The Miz was a recent guest on Busted Open Radio and had the following to say in regards to WWE Smackdown’s reported billion dollar move to FOX next year:
Let’s put it this way; I get traded from RAW to Smackdown, and as soon as I get traded to Smackdown, all of the sudden FOX puts up a billion dollars. I want to motivate and dedicate myself to when we are ready to move from USA Network to FOX in 2019, I want to be the face of that show.
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 everyone wants to see. Sometimes I look my—I literally haven’t had merch in a year—when I get merch I go, ‘I wouldn’t wear this.’ So I want merch that people are going to buy, that makes people go ‘I want to wear that, that looks amazing’. I basically want to be the Superstar that I believe I can be, and I want my talents to be utilized in a way that I can succeed.
I really am going to motivate myself and dedicate myself to be the face of the franchise when the FOX merger happens. Moving to FOX, a network show, this show will be bigger. It will no longer be the “B show” like everyone always says it is. It will be the “A show” and more people will watch it. I’ll be interested to see what will happen from a creative standpoint, from a marketing standpoint, and from a WWE Superstar standpoint.
Transcription credit to Bill Pritchard for Wrestlezone.com
"I'm going to motivate myself and dedicate myself to be the face of the franchise when the FOX merger happens." @mikethemiz tells @davidlagreca1 & @TheMarkHenry that he will be the face of #SDLive on #FOX in 2019. pic.twitter.com/k05P8X9ZJc
— SiriusXM Busted Open (@BustedOpenRadio) June 5, 2018
