The Miz has really come a long way since his debut in WWE, where he has shown tremendous growth as a heel and in the ring as well. Especially bringing back prestige to the Intercontinental Championship.
But unfortunately, Miz is still considered to be a joke to many and apparently to WWE as well. Since he was made to lose to Daniel Bryan in three minutes at Super Show Down.
In an interview with The Mirror, The Miz goes on to explain that his time on the Real World has led to a lack of respect from people and still continues to this day. This is what he said:
“I will never get the respect I deserve because I was on a reality show. Whenever you’re on a reality show, you’re the scum of the earth. You have no talent, you’re a nothing and you deserve nothing. That’s the way I’ve been brought up and how I feel people look at reality [television]. Do I look at it that way? Absolutely not; I thank my lucky stars I was on a show like The Real World on MTV and I thank them for putting me on that show because it gave me the ability to say ‘I can do anything I want with my life.’”
“So I have always had that chip on my shoulder and always will. Do I think I’ll ever get the respect I deserve? No. But especially now I’m on my own reality show, and I really don’t like to call it a reality show, I like to call it a docu-series because it documents when it’s like to be first-time parents in the entertainment industry. I like to think it’s a different type of show, but now that I have that, it puts even more ammo against me. But, maybe now, people will look at me and say ‘this guy can lead a show.’”
“If people start switching and start respecting me, I’ll find a new drive and a new fire, but I don’t think that’s going to happen. Are my peers starting to respect me? I think they’re starting to see my value and that they see I work hard. How many other people are doing this media interview for the UK? Probably not many. And I’ve problem spoken to you all. It’s just the thing that I am always doing media, always working and always going non stop, because I believe that hard work beats talent when talent doesn’t work hard enough.”
We also believe The Miz should get more than he currently gets as he has proven himself to be worthy.
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h/t to The Mirror for the transcription.
