Lets get a complaint out of the way. Just three weeks ago, Dolph Ziggler was the sole survivor in a Survivor Series main event that ultimately sent Triple H and Stephanie McMahon packing. He eliminated three men en route to victory. Sunday night, he was jerking the curtain for a secondary title hed already held three times. That doesnt smack of elevating Ziggler to the next level. That being said, he and Luke Harper kicked off TLC with a solid performance that gave hope that WWE might be up to delivering a great PPV. Their match wont win any match of the year honors, but it made both men look strong both bled hardway, Dolph from the forehead and Harper from the arms. The big hope came after the match when the announcers put over Ziggler as being a star. Now, time will tell if hes booked to lose a bunch of non-title matches, but for now, Dolph is riding a wave.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
