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Henry Jenkins of Buddy TV got an exclusive interview with WWE Smackdown Superstar “The Miz” here is what The Miz had to say:

On the Origins of The Dirt Sheet
It’s funny. John and I - we drive a lot from city to city doing shows. We were having great matches but we knew that people had to know what our characters were like. People had to know who we were as wrestlers as well as people. And we thought the only way we could get that across was to get some sort of show on Dot Com. So we asked “Can we do this show on Dot Com?” And people were like “Sure, no problem.” So we started doing it and in the beginning a lot of people were like, “Oh, it’s stupid. It’s this. It’s that.” Then it just kind of picked up to where it’s getting views and people are watching it. It’s helped out so much because people now know exactly who The Miz and John Morrison are. We’re two completely different characters but as a unit we’re unstoppable… Even though sometimes we’ll have great matches on TV people can’t get to know you’re character because it’s just a match. People can know how you are in the ring but outside the ring how is he? So now people know exactly what we’re like.

On the Difference Between Building a Persona on Reality Television and in the WWE
I think it was actually the same. It just sort of falls into you. It’s really kind of the same. It’s just a bigger person than yourself. You know? Being on a reality show they do a lot of editing. They do a lot of random stuff. But in wrestling you only get one take. You only get one try. You kind of start falling into that character. On the Real World they stereotyped me as the frat boy - the stereotypical, All American frat boy. Now in wrestling it’s kind of fallen into that phase where I’m the chick magnet. I’m a person that’s gonna say what I want to do, and do what I want to do and make fun of everyone on the Dirt Sheet, and that’s what I’m gonna do. It’s kind of just me being me.

On Wrestlemania 25
I think our goal is like everyone else’s goal at Wrestlemania. I mean, this is our Super Bowl. This is the time to bring up all the stops. We’re looking to steal the show. We want to have the best match, walk away with the unified tag team championship and actually have people remember that match and go, “Man, that was an awesome match.” I think a lot of people are talking about Undertaker/HBK, John Cena vs. Edge vs. Big Show. They’re talking about the main event matches. With the tag team match, they’re talking about it but they’re not hyping it as much as the main event matches. So we want to be the ones who say “You know what? They may not hype it but after they see that match they’re going to [say] that’s the one that they remember.”

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