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WWE NEWS: Dolph Ziggler talks getting a "Ziggler Win" on Raw, being a harsh critic of the product, Tyler Breeze, ring gear change, more

Sep 1, 2015 - 10:02:11 PM
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By James Caldwell, PWTorch assistant editor

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Prior to Tuesday's Smackdown TV taping in Miami, Dolph Ziggler talked to TV reporter Chris Van Vliet about a handful of WWE subjects besides his on-air relationship with Lana.

- Ziggler joked about getting a "Ziggler Win" against Rusev Monday night on Raw.

Ziggler said of following Sting's opening promo with a DQ win over Rusev: "He opened the show and I got to follow him with a pretty cool match, which was as good as it gets for me because I kinda won."

- Ziggler talked about the challenge of 52 weeks of TV and trying to make certain Raws special, like last week's post-Summerslam Raw.

"When you're as hard on the product as I am, you get mad about things, you get bitter about things, you get bored with things, and I'm the harshest critic we have on my own stuff and certain things, and we always try to make it work. So, when something special happens in wrestling, it's that much more special to me," Ziggler said.

"Because I'm as bitter and I've seen it all as there is, so if you can get me to go, 'Whoa, that was cool,' a couple of times, it's a special show. I love that we're starting to understand that you better be the night after WrestleMania or Summerslam or hopefully next year the night after any other event, like Money in the Bank."

- Asked if he wants to face NXT wrestler Tyler Breeze, Ziggler downplayed the idea, saying he just wants Breeze to be his own person. Like, he's trying to be his own person and not Shawn Michaels.

Ziggler then endorsed himself as representing a roster full of wrestlers who have to be multi-talented, "renaissance men" to get over in WWE. "Somehow, I'm here at six-feet tall, 11 years later, the guy who is 'stealing Shawn Michaels's gimmick, isn't really good, flips around the ring like he doesn't know what he's doing,' is one of the guys who loses every night and gets 99 percent of these places to blow the roof off when he comes out. Why would that be?" Ziggler said, ending his tongue-in-cheek rant.

- Asked why he changed his ring gear from shorts to pants, Ziggler said he's going for an '80s rocker look. "I'm in the mix of getting another pair made. And if it works out at the next PPV, maybe we'll stick to them. We'll see... If I don't have that time to develop my character, let me slowly become the guy who wears the stuff that he wants to wear."



[ Video: Ziggler's Interview HERE ]

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