Dolph Ziggler (Nic Nemeth) Breaks Silence On WWE Release

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Dolph Ziggler (Nic Nemeth) has broken his silence on his WWE release following his return to wrestling at Wrestle Kingdom 18.

Former World Heavyweight Champion Dolph Ziggler was among the most recent batch of WWE talent cuts back on September 21, with him being perhaps the most surprising name of all.

Following the expiration of his non-compete clause, Ziggler has since made his return to wrestling, appearing under his real name Nic Nemeth alongside his brother Ryan at NJPW’s Wrestle Kingdom 18 event on January 4.

At the show, Nemeth confronted new inaugural IWGP Global Champion David Finlay, getting involved in a brawl with Finlay, seemingly setting up his first opponent in NJPW.

Following his wrestling return, Nemeth appeared on Busted Open Radio, Nemeth broke his silence on his WWE release, and how he made himself prepared for his departure.

He explained:

“I was prepared. For the last six, eight, ten months going, ‘At some point, I have to make a change here.’ As you get ready to go and see you don’t have a chance to be in a PPV match and steal the show. You don’t have a chance to have a six-minute match to steal the show. You have a match and it’s three minutes and you don’t get an entrance and everyone knows who is winning. Can I find a way to have that work?

“Once that started happening, even a couple of years ago when Roode [Bobby Roode] and I were tagging, I was thinking, ‘At some point, I have to be ready to go. Will my shape and stamina still be there?’ I have been preparing so long and getting things ready to go, it wasn’t ‘What? What do I do now? I’m free.’ I was planning for half of this entire last contract going, ‘I know at some point, I’m being paid way too much to sit at home so I’m gonna have to get out of here.’

“I always wanted to be ready to go, just in case they said, ‘I know you’ve been doing 90-second matches, can you do 30 minutes with The Undertaker?’ You’re damn right I can. I was ready to go anyway, I just wanted to have every option available. It wasn’t out of the blue. I had sent emails to the boss over the last few months saying, ‘I have to move on to somewhere else, can you let me do this?’

“Eventually, without exact back and forth, that’s how it worked out. It wasn’t weird because it was so six, eight, ten months in place going, ‘Here it comes.’ Now, I have 90 days sitting around, which broke my heart, but I just got extra workouts.”

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