Dolph Ziggler: I Can Help People Out As A Veteran, But I’m Not Just Here To Help

Dolph Ziggler is here to steal the show… and make it better for future generations.

During a recent appearance on Andy’s Hall Access on Lazer 103.3 Des Moines, Dolph Ziggler spoke about the idea that he wants to be a better veteran wrestler. Ziggler says he is here to help, but there’s plenty he wants to accomplish and hopes he leaves wrestling in a better place when he’s gone.

“My favorite thing is, if someone goes, ‘Oh, he’s an old vet,’ I go, ‘Well, yeah, I can help people out backstage. I’m good at my job, and I’m comfortable enough, knowing how good I am, that I can help,’ but also going, ‘I’m not just here to help.’ I also have this ego and have this talent that I go, ‘Damnit, I want to steal the show every night no matter where I am or if I’m on the card or not.’ I embrace that because I love the business and I have one damn goal. It’s not titles, it’s not a certain match or person or whatever, it’s to have this business be better because I was involved in it and when I leave, it’s better because I was a part of it. That’s the important part.”

One way Dolph Ziggler was able to give back as a veteran was during his NXT feud with Bron Breakker. Ziggler recently spoke about the success of that program during an appearance on Casual Conversations with The Classic, noting how the program went longer than it was originally planned because of how well it did.

“It ended up going so well and working with Breakker, who was very, very, like comically new, only a handful of matches, for that to go as well as it did and have that chemistry and camaraderie that we had, we ended up extending it like three more weeks than we were going to and making a bigger issue out of it, which I think helped him and helped me,” he said. “So what a win. Very easy to work with, very exciting to go to NXT and just show up. I’m so used to getting booed, and to get cheered by them, so I was like alright, okay. You get a little bit more leeway at the time to lay into your character kinda your own way, and it was just nice to have that different perspective of it.”

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