11 Ups & 7 Downs From Last Night's WWE SmackDown (Jun 18)

3. Dolph's Delivery... Again

Dolph Ziggler
WWE.com

Sigh.

Who is telling Dolph Ziggler to deliver his promos like this?

Is it Vince McMahon himself?

One of his 200 creative team members?

The computer script that writes the shows these days?

Perhaps it's Dolph's own internal monologue?

Either way, it's hideous. This forced "passion" comes off less like Al Pacino in Any Given Sunday and more like Tommy Wiseau in The Room. The unconvincing over-acting and overused "it should've been me" lines are killing 'The Show-Off' at the moment, so let's hope his character heads in a different direction when the Kofi Kingston feud subsides and he moves onto something else.

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