One of the most popular wrestling gimmicks was Damien Mizdow. It was Damien Sandow who played the role of being a stunt double for The Miz. Recently, he received immense praise from former WWE SmackDown Women’s Champion Natalya.
Damien Sandow was interviewed by Chris Van Vliet on his Insight podcast. During the episode, the former Mr. Money In The Bank shared his thoughts on being Damien Mizdow.
“I think there was no Mizdow without Miz. And if I didn’t have a subject to base my satire on, I wouldn’t have had that. So that’s a testament to the timing Miz and I had. Miz and I are, you know, I say we’re friends. Like, we haven’t really talked or anything. But if we saw each other, it’d be cool. Like, there’d be what’s up, man, we came up in OVW and stuff. And out there though, we had timing about it, because that’s all that was. It was Miz doing his thing. And then allowing me to do my thing. And then going into it, he was very, very cool about it. Our best moments were not discussed. Truly, they weren’t, we didn’t talk about them. They happened organically.”
When Chris Van Vliet asked Twitter about their thoughts on Mizdow, Natalya replied by mentioning that he was and still is an amazing character.
“He was amazing and still is,” Natalya tweeted.
Damien Sandow on how Mizdow was born
The former WWE Superstar also revealed how the gimmick came into existence. He also claimed that if he can get as little as 30 seconds of Television time every week, Sandow can make that work and get over with the fans.
“That was born out of boredom. I was on Raw, like, what am I doing here? But the thing was, I had the thing happen with the briefcase. And then okay, they start giving me what I thought was a push, then two weeks later, I’m dressing up as different people. Alright, whatever, here we go. I embrace that. They put me with Miz. The only reason Mizdow works is because I was on television consistently. And if you put me in a role consistently on television, if I go to any company, like any owner of any company, right?
“And I would say this now, and I can say this, I hope this does not sound braggadocious or whatever. But this is just based on kind of my calculations. Based on the knowledge I’ve acquired. If you give me 30 seconds for three to four weeks I will be able to get myself over no problem. If you give me 60 seconds, we’ll be selling T-shirts. Because there is an art to how you do this. And now again, that’s 30 seconds of like, I would need some creative freedom in there. But wrestling shouldn’t be hard, because it isn’t hard.”
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