Ziggler Remains Pointless
Few careers in WWE have been squandered quite so spectacularly as Dolph Ziggler’s. His descent from the most over performer on the roster on the post-WrestleMania Raw in 2013 to inducing channel-changing apathy in 2018 has been a monumental fall from grace.
After a decent enough 2016 in which he had an excellent series of matches with The Miz, 2017 saw him drop out of favor. He quit the promotion over the summer and returned doing a horrible act that involved ragging on the crowd and doing lame tribute entrances. A United States title win at Clash of Champions was inexplicable given how few cared about his character, and his abdication of the gold on the following SmackDown and subsequent quitting the promotion was completely nonsensical.
Ziggler returned at Royal Rumble in the #30 spot, doing the exact same gimmick as before. Nobody cared. His case was not helped by a brief, uninspired stint in the bout. No explanation was given for him leaving or why he had returned. After another couple of weeks MIA, Ziggler came back to the blue brand in exactly the same position on the card as he had been in before, only this time the crowd cared even less.
On this week’s SmackDown, Ziggler – nominally playing a babyface – lost to Kevin Owens, further hammering home the point that he has exactly a 0% chance of success in the five-way Fastlane main event.
Is Ziggler a babyface? Is he a heel? Why does he come out to a record scratch and no music only for it to kick into his old music anyway? Why does his look change on a week-to-week basis with little in the way of consistency? Why does he flit from passionate to uncaring from promo to promo? Why did he quit and then come back? All questions that Ziggler and the writing team have decided not to bother answering. Until they do, Ziggler will continue to flounder.
6 years ago by Wrestle Talk
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