WWE: Get ready for The Miz and his big babyface promo on SmackDown

Last week on WWE SmackDown, Shane McMahon explained the inexplicable after betraying The Miz in his hometown of Cleveland, with his father at ring side no less. This week, Miz will respond to the former commissioner of the blue brand.

Shane McMahon and The Miz had quite the time together as a tag team on WWE SmackDown, winning the tag team championships from Sheamus and Cesaro at the Royal Rumble Pay Per View before dropping them to The Usos at the Elimination Chamber in February.

After being unable to win back the titles at Fastlane in a rematch against Jimmy and Jey Uso, Shane had enough. The self-proclaimed “Best in the World” broke up the supposed best tag team in the world, blindsiding The Miz from behind after the A-Lister shared a heartfelt moment with his father.

On the Mar. 12 episode of SmackDown Live in Dayton, Ohio, Shane explained his actions to the WWE Universe, bullying ring announcer Greg Hamilton in the process. Shane has established himself as the next big authority heel in WWE, and it’s a role that suits him well, especially after some fans started to turn against him a bit last year during the storyline involving Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn.

In the process, The Miz has become a huge babyface on SmackDown, which is a role that seemed almost impossible. Miz’s first babyface run in WWE was widely seen as a failure, so some fans, unfairly, assumed that he’d never be able to fulfill this character role again.

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But with Shane as the right heel, The Miz has a chance to complete the full reversal of roles from old rival Daniel Bryan last year, with Bryan currently the evil-minded WWE Champion.

This week on the Mar. 19 episode of SmackDown in Indianapolis, The Miz will have his verbal response to Shane, and the WWE Universe can expect another heartfelt, home-run promo from one of the best talkers in wrestling, yes, history.

For years, The Miz annoyed audiences with his heel tactics, but he started to get genuine cheers as one-half of the “endearing douchey dads” tag team with Shane’O’Mac. And after Shane’s betrayal in Miz’s underdog hometown of Cleveland, the man who made the Intercontinental Championship prestigious easily has the most sympathy of his career to this point.

Perhaps Shane will emerge to create even more sympathy for The Miz, beating the one-time WrestleMania main eventer to a pulp in front of the Indianapolis crowd.

Either way, this is a big moment for Miz, because this feud is just one of many matches on a loaded WrestleMania card. It’s difficult for any match that isn’t Ronda Rousey vs. Becky Lynch vs. Charlotte Flair or Kofi Kingston vs. Daniel Bryan to truly stand out, and there won’t be any “show-stealers”.

But The Miz and Shane have made careers out of proving people wrong, so they’ll want to show the WWE Universe that this is a great heel/face story and not a rivalry to write-off –or take a bathroom break during – at WrestleMania.

And the build to that all begins tomorrow night on SmackDown Live when The Miz takes to the microphone for his first huge, babyface promo.