{"id":120042,"date":"2021-05-27T16:36:03","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T21:36:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=120042"},"modified":"2021-05-27T16:37:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T21:37:22","slug":"miro-says-he-became-a-circus-bear-in-wwe-talks-about-his-start-in-aew-as-sabians-best-man","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/05\/27\/miro-says-he-became-a-circus-bear-in-wwe-talks-about-his-start-in-aew-as-sabians-best-man\/","title":{"rendered":"Miro says he became a circus bear in WWE, talks about his start in AEW as Sabian&#8217;s best man"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-1555337649\" class=\"pwtor-before-content pwtor-entity-placement\"><hr \/><b>SPOTLIGHTED PODCAST ALERT (YOUR ARTICLE BEGINS A FEW INCHES DOWN)... <\/b>\r\n\r\n<iframe src=\"https:\/\/widget.spreaker.com\/player?show_id=3076978&theme=light&playlist=false&playlist-continuous=false&autoplay=false&live-autoplay=false&chapters-image=true&episode_image_position=right&hide-logo=false&hide-likes=false&hide-comments=false&hide-sharing=false&hide-download=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"140px\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe>\r\n<hr \/><\/div><p>In an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2021\/05\/27\/miro-on-aew-double-or-nothing-being-wwe-circus-bear-lana\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The New York Post<\/a>, AEW TNT Champion Miro (formerly Rusev in WWE) said he became a circus bear in WWE because he said yes to everything.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I\u2019m good,&#8221; said Miro. &#8220;I always knew Iwas\u00a0 good. This is the problem with me, I\u2019m good at everything. So if you give me something, I\u2019ll make it the best of it and that\u2019s the problem. I won\u2019t be happy until I\u2019m the talk of the whole business, of course. But somewhere along the lines, and this is going to tie it into it, I kept saying yes. I became this circus bear. I was a killer. I came in 2013-14 (to NXT) and killed everybody and then they gave me a little bit of something else. I showed how good I was at that, too. I became like a circus bear. The more I said yes, the more crap I have to eat. I said yes to the wedding and yes to the dancing and yes to this and that, but that\u2019s not who I am, man. You have to go through these moments until you finally reach your destination. I wouldn\u2019t change a single step. I\u2019ll take the weddings. I\u2019ll take everything because it leads me to my destination and now being the TNT champion.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Miro also talked about his slow introduction into AEW Dynamite storylines while playing Kip Sabian&#8217;s best man on TV and the transition of his character leading into him capturing the TNT Championship from Darby Allin on the May 12 edition of Dynamite.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There is no other version, this is me,&#8221; said Miro. I finally have the opportunity to show how real I am and people click with that and people see it. It\u2019s an easy thing to do for me to just be out there and be myself and do what I do best. In wrestling, it\u2019s full of crap characters who come out there and try to be something they\u2019re not and that\u2019s not how this thing works. You have to draw emotion from within yourself. You got to be yourself, you got to represent what you believe in and that\u2019s what I do and that\u2019s why it\u2019s clicking so hard with the people because they can see I\u2019m not bulls\u2014ting them. This is all real. It\u2019s coming straight from my soul, and it\u2019s my destiny and they see that and you can\u2019t see through that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-2959698238\"><div id=\"pwtor-2769613999\"><div align=\"center\" data-freestar-ad=\"__336x280\" id=\"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\">\r\n  <script data-cfasync=\"false\" type=\"text\/javascript\">\r\n    freestar.config.enabled_slots.push({ placementName: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\", slotId: \"pwtorchcom_medrec_3\" });\r\n  <\/script>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\r\nTHANK YOU FOR VISITING<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In an interview with The New York Post, AEW TNT Champion Miro (formerly Rusev in WWE) said he became a circus bear in WWE because he said yes to everything. &#8220;I\u2019m good,&#8221; said Miro. &#8220;I <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2021\/05\/27\/miro-says-he-became-a-circus-bear-in-wwe-talks-about-his-start-in-aew-as-sabians-best-man\/\" title=\"Miro says he became a circus bear in WWE, talks about his start in AEW as Sabian&#8217;s best man\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":120043,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"episode_type":"","audio_file":"","podmotor_file_id":"","podmotor_episode_id":"","cover_image":"","cover_image_id":"","duration":"","filesize":"","filesize_raw":"","date_recorded":"","explicit":"","block":"","itunes_episode_number":"","itunes_title":"","itunes_season_number":"","itunes_episode_type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6163,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-120042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-aew-news","category-prowrestlingnews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2021\/05\/IMG_3892.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120042"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120046,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120042\/revisions\/120046"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}