WWE Star Thought He Was Going To Get Fired After Awful Promo

A special 24 documentary focused on The Miz is set to drop onto the WWE Network today, and WWE has released a clip from the show onto social media to promote it to fans.

The clip is of The Miz discussing his Diva Search promo from Monday Night Raw in 2006, where the two-time WWE Champion forgot all of his lines in one of his first promos for the company.

In the clip, The Miz explains that he thought he was going to get fired after completely botching the promo, and apologised to Vince McMahon profusely once he got backstage. Miz even shared the advice that Vince gave him:

“I did the Diva Search casting special, and then we brought them into the ring,” Miz recalled. “There’s no cue cards, there’s no teleprompter. It’s just in your memory and you need to go, go, go. We were live, by the way, so you don’t get a second take. A cold sweat came over me and my entire mind went blank. And I could hear the audience — you can feel an audience drain out and know that you are messing up.

“The most important thing I had to remember was the phone number — and I forgot it. So, I looked on my wrist. I was sweating so much that it erased off my wrist. I remember going backstage and thinking, ‘I am going to get fired.’  I walk back, I went over to Vince and I’m like, ‘I am so sorry, I apologize. This will never happen again. I will make sure it won’t happen again’ and he goes, ‘I know it won’t happen again.’

“He took me aside, and said, ‘Bullet points, kid. You need to learn bullet points and I know you will do better next time because you’ll have to do it next Friday.’ So it was like, ‘Oh, I’m not fire.’”

The Miz has transitioned into one of WWE’s more reliable promo guys in recent years, and is regularly trusted with promo time on Monday Night Raw.

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Thanks to WrestlingInc for the transcription.

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