
All of a sudden on the show, people started liking The Miz more than they liked Mike. I’m saying things that are rubbing people the wrong way. In high school and college I had no problem meeting people and being around them, but all of a sudden, I’m living with seven people who don’t gravitate towards me. I moved to New York City on my own, with seven strangers, and I just tried to be me. I was 20 at the time and you think you know everything at that age.
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“I didn’t know how to deal with the emotions. “Whenever anything is new, you’re learning as you go,” Mizanin said. As Mizanin became more isolated, he developed an alter ego that was fashioned after WWE stars he grew up watching. Mizanin, then a 20-year-old college student, moved from suburban Ohio to New York City and struggled initially to connect with his roommates. The Miz’s origin story begins with The Real World: Back to New York in the early 2000s. It’s an in-depth look at how Mizanin overcame the stigma of being a reality star to win over fans and peers alike during his career. The 77-minute episode details Mizanin’s sometimes tumultuous rise to becoming one of WWE’s most influential and well-known figures.
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Mizanin is the subject of the latest installment of the WWE’s 24 documentary series (watch an exclusive clip above). It was crazy.’” 'I didn’t know how to deal with the emotions' "When I watched it back, I realized that it was the first time I didn’t feel The Miz once. Just have a conversation with the camera,’” Mizanin told Yahoo Entertainment. I’m literally just going to answer questions honestly and raw and open. “This was the first time that I sat down for an interview and I said, ‘You know what, let’s just make this real. Fans who had grown used to seeing The Miz on weekly WWE programming weren’t going to see and hear the arrogant wrestling star they had seen for the past 16 years.įor the first time ever, they would be getting just Mike. The persona the Parma, Ohio, native honed over a nearly two-decade television run wouldn’t be the one who was going to be talking when the camera started rolling. As he sat down to film a documentary about his WWE career, Mike Mizanin decided that he was going to do something different.
