The Miz On Why He Abided By Locker Room Ban: I Needed Them To Teach Me

The Miz recalls being banned from the WWE locker room and why he abided by the ban.

During the early days of his run in WWE, The Miz would face trials and tribulations due to his history on reality television, facing a ban from the locker room that lasted a lengthy amount of time.

While speaking on the latest episode of Insight With Chris Van Vliet, The Miz spoke about the ban and shared why he abided by it and didn’t argue against it.

“I had no idea [when I’d be allowed back in]. I knew the person that told me that, hey, you’re kicked out of the locker room. He said you’re not coming in until I say so. That person went away. So then when that person went away, I was like, oh boy, how am I gonna get back in the locker room? So I had to wait another three months. I asked Taker. I was like, ‘Man, I’ve been out of the locker room for a long time.’ He goes, ‘Oh, you have?’ Yeah, I’ve been out like six months. ‘What’d you do?’ I ate a piece of chicken in the locker room, and it got all over. I still believe it did not, but other people will tell you differently, and they can have their opinions. That is fine. I was under a microscope of, let’s get this guy. A lot of times in a locker room, someone could say he ate a piece of chicken over my thing. And, [someone else says] ‘Oh, man, what are you doing? Why are you doing this?’ And then another guy walks in. ‘Oh, you ate chicken over his his bag?’ Another guy walks in. ‘He did what?!’ Then another guy is outside the locker room. And then he heard he ate chicken and he got it all over the place. Then by the time the telephone game was played, I was throwing chicken all over the locker room, I was smearing it on stuff, that’s what it felt like. So yeah, I went to Taker and I said, I ate chicken over a bag. Yeah, it’s real. It was so ridiculous. I’m a grown man, and people are always like, ‘Why don’t you fight them? Why don’t you stick up for yourself?’ Because back then, if I would have done something like that, I probably would have been fired, or I looked at it as if I stand up to this person who is a locker room leader and very respected, and the reality guy steps up and talks and mouths off at that person, they’re never going to teach me. I need them to teach me.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Miz shared his belief that his pre-match promo at WrestleMania 27 tops the iconic Rock/Austin ‘My Way’ promo. You can read more about that here.