Dolph Ziggler Thought WWE Was Going To Release Him

Dolph Ziggler is a veteran at this point and he’s accomplished a lot throughout his WWE career. Ziggler has managed to capture numerous championships such as the WWE World Heavyweight Championship, Intercontinental Championship and NXT Championship just to name a few.

The Showoff has come a long way from his humble beginnings with the company, but it seems that he had some concern about getting released during his early days with WWE. Recently Ziggler explained to Chris Van Vliet that in 2008 he found out he was going to wrestle Batista and he thought it was going to be his last day on the job.

“So, a lot of people think that’s the debut but that’s when I come back. I wanna say I wrestle R-Truth as Dolph Ziggler, I think I have a double count out or I roll in and beat Truth… and then I’m not on TV for a month or month and a half and then I come back and it’s against Batista, and I go ‘Oh, this is my last day at work.’ If you were a new young guy, you don’t know what’s going on… I don’t have a legacy, I don’t have friends in the meeting, I don’t know what I’m doing. They gave me this weird name that I tried to fight them on and my debut was a count out win against R-Truth, who is beloved, especially by me.”

“If you’re debuting and you’re fighting Triple H and winning, they’ve got plans for you. When you’re debuting against R-Truth, who wasn’t on TV at the time, and you’re barely scraping by and then you go away for a month and they tell me that it’s you and Batista and it’s one segment… Lucky for me, Batista is not just a sweetheart, he’s great and wanted to have a good match. So, I just saw that and I go ‘Oh, this is it.’ Instead, we have a really fun match. It was like eight or ten minutes but it was kind of a good match, but he’s going on to a pay-per-view in a world title match, so he definitively beats me, totally get that. But I don’t have to check the wanted ads next Monday.”

Luckily for Dolph Ziggler he wasn’t released and it doesn’t seem like the company has any plans to let him go. The former World Heavyweight Champion also talked a little bit about WWE’s reluctance to push him as a top guy, and you can get more on that here.

H/T Fightful