7 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (Sept 29)
1. Dolph Ziggler's Unwitting Truth
When Dolph Ziggler first began to impersonate wrestling personalities past and present, it didn't really work. It wasn't over-the-top enough to evoke laughter, nor obnoxious enough to draw heat - and the fact that Dolph's entrance music hit first annihilated the element of surprise and any further heat drawn by that classic wrestling staple, the bait and switch.
This week, the pieces finally fit together; the Undertaker's gong pealed before Ziggler "told the world" what he was about to do, he made an actual funny about the Undertaker's drastically reduced schedule - and to be fair, if the subject has always been dead, it probably doesn't count as cheap heat - and he was at last interrupted by Bobby Roode to set up their match at Hell In A Cell. If Backlash is any indication, Roode will probably become yet another boring WWE underdog babyface - but at least the build was good for five minutes, unlike the Shinsuke Nakamura programme, which was as funny as f*ckheaded internet trolls petitioning for your unemployment via Twitter.
Not only that, Ziggler was revealed to be right about his "you only care about entrances" crusade; per this week's Wrestling Observer, hordes of punters left the September 26 El Paso house show after Nakamura entered the ring for his match because his entrance is the best part of his act.
That, or Jinder Mahal is a sickening disgrace of a paper champion. One of the two.