10 Wrestling Facts We Didn't Know Last Week (March 23)

5. WWE Told The Miz They Didn't Have Time For The IC Title

Daniel Bryan The Miz Talking Smack
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The Miz delivered a career-best promo on the 23 August 2016 edition of Talking Smack. Losing his cool, he berated Daniel Bryan and started to shoot on how important his work had been to the WWE machine when others undervalued it.

The promo only happened because Miz was irked by officials backstage telling him they "didn't have time" to feature the Intercontinental Title.

On Booker T's Heated Conversations podcast, Miz told how he stood slack-jawed as WWE informed him they wanted to push the new Tag Team and Women's Titles to the forefront of SmackDown, and that would mean less TV time for him and the IC belt. Immediately after hearing he wouldn't be on that night's show, Miz requested time on Talking Smack.

Unbeknownst to WWE, they were the ones who pushed Miz's buttons and pulled a fiery verbal performance out of him. Frustrated and angry that management seemingly didn't value him or the title, The Miz lost it on Talking Smack and forced his way back into WWE's plans.

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