You remember the guy above? Dolph Ziggler? The guy who was on the midst of breaking out in the WWE. The guy who got one of the loudest pops I've ever heard when he won The World Title the night after WrestleMania. What happened to him?
Well, in cased you missed it...
Ziggler won the World Title the night after WrestleMania and got a HUGE pop!
A week into his title reign, he had a match on SmackDown where Jack Swagger's dumb ass botched a move and injured Ziggler. Because of this, he had to drop the belt and leave to heal up. Once he came back, Del Rio was The World Champion and slowly Ziggler fizzled out of the World Title picture. He's jobbing now and his push has been halted, or stopped, in my opinion. He jobbed to The Wyatt Family, jobbing to The Shield. The guy hasn't even had any air time to cut promos anymore. He's become nothing more than an afterthought now after being one of the hottest acts WWE had.
From what I've heard, the "Powers That Be" think that Dolph Ziggler can't draw, or put asses in the seats. Um...?
Dolph Ziggler had the World Title for ONE WEEK. We never had a chance to see what he could do with the belt until he got injured.
So, let me understand. The fans love Dolph Ziggler. Guys like me love seeing him wrestle, sell moves, take bumps, he's good on the mic, and we could argue that he puts asses in the seats as well. The man had everything to be the future of the company and they don't believe he can draw.
And yet, you have a guy like Alberto Del Rio. He's been a 2-time WWE Champion, 4 Time World Heavyweight Champion, Money in the Bank AND Royal Rumble Winner. He's gotten every chance to get over, and he STILL CAN'T. Even when he was a face, his reactions weren't that big. Ricardo Rodriguez gets more of a reaction than him. Del Rio gets almost little to no reaction when he comes out. And yet WWE still wants to keep the World Title on him. Why? Because they're trying to build up another Latino star cause they don't have one right now. Rey is on and off, Sin Cara has proven to be a bust in my opinion, and they have nobody else. Basically, they're trying to make the next Eddie Guerrero.
I'll say this, Del Rio is NO Eddie Guerrero. I'll get that out of the way right now. He can never be the superstar Eddie was. Secondly, they don't need to keep the belt on him to make the Latino star that they want. Del Rio is a good in-ring worker, (in my opinion, he could be a lot better) but he can't draw, or put asses in the seats. Yet, they keep the belt on him rather than a guy that people will ACTUALLY pay money to see in Dolph Ziggler.
This is the sort of thing I mean. How will we know if Ziggler could be "The Man" if he never gets the chance?
Look at The Miz in 2010. People thought his title run would fail, but it was damn good. Miz made that WWE Title look better than it had been in previous years. He was a great Heel Champion. WWE let him run with the ball and he was getting interviews, appearing on Talk Shows, doing all the things your WWE Champion should do. He even beat their Golden Boy, John Cena, in the Main Event at WrestleMania. If WWE had taken the belt off Miz the week after he won the title, we wouldn't have seen how effective his heel run as Champion would have been.
In Ziggler's defense, he was injured 1 week into his title reign, so we never had a chance to see how he would be booked with that title. You could also argue that when Ziggler was injured, he was ripping into the WWE via Twitter during RAW, and maybe that upset the officials. Whatever.
I think it's BS that Ziggler is getting the short end of the stick here. And you have a guy like Del Rio getting the push that anybody else could be getting.
Who knows when Ziggler will be back to the status he was around WrestleMania Season. WWE has butchered Ziggler so badly, I don't think he ever will.
Let me know what you think.
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By: Gerald "Showstopper" Prophete
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