WWE Star Doesn’t Think His Character Works As A Babyface

WWE star, and long-time heel, The Miz has explained why he doesn’t think his character works as a babyface.

While he has had brief spells as a babyface throughout his 20-year WWE career – most recently in 2024 for his Awesome Truth partnership with R-Truth – The Miz is about as synonymous with being a heel as any star in modern WWE history.

Speaking with Chris Van Vliet on Insight, The Miz discussed the importance of wins and losses in WWE as a babyface, and this being why he feels his character doesn’t work in that role.

Miz explained:

“My character doesn’t really work as a babyface, if I’m being honest. It’s a person that can lose, and then the next day, you’ll forget about that loss, because I’ll just cut a promo and just make you believe.

“But with the babyface, babyfaces can’t really lose a lot. If a babyface loses too much, you lose [appeal].

“Everyone always says winning doesn’t matter, winning doesn’t matter. It matters. It really does matter. Especially if you’re a babyface, because in my opinion, if you’re a babyface and I’m a kid out there, my kids always ask me, ‘Did you win? Did you win? Did you win?’ I always have to go, ‘Ah, daddy didn’t win this week. But you know, I’ll get him next week.’ You can only say that so many times to a kid where they’re just like, I want a winner. I want a winner. I want to cheer a winner.

“People like winners, people like first place, they don’t like second place, they don’t like third place. They want the guy, their guy, and they want their guy to win, so if he doesn’t win… So that’s why I feel like my character, I’m so good at losing and then making you forget about that loss, and then making you believe the next day that I can beat the biggest superstar in the world.

“I could lose to whoever. Guy comes up from NXT, Je’Von Evans, and beats me. The next day, I can be in the main event. I can go up against John Cena, not anymore, but I go up against your biggest superstar, and I can make you believe I can beat that person, and you will believe that I will beat that person.

“But as a babyface, it’s a little tougher. It’s been weird these past couple of years, though. I would say this past year has been weird.”

While he registered wins during his tag team runs with R-Truth and, more recently, Carmelo Hayes, The Miz hasn’t won a televised singles match in WWE since the February 5, 2024 episode of Raw when he bested JD McDonagh.

Despite his less than stellar win loss record, The Miz will get a chance to compete in a Undisputed WWE Championship number one contender’s match at Saturday Night’s Main Event on January 24, but only if he can defeat Randy Orton on the January 16 episode of SmackDown.

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