One of the biggest and most shocking WWE releases of 2023 was the one of Dolph Ziggler . He recently made his debut on NJPW under his real name Nic Nemeth.
Ziggler was recently interviewed on the Busted Open Radio podcast. During the episode, Nemeth shared that when he looks back at his previous matches a few years later, he is flabbergasted about how bad he is as a wrestler.
“Yeah of course. And every… Man! All the time. I think I’m on year 20 of, ‘Is everybody going to find out that I’m a big phony and I don’t know what the hell I’m doing?’ Because you don’t have that confidence sometimes. But every three or four years, I go back and go, ‘Man, I stole the show on this match. Me and John Morrison. Oh Man!’ And you go back and look at it and I go, ‘I’m so embarrassed.’ At like waiting somewhere and not waiting somewhere. And I’m watching me and then three more years goes by, World Champion, stealing shows. I go back and watch those three years later and I go, ‘Oh my god! How can I be so bad at this?’” Dolph Ziggler said.
Nemeth grades his work
The former WWE World Heavyweight Champion mentioned that whenever he looks back at the matches, he believes that those deserve only a C- but at the time of the match he thought he put on a top-notch performance. It doesn’t happen too often, but it does push him to be better.
“We’re all our harshest critics. I totally understand that. But there is that day every couple of years. Without having to look back, where I would readjust and go, ‘This is C- work when I thought it was an A.’ And it just makes you keep going and going. Now the last six, eight months, to where I’m not used to that 25 – 30 minute match time, I started saying, ‘Can I still go? Can I do everything?’ And it’s knowing that in your back pocket that everything that you worked up for is just slowly ready to go at all points and all times.”
Do you agree with Ziggler? How would you rate him as a professional wrestler?
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