Heartwarming / The Miz

• Heel or not, Miz still broke out into Manly Tears when he first won the WWE title from Randy Orton. Knowing that he literally was an Ascended Fanboy only makes it that much cooler for him.
  • Here's the backstage reaction to Miz winning the belt: hugs all around from the likes of Triple H, Vince McMahon himself, Sheamus, former tag partner John Morrison and even Miz's then-future Wrestlemania challenger John Cena.
• In Money in the Bank 2011, the Miz takes a hard fall and injures his leg, causing him to be sent to the back. During a lull in the action, he rushes in, hopping one-legged to reach the briefcase and the crowd cheered him on. When Rey knocks him down, he actually gets booed.
• After fighting Daniel Bryan on the 2/14/11 RAW, he gives Jerry Lawler his deepest condolences after announcing that Lawler's mother passed away the Saturday. Then it gets—somewhat—more heartwarming as he wants a good fight from Lawler at Elimination Chamber 2011 and not let his mom's passing get in the way of their fight, setting Lawler off to be more of a Worthy Opponent than some wrestler he's off to fight.
  • More importantly, he did it without turning it into an insult at all, which is what makes this fit here.
• The photo◊ of him backstage with "Angry Miz Girl." Both simply because the photo is all kinds of adorable, but also because he was able to change her opinion of him simply by meeting her.
• In a twisted way, Miz celebrating his stunt double Damien "Mizdow" pinning Sheamus on the 10/20/2014 edition of RAW is heartwarming in itself.
  • Doubles as a Funny Moment when Miz claims HE won because Mizdow is his stunt double.
• The Miz kissing Grumpy Cat live on RAW.◊
• On an interview with ESPN, this is what the Miz had to say about his wife.
  "As soon as she got hired, it gave me a whole new confidence in everything — in my ability to do promos, in my ability to be in the ring..." [...] When your wife is sitting there watching you ringside, you are kind of showing off, and you don't want to look stupid — ever. [...] I'm not in one of those relationships where I'm like, "Ugh, I'm with her all the time, and it sucks" [...] I'm like, "This is what I want." I want to be around her all the time because she's my best friend, and we talk about everything. It brings a whole new light to my life. To be away from her kind of puts you in a down mood."
• Before starting Miz TV, Miz paid homage to all of the Talkshow With Fists that had came before, including the one that had started it all, Piper's Pit while wearing a Hot Rod t-shirt and paid homage to the man behind it, who'd just recently passed away.
  "From the bottom of my heart, you will be missed."
• Miz and Maryse fighting John Cena and Nikki Bella at Wrestlemania. Miz knows he was never going to win. The fans knew he was never going to win, so he delayed the match as long as possible by hyping everyone up to thunderous applause. He decided to have a little fun, and the fans were behind him.
• Even though Dean Ambrose trolled him into untold levels of paranoia, leading him to inadvertently smash an old grandfather clock that Maryse was going to give him (it being in a man-sized box made Miz think Dean was lurking inside), he reveals the next week that he spent almost all of his downtime looking up woodworking and repair tutorials online to try and fix it.
• Teaming up with Asuka for the Mixed Match Challenge. They're both delighted.
  • The Platonic Life-Partners cranked the adorableness meter up to 11 with Asuka's reaction to the Miz speaking Japanese (to her surprise) during their promo against Big E and Carmella.
• Daniel Bryan watches his first televised WWE match and reminisces about his feud with the Miz, who was his "Pro" at the time. He then admits that despite what the hardcore fans might think, he actually did learn a lot from the Miz about the entertainment side of wrestling in the WWE.
• Here's a subtle one. In Daniel Bryan's Summerslam 2018 match against the Miz, he actually slapped him in the face. This implies that he actually respects him as a wrestler. Why? Back in the promo for his Summerslam 2013 match against John Cena (with the Miz present) he has this to say:
  Daniel Bryan: You know, there's a custom I learned in Japan that they did before big matches. And it's to fire somebody up. It's to light that spark from one wrestler to another so that they'd bring everything that they had into that fight. They take their hand and as hard as they possibly can, they slap him in the face. You know, I wish so bad that I could do that to you right now. But I can't. Because you're not a wrestler and you don't deserve it.'
• After the SmackDown Live taping and during a dark match "rematch" of their squash match in Super Showdown, kayfabe bitter rivals The Miz and Daniel Bryan have a big OOC homoerotic hug. Daaaawwww.
• Here's Miz with Monroe Sky, his firstborn daughter, falling asleep in his beefy arms. She really is Daddy's Girl.
• Miz coming out to Shane the SmackDown after Miz took the losing pinfall in their first PPV tag title defense against the Usos at EC 2019 and actually admitting to Shane's face that he used him to take a shortcut to the tag titles, playing on their shared dream of being tag champions and wanting to make their respective fathers proud. When you consider Miz's career reputation of backstabbing his partners, a fact he lampshaded in his promo to Shane, it speaks volumes that Miz would even accept blame let alone admit his wrongdoings. You could tell both Shane and the audience were somewhat surprised that Miz came forward as he did rather than try and get the jump on Shane as many, likely including Shane himself, were expecting him to.
  • Shane even came to Miz's defense after the latter would get verbally razzed by the Usos, leading to Shane making the rematch at Fastlane in Miz's old hometown of Cleveland, Ohio, with Mr. Miz at ringside for the special occasion...
  • ...which would end on a somewhat heart-wrenching note after Miz & Shane came up just short in their Fastlane rematch and Shane turned on Miz afterwards, as well as Shane putting his hands on Mr. Miz after beating Miz to a pulp.
• During the Mixed Match Challenge against Naomi and Jimmy Uso, the Miz fought while wearing the bedazzled shoes his niece made as a favor to her, even though he felt slightly embarrassed about putting them on in the hallway.
• Him finally winning the WWE Championship again at Elimination Chamber 2021. Granted, there were still some detractors, but when comparing the fans of 2011 to fans of 2021, the majority of the 2021 fans wholeheartedly believe that The Miz is now worthy of the moment and are fully behind him as champion. The Miz most definitely earned respect in the past decade.
  • The behind the scenes of Miz cashing in his Money in the Bank contract to win the WWE Championship for a second time tugs at the heartstrings, because all his peers are acknowledging his hard work and dedication for getting that title. To Miz, the respect they show means even more than the title itself.
• After seemingly beefing on Twitter in regards to WWE's vested interests in Saudi Arabia, it's heartwarming to hear CM Punk apologize to Miz the first time he attended RAW backstage in years and to see them bonding backstage nowadays, like on the 1/22/23 edition of Monday Night RAW.
  Punk: Hey Miz. How's my hair?
  Miz: (moves and slicks back a hair on Punk's head) See, you just got one... you just got one...
  Punk: See? I knew you'd be honest!
  Miz: ...You're good! You're good!
  • As confirmed by Mase and Mansoor during one of their Twitch streams, when Punk went backstage to Raw in 2022, he went and specifically apologized to The Miz for all he’s ever done to bury him.
• Miz being a supportive friend to R-Truth during the latter's storyline with The Judgment Day, trying to warn Truth about the dangers of the group and even asking #DIY to help save Truth in his fight against JD McDonaugh (As he was away on business due to his wife, Maryse, recovering from surgery to remove tumors on her ovaries). After Truth leaves the Judgment Day, he and #DIY decide to play along with Truth calling themselves "Re-Generation X" due to him confusing #DIY as Shawn Michaels and Triple H.