The Miz believes celebrity appearances at WrestleMania are good for WWE.
The last two years of WrestleMania have seen celebrities scattered throughout the card. WWE has always had pop culture guests on their programming, but those guests are beginning to wrestle in a much more regular manner than fans might be used to.
In a interview with Ryan Satin that was filmed at WrestleMania Axxess, The Miz shared his take about having celebrities involved in WWE's biggest event and shut down the notion that they take spots away from full-time roster members.
“I think. Maybe. Sure. I think a lot of people get celebrity matches as well. Sami Zayn has Johnny Knoxville, which is gonna be absolute mayhem in my opinion. I don’t know what’s gonna happen but if you’re in a Jackass-type match, you know things are gonna happen. It’s fun. It’s exciting. [Celebrities] bring a whole new element to WrestleMania. People are like ‘Oh, well they’re taking a spot from a WWE superstar’. Look, our job is to get that spot." Miz said. "If we don’t get that spot and we bring in someone else to give us more audience.. and as much as people are like ‘Oh I don’t like Logan Paul’.. he has an entire audience that maybe aren’t fans of WWE but might watch WrestleMania and go ‘Now I’m also a fan, I wanna watch even more.’ That’s what they bring. They bring a whole new element to WrestleMania."
Both Logan Paul and Johnny Knoxville were universally praised for their performances at WrestleMania. Bad Bunny, who competed at WrestleMania 37, was also universally praised for his performance.
Despite only wrestling one match, Logan Paul was told that his future was in WWE by Vince McMahon himself. Click here to learn more.
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