The WWE Hall of Famer believes that Dolph Ziggler is playing the role of payer-coach in NXT presently.
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WWE Hall of Famer Booker T has put his weight behind Dolph Ziggler as he believes that superstar can be a key figure in developing young talents at NXT. The WWE legend is of the opinion that Ziggler is playing the role of player-coach currently in the developmental brand of the company.
Ziggler, meanwhile, went on to challenge Bron Breakker for the NXT Championship and won the title earlier this month at WWE’s NXT Roadblock show. He registered a breath-taking win over Breakker and Tommaso Ciampa in a triple threat match.
However, Booker T, feels that Ziggler’s presence will be instrumental to develop young talents including Breakker.
“No doubt, Dolph Ziggler is a player-coach. That’s what I look at Dolph as. Dolph can teach those guys down there a load as far as knowledge goes that these guys could use forever. I look at a guy like Dolph Ziggler, he hasn’t lasted in WWE because he’s a crappy worker or anything like that. He hasn’t lasted in the WWE because nobody likes him. That’s not the reason why Dolph Ziggler…. he hasn’t stuck around because people like him. He’s stuck around because he’s talented and he knows exactly what his job is,” Booker T said in the Hall of Fame podcast.
“You’re never going to know what Dolph Ziggler is thinking before the match because every match has been the same since day one, and that’s going out there and doing the best job to my ability. But, whatever comes along, I’ll be prepared, like going down to NXT, winning the NXT Championship and bringing all of these guys up to a certain level that I could work with. That right there, for me, is a general,” said the legend.
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Brock Lesnar overcame AJ Styles, Seth Rollins, Riddle, Austin Theory and Bobby Lashley in the Elimination Chamber 2022 to seal the WWE Champion title for the 10th time in his career. Lashley, who took the title from Lesnar at Royal Rumble, didn’t enter the match due to concussion protocols after being Rollins powerbombed Theory into Lashley’s cell wall which sent him crashing into the metal frame. After he was ousted, Lesnar made light work of the remaining opponents, to claim the title.
He had earlier beaten WWE’s African-American Champions like The Rock (who’s also half Samoan) at Summerslam 2002, Kofi Kingston on SmackDown 1000, Big E at Day 1, before regaining the title from Bobby Lashley at last Saturday’s Elimination Chamber. It caused a massive stir on social media as Lesnar was criticized for beating all the African-American champions.
“Well, he’s beaten every white guy too, hasn’t he?” Booker T said on the Hall of Fame podcast.
“That’s not even a conversation that should be had. That’s stupid. People want to bring race into – he beat the black guys, he beat the white guys too. Just because he beat the black guys it’s a problem? I mean, what color do you want them to be? He’ll beat them too. It just makes no sense, to make that a conversation. For that to be something on Twitter, thrown around from a negative perspective about Brock Lesnar, making him a racist. I don’t even know if that was the conversation, making him a racist, but that’s what it sounds like,” the Hall of Famer added.
