Miz and Mrs. Season 1 and WWE SummerSlam 2018 Lead-Up Review

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Hello, sir Another stunning intro. Yes. Hey,

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on Mayhem Mikes, and surprisingly, Mike the Burtman

Dodd is not back for this episode. But, uh...

Surprisingly. Well, see, surprisingly... Anyway,

considering that, you know, when he and I have

even mentioned WWE Reality TV to you, you're

like, ugh. Oh, to me, yeah, there's a reason

for that. I know, and we'll get into that. But,

here's the thing, folks. The Miz and Maurice

now have their own reality show on USA Network.

For years and years and years, we've had Total

Divas, we have Total Bellas, we have all this

and all that for the WWE reality TV stuff. And

there were several times where The Miz and Maurice

had appeared on some of the more recent seasons

of Total Divas at one point or another. And a

couple episodes, I believe, of Total Bellas,

I could be wrong about that. However, they now

have their own reality show and I figured, hey,

Ryan doesn't like WWE reality television or any

reality television, to be honest with you, so

why not have him give his opinion on The Miz

and Mrs. New Show with Mike, The Miz, and Maurice?

So why is it that you don't like reality television

in general but also the WWE reality TV stuff?

So in general, and we'll get to this with the

WWE stuff, but it's not reality. It's just really

poor scripted improv, usually, is the problem.

It's essentially what it is. It's scripted shows

with people who aren't actors. If I want to watch

that, I will watch any measure of network television

nowadays with all the good stuff being on premium

cable, essentially. uh so yeah that's the main

reason uh although to be fair i like the reality

stuff that reminds me that i'm a terrible human

being uh new zealand border patrol is one of

my favorite shows i adore it the canadian one

is boring it's always stupid americans who don't

who are trying to bring either guns or drugs

into canada in every single episode Like, whoa,

I can't bring my gun up here. This is America.

No, it's not, you idiot. The reason why the Canadian

one's probably so boring is because the Canadian

Mounted Police are so, you know, nice. I mean,

you know, you all have nothing but Dudley Do

rights up there. The New Zealand one's more fun

because people try to bring in stuff clearly.

You can't bring into a small island with a very

small ecosystem. So I get a kick out of that.

But anyway, yeah, my main reason though is just

it's not reality. And I was semi looking forward

to this. Let's just get into it because wrestlers

in general have to be pretty good at improv.

They're usually given just a line or two or certain

bullet points that they have to hit, or at least

they used to be. guys like The Rock and Stone

Cold people from that era that's what they'd

be given and they do a great job with that and

Miz is one who he's been around long enough he

was also in the era when stuff wasn't just written

out point for point for him right and he's a

guy that's amazing on the mic that and he started

in reality TV So he's got a personality, it's

not just a character. And so let's just start

with the first episode, which was... I don't

know, the first or second episode is probably

my favorite. Full disclosure, I didn't get around

to watching the fourth one. Yeah, the fourth

one I'm pretty much going to be synopsizing for

him and for you all. It's called Proud Pops.

It's basically the birth of their child, Monroe

Sky. That's really all it is. There's nothing

really to the fourth episode, but we are going

to talk about all four of them. The first episode

is a simple misunderstanding. This is the one

where Maurice wanted to do an implied nude photo

shoot, where it looks like you're nude, but you're

not actually nude. Well, apparently Mike missed

this part of the implied. Well, I have his phone

supposedly breaks up just for the implied thing.

And so for me, the scenes with Marie's laughing

about it were amusing and well done. But the

rest of it, I was not a fan. I thought it was

too contrived. It's pretty clear that didn't

happen. I don't know about you. I don't know

how often you use the cell phone. I find anyway,

they never break up and not in the middle of

a single important word. And nobody asks anything

relating to it after that. That's why it was

really, really contrived. And that was my least

favorite bit of the episode. I preferred the

later stuff with Renee and Titus looking for

Mike because they think... Marie's is having

contractions or actually she even says that she

thinks she might be or she was feeling something.

Yeah That was I thought that was amusing I thought

it was neat to see all the backstage stuff by

the way because at one point you can see Seamus

and Cesaro eating together and catering and Just

I liked that I liked the Miz is cheap and the

discussions about trying to move Mm -hmm, and

how did they want to do that? The stuff that

to me was probably not scripted because I think

both Miz and Mary's are entertaining enough on

their own to Do it without the scripting, right?

No, I Agree, I think that's cool Second episode

was Miz takes the cake. This was the one where

they're It's her birthday, isn't it? No, no,

no, they're doing a baby shower. Oh, the baby

shower. I'm sad that I remember. That's right,

the baby shower. Miz goes to pick up his dad,

who is also being cheap, and they ruin the cake,

which I thought was a little bit contrived, but

on the other hand, so this was probably my favorite

episode, because I thought the games and the

stuff at the baby shower were kind of fun to

see, and the different people there, and getting

to see Miz chatting with Dolph and some of the

guys backstage. I enjoy that. I think he's, again,

he's an entertaining enough guy. I don't think

they need the scripted hijinks and that kind

of thing, and to me, it's the low point of the

show. And then we get into the third one. I'll

let you synopsize the third one first. Or do

you want to say the second one? Sorry. What is

interesting, I've always said this about any

of the WWE specific, Total Divas, Total Bellas,

whatever, is the backstage stuff. Like you're

not seeing, you may see part of like at one point

in episode four, they have him do his Miz TV

segment. Cause he goes in episode four, he goes

back to Cleveland, his hometown, and he goes,

I live in LA. I'm not from, you know, he does

the whole, you know, heel thing that he's doing,

but. The cool thing for me about these shows

is it's the same thing as WWE 365 or WWE 24 in

the WWE Network. You see who they're actually

friends with in real life. I remember matches,

I remember feuds with The Miz and Dolph. And

it's interesting to me for him to say, or for

me to see him say, or whatever, that, hey, Dolph

is one of my best friends, yada yada. Same thing

with Owens and Baller. Like, if you just watch

Raw, SmackDown, and the pay -per -views, you

wouldn't think to know that Kevin Owens and Finn

Baller are the best of friends. Or even Owens

and Zayn, because they... came up with the supposed

they now hate each other line or there was the

ride along with Jericho and Owens and they actually

seem to get along pretty well despite being two

very different people who came up in very different

ways but still have a similar story and obviously

similar interests. And this is a big thing for

me is these people all lead crazy lives and talk

about it with the ride along and the ride along

in general, by the way, is just nuts. They're

driving from city to city every single night.

Could could be hours. They could be flying for

nearly a day or whatever. They just they have

to get off the car or get off the plane story

or get out of the car or whatever and just go

to work. And that's their life. And so. That,

and so that's what I enjoy seeing slash hearing

about is that stuff that I find interesting.

Somebody ruining a wedding cake or something

like that, any of us can do that. I mean, I can,

I've ruined plenty of things, including my own

life, but you can do whatever. And this, and

all of our podcasts have ruined all those. Oh,

stop it. Then there was TF1. Oh, anyway, so they

I mean they lead really crazy interesting lives

at least to me I mean, maybe I'm in the minority

or maybe you and I are and maybe there are people

there obviously are people who enjoy seeing not

seeing that part of it, but I Don't I just like

seeing it and I'm I know there's always, and

we've had this discussion too, how much of behind

the scenes is too much for you to be a fan, but

I don't have a problem kind of separating the

character with the person. I know I've said it

sometimes makes it harder to boo guys, but if

they do, you know, I know Thomas Giampa is not

the worst human being in the world, but when

he... on screen does stuff like spitting on a

guy's wedding ring and throwing it in the crowd.

It's hard not to boo him or want to see the guy

get his comeuppance. So I don't think it affects

it that much and I like seeing the behind the

scenes stuff. Miz is such a cowardly piece of

garbage in WWE but he's really good at it and

the person I'm sure is a fair amount different.

That's why I wanted to watch this. Total Divas,

Total Bellas, whatever. The whole point of Total

Bellas was so that the Bellas and Cena and Bryan

could have their own spin -off show. And to see

more of Jon and whatever. I love Jon, don't get

me wrong, I'm a huge Jon Cena fan. However...

I know John's seen his character. I know what

he's like. I know from watching all that other

stuff already that like I don't need to see more

of John on reality TV. I don't need to watch

season four or five or whoever. He's also been

a little more open about his personal life than

someone like say The Miz. Or take episode two

as an example. Dolph Ziggler. I can't remember.

I know he's done stuff like Stand Up. I've seen

a couple of things on the network, but I know

very little about the guy and have seen very

little of the guy outside of wrestling. So I

just, I find it interesting that they're friends

that, yeah, they came up roughly the same time.

And it's funny that they lived so close together

and didn't know each other at all. Yeah. But.

I find stuff like that interesting, or the fact

that, you know, Maryse, who is a pro wrestler,

had Avril Lavigne at her baby shower. Yeah. Now,

they didn't mention, is it the original Avril,

or is it the replacement? If it was the replacement,

Chad Kroger would be with her. That's coming

from a Nickelback fan, folks. Oh, internet conspiracies,

but anyway. It's on to episode three, sorry.

Yes, episode three, certified super dad. This

is the episode where Mike has to do something

with WWE and he can't go to the CPR breathing

class. And basically her mom, Marjo, goes instead

and they have this, this is why I like this kind

of stuff. Cause like, like you just said, we

get to see them and we get to see their families

in most instances. I'm torn though. I'm not I'm

not sure if she's playing a character though

Or maybe it's just me or me. This is my problem.

Not anybody else's I guess this is Probably why

I enjoyed episode 2 a little more than this one.

But anyway continue. Sorry. I don't know. I don't

know if this is happening to me in real life.

I'm just saying that what they're showing me

on the screen, she's like, oh, I'm the dad now,

I'm this, I'm that. And it's just a little ribbing

of him. But why I like that they're showing this

is because the flip side of the coin is you see

little quote unquote diary room, vignette video

pieces where he's like, I want to be the best

dad I can. I want to go to all of these. So you

see, even though she's making fun of him and

she's joking around, it then prompts, I don't

know if this is the way it was set up or if it

was scripted this way or whatever, it shows the

softer side of Miz. Well, it probably does legitimately

bug him that he's gonna miss it. Obviously, yeah.

And yeah, you're right. This is a strong part

of the show, because that's something too I think

most people can relate to. I know, for example,

my brother at one point lamented how much of

his kid's lives he missed early on because he

was workaholic and it's something everybody has

to get used to though is balancing that and it'll

be interesting going forward as in post episode

four to see how Miz gets around that because

the lifestyle is like we said earlier is ridiculous

with just constant travel and they mention it

at one point in it was the end of the first episode

that's right where they're organizing the photo

shoot and Miz mentions that's his one day at

home for the next week or so week or two weeks

or something yeah yeah and and that's the lifestyle

he'll have to get used to so as sad as that is

he's probably gonna miss some more moments Yeah.

Well, all of these people, you know, not just

Miz, anyone in the WWE, I'm sure, like currently

right now, this kind of ties into next week's

episode when we review SummerSlam. Currently

right now, between AJ Styles and Samoa Joe, they're

running this whole feud thing with them where

Joe's basically attacking him and his family

saying, oh, his wife. resents the fact that he's

not at home, and they're doing that most of the

time. Yeah, saying he's a bad father. Saying

he's a bad father. Bad husband. Yeah, you know,

so, but you're right, it is gonna be interesting

to see, sticking with episode three for a minute,

the part of the episode that I was just like,

wow, like, I'd love to know what Mrs. Salary

is yearly or something, because they go out to

dinner, because part of episode three is she's

having pregnancy cravings. And what she's craving

is some sort of spaghetti thing or pasta thing

with truffles. And I told my wife Karen about

this. I said, you think I usually get the most

expensive thing at dinner or whatever meal, whatever

it is. I said, in this episode of this show,

what she, what Maurice wanted was 600 and something

dollars and... Mrs. Meal was like 45 bucks like

I get it. They're in LA I understand that and

I understand that with as long as he's been in

the business not only in the WWE but in entertainment

in general I'm sure as much as he and his dad

are you know quote -unquote cheapos like I Mean

come on and plus he went back and did it again

That's the funny thing about episode 3 is he

complaining complaining complained about the

bill on that He complained so much, but he made

complaints about it. He went back later to make

his wife happy and bought it again. At that point,

the doctor said she couldn't have it. So they

just wasted $1 ,200 on two meals. It's so good.

I've never seen you eat like this, ever. Those

truffles. Oh. All right, whenever we're ready.

Thanks, man. You got it. Oh, shit. was $45. Your

dinner was $600. You liked them. Yeah, they were

good. Well, I bet they were. Those truffles are

good. Well, I bet they were. Okay, let's see

what we got here. Black truffle. The second most

commercially valuable species. That's how valuable

it is. It's the second one. I wonder if the first

one is why don't you just go for the first one,

right? She got second place. I hope you enjoyed

your meal, dear All right, so John is the highest

at 10 million a year still Brock, of course is

number two despite the fact he shows up three

times a year AJ Hunter Randy Seth Okay, surprised

to see him up there already. Although he deserves

it hard worker Undertaker surprisingly enough

still yeah still kicking around Ambrose and With

his new contract Kevin Owens clocks in at 10

and that's at 2 million a year means Miz I can't

imagine as much under that Cuz he's he's a guy

that's there every single night much like Kevin

Owens is Say what you want about him if you're

Daniel Bryan, but he's a hard worker Yeah Speaking

of which they knocked it out of the park on smackdown.

We're gonna talk about that later. Yeah, but

great vignettes. It's it's It's difficult at

this point for me to talk about and think about

the Miz without Ryan, they've done a really good

job with this slow -burning feud between them.

Yup, they have. Overall, how do you feel about

Miss and Misses? Are we going to be doing more

of these, or do you not want to watch it anymore?

It's not bad. It's not great. No reality television

is supposed to be great. I mean... True. There's

enough there. I'll keep keep doing it and we'll

probably talk about it again at some point. Yeah

so yeah, it's There are portions of it. I feel

like when you get to see them It's more entertaining

than when they're trying to come up with wacky

things for them to do Who was it Bret Hart's

book? That the subtitle is my life in the cartoon

world of pro wrestling That's pretty much sums

it up It's essentially a living cartoon and just

seeing that life to me is entertaining enough.

I don't need Breaking Bad or Better Call Saul

level writing and scenarios for everybody involved

and again, I think Mike Mizanin is a fun and

entertaining enough guy on his own. He's smart,

he's funny, he knows how to work a camera and

work a crowd. So yeah, just let them keep doing

that stuff. And I think as it goes on, it seems

like they're leaning towards doing that more

and more. You can answer this one, but... I assume

that most of the baby episode is just kind of

them. It's... Okay, so... The episode four, It

Proud Pops, is pretty much Mike going back to

his hometown and going out to dinner with his

dad, but his dad isn't... I don't think his dad

is his couple's sister manager person, but his

dad basically... Lines everybody up for photos

and autographs and yada yada yada mrs. There

for 45 minutes before we can actually dinner

or whatever that kind of thing as far as the

the baby stuff It starts out with him Having

this funny idea of course Murray shoots it down

But he has this helmet cam and he has all these

other cameras so we can have like 24 angles of

the baby bird And it's just this funny little

thing and whatever. She asks her mom not to be

in the delivery room because she doesn't get

enough private moments with her husband. She

wants this to be a special private moment with

him. So she asks her mom not to be there and

her mom will come there the next day or whatever.

They show the birth and all of that and then

they show them with Monroe Sky. everything else

so it's a very simple reality show baby thing

I've looked at several links about news items

for this and one of the ones that was released

through NBC Universal says it's supposed to be

an unscripted series so I don't know I'm just

saying it is we honestly probably should we'll

probably tie in the next two episodes whatever

we do next on the podcast because the first season

only got six episodes. But as we record, of course,

it's been renewed. As we're recording, we're

on the lead up to SummerSlam. In a few moments,

we're going to talk about Raw and SmackDown.

On August 14th, 2018, it was announced that USA

Network had renewed the show for a 14 -episode

second season. So I think that's cool. USA and

NBC and all of that gave it six episodes to see

if it would work. And it does. Yes, we haven't

seen episode 5 and 6 yet, but, you know, whatever.

Episode 5 is Road Trip Mania, so obviously that's

going to center around the previous WrestleMania

we just had. And then episode 6 is called Cowboy

Miz. So, you had mentioned Bret Hart, and...

Hey, let's close with a downer for once. One

and all, we're not closing, we're not done yet.

Trust me, that's not gonna take long Yeah, but

this has been a garbage two months now and say

for wrestling No, no, no, sorry, I'm not talking

about I'm not talking about the shows. I mean

it's been a garbage two months outside of The

shows because of we had Vader fast away We had

that's fairly recent we so One that's we're gonna

get to the big one in a second, which of course

is Jim the Anvil night art But this past week

as well Brian Danovich who was a member on the

million dollar tough enough challenge, which

was tough enough. Season four died. Sadly, he

was 36 years old. He took his own life. And we

talked about that with Brian Christopher as well.

Nikolai Volkov died, but Christopher and Danovich

took their own lives in. business that's incredibly

difficult and I remember when it was announced

that Jim the Animal Niner had died and somebody

said or one of the headlines said he was 63 years

old and I remember thinking wow that's pretty

old no it's not it's just old for a wrestler

and that's the really sad part about this and

Anful's a guy who he didn't hold the world title

He was never pushed sort of as the the guy or

a main event guy But I tell you what any single

person whoever saw him or saw his character or

any interviews with him. They remember it he's

well remembered from the 80s and 90s and deservedly

so and by all accounts he was a good guy behind

the scenes as well and I mean you talk about

nightmarish experience for a family and part

of it is because I think the whole is I feel

like a part of it's because the whole family

has been involved in wrestling and we've talked

about what a terrible rough on the body sports

it is and whether or not you consider in a sports

you have to admit that it's not easy the lifestyles

difficult and for the love of god these guys

need there either needs to be more independence

or actually the independents are doing pretty

well now but they need it basically what i want

to say is the wwe guys need a union or something

because having to wrestle 300 and some odd day.

What did Owens wrestle last year? I think it

was 310 and he was number one or two. I think

Dean was the only guy that wrestled more. It

was over 300 days if I remember right though

for those guys. And you look at what Owens has

gone through in the past month, falling off the

ladder, the gauge. I don't care if there's crash

pads. You're still following 20, 30 feet. That's

insane. But and then to work every single day,

whether you're hurting or that kind of thing.

We've talked about it before. It's a terrible

lifestyle. And the fact that I looked at Jim,

the annual nine hearts obituary and said, oh,

63, that's pretty good. Terrible. That's terrible.

And. That whole family just one after another

and then you throw in Throw in people who were

associated with them or trained by them Ryan

Tillman He shall not be named who we try not

to talk about and his Horrible situation with

he and his family it's just It's sad and He's

well remembered, and it seems like Natalia's

doing pretty well along with DJ. Yeah. Yeah,

it's crazy. It's very sad, but you know, I don't

want to take away from it, but it's like... You

know, there's always that one person that says,

oh, well, people get old. That's, that's the

circle of life. That's the whatever. Yeah, that's

true. But again, I have to remind everybody these

people, especially in the WWE and other wrestling

promotions, not just WWE, but when you think

of wrestling, what's the first, not you as Ryan,

but as people just in general when they think

of wrestling what do you think of the first thing

you're gonna say out of your mouth oh wwe nobody's

gonna say tna i don't think i mean you know so

like don't get me wrong the the independents

are great you know and that's you know you've

got roh and new japan and all of that and everything

else but when you think of wrestlers you think

of wwe there was just a meme the other day with

with hulkster something about you know where

he was back in the 80s compared to now like him

being 65 years old or something or other and

I'm like oh god time is really flying by and

I've said it before and I'll say it again look

at all those guys from the 80s and 90s that I

at least I personally watched and think about

how few of them are left and I look at other

sports and and I'm for anyone who doesn't know

I'm a huge football fan NFL, CFL, whatever. And

granted, there have been just a ton of people

I've respected and have loved watching, like

Junior Seau and others from NFL football who

have passed on, but it's not nearly as bad despite

all the issues that exist with that sport as

well. And it's just... It's just sad and it's

sad anytime especially You let these people into

your home essentially through the television

as entertainers and they Come to life and they

entertain us and you feel a connection with them

and it's just sad when any of them pass and it's

also sad because they're We know Jim was a father

to people So it's yeah, it's just been a bad

month for pro wrestling it's yeah it just seems

like there's been at least a couple of deaths

every week now yeah i mean there have been more

wrestling deaths in 2018 than i think celebrity

deaths at least all in like you're saying all

in a row like every couple of days every couple

of weeks kind of a thing i'm sure there have

been more celebrity deaths this year so far than

wrestling deaths but my point is How close together

the wrestling ones are is is just staggering

It just feels like there's been a lot of fairly

high -profile ones and again a lot of that's

because of the Era we grew up in I grew up watching

it in the 80s, which is well remembered Yeah,

and then there's and then there's the attitude

era which is exceptionally well remembered So

we've had guys from both of those pass quite

frequently in the last little bit. You can go

more recent. I mentioned Tough Enough, which

we're talking about reality shows. I haven't

enjoyed all of the seasons of Tough Enough, but

we mentioned, we're talking about Ms. Welldanovich

was on that season and the same one that introduced

us to... to him and just... I don't know. It's...

It's crazy. It really is crazy. Let's get to

the on -air product, which is less depressing.

We're gonna take a quick break. First up, we're

gonna talk about Ra's go -home show, and then

we're gonna talk about SmackDown's go -home show

after this. Guys, look, I gotta apologize. I

am sorry I'm late. That's not like me. I'm usually

right on time. And I'm really sorry you guys

had to sit through that Dolph Ziegler therapy

session. Woof, right? But look, I haven't been

completely honest with you. I've actually, I've

been here for a little while. But I didn't want

to come out here until Dolph had officially signed

that contract because Dolph, I was afraid you'd...

Change your mind once you heard what I had to

say The truth is the truth is I was dealing with

some travel issues they just they weren't exactly

my travel And you know that That little clause

in the contract about me having someone in my

corner at SummerSlam, well... That was put there

for a very particular reason. You see, I've kinda

gotten sick and tired of dealing with you guys

two on one, and since I know you're gonna have

the Scottish psychopath in your corner at SummerSlam...

I figure I ought to have a lunatic in mind. Alright

folks, Summer Slam is almost upon us. And wow.

Monday Night Raw. I have to say that I forgot

to watch Raw one week recently. Even though I

have it on Hulu, I completely forgot to watch

it. It wasn't this week's episode. It wasn't

the August 13th episode. episode, but I don't

know what it is. They just, like, I don't know.

I'm not thrilled with Raw and SmackDown right

now. But, this past Raw going into SummerSlam,

I fast -forwarded through a couple of things,

which probably I don't do, but some of the matches

I just did not care about on Raw. What I really

want to highlight is that final segments contract

signing because holy shit I had already read

the news and I already knew that this was happening

kind of so because I have a Google thing on my

phone that shows me hey this is what happened

this week in wrestling before I even get to watch

brawler smack down the next day so well a sign

a sign from that though So as somebody that watched

everything live Yeah, this was not so there was

one so there were two good segments That I can

remember I'm actually flipping through now to

see what I forgot and you know what there wasn't

a lot notable and The two big things I remember

of course were I liked this stuff with payment

Lesnar and Roman. They have done a very good

job with Reigns and Reigns has done a good job

with what they've given him. So that was terrific.

And the other thing that I enjoyed is of course

the return of Dean Ambrose. Like, I knew where

they were going with this throughout the entire

night because they first mentioned, Dolph mentioned

the... As soon as they had the handicap match

last week, oh you missed that, that's right.

So they had a handicap match last week where

Seth couldn't find a partner and he got beat

up by both Dolph and Drew. And as soon as they

did that I figured okay well see I thought even

though Romans in the in the in the Lesnar thing

I figured oh Roman will come Yeah, he tried he

tried to but they wrote him out and said oh,

you're not allowed to which which by the way

They've let him wrestle twice frequently, but

hey Yeah, so like I knew this was happening obviously

because you can't avoid the news online anymore

you just can't like And I think it's great, I

loved it, but the way that this was set up on

the show, there's a little reason why that clause

in the contract is there, because I'm sick of

you two, it being two on one. So I'm gonna have

somebody in my corner, and the way that Seth

says it, I absolutely love it. You guys will

hear the audio in here somewhere, or you might

have already heard it, I don't know. And then

Dean's music hits, and I'm like, okay, cool,

we're great. Oh my! He walks out and I'm like,

holy shit, he bulked up. Like, wow. I was not

expecting to see, like, Dean has never really

been a bulky guy. He's always been that, not

super thin, he's had the muscle and things like

that, but he's, I don't know, I've never seen

him. He looks more ripped. He's more defined.

And I like the look with the short slash shaved

hair. I'm gonna sound like a jerk when I say

this and I don't want to because he still had

a great wrestling look don't get me wrong, but

yeah the hairline what had been receding and

I think like Baron he just looks better with

it shaved and both of them I feel like look more

badass there I think I said it okay I wasn't

trying to insult the guy. That's a thing. I think

he's good. He always had an amazing look and

he's a good looking dude. But I think it works

better, especially wrestling wise bald and Corbin.

I've mentioned it before. I love I like what

they've done with him. It's too bad that the

feud is kind of a go nowhere. Nothing thing like

there's no stakes between he and and Finn. They're

just kind of treading water. But I like the character

and I like what they've given Corbin to do. But

yeah, there were two good surprises on Raw. Which

is more than I can say from SmackDown. Alright

folks, so I'm gonna try to piece this together.

I don't think I can put all the audio in, but

I'm gonna put part of it in right here. We'll

be back after you hear about The Miz and Daniel

Bryan's 8 year journey. My NXT rookie, Daniel

Bryan. You're the rookie on the floor. You wrestle

like a cow. You're nothing. Why don't you quit?

I am here every week. I am clear. You need me.

You don't know how to wrestle. You work better

than me. You are soft. I'm the best. My career

in WWE began in 2010, which is when I officially

joined NXT. And I guess it's important to explain

that NXT was a little different back then. WWE

NXT, where eight rookies are vying to be the

next WWE superstar. Could it be Daniel Bryan?

Back then, NXT was divided into rookies and pros.

And even though I had already been competing

in Japan and all over the independent circuit

for over ten years, I was completely new to WWE

and how everything worked here. And I wanted

to learn. So I entered NXT as a rookie. And I

was assigned a pro. I was assigned to be Daniel

Bryan's mentor. Of course, I was a mentor because

by that point, I'd been in WWE for five years

and was already a United States champion and

a tag team champion. So I knew how to win. But

I wasn't just a WWE superstar. I had come from

the most popular reality show and was its biggest

star, so I knew how to get ratings. The Miz was

so arrogant. You are nothing in the WWE. I have

my work cut out for me being your pro. You will

respect me as your mentor. Plus, he had the stigma

of being a reality star. The real world. Back

to New York. I'm The Miz. And the honest truth,

and it's still true today. is that Miz thought

he knew better than everyone else. Has it really

only been an eight -year feud between the Miz

and Daniel? It feels like a lot longer than eight

years. That was really the highlight of the show.

So first of all, the New Day sanity thing is

stupid because sanity hasn't been protected at

all. They're just a group of losers at this point,

which Is a terrible way to introduce somebody

inevitably they're gonna try to build them back

up, but Man, there's no way and Killian Dain

was just a destroyer in NXT and seems like very

few people could even hurt him and he gets just

gets pinned in this match Whatever the Hardy

stuff was also kind of bland. I don't like when

somebody is completely distracted and they still

kind of Just win without a whole lot of trouble,

especially since Shelton Benjamin's not just

I guess now he's kind of Just kind of there,

but he never used to be was a high quality guy.

It could work really well and the AJ Joe stuff

Was quite good, but then for some reason it felt

like they just kind of ran out of time Yeah,

what the hell happened at the end there like

usually this Usually these shows are so scripted

and everything else you can almost count the

beats But then for some reason at the end of

this we don't get to see AJ's reaction or anything

else. They just kind of we get a quick stare

and then we cut to cut to the commercial and

on on Was it YouTube or maybe it was there I

can't remember which WWE... Sorry, I don't follow

them on social media. One of WWE's social media

things, they showed that AJ tried to attack...

Tried to attack... Joe. And, okay, that might

have been nice if they actually had it on the

show. Yeah. Yeah, that would have been nice.

This has not been a great... So, the matches

I'm looking forward to for SummerSlam, because

the build has sucked. Don't care about the tag

match which by the way sucks because I like legend

brothers and the new day I don't care. They've

done a terrible job building that up. I don't

care about Andrade CN almost and Rusev Unfortunately,

by the way Rusev went from world title match

with AJ to baby face to random Matches with Andre

CN almost who's just up from NXT. Yeah great

i i don't really care about owens and baron bron

stroman and i feel real bad saying that because

i love owens and he's done everything he could

to make this interesting but it's i don't know

this week really took the wind out of any Sale

this thing had going with the stupid tech match

Yeah Yeah, and I mentioned it before I don't

care about Finn and Baron because there's no

stakes So then we get to the other matches. Oh,

by the way, I could care less about Bobby Lashley

and Elias Elias I find entertaining but this

whole lash leak comes out and beats him up every

week It's a little ridiculous. I don't care.

I don't care either. It's very very ridiculous

So lastly then we have our old pal Roman and

Brock the build -up to that's been great But

I can't see a reason why Roman wouldn't win this

Yeah, like they need to figure out Yeah, and

so so then we end up with I'm interested in AJ

and Joe because a their match is gonna be Incredible

and B despite the misstep. It hasn't been that

bad a build I'm gonna add one more match to actually

I'm interested in and then there's Miz and Daniel

Bryan which I think should be fantastic and Then

lastly I am interested in Rousey and bliss. I'm

curious to see how that Breaks down. I'm curious

if they're gonna put the belt on rousy already.

I I don't know how that match will finish and

that makes me interested and the other stuff

I just don't they haven't hasn't been good built.

I don't care. I don't care about the authors

of pain and Titus worldwide Yes, we have 12 matches

at SummerSlam. It's supposed to be seven hours.

Stop it. No, it is. I'm not joking. We have 12

matches at SummerSlam. For me, I just want to

see Roman win. I don't really care. I don't care

about them. I just want to see him pin them already.

Like, that's all I care about. Or I want to see

either Owens or Strowman or whoever come in and

pin them. Like, I don't want to see Roman get

cheated, but I don't want Brock to have the belt

anymore. I want Brock to go away. The belt needs

to be on the show, and it needs to be a focal

point. Yeah, and if they're not going to have

it be a focal point, why has AJ's not been? He's

now, by the way, the longest -running champion

with that belt. Yeah, 500 days, I think they

said. Well, no, it's 281 days. But I don't know

if that where that puts them on the all -time

list, but he passed JBL Yeah, I'm interested

about the Rhonda bliss match I could care less

about the triple threat women's match as much

as I like which sucks cuz I like everybody But

yeah, I don't care. Yeah builds been crap and

then they just throw Charlotte in randomly she's

been gone forever I know it's Carmela's shtick,

you know, Mela is money and all that, and I'm

the best, and I beat Charlotte Flair two times,

yeah. I just, I don't care enough about the character

Carmela is currently using that I just don't

care. I'm interested in Braun and Owens only

because I love both of them. Yeah, I love both

guys, so it makes me sad that I'm not more interested

in that, but I don't know. I just... I have zero

interest in Shinsuke and Hardy as much as I like

Jeff. I have zero interest in that. I like both

guys and I like what they're doing with Randy

and I totally forgot about that. So I guess that

means I'm not that... I mentioned it before that

that's been one of... especially Orton has been

one of the most entertaining parts of Smackdown

lately but yeah I totally forgot about it. Miz

and Bryan I'm interested in. The rest I don't

care. Rusev versus seeing almost I don't I don't

care like I cared when it was like And I love

Rusev Rusev. Yeah, I love I thought his match

with styles and that Super fast setup feud and

everything else. I thought that should have been

proof that he should be Closer to the top or

if not main event. He should be somewhere up

there but No, apparently not You know, like I

said yes to Miz and Brian I mean Seth and Ziegler

I'm curious to see just because I like seeing

Seth at this point and with Dean being back I

I seriously well Dean's not going after a championship

yet. So if Roman gets Universal and Seth regains

Intercontinental two -thirds of the shield will

be champions if They set Dean on a path where

he gets like the US championship or whatever,

you know something the only thing I don't like

with Dean Getting involved in that is either

he comes back and is involved in losing or Seth

losing or they beat Dolph with Drew McIntyre

and McIntyre has main event money written all

over the guy to me. Yeah, that's true. I feel

like it's inevitable they're gonna have him feud

with Roman because you look at the two guys,

I think that's a good matchup and the two of

them look like they should be fighting each other

too. They're big dudes, good looks to them, everything,

but we'll see. If it was my choice, I would have

Drew go up either against Kevin or Braun. At

one point down the line. Yeah, my other concern

too was that they're gonna turn Ambrose on Rollins.

Or vice versa. But we'll see. I just want to

shield Reunion, dammit. That's all I want. Come

on! We did it once before for like two seconds.

And then, yes, Ambrose got hurt and that's soft,

but... The Bliss Rousing match I'm really interested

in because... I don't know if it's because she

doesn't have enough WWE experience yet, but Ronda

really has... The way the storyline's been played,

Ronda hasn't really done much. Yes, she's arm

-barred a lot of women, but, like, we haven't

really seen all she can do. I think I think part

of it is to protect her the way they should have

been doing with sanity and some of the other

new debuts where You don't if you have somebody

on too much at some point there have to lose

or get out smarted or Something has to happen

or else you just build them up as the unstoppable

force and then when they lose What do you do

with them Oscar? Naya Jax The problem is WWE

doesn't know how to build people very well. They

either give them a long winning streak and then

when they lose they don't have a clue what to

do. Yeah, or they just throw them into the mix

and they win some, they lose some, and they become

another, just another 50 -50 guy. They only seem

to protect a handful of people and Roman's one

of them. Who's protected Brock is another one

Brock it makes sense because he's a an Attraction

and I think that's what they want with Rousey.

Just she's an attraction who's gonna be there

every week Which by the way is a huge improvement

because I'm so sick of the Brock Although to

be fair any time Haman is on as a joy The other

thing we ought to bring up before we get out

of here is They made this big big thing about

how on raw this past week going into summer slam

that First ever female commentator in Renee Young

like throughout the whole show Shit, yeah, I

should have mentioned that because Coachman was

Jonathan Coachman was off on some other assignment

or something or other I mean, I know they've

had certain females on commentary, but they haven't

they really haven't had a straight No, not for

the entire show either It's just been a match

here or there or maybe a couple of segments Yeah,

and to be fair man. She did a pretty good job.

I was really good. Yeah, I was quite impressed

and There's not a nice way to put this but the

bar was real low because coachman has been horrible

since he came back He doesn't understand the

rules I remember him and Cole talking about,

oh, well, Ziegler's just going to leave with

the belt when the match was tied 4 -4 in the

Iron Man match. Yeah, if he does that, he loses

because the count -outs count. Or Coachman's

brilliance. There's nowhere for Owens to go when

he's talking about the steel cage match. And

one of the stipulations is leaving the cage.

In any possible way you can think of. And then

my other one, when, who was it? Somebody had

a - somebody, sorry for not knowing the names

here, in a bear hug, and Coachman goes, oh well

he's getting a rest. No, it's supposed to be

a painful hold, you dumb stuff. How is Coachman

so bad? And it's funny because Graves just lights

them up, every single bra, and calls out all

the stupid stuff. Oh another personal favorite

Seth Rollins goes up 1 -0 in the Ironman match

and Coach goes does this bode well for Seth Rollins?

He's up 1 -0 you idiot! You idiots? It's like

does it bode well for the Patriots that they

scored the first touchdown in the game? Gee,

I don't know it's better being up than down Yeah,

but even without that I thought she did a really

good job Yeah, she did a very good job. I read

a news article online about how she had tweeted

out or something she had revealed about, because

obviously Vince is in all of their ears throughout

the entire show half the time. She said that

the only thing he had said to her, the only he

spoke to her one time in her earpiece, basically

saying kind of like, you know, take it easy,

slow down kind of a thing. If that's the only

job. If the boss is only saying the, you know.

Slow down just a little bit, you know For people

who don't or haven't watched some of her other

stuff to she really knowledgeable about wrestling

Yeah, and talking smack was one of the few shows

that was legitimately It's one of the few after

show shows that was legitimately watchable and

a lot of that was her work I was the Intercontinental

Champion a champion and I could barely get on

television Daniel was using his position of power

to punish me and I had enough I have respect

for the title. I just don't have respect for

the person holding it There's no gentle way to

say it to me you wrestle like a coward in the

last one somebody needed to tell Daniel the truth

I'm the coward in the wrestling ring. Yeah, let's

talk about cowards for one second The reason

I wrestled the way I wrestle is because I can

do it day in and day out I have never never in

my career ever have been injured, but you sit

there and call me a coward Well, why don't you

quit? Why don't you quit and go to the bingo

halls and to be honest? I was fully expecting

to get knocked out Bye. Because the fact is,

you're the one that calls me the coward because

you're the one that doesn't get in the WWE ring

again. No, don't you walk away from me, Daniel.

Don't you walk away. Her, um, even though it

was kind of a farce, it was a setup, not on her

part, but on, on Heyman's part, it was all set

up and scripted to show his vulnerable side going

into this whole thing. Her interview with Heyman

was like, Wow, she's just trying to work it here.

There's not really anything she can do with the

way that he was being in that little interview.

It was really well done, too. And also, it takes

two to tango, so she's got to know how to do

all of the important things and how to hit all

of those beats and how to let Hayman hit all

those. And it worked, yeah. It did very much

work. I think that's about it. I don't think

there's too much else unless there's anything

else you want to bring up. Nope. Alright, where

can the people find you online, sir? At Nightbeats

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We will catch you next time where Mike the Birdman

Dodd will be making a special return for Summer

Slam because Summer Slam is our next episode

in episode 46 of Mayhem Mikes and then after

that I don't know. I have no clue. We're either

going to do Ride Along or we'll do the other

two episodes of Miz and This Is or we'll do Table

for Three or we'll be doing something else, folks.

Who knows. We will catch you next time here on

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