6. Because Dolph's Kinda Useless On The Main Roster Right Now
There's a point in pro wrestling where a guy on the card just kinda becomes a really awesome dude having really awesome matches and not having any sort of momentum behind their character. At present, that's where Dolph Ziggler is in WWE. He's certainly a level above the Jack Swaggers of the world, but he's also perceived as being a level beneath the Kevin Owenses of the world, too. It's a bizarre space to occupy, one where matches and feuds do more harm than good. With each match that Ziggler wrestles where he's not contending for a championship or really pushing a top performer to the limit, he loses a bit of the luster that he's earned over a decade in WWE. Thus, some time in NXT wrestling hungry performers who are seen in the eyes of the fans as being excellent is worthwhile.
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Besides having been an independent professional wrestling manager for a decade, Marcus Dowling is a Washington, DC-based writer who has contributed to a plethora of online and print magazines and newspapers writing about music and popular culture over the past 15 years.
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