Dolph Ziggler reflects on time in NXT and describes how it went longer than the company initially planned.
Ziggler had a memorable run on WWE NXT 2.0 earlier this year, as he arrived on the brand in February and won the NXT Championship a month later. He also headlined the NXT Stand & Deliver event in a title match against Breakker before the young star beat him for the title the following night on WWE RAW.
During an appearance on Casual Conversations with The Classic, Ziggler looked back on his time in NXT and noted that he liked the idea of temporarily moving to the brand because it allowed him to do something somewhat different with his character.
“It was kind of cool because with this business, some days, you open your phone and you’re like hey, you’re going to London tomorrow at 6 AM,” Ziggler said. “You go, ‘What? Okay,’ and you go. This was one of those things that for a month or two ahead of time, they were like, ‘Could you see working with Breakker? What do you think here, what do you think about this?’ I was like oh, this is exciting and fun. I can get a little bit of a different take on my character. I go, ‘This would be really cool.’”
The former world champion continued by noting that his program with Breakker went to so well that it got extended roughly three weeks longer than initially intended.
“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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