{"id":60937,"date":"2018-06-05T14:05:52","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/?p=60937"},"modified":"2018-06-05T14:05:52","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T19:05:52","slug":"miz-comments-on-wwes-new-mega-deal-with-fox-to-acquire-rights-to-smackdown-takes-credit-tongue-in-cheek-wants-to-become-face-of-brand-by-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/06\/05\/miz-comments-on-wwes-new-mega-deal-with-fox-to-acquire-rights-to-smackdown-takes-credit-tongue-in-cheek-wants-to-become-face-of-brand-by-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Miz comments on WWE&#8217;s new mega-deal with Fox to acquire rights to Smackdown, takes credit (tongue-in-cheek), wants to become Face of Brand by 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"pwtor-3049000525\" 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>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&#8217;s rights for over $1 billion over five years starting in September 2019.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet\u2019s put it this way,&#8221; he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BustedOpenRadio\/status\/1004059423713693703\">told Busted Open Radio<\/a>, &#8220;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.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Sometimes I look at my merch, well I haven\u2019t had merch in literally a year and when I get merch I\u2019m literally looking at it going, \u2018I wouldn\u2019t wear this.\u2019 So I want merch that people look at and go, \u2018I want to buy that, I want to wear that. That is something that is amazing and incredible.\u2019 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\u2019ll no longer the quote\/unquote the &#8220;B show&#8221; like everyone always says it is. It will be the &#8220;A show&#8221; and more people will watch it. So I\u2019ll be interested to see what happens from a creative standpoint, from a marketing standpoint, [and] from a WWE superstar standpoint.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added:\u00a0\u201cYou\u2019re welcome, WWE.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>You can also hear the full interview \u2013 in which The Miz talks about the high and low points of his career, his family and being a father, and more &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dropbox.com\/s\/ngw4ne4imlqkdaw\/SiriusXM%20Rush%20-%20Busted%20Open%20-%20The%20Miz%20with%20Dave%20Lagreca%20and%20Mark%20Henry%206-5-18%20FULL%20INT.mp3?dl=0\">HERE<\/a>.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><strong>NOW CHECK OUT THIS RECENT REPORT:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/06\/05\/6-4-wwe-raw-holt-report-on-site-details-on-what-didnt-air-on-tv-what-happened-before-and-after-raw-crowd-reactions\/\">6\/4 WWE Raw HOLT Report: On-site details on what didn\u2019t air on TV, what happened before and after Raw, crowd reactions<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"pwtor-end-article-groups pwtor-entity-placement\" id=\"pwtor-1370444115\"><div id=\"pwtor-3301240975\"><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>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&#8217;s rights for over $1 billion over five years starting in September 2019. <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/2018\/06\/05\/miz-comments-on-wwes-new-mega-deal-with-fox-to-acquire-rights-to-smackdown-takes-credit-tongue-in-cheek-wants-to-become-face-of-brand-by-2019\/\" title=\"Miz comments on WWE&#8217;s new mega-deal with Fox to acquire rights to Smackdown, takes credit (tongue-in-cheek), wants to become Face of Brand by 2019\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":19515,"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":[2,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prowrestlingnews","category-news_wwe"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/MizmicICTitle_3x2Lunn.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60937","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60937"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60938,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60937\/revisions\/60938"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19515"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pwtorch.com\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}