7. Pair Up Dolph Ziggler And Randy Orton As A Tag Team
Let's more than presume that Dolph Ziggler's leaving WWE when his contract expires this fall. If you're Dolph Ziggler, you know that there's matches with the likes of Roderick Strong in PWG, Adam Cole in ROH, Drew Galloway and Jack Jester in ICW and AJ Styles, Tanahashi and Nakamura in New Japan sitting on the table. Thus, on his way out of the door, why can't WWE make a little money with DZ, too? The New Day merely has to say after they've won the tag championships back from The Prime Time Players that they've challenged and defeated every tag team in WWE. The next week on Raw, they can say that they have made an open challenge for the belts for any two WWE superstars they have never defeated as a tag team. The next week, out walks Dolph Ziggler who is accompanied by Randy Orton. Ziggler and Orton are both top-tier stars who don't have much going on. Incorporate Lana as their manager so that there's an entertaining three-on-three aspect, and it's golden. Ziggler and Orton as a tag would work in the same manner that Orton and Edge once worked, which was an asset for the company then as it would be now. Ziggler working dates through Survivor Series in order to build to a tag-team championship/loser leave town stip (on the pinned member of the Ziggler/Orton team) would be cool. Imagine Rusev healing his ankle through the "Power of Positivity" and becoming a New Day associate because he hates Ziggler. Rusev re-debuts at Survivor Series by helping The New Day win, and then has a ready-made feud with Randy Orton, too.
Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
