The Intercontinental Champion going on to headline the main event of Wrestlemania actually makes more sense than anyone else on the roster. Dolph Ziggler was aided by Sting to dethrone The Authority at the Survivor Series, has beaten Seth Rollins in singles competition, and is in the same position that Daniel Bryan was in one year ago as the crowd's sentimental in-ring favorite. He's beaten a big man in Luke Harper at Extreme Rules in a brutal ladder match, and also - more important than anything else - ready to be a main event competitor on whom WWE can depend on night in and night out being the top performer of a crew of wrestlers who are likely more-than-prepared to "grab the brass ring" and be more than what Vince McMahon perceives to be the sum of their parts.
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.
