10 Stars WWE Took A Perverse Pleasure In Burying
9. Dolph Ziggler
At WrestleMania 32, on April 3, 2016, Dolph Ziggler made up the numbers in the multi-man ladder bout for Kevin Owens' Intercontinental Title.
A few weeks prior to this, Ziggler - who both Triple H and Vince McMahon reportedly perceive as a weak Shawn Michaels tribute act - ran into Trips and Stephanie McMahon and stood up to them. Which meant he was seconds away from having his balls removed from the sac. This led to a match presumably designed to keep Triple H strong ahead of his date with Roman Reigns - even though Dean Ambrose performed that role at Roadblock days earlier. It was hard not to infer that Ziggler was punished, counterproductively, for his petition to face Daniel Bryan in a singles match.
Stephanie, as she was wont to do, cut into Ziggler far too deeply by reinforcing and making real what he was already perceived as. "You're good, Dolph - but you're not that good." It's probably true - but you don't say it. What's the point?
"We're big enough to see the big picture," Triple H said, easing on their threat to fire him. The irony was apparently lost on him: he defeated Ziggler with some ease in a meh match on the March 14 RAW.
So Ziggler wasn't that good, then.