10 Times Wrestling Fans Turned On Internet Darlings
4. Dolph Ziggler
Dolph Ziggler was a fabulous midcard talent it turns out was mistaken for a main event talent in an era just before the global standards of professional wrestling blew up.
Ziggler was incredibly "SquaredCircle over", praised for years as the most under-utilised talent in the WWE system. He could work excellent, lung-bursting TV matches and the bumps, fahgeddaboutit!
Seriously, forget about them. They knackered him, if anything.
Ziggler made absolutely everybody look like a beast flying around that ring, but it was an attribute that split the office and the fandom; they didn't see him as a believable main event-level threat, where we valued greatly the craft about which they couldn't really give a f*ck. Ziggler felt right on when he took to moaning about his spot and being that damn good, which he was, but then the North American landscape changed rapidly in 2014 - the year after his fans had exhausted the sort of ardent support a wrestler tends to draw only once. You can't maintain that energy.
Suddenly, Ziggler - the man who looked like Mr. Perfect in contrast to David Otunga - looked like Dolph Ziggler next to Sami Zayn, Neville et al.
He kept moaning, which didn't help, and after 2016, he seemed more or less stuck in a distant past.