John Bradshaw Layfield thinks WWE should have taken better care of Nic Nemeth, formerly known as Dolph Ziggler.
JBL discussed Big Show's versatility as a performer on the latest episode of the Something to Wrestle podcast. This led him to compare Big Show to Nic Nemeth's time as Dolph Ziggler.
Bradshaw would say he was sometimes in production meetings, where he would hear creative get pitched for Dolph. He said the former WWE World Champion would be put to work with anyone who might not have been the best worker. WWE had no qualms about doing so because they knew he was so good that it would never kill his heat.
"I used to watch Dolph, and they put him out there with guys that just weren't good workers because they knew Dolph could get them through. I called, really, all those matches, and I'd be in the production meetings, the creative-type meeting where [plans] was discussed. Creative was probably not decided there. Vince would decide some stuff, but most of it was somewhere else. But I'd be in there, in the production meetings, and I'd hear it, 'Well, Dolph can do it.' They knew Dolph was so good, it wouldn't kill his heat, because he was so freaking good, they should have took better care of him, because he was so good, he was so valuable in so many different ways that you could stick Dolph out there in any situation, and Dolph would be fine."
Today, Nic Nemeth works for TNA Wrestling. During his run as the TNA Wrestling World Champion, he got plenty of help from Bradshaw when it came to defending his championship. At the time, Bradshaw said there was an end goal to all of what was going on, and Nemeth denied knowing what the plan was.
For more stories of how being a great worker can sometimes hinder your own career, check out what Bradshaw has to say about watching Billy Gunn have a good match with Heidenreich.
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