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5. Were Dolph Ziggler's Comments On Talking Smack His Last?

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If you are not watching Talking Smack, then you are truly missing out. Candid and authentic interviews are aplenty on the Smackdown post-show hosted by Daniel Bryan and Rene Young. Check it out.

There were several intriguing interviews this week on the main TV shows, but should Sunday be the final night of Dolph Ziggler's in-ring career, we may look back on his final comments on Talking Smack in a new light and, in proper historical context, as the epitome of his career. The worked shoot promo can be fascinating if done well and Ziggler's words offered a peak inside the trials and tribulations that have come to define his 12-year WWE tenure.

It was a continuation of much of what he had been saying since the early part of the Ambrose feud, but it was stripped of the pomp and circumstance of an in-ring, live segment in front of a large crowd; and it was powerful and informative.

Pro wrestling offers a fictional world in which the quest for glory can always end happily if the promoter chooses for it to be so. Talking Smack offered one final reminder that, should Ziggler lose at No Mercy, he will forever be an example of the guy whose quest was never chosen for a glorious ending.

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"The Doc" Chad Matthews has written wrestling columns for over a decade. A physician by trade, Matthews began writing about wrestling as a hobby, but it became a passion. After 30 years as a wrestling fan, "The Doc" gives an unmatched analytical perspective on pro wrestling in the modern era. He is a long-time columnist for Lordsofpain.net and hosts a weekly podcast on the LOP Radio Network called "The Doc Says." His first book - The WrestleMania Era: The Book of Sports Entertainment - ranks the Top 90 wrestlers from 1983 to present day, was originally published in December 2013, and is now in its third edition. Matthews lives in North Carolina with his wife, two kids, and two dogs.