Because WWE is so big, it’s not unusual for a lot of skilled superstars to get lost in the shuffle. This includes Dolph Ziggler, and Vince Russo just recently talked at length about The Showoff’s success.
In an interview, Tyler Breeze said that Dolph Ziggler once told him that he and Prince Pretty were not WWE guys. This was a warning about what Prince Pretty could expect on the main roster.
Ziggler has never been “the guy” in WWE, even though he has the world title. Vince Russo thought it was strange that the company missed out on a constant main event-level star.
Russo looked at Dolph Ziggler from the point of view of a wrestler and thought that the 42-year-old had all the qualities of a great professional wrestler.
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“Bro, I was reading an article of a Tyler Breeze interview today, and Tyler Breeze talked about Dolph Ziggler telling him, ‘Bro, we’re not one of theirs.’ Bro, but think about that. I talk about this all the time; I talk about wrestling and politics all the time, especially when talent is involved in booking, because you look at a guy like Dolph Ziggler, and I’m looking at Dolph as a writer. No bias, no nothing. You’ve got this great-looking guy with a great body, a great worker, a great talker.”
People often compare Dolph Ziggler to Shawn Michaels because of how they look and how they do their jobs. Vince Russo also thought that Dolph Ziggler was a lot like the Heartbreak Kid, and he was surprised by how little WWE has used him.
Russo said that something that might have happened in the past with Triple H could be why Dolph doesn’t get better chances.
Vince Russo says that WWE let Dolph Ziggler down in 2014
“Bro, very similar to Shawn Michaels in many, many ways, very similar. Why is he not one of theirs? Because I guarantee you it goes back to history with Hunter, and something happened in a match in 1995; that is how it works.”
During his fight with The Authority in 2014, Dolph Ziggler was on the verge of moving up to the next level. He had been in WWE for almost 10 years at that point.
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At that year’s Survivor Series, Dolph Ziggler won it for his babyface team. He looked like he earned a push. WWE, on the other hand, never took advantage of his momentum, and a few months later, he was back in the middle of the show.
Vince Russo looked back at the mistake of not supporting Ziggler enough when he was a famous anti-establishment character and added:
“There is no reason in the world Dolph Ziggler should just be a good little hand. Bro, I remember, and you’d remember too, Chris, because your memory is far sharper than mine; remember when they were rolling out Hunter and Stephanie every single week, and Dolph was the anti-establishment (guy)? And a big pay-per-view was coming up, bro; they were this close to getting him over huge, and they took it away that quickly. Around that time (Survivor Series), yeah.”
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If WWE management had helped Dolph Ziggler more, could he have been a bigger name? Tell us what you think in the area below.
He definitely has the same characteristics and personality traits of a hbk,hhh,flair I’ve always wondered why he never got the notoriety that he deserved, he could have maybe been on the mount Rushmore of professional wrestling 🤔