The story of The Miz being kicked out of the WWE locker room early in his career is legendary, but the A-Lister recently provided more context on the “ridiculous” situation during his interview with Chris Van Vliet.
This was an infamous incident where WWE star The Miz was kicked out of the locker room for six months in the mid-2000s for spilling fried chicken crumbs on a veteran wrestler’s bag, widely believed to be Chris Benoit’s, forcing him to change in hallways and use public restrooms, a punishment later lessened by The Undertaker.
Miz explained that the incident was blown out of proportion via a backstage game of “telephone.” The Miz was asked whether he knew when he would be invited back into the locker room. “I had no idea. I knew the person that told me that, hey, you’re kicked out of the locker room. He said you’re not coming in until I say so.”
Miz revealed he was banned from the locker room for six months. He eventually approached The Undertaker to resolve the situation after the person who originally kicked him out—whom Miz did not name—left the company.
“No, that person went away. So then when that person went away, I was like, oh boy, how am I gonna get back in the locker room? So I had to wait another three months. I asked Taker. I was like, ‘Man, I’ve been out of the locker room for a long time.’ He goes, ‘Oh, you have?’ Yeah, I’ve been out like six months. ‘What’d you do?’ I ate a piece of chicken in the locker room, and it got all over. I still believe it did not, but other people will tell you differently, and they can have their opinions. That is fine. I was under a microscope of, let’s get this guy. A lot of times in a locker room, someone could say he ate a piece of chicken over my thing.
And, [someone else says] ‘Oh, man, what are you doing? Why are you doing this?’ And then another guy walks in. ‘Oh, you ate chicken over his his bag?’ Another guy walks in. ‘He did what?!’ Then another guy is outside the locker room. And then he heard he ate chicken and he got it all over the place. Then by the time the telephone game was played, I was throwing chicken all over the locker room, I was smearing it on stuff, that’s what it felt like. So yeah, I went to Taker and I said, I ate chicken over a bag. Yeah, it’s real.”
If you use any portion of the quotes from this article please credit Insight with Chris Van Vliet with a h/t to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription. You can find the full interview on Chris Van Vliet’s YouTube channel or podcast feed.
