Miz on The Kanellises, Face Run, Reigns’ Crowd Reactions, and Hall of Fame

Hard Hidz Wrestling Podcast held a recent interview with The Miz discussing the Kanellis’, a possible future face run, Roman Reigns’ crowd reactions, and being a possible future member of the WWE Hall of Fame.

On the topic of Mike and Maria Kanellis, Miz stated he would be interested in a future feud with the couple and sees a lot of potential success for their “Power of Love” gimmick on Smackdown.

“Oh, maybe [they will get a chance to face Mike and Maria Kanellis]. They’re on SmackDown Live now, and I mean, I think their, I don’t want to say ‘gimmick’, their whole thing is the power of love and I find it interesting. I think it’s going to generate a lot of heat, and I think people are not going to like them, and I think it’s going to be something really, really good for SmackDown Live.”

On the topic of a future face run, Miz stated he would consider the idea if crowds were to start cheering for him and not in a sarcastic way or because they hated his opponent more.

“It all depends on what the crowd does. If the crowd starts cheering, guess what: good, I’ll go into it. I mean, at WrestleMania, they were cheering me. Half the crowd’s cheering me and I’m like, ‘wait, are you chanting, ‘The Miz’?’ I don’t think I ever heard that before in my entire career in WWE.”

Later in the interview, Miz gave his opinions on Roman Reigns issues with mixed crowd reactions and compared it to Cena who faced similar issues during his career.

“Roman gets the biggest half and half [crowd reaction] now and I’ve seen it from Cena too. When he was wrestling Kurt Angle a long time ago, it’s kind of like when I first started up on WWE, it was 2006, I remember for the first time I ever heard, like, ‘let’s go Cena’/’Cena sucks’ and I was like, ‘wow, man, and this is like the face of the franchise and people don’t like him’. You’d hear the little kids go, ‘let’s go Cena’ and the men go, ‘Cena sucks’. It was incredible. Now, I think Roman has that kind of effect on the people where you either really love him or really hate him.”

When discussing him being a potential future member of WWE’s Hall of Fame, Miz stated he wants his wife to be the one to induct him. Joked about it being his way to ensure he wouldn’t face Maryse’s wrath if he picked someone else instead.

“I’d want my wife [to be the inductor]. I think she’d want that. I think if I didn’t ask her, she’d be very angry with me. If you thought she’s angry with me now, wait till I don’t ask her to induct me. So I’d want my wife for my top ballot Hall Of Fame [induction].”