The Miz says he buried the hatchet with CM Punk before his WWE return

The Miz says he and CM Punk buried the hatchet before Punk returned to WWE at Survivor Series last year.

Miz confirmed to Adrian Hernandez recently that he spoke to Punk backstage at WWE’s show in Chicago on April 24, 2023. At the time, Punk was still with AEW but had yet to return to action following the torn triceps he suffered at All Out 2022.

“It was in Chicago and I was just walking down the stairs and he was standing there and we just locked eyes,” Miz said on the show. “Remember, he left a long time ago and has never been back and it always felt like it was just a never going to happen type of thing. So, to see him backstage, I was like what? We ended up having a really good conversation and it was one of those moments where just (it was) two guys talking and we kind of just buried the hatchet, I guess you could say.”

The Miz and Punk got into a public spat with each other in early 2020 when MIz made a joke on WWE Backstage about “changing the culture,” something Punk claimed he would do when he was announced as a host of the show. In a since-deleted tweet, Punk responded to a clip of Miz’s comments by writing, “Go suck a blood money covered d**k in Saudi Arabia you f**king dork.” Miz would later say that he didn’t know why Punk was upset with him and he thought the two were friends.