Road Dogg addressed why WWE canceled Talking Smack back in 2017 during the latest edition of Oh You Didn’t Know podcast
The show featured the famous Bryan Danielson (Daniel Bryan) and Miz promo segment. Below are some highlights (via WrestlingInc.com):
Why WWE canceled the show:
“Because it was simply not worth it. Logistically, it did not work. And it wasn’t doing great numbers. People talk about it a lot because it was really good. … That’s what makes it now like a cult following, like ‘oh my god that thing was great.’ Yeah, but none of you were watching it when it was on or else it would’ve stayed on.”
The Miz and Danielson segment:
“Some of the best work I ever seen Miz and Daniel Bryan do was literally off-the-cuff, not one word rehearsed or any of that. That was all natural and what a real moment of ‘what just happened there?’ It felt like if they would’ve just held on, maybe there was a way to monetize it somehow.”
WWE ended up reviving Talking Smack in August 2020 before being rebranded as SmackDown LowDown earlier this year.
