10 Coldest Performers In WWE Right Now
8. Dolph Ziggler
It's strange to recall 2013, the year in which Dolph Ziggler was poised to belatedly enter the main event picture. It didn't happen; even though the stars aligned to turn him face, a scenario many of his supporters had already schemed to engineer, by many accounts Vince McMahon just didn't see top-level potential within him. His concussion wasn't a felix culpa but reinforcement that he didn't have the stuff.
On his day, Ziggler remains a very good performer - the problem is that, face or heel, he is indistinguishable from the 2013 vintage. The vast majority, if not all, of Ziggler's matches follow a somewhat shallow back and forth template in which he looks far more convincing selling than he does on the offensive. He always has. He has never been able to balance his act, and that's likely the problem. The Dolph Ziggler shorthand is "good at bumping" - hardly headliner material. He looks and wrestles like a guy besotted with the WWF's New Generation era midcard.
Ziggler's stock in trade was fun, frenzied matches at his peak. Those are now the norm in WWE. He has been eclipsed by the post-NXT crowd, and you get the impression that his surroundings no longer inspire him. His last singles PPV singles bout, opposite Shinsuke Nakamura, of all people, was tepid.
If anybody in WWE needs to take the Cody route to renaissance, it's Dolph.