10 Reasons Why Dolph Deserved His Demotion
3. There's Only One Chapter In His Story
Dolph has mastered the art of the ten to fifteen minute mid card TV match. He must be a lazy hollywood writer's dream - that he's been involved with so many meaningless variations of them is confirmation of that.
There is very little variety in his act elsewhere, though. His matches seem to exclusively follow one storytelling formula - a back and forth encounter between two equally matched opponents, ending in a narrow, could've-gone-either way win after an excessive number of near-falls.
It is the essence of 50/50 booking - so Ziggler shouldn't be at all surprised that's he continually lost in the shuffle. His work with Corbin has been refreshing, in that he's broken up the pattern, but again, it's probably too late to be considered a string to the bow of his main event prospects.
A proper main event talent should be able to tell in-ring stories with more nuance and diversity. Kevin Owens, for one, has already demonstrated in a much shorter space of time that he can put on very different but equally good matches with a whole host of different wrestlers. Ziggler's matches are largely indistinguishable from the ones he was putting on 2011.