The Miz Recalls Vince McMahon Having Talent Cut Promos As Animals In 2010 Promo Class

The Miz recently looked back at a memorable promo class run by Vince McMahon in 2010 where stars were told to cut promos as animals. The WWE star cashed in his Money in the Bank title shot on the November 22nd, 2010 episode of Raw, winning the title from Randy Orton. Miz reflected on the win on the No-Contest Wrestling Podcast and talked about how earlier in the night, McMahon had a promo class where they had to cut promos as if they were animals.

“By the way, previous to this, we were having promo classes,” Miz said (per Fightful). “And during that promo class with Vince McMahon, that day, he wanted us to get our inner animal out. So we’d had to cut promos like dogs. I watched Sheamus and Wade Barrett cut a promo as dogs. (Barks) I’m telling you, like, that was promo class that day.”

He continued, “But honestly… when I got in that match, and if you watch that match back, you can see I am literally channeling an inner animal. I am seeing the injury, and when an animal sees an injury, ‘That’s your target, that’s where you go.’ When a shark smells blood in the water, they target that, right? So that’s what my mindset was, so it helped, that promo class helped me get into that, lock into that mode.”

Miz’s first run with the Championship lasted 177 days, until he lost it to John Cena at Extreme Rules 2011.