10 Radical Ideas To Save Dolph Ziggler
5. Have Him Head Up A Heel Stable
Factions are all the rage in WWE at present. They allow several wrestlers to take up the same TV time and work the same angles, and make easy work of organising those six-man tag main events they love so much.
When they work, they get people over: the Shield, for example, the New Day, and Evolution. When they’re used as placeholders for actual creative (goodbye, the League Of Nations, we hardly knew ye), they suck like they were bitten by a radioactive hoover.
Ziggler worked beautifully in Team Rocket, and that wasn’t even really a proper stable: just a white hot sassy heel with a charismatic, spunky valet and a menacing, yet oddly cuddly bodyguard. Given the right partners, the right gimmick and the right attitude, he could recapture that magic again.
Of course, it’s one of several options detailed here that probably requires him to turn heel again: but realistically, is that so bad? It’s not like everyone didn’t originally fall in love with the guy when he was a cocky brat of a bad guy.