The Miz Takes Shot at NFL Player, Matt Silva Comments on Signing with WWE

- The Miz took a shot at Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo during an interview with 4th & Pain.

“Tony Romo will definitely get you some (fantasy) points. Granted, he’s not going to win you games for the Dallas Cowboys,” Miz said.

Miz also talked a lot about the fantasy football league WWE wrestlers are in and all of his botched waiver-wire moves that doomed him this year.

- Australian wrestler Matt Silva commented on signing with WWE during an interview with The Herald in Australia.

“I’m going in as a newbie, and just wait for a call up to the main roster before I start competing against those guys,” said Silva, who was the only one of 85 wrestlers that attended the recent tryouts in Tampa to be offered a contract. “Being the only Australian over there and representing Australia on the biggest wrestling state in the world, I’m looking forward to it.”

Production Starts on Miz’s Next TV Movie – Press Release

WWE issued the following release announcing production has started on The Miz’s TV movie, Christmas Bounty.

WWE(R) STUDIOS AND ABC FAMILY BEGIN PRODUCTION ON “CHRISTMAS BOUNTY”

Burbank, CA (April 11, 2013) – WWE Studios (NYSE:WWE) and ABC Family began production this week on “Christmas Bounty,” a television movie that will world premiere during the network’s popular annual 25 Days of Christmas programming event. Network star Francia Raisa (“The Secret Life of the American Teenager”) joins the cast as Tory, opposite WWE Superstar Mike “The Miz” Mizanin. Will Greenburg (“Modern Family,” “The Office”) and Chelan Simmons (“The L.A. Complex”) will also star.

“Christmas Bounty” is an action-filled comedy about Tory (Raisa), a former bounty hunter turned elementary school teacher. Determined to have a normal life with her new fiancé, James (Greenburg), Tory would love to keep her bounty hunter past a secret. She reluctantly returns home for Christmas when a past bounty comes back for revenge. But when James follows her home for the holiday, she struggles to hide her wild family business and Mike (Mizanin), the bounty hunter ex-boyfriend she thought she’d left behind. Simmons plays Liz, Tory’s best friend who can’t quite understand why Tory would want to keep her past a secret. Also cast as Tory’s mom, Gale, is April Telek (“Hell on Wheels”). “Christmas Bounty” is written by Andrew Black & Vivian Lee, James Berg & Stan Zimmerman and Claudia Grazioso.

New WWE Intercontinental Champion Crowned, Matches Taped for WWE Superstars

- Wade Barrett defeated The Miz on tonight's RAW to become a three-time WWE Intercontinental Champion. Miz just won the title from Barrett on the WrestleMania 29 pre-show last night.

- WWE taped the following matches tonight in East Rutherford, NJ to air on WWE Superstars:

* The Usos vs. Primo and Epico

* The Great Khali vs. Darren Young

Two New Champions Crowned at WrestleMania 29, Eight-Person Match Scrapped

The Miz captures the WWE Intercontinental Title on tonight’s WrestleMania 29 pre-show by defeating Wade Barrett.

- John Cena captured the WWE Title by defeating The Rock in tonight’s main event.

- WWE scrapped the match with Cody Rhodes, Damien Sandow and The Bella Twins vs. Tensai, Brodus Clay, Cameron and Naomi from tonight’s pay-per-view, likely due to time constraints.

The Miz Talks Maryse, TMZ Catches WWE Stars at Chili’s

- TMZ featured an article on JTG, Yoshi Tatsu and The Great Khali chowing down on $40 worth of hot wings at Chili’s in Hoboken, New Jersey this week. Khali won the wing eating competition. Here’s a photo:

- The Miz spoke with Cosmopolitan magazine to promote WrestleMania 29. He talked about his fiancee Maryse:

“Maryse and I met in 2006 when I was hosting a WWE Diva search and she was a contestant. She was picked, but we didn’t start dating then. About a year later we started talking after one of the Raw events. I was like, “Man if only I could get a girl like this. One of these days I will get a girl like this and I will be so happy.” And I did!”

Graphic Photo of Del Rio's Back, Names Interviewed for WWE's Foley DVD

- WWEDVDNews.com reports that the following people were interviewed for the Mick Foley DVD that comes out on April 16th: Foley's childhood friend Jim Gray, friend John Imbriani, Dominic Denucci, Shane Douglas, Michael Hayes, CM Punk, Vader, Terry Funk, Paul Heyman, Jim Ross, Joey Styles, Triple H, Shawn Michaels, William Regal, Big Show, ReganBooks founder Judith Regan, The Miz, The Rock and Foley's daughter.

- After the beating from Jack Swagger and Zeb Colter on last night's RAW, Alberto Del Rio posted the following photo of the marks on his back:

"Enjoy this moment @RealJackSwagger @WWEZeb because you two made a mistake, I'm still on my feet,and i will break you both in pieces. Every mark on my body will be a broken bone for you. So start counting #PERROS"

WWE Main Event Spoiler Results - April 3, 2013

WWE taped WWE Main Event Monday night from the Verizon Center in Washington, DC. Here are the full results.

* Michael Cole and JBL are on commentary.

* The Miz vs. The Prime Time Players in a handicap match is in progress. Wade Barrett comes down to do commentary.

* The Miz defeated The Prime Time Players in a handicap match. Wade Barrett was on commentary. The Miz and Wade Barrett had a staredown following the match.

* The Miz vs. Wade Barrett for the Intercontinental title is announced for the WrestleMania pre-show.

Intercontinental Title Match Added to WM29, Update on WWE Setting a World Record, RAW Viewership

- WWE has announced that an Intercontinental Title match with The Miz vs. Wade Barrett will take place at WrestleMania 29. 

- Last night's episode of WWE RAW drew 4,617,000 viewers, up from last week. 

- We've noted how WWE had discussions to set a world record for the "World's Largest Harlem Shake" at WrestleMania 29. Word this week is that those plans are off the books.

What Was Cut from Hulu Plus Raw This Week

The following matches and segments were cut from the Hulu Plus episode of Monday's Raw 

* Mark Henry vs. the Usos 

* Prime Time Players vs. Team Hell No 

* Wade Barrett vs. The Miz 

* Backstage segment with AJ Lee and Kaitlyn 

* Team Rhodes Scholars vs. Brodus Clay and Tensai 

* Arnold Schwarzenegger inducting Bruno Sammartino announcement 

* AJ Lee vs. Kaitlyn

Complete List of WWE Superstars, Divas & Legends Scheduled for 4-Day Axxess Event

Several WWE Superstars, Divas and Legends are schedule to appear at the four-day Axxess event during WrestleMania week for autographs and photo opportunities with fans. Here is the full list of those are are appearing. 

4/04 evening session: 
Mark Henry, Booker T, Jack Swagger, The Prime Time Players, 3MB, Rosa Mendes, Jimmy Snuka. 

4/05 evening session: 
The Miz, World Heavyweight champion Alberto Del Rio, The Shield, Kofi Kingston, Ted DiBiase, Fandango, Zack Ryder, Alicia Fox. 

4/06 morning session: 
Bella Twins, Daniel Bryan, The Miz, Brodus Clay, Funkadactyls, Jerry “The King” Lawler, JBL, Paul Heyman, Lita, Billy Gunn. 

4/06 afternoon session: 
CM Punk, Chris Jericho, Intercontinental champion Wade Barrett, World Heavyweight champion Alberto Del Rio, Damien Sandow,The Great Khali, Layla. 

4/06 evening session: 
Kofi Kingston, Dolph Ziggler, AJ Lee, Ryback, Santino Marella, The Shield, Christian, R-Truth, Ezekiel Jackson, Tensai, Big E. Langston, Justin Gabriel, Tyson Kidd, Yoshi Tatsu, Rikishi, Howard Finkel. 

4/07 morning session: 
Sheamus, Divas champion Kaitlyn, Cody Rhodes, David Otunga, Jimmy Hart, Diamond Dallas Page, X-Pac. 

4/07 afternoon session: 
U.S. champion Antonio Cesaro, Sin Cara, Alex Riley, JTG, Aksana, Tamina, Dusty Rhodes, Ron Simmons, Ricky Steamboat. 

Axxess will be held at the IZOD Center and tickets are available now.

Mark Henry Possibly Injures His Knee, The Rock Wins Nickelodeon Award, More

- WWE's Gerald Brisco is scouting at the NCAA D1 wrestling championships this weekend. Apparently WWE has their eye on Kyle Dake of Cornell University. 

- WWE Champion The Rock won "Best Buttkicker" award at the Nickelodeon Kids Choice Awards this weekend. The Miz and Maryse were in attendance for the event. Rock tweeted this photo: 

"We won! Honored to be voted Kid's Choice Awards BEST BUTT KICKER! #BigLove2U #Boots2Butts #KCAS"

 - There was an apparent knee or leg injury to Mark Henry at last night's WWE live event in Norfolk, Virginia. Henry was wrestling Kane and lost when he used a steel chair to get disqualified. During the match, the referee gave the "X" signal to the back and pointed to Henry's knee a few times. They quickly went to the DQ steel chair finish and that was it. Henry limped back after the match.

Post-WrestleMania Matches, The Rock on FOX Tonight, How Old Is The Undertaker?, SmackDown Social News

- Former WWE star Barry Horowitz turns 53 years old today while TNA star Daniels turns 42, WWE star Epico turns 31, Jack Swagger turns 31 and The Undertaker turns 48. 

- Friday's episode of WWE SmackDown did not rank in the top social media activity due to the NCAA Tournament. 

- WWE Champion The Rock will be on FOX's Animation Domination block of TV tonight with various segments to promote GI Joe 2. 

- John Cena vs. CM Punk, The Miz vs. Antonio Cesaro and The Shield vs. Ryback, Kane and Daniel Bryan is advertised for WWE's post-WrestleMania events in Poland.

WWE Saturday Morning Slam Results - March 23, 2013

We open with the short graphic intro and go to crowd shots. 

- The voice-over guy explains what a handicap match is as we see clips of The Great Khali and Primo & Epico. 

- The Great Khali makes his entrance with Natalya. Brad Maddox is on commentary with Josh Mathews. Primo & Epico make their entrance with their new music and the lovely Rosa Mendes. Rosa's chest does not have an extra piece of cloth like last week and she is in a tight tank-top. 

Handicap Match: The Great Khali vs. Primo & Epico 

Maddox says he made the stip for this match as Primo & Epico and try and fail to double team Khali. They get him down but Khali fights back up with a chop and a big boot. Maddox says he goes back to 1998 with Mick Foley. Khali has Primo isolated in the ring as he hits him with off-camera chops in opposite corners. Primo cartoonishly (is that a word?) sells it. Maddox says one of the many exciting changes to this show is that it will now be called Saturday Mid-Afternoon Slam. Khali throws Primo over the top as Epico tries to flip the giant from under the ropes. Khali just sits down on him and gets the pin. 

Winner by pin: The Great Khali 

Khali and Natalya dance in the ring. 

- Natalya pulls double duty after the break as she interviews the new General Manager Mick Foley. Foley is dressed like an upscale bouncer in a black shirt and grey sport coat. Foley compliments Natalya on her visit to Rwanda and Khali's win. Damien Sandow interrupts and says he was offended by being overlooked for GM by someone who is the embodiment of the unwashed masses. Miz interrupts with his "Really?" shtick. Miz says Foley is a legend and smart enough to make him the main character of his book. 

Speaking of books, Foley asks Sandow if he's familiar with Jane Austen's Sense and Sensibility. Sandow nods his head as if to say, "Duh!" Foley says he is getting a sense that Miz and Sandow don't like each other so the sensible thing to do is to put them in a match today. Miz smiles, Sandow is disgusted, and they both leave. Natalya tells Mick she loves that book; Foley says he has never read it. 

Instant Reaction: Not a bad little segment for a Saturday morning crowd. Obviously it gave Foley something to do as GM but he also got a chance to display his wit and personality to a younger generation who may be unfamiliar with him and have maybe only seen clips or heard his name mentioned. Miz was just there but Sandow was fantastic as always and his character is perfect for this show. At least they are trying to teach the kids about literature. 

- This week's Saturday Morning Spotlight is The Miz. We see some highlights and he makes his entrance in the ring as we go to a break. 

- Damien Sandow brings us a sophisticatedly worded PSA to not try this at home. 

- Miz awaits Sandow in the ring as we return. Sandow silences the music and cuts a promo on Miz on his way to the ring. Sandow talks about Miz' movie and being the host of MizTV but he is a "Jack of all trades and master of none." Sandow says he is a true Renaissance man. 

Damien Sandow vs. The Miz 

Maddox continues to be oddly entertaining on commentary as Miz and Sandow lock-up to a stalemate. The crowd chants that Miz is awesome and Sandow tries to silence them. Miz "Wooo's" like Ric Flair as he keeps a crank on Sandow's arm even as he tries to roll through. They go back and forth and Sandow ducks a punch out of the ring as we go to a commercial. 

Miz leaps from up top but Sandow side-steps and throws him over the top in front of Josh and Maddox. Sandow brings him back in and gets 2. Sandow does a cartwheel and hits The Elbow of Disdain for another near-fall. Miz mounts a comeback and speeds things up for a couple of near-falls. Miz goes for the figure-4 but Sandow kicks him off and Josh says it is a move that Miz has been trying to perfect for weeks. Miz takes out Sandow's leg with a dropkick and applies the figure-4 as Sandow taps. 

Winner by submission: The Miz 

- We go backstage in the locker room with Brodus Clay and Tensai in matching red jump suits as they compare their "dookie rope" chains. The Kangol logos on their hats are blurred. Mick Foley joins them and says he is deeply troubled. He says he showed them his knee dance last week but he needs to learn how to do their horse-riding dance. They show him how to do the Gangnam Style; (that particular move was around before that song.) 

The Prime Time Players interrupt and call Tensai & Brodus "hippos" and say they have been high-jacking kids' birthday parties and eating all the cake and ice cream. Foley says the hippopotamus is a proud and noble breed and asks what he can do for them. Clay asks Foley why he is wasting him time with Team Bounce-A-Check. Titus tells him to bounce a belly. PTP do the Millions of Dollars dance and say Foley should do it at his Hall of Fame speech. Tensai & Clay join PTP in the dance but chime in with, "Bouncin' checks, bouncin' checks." The crowd pops. Foley gets in between them and says both teams are great dancers and who is better is up for debate but we need to find out who the better tag team is next week. Both teams like it. Titus and Darren leave; Foley, Tensai, and Clay dance as we go off the air. 

Instant Reaction and Final Thoughts: That segment really came off well. The interaction between Brodus Clay and Titus O'Neil was golden. Clay was comfortable and it seems as if he's finally finding his character. I wrote the same thing about him last week, but this is the most personality Clay has ever shown in his year-plus run as the Funkasaurus. Tensai fits really nicely with Brodus so far and as I wrote in last night's SmackDown report, they actually "look" like and old-school monster tag team. The Funkasaurus gimmick itself is a little undefined though. It is part 80's hip-hop, part funk, part disco, and all blaxploitation: classic Vince McMahon. 

Titus O'Neil continues to shine, not counting the horrible segment with John Cena on RAW, but he did well with what he was given. I didn't like the PTP gimmick at first but there is a huge upside to Titus, face or heel, and I feel he can really connect with the masses in a mainstream kind of way. WWE has never had, or been willing to push, an African American who was also really talented on the mic, to the moon. (Booker T was not used to his full potential as a heel and especially as a face. He was over big-time, fans were itching to cheer him, but WWE never pulled the trigger.) Titus just has that charismatic pro-athlete type thing about him and his personality is, for lack of better terms, just hip and modern. More importantly, it is authentic. Given the presumed audience, I don't know if Foley gave them "the rub" or vice versa.

Dana White Reveals that Vince Wanted to Fight Him

UFC President Dana White, who has drawn many comparisons to Vince McMahon, revealed in an interview Friday night on Canadian French sports network RDS that the WWE promoter had once proposed that they fight.

While being interviewed by former NHL player Denis Gauthier, Jr., whose wife is the sister of former WWE wrestlers Jacques and Raymond Rougeau, Gauthier jokingly asked White who would reign supreme if he were to be locked up inside a steel cage with McMahon. The UFC figurehead revealed that the fantasy duel could have become a reality.

"Let me tell you something, and I've never said this before ever in any interview anywhere. If Vince hear's this, he's going to go nuts. Vince is too old, which he won't think he is, and he'll go crazy. And he wanted to [fight] one time," remarked White.

"Vince wanted to fight me. Swear to God. Called me up and said, "Let's do it." We can either do it in the UFC, or let's do it at WrestleMania. And I said, "You are crazy."

White noted of the 67-year-old: "I always have said it, and I'll say it again; I respect Vince very much. But Vince is too old to be fighting anybody."

According to Wrestling Observer editor Dave Meltzer, McMahon had proposed that White fight him at the 2011 pay-per-view event WrestleMania XXVII. It was the WWE chief's idea of a double main-event match—the other being John Cena vs. The Miz for the WWE Championship.

Otunga Hosting The Call Premiere, SmacakDown Matches

- WWE taped the following matches for tonight's WWE SmackDown:

* Sheamus and Randy Orton vs. Cody Rhodes and Damien Sandow

* Darren Young vs. The Miz

* Aksana and Tamina Snuka vs. Layla and Kaitlyn

* Kane vs. Dolph Ziggler

* Fandango vs. The Great Khali

* Mark Henry vs. Ryback

* Chris Jericho vs. Swagger

- David Otunga will be at a special screening of WWE Studios' The Call tonight in Chicago. The red carpet walk and meet & greet happens at the AMC River East theater. The movie starts at 7:30 local time and Otunga will meet fans after the showing.

Possible Storyline for The Miz

WWE NXT wrestler Jake Carter, who has features similar to The Miz, also shares the same name as Miz's character in The Marine 3. No word yet if this will still happen but there was a plan last year to create a Jake Carter character in developmental that would eventually move up to the WWE main roster and feud with The Miz once the movie came out. Carter is the son of WWE Legend Vader.

Randy Orton Comments on Marine 3

Randy Orton wrote the following on Twitter about The Miz in The Marine 3:

"I enjoyed watching The Marine 3 Homefront last night, but I'm a little jealous that @mikethemiz shot more bad guys then I did in #12rounds"