Shane Douglas thinks WWE made a bad call in releasing Dolph Ziggler.
Former ECW Champion Shane Douglas has a podcast called “Franchise University” and he talked about how valuable Dolph Ziggler is as a talent and how much WWE misused him before he was released on September 21.
“I’ve been a big Dolph fan for a long time. He was really vastly underused in my belief.
“I’m not privy to their dressing room, the things that go on, but it always seemed to me from afar … he’d be getting a little bit of a push, and all of a sudden he would disappear for two or three months, and to me, that was the entirety of his career, this herky-jerky ‘We’ll see you for a little bit, we won’t see you.'”
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Shane Douglas Thinks AEW Signing Dolph Ziggler Would Be A “Boon” For AEW
Despite being released, Shane Douglas has plenty of confidence in what Dolph Ziggler can still contribute to the wrestling world, particularly AEW.
“And to me, a guy with that kind of extensive amateur background, those earmarks that he had that were very reminiscent of Shawn Michaels at a younger age and the fact that he was so telegenic …That it just never [happened], it boggled my mind. Like Steve Austin said, ‘If Vince wants you over, he’ll strap a rocket to your ass.’ And I don’t ever recall seeing that with Dolph. But I think this could be a boon to AEW, and I’m curious to see what Dolph does now.”
Credit to “Franchise University” and h/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.