But I was more impressed with Apollo Crews that I was with you, to be quite honest.
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“There is no gentle way to say it to me you wrestle like a coward”.
The Miz, whose real name is Mike Mizanin, turned red with anger and interrupted Bryan, who remains an on-air personality with WWE, but no longer wrestles due to multiple concussions that WWE doctors have deemed to high-risk for an action role. He said when he was on the indy scene, if he’d been asked to create the mold of a typical “soft” WWE talent it would be Miz.
“Let’s talk about cowards for one second”, The Miz began alongside his wife Maryse.
At that point, Bryan, who came to WWE a fan favorite because of his stints in Japan and an independent promotion called “Ring of Honor”, walked off the set and didn’t return. The reason I wrestle the way I wrestle is because I can do it day in and day out, all the time for 10-plus years. I have never, ever in my career been injured.
Miz got very angry, understandably, and went OFF on Bryan, taking some pretty stiff shots at the way Bryan has handled things in his past after being called a coward.
When you watch that, you really start to wonder whether or not this was a shoot between Miz and Bryan, which it very well could have been. He promises them, ‘I promise you I will be back in one year’s time to claim this title, ‘ but you didn’t Daniel, did you? “But I’m the coward!”
“If they would let me come back, I would come back”, Bryan responded, referencing injuries he suffered that led to him deciding to officially retire back in February.
The Miz: You would?
The Miz made sure to remind Daniel and the rest of the WWE Universe that he’s a superstar that “deserves your respect”, saying that he will remain “day in and day out, in that wrestling ring, beating people up”.
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Bryan then brought up that the WWE wouldn’t medically clear him to wrestle, but The Miz said that if Bryan loves wrestling so much, he should quit the WWE and go back to wrestling “in the bingo halls” like he used to.
