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The Miz implied, tongue-in-cheek, in an interview today that he is responsible for the big deal WWE struck with Fox to acquire Smackdown’s rights for over $1 billion over five years starting in September 2019.
“Let’s put it this way,” he told Busted Open Radio, “I get traded from Raw to Smackdown and as soon as I get traded to Smackdown all of a sudden, you know, Fox puts up a billion dollars. So I want to motivate and dedicate myself to where when we are ready to move from USA to Fox in 2019, I want to be the face of that show, of this show. And so that is my goal. I want to be in the middle of every poster. I want to have merch that literally everybody wants to buy, that everybody wants to see.
“Sometimes I look at my merch, well I haven’t had merch in literally a year and when I get merch I’m literally looking at it going, ‘I wouldn’t wear this.’ So I want merch that people look at and go, ‘I want to buy that, I want to wear that. That is something that is amazing and incredible.’ Like, I want to basically be the Superstar I believe I can be and I want my talents to be utilized in a way that I can succeed and I really am going to motivate myself and dedicate myself to be the face of the franchise when the Fix merger happens because moving to Fox, a network show, this show will be bigger. It’ll no longer the quote/unquote the “B show” like everyone always says it is. It will be the “A show” and more people will watch it. So I’ll be interested to see what happens from a creative standpoint, from a marketing standpoint, [and] from a WWE superstar standpoint.”
He added: “You’re welcome, WWE.”
You can also hear the full interview – in which The Miz talks about the high and low points of his career, his family and being a father, and more – HERE.
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