The Miz Talks WWE Backlash PLE, Browns, Cavs & More with Rich Eisen | Full Interview

0:00 He is the Miz, ladies and gentlemen.

0:01 Uh, WWE superstar in advance of the WWE Backlash streaming live this Saturday.

0:07 What's up, brother?

0:08 How are you?

0:09 I'll wait all day every day just to be interviewed by you.

0:12 So, I am ready to go.

0:14 I am happy.

0:15 Uh, I am unhappy of the fact that the Cavs uh lost game one.

0:19 There was a sloppy game, a lot of turnovers,

0:22 but I think the Cavs beat themselves.

0:24 The Pistons did not beat the Cavs.

0:25 The Cavs beat the Cavs.

0:26 So, as long as the Cavs can turn it around,

0:29 I think that they're going to go to the NBA finals.

0:32 Well, listen, I always know you think

0:34 the Cleveland teams can go always all the way,

0:37 if not undefeated, unblenmished, and unrivaled.

0:41 I understand that.

0:42 Did you hear uh about Donovan Mitchell saying

0:44 that he's not a he's not a flopper?

0:47 That's why he's not getting the calls.

0:48 He's not a flopper.

0:49 So, um he's never been a flopper in Cleveland.

0:52 We don't flop.

0:54 We don't need to flop.

0:55 We're not a bunch of floppers in Cleveland.

0:57 We are hard workers.

0:59 We dedicate ourselves and we strive to win.

1:03 Well, you know what you do?

1:04 You play the long game because you have no choice.

1:06 But listen, uh the long game is this.

1:09 No, by the way, uh did I did I stutter?

1:12 It's all It's all true.

1:13 I mean, he comes in peace, though.

1:15 I I But here I do, too.

1:16 May not sound that way, but I come in peace.

1:19 No, no,

1:21 we all remember No, hold on a minute.

1:23 We remember this face.

1:24 remind this man of this face.

1:26 Um, this face was a man who had just learned that his team was

1:32 passing up the opportunity to trade uh

1:35 to acquire a draft Travis Hunter, willingly trading.

1:38 And that photograph was taken to troll you by Angelo Dawkins.

1:42 Yes.

1:42 Who is definitely nothing in his heart about

1:46 the Cleveland Browns that u at all to be positive.

1:50 But look, hold on a minute.

1:52 One year later, the trade is done and put it up on the screen.

1:57 Mason Graham, Quinn Sean Judkins, Dylan Samson,

2:00 and now Casey Conpsion are in the Browns house.

2:05 And I I don't know.

2:06 Do you have anything to say now back to anybody that was

2:09 having fun at your expense with that photograph and that face?

2:14 Miz, can I be Can I be completely honest with you, please?

2:17 Before the draft, I told myself,

2:21 and this was the first year that I actually said this in in probably like ever,

2:26 I was like, "The Browns aren't going to the Super Bowl this year.

2:30 They're just not.

2:31 We should tank and we should go for Arch Manning.

2:34 That's what we should do."

2:36 Okay.

2:36 After this draft, Mhm.

2:38 we're going to the Super Bowl.

2:39 Like, I don't think you understand.

2:42 I don't think you understand what happened with this draft.

2:45 Andrew Barry, I applaud you.

2:48 My I've never seen anything like this.

2:50 Have you ever seen a better draft?

2:52 I mean, people are like saying, "Oh, the Jets." No.

2:54 No.

2:56 The Cleveland Browns got four first like four first round graded players.

3:01 Four.

3:02 Four.

3:03 We didn't have four first round draft picks.

3:06 But that trade of Travis Hunter, which I was last year,

3:10 that was when I was on the plane.

3:12 And that's the face you saw.

3:14 Travis Hunter, thank you for being the future.

3:23 And these players that we have gotten from that trade.

3:28 Unbelievable.

3:28 We have playmakers.

3:30 We have blockers.

3:31 Now we just need a quarterback.

3:33 And here's what I'm thinking.

3:34 Y and I know a lot of people are going, "Oh, Watson might be back.

3:38 Get rid I don't need him.

3:40 I don't want him.

3:41 I want Shur.

3:42 I want to give Shadur the entire season and see what we have in him.

3:48 And if we don't have what we need,

3:51 I hear there's a lot of good quarterbacks coming out in this next draft.

3:54 Let's go get one.

3:55 But let's give Shadur a chance to be a franchise player because I feel,

4:00 and I don't know about anybody else,

4:01 but I feel he has taken Cleveland as his community.

4:07 And whenever someone comes into Cleveland, you have to represent Cleveland.

4:12 And I feel like he's been doing that.

4:13 He does the little things around the community

4:16 that a lot of people may see or may not see,

4:18 but I I look at on social and I'll be like, "Wow,

4:21 he's really being a part of the community." And that I love.

4:25 And so I want the Cleveland Browns to do well.

4:28 I think they have everything they need to do well and I think

4:31 they will do well and I think they're going to the Super Bowl.

4:34 And you laugh at me right now.

4:36 You laugh.

4:38 You have a big smile on your face.

4:40 Yeah.

4:41 Huh?

4:43 But wait, you just wait.

4:47 Okay.

4:46 Until next year, right?

4:48 We're sitting here talking again.

4:50 Yes, sir.

4:51 And I am bragging that the Cleveland Browns are the Super Bowl champions.

4:56 You know what?

4:56 I got to You know what?

4:58 I got to applaud.

4:59 Got to got to give it up.

5:01 Thank you.

5:01 Gotta give it.

5:02 That's the level of delusion I have.

5:04 Not delusion.

5:05 It's not delusion.

5:06 I love it.

5:07 But I I I hear you.

5:09 Um, and I don't think anybody capes for Shadore more than I do.

5:15 Um, because I'm I've known him since he was

5:18 a kneeh high to a jack rabbit to use a phrase.

5:22 Um, and so he and obviously I love Dion and the whole family.

5:26 He does have an opportunity.

5:28 I would imagine I imagine they'll give him that opportunity.

5:30 He's got to ball out in training camp and do everything because if I'm

5:34 the Browns and I've poured out so much capital and time and taken so much

5:40 crap and so much grief for acquiring Deshun Watson and I've spent all that money

5:46 and he's you got one more year to see what you have in him.

5:49 I I I it would be way too enticing for me

5:53 to not kick that tire in week one and see how it goes.

5:57 Um because he does have have the neck on one would think.

6:01 Flat I think you got a flat tire and you just need

6:04 to put it in the trunk and get that new tire in.

6:08 Okay.

6:07 Put it on.

6:08 Shadur is it.

6:09 What do you think Shadur's missing?

6:11 Like you've known him since he was a child.

6:13 Experience.

6:13 Experience.

6:14 Experience.

6:14 Is that what it is?

6:15 Then why aren't we giving him the experience?

6:16 No, I know that because because you have something else um where

6:21 you're otherwise potentially ready to go at these young guys and then

6:24 you're going to also see how how the the rest

6:26 of the team and obviously Todd Monkin will have to take that temperature.

6:30 How does the rest of the team respond?

6:32 Like do they didn't Monin want him?

6:34 He said that when he walked in the office, but you know, Miz,

6:38 you've been around this town long enough to know what people say

6:40 to your face and what it really means behind your back, too.

6:42 I I don't know.

6:43 So, you think he's two-faced?

6:44 I'm You know what?

6:45 I I shouldn't say such things.

6:47 It could be something that that might be um genuine.

6:50 I did see that um that that that exchange.

6:53 I shouldn't say that.

6:54 Um even though I just did.

6:56 I I I don't know.

6:58 I understand.

6:59 Do you think you speak for all Browns fans that you

7:01 want to see the kid rather than Deshun Watson again?

7:03 You uh from me and my friends and my friends are all from Cleveland.

7:07 I think we all whenever Deshawn was brought to Cleveland, we all went

7:12 and we all liked Baker Mayfield.

7:15 I think like talking to my friends and being able to go to the American

7:19 Century Championship and play golf with Baker Mayfield

7:22 and see what he's like around everybody else, that's a guy I can get behind.

7:27 Like that's a guy that I want to hang out with and I want to play football with.

7:32 And he's just a ride or die type of person.

7:34 He has the moxy that is Cleveland or was Cleveland

7:37 and then we trade him away to get this what's supposed

7:40 to be a franchise quarterback that just basically has been broken

7:44 ever since he's gotten to Cleveland and it's been an annoyance.

7:48 it's been uh negative publicity and you know you

7:51 bring in Shadore which I don't know if that's

7:53 even better publicity or not but I mean I look at him and I go this guy has

7:59 a star and a father that has been training him since he was a kid to be

8:04 a star to to take with the pressure

8:06 of of what it is to be an NFL franchise quarterback.

8:12 So he knows what that pressure is.

8:13 He knows how to do it and it's just being able to do it.

8:17 And now that he has the team that literally has the playmakers,

8:21 it has the blocking.

8:22 And I think they do have the coach and the defense is unreal.

8:27 What's stopping them from literally saying, "Okay, this guy needs experience.

8:31 Let's give him this full season to do that.

8:34 He's gotten to sit a little bit.

8:35 He should have enough time by now, right?

8:37 That literally has given him the experience to be

8:40 a good solid quarterback." And everyone has a bad first year.

8:44 like his first year,

8:45 his first time I saw his first game with the Raiders and I was like,

8:49 "This guy's got spark." There's something about the team

8:51 that when he plays with him, there's a spark.

8:54 Now, there's a lot of turnovers,

8:55 but Pton Manning had a lot of turnovers as well.

8:57 Y So, why are we saying, "Oh, Pton Manning's this guy,

9:01 but then why not Shadur this guy?" Like,

9:03 I know one's fifth round, one's a first round, but I don't know, man.

9:08 I say give it give him the ball and let's see him see what he can do.

9:11 Yeah.

9:11 Well, let's see how that plays out.

9:12 Uh, the Miz here on the Rich Eisen Show, WWE Backlash.

9:17 Ladies and gentlemen, coming up Saturday on the ESPN app,

9:20 on the ESPN limited unlimited plan right here in the good old US of A.

9:24 ESPN 2 is the home of the first hour live.

9:28 Uh, I give you the floor on this subject matter, sir.

9:31 What do you got for me?

9:32 Uh, I mean, Backlash is going to be absolutely incredible.

9:34 I have a match myself and Kit Wilson,

9:36 my mentee, uh, Master Inspire Zone In Miz Method.

9:40 Uh, he's been doing it.

9:42 He's been doing great.

9:43 And we're taking on a guy named Danhousen who curses people.

9:47 And people believe in this curse.

9:50 People believe so much in this curse that I'm

9:53 in a tag team match for the tag team championships.

9:56 I hit a guy with the skull crushing finale.

9:58 I go to cover him.

10:00 One, two.

10:02 The referee gets a cramp in his shoulder.

10:05 Could you imagine an NFL referee saying, "Sorry guys, I got a cramp.

10:10 I missed that place, that play.

10:12 I cost you the game.

10:14 Could you What would What do you think would happen to that person?

10:17 Cuz in WWE, he said, "Oh, it's okay.

10:20 It's no problem.

10:21 It happens." No, it doesn't happen.

10:23 What happens is one, two, three, I'm the tag team champion.

10:26 I'm no longer tag team champion.

10:28 Not only that, by the way, Dan Hen has blown me up.

10:31 Two weeks ago, Pyro just blows up in the ring.

10:34 People are saying, "Oh, it's a curse." No, it's not.

10:36 It's the pyro guy doing the pyro wrong at the wrong

10:40 time and hitting me in the face and cost me a match.

10:42 These are the type of things that happened.

10:44 Dan Hen has also ruined my vow renewal with my wife.

10:50 Oh, I was going to renew my vows with my wife.

10:52 We were doing it.

10:53 We were doing a special thing at at Wrestlemania where

10:56 I would basically uh officiate weddings which I thought was beautiful.

11:01 I remember when I married my wife

11:02 for the first time and then my wife surprised me.

11:04 She says, "You know what?

11:05 We're going to renew our vows right now.

11:07 I was like, "Oh my god,

11:08 this is amazing." In front of our daughters who have never seen us get married.

11:11 This is crazy.

11:12 They were We got married before.

11:13 They were boring.

11:14 And so then what happens?

11:16 Dan Hson shows up and ruins everything.

11:18 My wife gets cake in her face.

11:20 I get cake in my face.

11:21 And so that he ruined my my vow reveal.

11:23 Not only that, he stole my daughter's bike.

11:25 What the hell?

11:26 Dan Hen stole my daughter's bike.

11:28 Sounds like a real bastard.

11:30 This Dan Hen,

11:31 people are cheering him.

11:33 Love him.

11:34 You want my daughters?

11:36 My daughter's rich.

11:38 My daughters love him.

11:39 Think he's so funny.

11:40 I was like, they he stole your bike.

11:42 And she's like, that's okay.

11:43 You'll just buy me a new one.

11:45 I'm like, WHAT ARE WE DOING HERE?

11:46 It's your first bike.

11:47 Like, that's that's that that has sentimental value to me to you, too.

11:52 Like this is not a guy that we should be looking at going, "Oh my god,

11:56 he should be going up against a person that's been

11:58 in WWE for 20 years as main event at WrestleMania, two-time WWE Champion,

12:03 and I'm going up against this guy and people think

12:07 this guy's going to beat me." I don't think so.

12:11 But then also on the Backlash card, by the way, I'll keep going.

12:14 Yeah, we have Roman Reigns taking on Jacob Fatu, which Fatu has been on a tear.

12:19 He's exactly what he says he is.

12:20 All gas, no breaks.

12:22 And uh Roman Reigns has his hands full.

12:25 Let me tell you, Seth Rollins, Braun Breaker,

12:27 and I got to tell you, this new crop of talent,

12:31 I don't know what's going on down there

12:33 at the performance center in the WWE's NXT uh performance center,

12:38 but they are training these these young superstars

12:41 to come into WWE and not only be ready,

12:44 but have a connection with the audience.

12:45 And Braun Breaker has just been absolutely stout.

12:49 So, Seth Rollins, man, I mean, he he to me is the new Mr.

12:55 Wrestlemania.

12:55 He every time he has a match, it's a five-star quality match that, you know,

12:59 you're going to want to see and love, but man,

13:02 Braun Breaker just hits you hard and uh could cause an injury.

13:06 You never know.

13:07 So, we have a lot of a lot of insane matches.

13:10 Asuka Eio Sky is going to be one that to be remembered.

13:15 So, we're going to be there Tampa and this Saturday

13:17 and it's going to be an absolute amazing PL.

13:21 Well, Jacob Fatu, the guest of this week's no contest wrestling, correct?

13:26 episode dropped yesterday.

13:26 We will also have a cut down version on ESPN 2 this afternoon.

13:31 This afternoon, what up, Miz?

13:32 Uh, better guest.

13:33 Better guest, me or Jacob Fatu?

13:35 Oh, that's hard to say, Miz.

13:37 I mean, you were in person.

13:38 You were in person.

13:40 Jacob was on Zoom.

13:41 Can I say I'd love talking to both of you.

13:43 How about

13:44 you can't say

13:45 No, I don't want a PC answer.

13:46 Nobody Nobody here.

13:48 Rich Eisen wants pe wants eyes on the show.

13:52 He wants to know, hey, if I'm going to put you on, teach,

13:55 I want to know what the answer is.

13:57 I don't want to.

13:58 Well, maybe this, maybe that.

14:00 And I got you.

14:00 You know, you and I, Jordan or LeBron, I'm just Oh, they're so both good.

14:05 You know, Miz, you and I had a one-sided beef for decades

14:07 before I was able to sit down and chop it up with you.

14:10 So, if I had to take that into consideration,

14:12 I'd say Jacob, you know, if you're going to put me on Yeah.

14:18 YEAH.

14:17 BECAUSE IT took but now you and I are here and I didn't want to say cut a promo,

14:22 you know.

14:22 But I do have a thing, man.

14:24 You don't know who Dan Hen's tag team partner is, bro.

14:27 So, I'm going to do you a favor because we are cool.

14:29 I don't care who it is.

14:32 I don't care if he brings more people with face paint.

14:36 You think I care who your mystery partner is?

14:40 I don't think you care.

14:41 I don't care if it's a hamburger.

14:42 Bring on whoever you want.

14:45 I don't think you care.

14:46 But because we're cool now, I have a few names.

14:47 I just want to throw these out just so you'll be prepared if you hear.

14:51 I don't know if I want to answer him anymore.

14:53 Well, this is for you.

14:54 Seriously, that Jacob Hunter is a better interview than me.

14:57 There's no one that's a better interview than me.

14:59 Gives you more energy, more ammo, more talkability, you know, than me.

15:04 And you sit there and say, "Oh, Jacob, he's all gas, no brakes.

15:08 He's so amazing.

15:09 Oh my god.

15:10 Maybe the world champion.

15:11 You never know.

15:12 How dare you?

15:14 How dare you?

15:14 You put me position unjustifiably.

15:17 I didn't want to say it, but you made it." Okay, but here's the deal.

15:20 I got a few partners for Dan Housen.

15:22 I just want this.

15:23 Just go ahead.

15:23 Just do it because he doesn't want to hear it.

15:25 It could be Matt Cardona.

15:26 Could be Mr.

15:27 Iguana.

15:28 Could be Royce Keys.

15:29 Could be CM Punk.

15:31 I show Speed is another one.

15:33 But if they're going to go the ESPN route,

15:34 because you know there's some synergy, I've been hearing Stephen A.

15:37 Smith.

15:37 Nah, I'm not worried about him for you,

15:39 but you should worry about Kendrick Perkins.

15:41 Maybe he's Dan Hen's tag team partner.

15:44 Oh, Brian Winhorse.

15:46 Wendy, he could be Dan Hen's tag team partner.

15:48 Or, you know, sometimes it's the least expected person.

15:51 And there's a man that's sitting to my left now.

15:54 I don't know what he's doing on Saturday.

15:56 He has no plans.

15:57 You never know.

15:58 It could be Rich Isaac.

15:59 He could be Dan.

16:02 Watch out.

16:02 It'd be better better option to be being in the freeze in Atlanta.

16:08 Um, I want it to be you, TJ, so I can smack you right in the face.

16:11 Hit you with a Skull Crush finale.

16:13 How about that?

16:13 That's who I want the partner to be.

16:15 You never know.

16:15 Maybe then I'll be your favorite guest.

16:18 It's no longer one-sided.

16:20 Uh, all right.

16:21 Saturday, May 9th, 6 Eastern on the ESPN app.

16:24 ESPN Unlimited Plan in the United States.

16:26 The first hour airs live on ESPN 2.

16:29 Prime Video is the home of American Gladiators,

16:31 available right now, hosted by the Miz.

16:34 Thank you, Rich.

16:35 You know, it's it's hard to get that plug out there sometimes,

16:38 but I appreciate you giving me the American Gladiators plug, and it's amazing.

16:43 By the way, we've been the number one uh

16:46 competition series as well as unscripted on Prime Video.

16:49 Since its debut one month ago, we've been number one

16:53 and uh people have been talking all about it.

16:55 So, thank you very much for actually bringing it up

16:57 and I'm I'm happy to bring that up even though

16:59 you mentioned about playing American

17:01 Century Championship Golf with Baker Mayfield.

17:04 Even though you did it with me first, I'm fine with it.

17:07 So, stop being so sensitive, Miz.

17:09 I was going to ask you, are you doing it this year or no?

17:11 Oh, hell yeah.

17:12 I'm back at the good.

17:13 Yeah, which is why you and I are both calling it the American Century

17:16 Championship because we don't want to be caught on a on a teaching tape.

17:20 Um, you're the best, Miz.

17:22 Thanks for being here.

17:23 Thanks, bud.

17:23 Thanks, guys.

17:25 The Miz, no longer one-sided beef.

17:28 It's both sides beef now.

17:30 Hey, you made it all the way to the end.

17:31 Thanks for that.

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