put on the figure-four leglock on my buddies, and then having him come out on Miz TV and not only having a woo-off with him, not only strutting with him, but having him kind of say, hey, go ahead and put on my move that I’ve made famous through the years and won many world titles with. It’s just incredible. I hope to pay tribute to Ric Flair and his greatness every time I put it on.

You talked earlier about trying to steal the show at Wrestlemania this year. I know when you wrestled John Cena in the main event of Wrestlemania 27, you hit your head so bad that you can’t even remember the match. Do you ever watch the DVD of the match? Has your memory of the event started to come back?

No, I watch it back and I don’t remember a thing. There are bits and pieces that come back, but most of it is just one big blur. It’s funny, because when we went backstage, my parents got to go backstage to see if I was OK, and the next day, my dad comes up to me and starts showing me all these pictures he took backstage. He was like, “Oh my God, I got The Rock, I got John Cena, I got Rock’s mom, this is incredible.” So I was like, “Wait a minute, Dad, when did you get these?” And he said, “You were concussed and you kept asking the same questions and it got annoying so I just went out and started taking pictures with everybody.” I was like, “Thanks, Dad, I appreciate that!”

You can read the full interview here.

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