{"id":35308,"date":"2020-07-27T20:17:00","date_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/dolph-ziggler-isnt-giving-up-on-his-next-wwe-breakthrough\/"},"modified":"2020-07-27T20:17:00","modified_gmt":"2020-07-27T17:17:00","slug":"dolph-ziggler-isnt-giving-up-on-his-next-wwe-breakthrough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/dolph-ziggler-isnt-giving-up-on-his-next-wwe-breakthrough\/","title":{"rendered":"#Dolph Ziggler isn\u2019t giving up on his next WWE breakthrough"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#Dolph Ziggler isn\u2019t giving up on his next WWE breakthrough<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n                        <em>Dolph Ziggler, after losing to WWE champion Drew McIntyre at Extreme Rules, gets another crack at him tonight on \u201cMonday Night Raw\u201d in a non-title match \u2014 this time with McIntyre picking the stipulation. (8 p.m., USA Network). Before the match, Ziggler made time for some Q&#038;A with The Post\u2019s Joseph Staszewski.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>(Edited for length and clarity)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Why will this rematch against Drew end differently after you didn\u2019t cash in with your own stipulation at Extreme Rules?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: I felt like I was closer than I have been in several years, maybe about a half of a count away from becoming champion and I felt something special out there. But I know someone like Drew and myself, we will literally beat the hell out of each other at any chance we got not just to prove to everybody else how good we are, but to show what that championship means and what being champion means.<\/p>\n<p>I didn\u2019t think it was gonna be that close because I\u2019ve seen him be on a hell of a tear lately and I actually haven\u2019t been racking up the wins like I used to. The fact that we got in that match and I know him so well and I taught him a lot of things that he\u2019s really excellent at now, I felt that I was an inch away that if I can just get him in the ring, I don\u2019t care the stipulation, one more chance to do that, I could really have him all figured out.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What kind of stipulation do you expect from him? For Extreme Rules you teased one that we had never seen before, do you think we\u2019ll get a more traditional one this time?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: He might want to prove something to himself and say, \u2018Hey man, straight up match and I\u2019m gonna beat you and show you that I can beat you in a crazy your rules match and I can beat you in any kind of regular wrestling match.\u2019 He might say steel cage. He might say Hell in a Cell. He might say hour-long ironman match and prove himself to me.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Why do you think the WWE championship has eluded you in your career?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: I don\u2019t know. Clearly, there are people that see myself as someone very important, a utility player who can play any position and be there whenever they need him to be, open the show or main event the show and no one would bat an eye and you spend an entire career trying to let them know that I am here for a reason. I have lasted this long because I\u2019m so good at my job. I have outlasted others that you sl<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ed on the back and said this is our guy 10 different times. So you keep hope alive that one of these times you\u2019ll finally get the approval of everyone and if not, I finish my career knowing I left it in the ring every damn night.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Do you feel that\u2019s the role you are a little stuck in as far as being that utility player?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Recently, for sure. But it also does bounce around to where it\u2019s like, we may need someone to take over the reins for the next six months. Dolph\u2019s here and five other guys are here, let\u2019s go with Dolph. Right now, yeah clearly utility player who can bounce in anywhere. But also, when you bounce in somewhere and it works a little bit more than it\u2019s supposed to then that\u2019s how you drop your anchor in there and you try to get moving and you try to make that much more special than it\u2019s supposed to be. If you\u2019re filling in for somebody and they\u2019re not sure what to do and you make it special, then you go let\u2019s go back to this again, let\u2019s make this better or now this is his time.<\/p>\n<p><span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/LW0CU7SkCyc?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" title=\"Video\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Booker T recently said on his podcast that he wonders if \u2018Dolph Ziggler wasted a decade-plus being the guy wanting to go out there and steal the show opposed to wanting to be like a Roman Reigns, the guy\u2019 and being a little more selfish and concerned with world titles. How do you respond to that?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Sadly that\u2019s really ignorant to say, I think, because after 10 years in a row of not being world champion, I said I have to justify me working here and tearing up every match I\u2019m in and stealing that show every night. So I said, I made a little pivot to go, \u2018I\u2019m out there to steal the show and set the bar and follow that idiot\u2019 and that\u2019s what I got to live on because it was the only thing that really kept me going. Because you don\u2019t get to be a little bit more selfish in the ring and then you get to be Roman Reigns. That\u2019s not how this business works. You\u2019re picked. No matter what you do, no matter how you work, no matter how awesome you are or how bad you are, you get picked and then you hope for the best and you hope if that doesn\u2019t work out you\u2019re the next one picked.<\/p>\n<p>So that\u2019s pretty ignorant I think of him to say, for Booker T, because being good at wrestling and choosing to be a little bit more greedy in a match doesn\u2019t put you in the Roman Reigns position. Not only that, but when your boss tells you, you are not in that position, you need to be a smaller guy who scraps and steals and crushes and rakes eyes and steal roll-ups here and there because you are not even in that build. Because if I were to be the guy, I\u2019m clearly a smaller guy, it would be based on sneaking wins, Ric Flair-esqe in the 80s going long distances. So we\u2019re not even similar characters.<\/p>\n<p>So being told, say you\u2019re in a match with Drew McIntyre, he\u2019s a big badass guy who\u2019s gonna beat you up. But if you win, you\u2019re gonna sneak an eye rake and roll him up and set the world on fire. So that\u2019s just not knowing how the business works saying that that way. It\u2019s unfortunate because for about 10-12 years of the last 15, I\u2019ve tried to be the guy because I\u2019m someone who can talk, you can go on to a school and talk, can go talk to stockholders, can get in the ring, can be outside the ring, can do <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/watch-movies-tv-seriess\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"8\" title=\"Watch Movies &amp; TV Series\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">movies<\/a>, can do TV. And you go, I\u2019ve done everything in my power. So if you have a five minute match on Raw and get one more move in, that does not change your position in the hierarchy of wrestling.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_16043295\"><img alt=\"WWE Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre\" data- data- height=\"441\" width=\"662\"><\/img><figcaption><span>Dolph Ziggler and Drew McIntyre<\/span><span>WWE<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Q: On the flip side of that, you have also gotten a lot of praise. The Rock was all in on you potentially becoming WWE champ and Ric Flair and Eric Bischoff have been very complimentary. What does it mean for you to have those guys say that maybe you are a little underutilized?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: By the way, there is no maybe about it or a little bit. But when you hear people who know \u2026 so Bischoff knows the business, the ins and outs, and then he says, this would be the guy I go with. That means something special. When Ric Flair, one of the greatest of all time, a friend of mine, I looked up to him my whole life, says this could be the guy to build the company around. When those two and countless other legends say, \u2018Why is this guy not the guy?\u2019, you start to wonder what it is. You go, clearly I have the eye of some of the greatest of all time, not one that\u2019s a friend, not one or two, but 20 friggin\u2019 legends who are all awesome in their different right say, this should be the guy and clearly I\u2019m not so that drives me to want to go, man maybe this is the year where it could happen.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: I spoke with Drew a few weeks ago and he said you were a big help when he returned to the main roster because you know what the landscape was and knew how to navigate it. What advice did you give to Drew or what kind of advice was he looking for?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: We went out there and I feel like there was so much energy and passion and we complimented each other. We both wanted to set an example and say, it\u2019s cool to be a WWE superstar, but if you\u2019re just hanging out saying you\u2019re a WWE superstar not really giving two craps about what the hell\u2019s going on, you need to get out of our locker room. It made me more excited to go out there and prove points and go, I just had this match right here, if you can\u2019t do that or if you can\u2019t hang with me you don\u2019t deserve to be here, and he saw it the same way.<\/p>\n<p>This is about making the business better. It wasn\u2019t so much about asking different things, it was more like leading by example. Me jumping on grenades for him in the ring and behind the scenes to help him out and lead him along where he could at least have one person to have his back because no one else is.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Is there an example of that you can share?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Several times I literally jumped in front of him to take a beating away to make sure he could pin somebody at the end or I could jump in front of two people to help him out.<\/p>\n<p>Behind the scenes, most of the time was, he had been gone for however many years, he didn\u2019t know how things work and I being around for so long (knew) to go to the proper channels to make things better for us to make things work, get us in different matches and appearances and that was very helpful I think.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What was it like working with Mandy Rose and Sonya Deville and Otis, just these young hungry kids who are probably eager for advice?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: It was great. I\u2019m a fan of Otis anyway because he\u2019s an amateur wrestler and he\u2019s a badass one, too. I love that we barely mention it. But he\u2019s really strong and really awesome at wrestling, so it was nice to have somebody I could talk about wrestling with.<\/p>\n<p>Those three always wanted to be better. They always wanted to make whatever situation we were in better and I could throw ideas off them and they could bounce something back. If they\u2019d say, we have this idea and I go how about we go this way and they go that\u2019s cool we didn\u2019t think of that. It would help them out in so many different ways, while also making this cool relationship between me and Sonya where we really had a lot of chemistry and we only did two or three things together and go well this is another special thing. It doesn\u2019t always work like this.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What promo advice would you give to someone trying to figure out how to work without a crowd?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: You just get a moment to do a Shakespeare-esque monologue and let people see what you\u2019re thinking, how you\u2019re thinking, how you say words, where your pauses are because they are not based on somebody in the crowd hitting a beach ball yelling \u2018What.\u2019 So it really gives you a chance to take certain stories that are somewhat gripping and make it more real and more close to home.<\/p>\n<p>Promo wise, the pauses, the waiting, people watching your eyes, people watching your face, people watching you move your fingers and fist around. There are so many things that people can focus on when you are just you and we are all basing it on what you say and not the crowd.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Did a little bit of that happen with the promo with Heath Slater and Drew and what did it mean for you to be a part of that moment with them?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: Everybody loves Heath. He is a legend. He\u2019s good for morale, and any locker room would be lucky to have him. I can\u2019t say enough nice things about the guy.<\/p>\n<p>To have him be fired and still come back and get a chance to give a very real speech from the heart is something that we rarely get and rarely get to do. I don\u2019t think I\u2019ve ever done one of those speeches.<\/p>\n<p>That is so amazing that he had that opportunity and it couldn\u2019t have happened to a nicer guy <em>and <\/em>it made sense. It all made sense with the story with Drew. You have this Terminator in Drew who crushes everybody and rips everyone in half, kicks them in the face and for one minute you saw that he was a person who was sorry and sad and that played into my head <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>s psychologically and made him relatable instead of just this Robocop who can\u2019t be beat.<\/p>\n<p><span><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/DXgLyYa1JUk?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;fs=1&#038;autohide=2&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;wmode=transparent\" title=\"Video\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: What was the biggest adjustment you had to make moving to stand up comedy?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: I\u2019ve wrestled in front of 80,000 people and had the time of my life and a couple weeks later I was in the backroom of a coffee shop in Silver Lake, California with 15 people waiting to go up for this open mike and 12 of them are on their phones not even listening and I walked out on that tiny \u2014 it\u2019s not a stage, it\u2019s a black apple cart \u2014 and you stand on it and I\u2019m like shaking and I just go, \u2018Don\u2019t drop the mic. Don\u2019t drop the mic.\u2019 I pulled it out of the mic stand and I go, OK.<\/p>\n<p>Once you get 10,000 reps in, which I\u2019m very far away from, then you start to get really comfortable, so right now with wrestling, I focus on a match and a game plan and psychology in my brain and I pace around and go get all fired up to wrestle. When it comes down to stand up comedy, I\u2019m pacing, going over my notes, crossing things out, sweating, getting nervous watching the clock going I\u2019m up in seven minutes going Oh my God.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: You\u2019ve also done some work as a political analyst. Would you ever consider running for office when wrestling\u2019s over?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: I don\u2019t know anyone in their right mind who would ever want to be a politician now. It seems like everyone who is one percent against you wants to just get you out of their life or silence you or something and it seems very unfortunate. Like it\u2019s fun for people to make comments online but when it comes to real life and actually running for positions, it\u2019s just there is a lot of negativity that I feel it\u2019s gonna turn a lot of people away from wanting to help and give back. I still want to help and give back to communities in Cleveland and California and Arizona. I love that stuff. I\u2019m very invested in it and I\u2019m very interested in it and I usually try to find a way to make it funny because people are pretty serious about it.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not someone who started following politics in 2016 when Trump was running because everybody I know who used to ask me about politics now tells me about politics since 2016. I live for it, I love for it, I study it. I read the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> all day long, but I don\u2019t know. It\u2019s gonna be a little tricky to want to run for office and have so many people hate you instead of wanting to work with you. Hopefully in the coming years, we start turning that back the other way and make it cool to reach across an aisle.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Q: Where do you think things are in the Cleveland sports scene, pretty important season for the Brown and the Indians considering a name change?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A: The Browns will forever be in all our hearts in Cleveland, so it doesn\u2019t matter, but we just got to be realistic about it. No matter that they do, we\u2019ll support them. Let\u2019s get a couple wins under our belts before we talk Super Bowl one of these years. With the Indians, I guess long time coming.<\/p>\n<p>I like that we\u2019re a tough blue-collar town and that\u2019s what the Browns stand for and whatever the Indians become that\u2019s fine, too. A couple friend of mine said the Buzzards would be a pretty cool one, which is what the rock station in Cleveland used to be. 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