The current one-half of the WWE Smackdown Tag Team champion Robert Roode is seeing back some success after getting transferred into the tag team title division. His team with Dolph Ziggler has become really famous since the first day.
They won two tag team titles together, one of them being the Raw Tag Team title and the other one is the Smackdown tag team title that he is holding right now strongly.
Robert Roode Reveals Who Gave Him Idea To Team Up With Dolph Ziggler
Robert Roode was seen as the main event star since joining WWE. At NXT he was one of the top guys and he won the NXT championship once as well.
After joining WWE, he was immediately seen as a top mid-carder. He won the United States championship once but somehow he lost his push and was becoming an undercard slowly. Then he lifted himself back again in the tag team division and he is going pretty strong right now.
Roode recently spoke with the Daily DDT where he discussed how much he admires tag team wrestling and he also reveals who gave him the idea to team up with Dolph Ziggler. Below are some highlights;
How he’s always loved tag team wrestling:
“I’ve always loved tag team wrestling and I’ve had some success throughout my career in a tag team and competing as a tag team guy. From an early age, when I was eight-years-old starting to watch pro wrestling, sports-entertainment, I was always a fan of tag team wrestling and tag team psychology.”
Says his pairing with Ziggler was Paul Heyman’s idea:
“It was Paul Heyman’s idea, basically. I wasn’t doing a lot at the time and Dolph’s always been in and out [of storylines], for whatever reason. He’ll be busy one month and the next month you don’t see him. We were showing up to the TV and we weren’t doing a lot of stuff and one day we got to TV and Paul pulled us over and said, ‘I have this idea. I want to pitch it.’”
On their team name:
“The Dirty Dogs thing kind of started as a running joke among friends. I guess we’re the old dogs in the locker room so to speak. We’ve seen it all and we’ve been around it all and we learned sometimes you have to play dirty. This is the moniker we go by. We do whatever we have to do each night to get the job done and that’s what we’re going to do. We’ve been pretty successful so far with that mindset.”
On his last five years with WWE:
“You’re actually the first one to point that out. It really has [flown by]. It’s been a blast. The NXT experience was better than I ever thought it could be. I was excited when I got there to Dallas and I remember just nervous and anxious at the same time. I was in the business a long time leading up to that, leaving a company I had been at for such a long time.”
No doubt Robert Roode is doing really well in the tag team division and his team with Dolph Ziggler can go really far if booked well. We hope to see a better time ahead for the former WWE United States champion.