10 Wrestlers Who Will Never Be WWE Champion Again

8. Dolph Ziggler

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This shouldn't really come as a surprise. Dolph Ziggler's main event run feels like multiple lifetimes ago at this point. How different would the Show-Off's career have been had Jack Swagger not coaxed that concussion out of him all those years ago? Ziggler was white-hot as World Heavyweight Champion, but the injury forced a title change and a return to the middle of the card for Ziggles.

WWE had another chance to pull the trigger on Dolph following the 2014 Survivor Series, but that success didn't really go anywhere either. Despite being one of the most talented performers of his generation (and a homegrown talent of sorts, no less), Dolph Ziggler's career will end with two world title reigns in WWE, one of which lasted less than a single episode of SmackDown.

Ziggler's best chance of adding to his world title tally lies way off in the future, when he is the veteran nostalgia name that comes back to dethrone a young talent. What price Ziggler pinning Gable Steveson for the WWE Multiverse Championship at a Saudi Arabia show in 2033? Don't rule it out.

Actually, yes, rule it out. Dolph Ziggler's days in the world title picture are over. In truth, they have been over for a long while.

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Born in the middle of Wales in the middle of the 1980's, John can't quite remember when he started watching wrestling but he has a terrible feeling that Dino Bravo was involved. Now living in Prague, John spends most of his time trying to work out how Tomohiro Ishii still stands upright. His favourite wrestler of all time is Dean Malenko, but really it is Repo Man. He is the author of 'An Illustrated History of Slavic Misery', the best book about the Slavic people that you haven't yet read. You can get that and others from www.poshlostbooks.com.