The Ultimate Warrior was one of WWE's most prominent stars from the late 1980s into the 1990s, and across his tenure with the promotion he held both the WWE Championship as well as the WWE Intercontinental Championship. Because of his second accolade, The Miz believed that Warrior would've been a perfect fit for an angle he pitched to WWE's creative. "I pitched the fact that I wanted to beat every single Intercontinental Champion, so I can be the greatest Intercontinental Champion of all time," he recalled. It's unclear when exactly The Miz pitched this angle for, since The Ultimate Warrior unfortunately passed away in 2014 at 54 shortly after accepting his induction into the WWE Hall of Fame. The Miz's next lengthy run with the belt began three months after The Ultimate Warrior passed away.