WWE legend and former WWE World Heavyweight Champion Dolph Ziggler who is the former six times WWE Intercontinental Champion recently looked back at becoming the NXT Champion and he discussed his short NXT run as the champion.
Dolph Ziggler got his first recognition back in 2006 when he made his main roster debut as a member of the Spirit Squad stable. Back then he was known as Nikky. Soon after the stable got disbanded, he got repackaged as Dolph Ziggler and he became one of the most famous stars of WWE. In his 16 year long WWE career he won a lot of championships.
Dolph Ziggler Remembers His NXT Championship Run
In his entire WWE career he went through every type of run possible, he had been a main event star as well as a jobber. He had been an amazing mid card, and also an excellent Tag Team wrestler. Currently is only 42 and he definitely has a lot to offer. He might not get another world championship reign but he is an amazing mid card any day.
Earlier this year he had a short run in the NXT where he defeated Bron Breakker to win the NXT Championship. He was the only wrestler to pin Bron Breakker so far. Even though he dropped the title to Breakker in only one month time but the short title run was quite enjoyable and soon he transitioned to the main roster once again.
Dolph Ziggler who is the former six times WWE Intercontinental Champion recently spoke to “In The Kliq” podcast where he looked back at becoming the NXT Champion and he discussed his short NXT run as the champion. He said;
“It’s something that was in a cool way, since I’ve been around for a while, sometimes they’re like, ‘Hey, we need you to do this today. It happens in two minutes. Get it done’, because I can. In this situation, it was something that for a month or two before like, ‘What do you think about this? Do you think this could work? Could you help this guy? Could you make this fun?’ We thought about it and pitched for it back and forth behind the scenes.
“Several of us said, ‘You know what? This could be really fun. I can sink my teeth into something different, go at it from a different angle, try something, the guys busted into someone else’s show to talk trash on the champ, and then have him come out looking better at the end.’ When you see it that way and go, here’s the long term thing we can go in a month or two. Even then, it ended up being so fun and working out so well that we extended it a little bit longer.” says Dolph Ziggler
“So that’s the cool thing about this business, nothing is set in stone. If they say ‘Hey, we need you for three weeks in NXT’, you’re like, Okay, what am I doing? ‘I’m working on my days off, whatever.’ Then it becomes, ‘Oh, this really clicked. Let’s double the time. Let’s make this special.
“Let’s get a title on the line and see if we can get everybody talking about it just a little bit more.’ Then you get extra excited about it. I’m on the treadmill on my day off going, ‘Okay, we can go here, we can try this’, and it just gets your creative juices flowing even more so. That ended up being, it was supposed to be, I don’t know, three, four weeks and it ended up being six or seven because it went so well and there were all these ideas floating around.”
Dolph Ziggler continued, “It’s nice to mix it up because for the longest time I was a singles competitor by myself, 10 straight years doing what I do, and I got to tag with big Bob, Robert Roode, who’s awesome. Then he and I just got on the same page so much that you get so used to it that you’re in this cycle of like, ‘Okay, we’re gonna have this tag match. We’re gonna make this work and do something awesome’, and then it’s boom, go to NXT fight for the title and see what the hell happens, and you go, alright, let’s mix it up again.”
Quotes via WrestlingNews.co