Dolph Ziggler was released from WWE last September. The former World Champion then made his NJPW debut on January 4th at Wrestle Kingdom 18. At the show, Ziggler was involved in a brawl with IWGP Global Heavyweight Champion David Finlay.
In an interview with Busted Open Radio, Nic Nemeth, formerly known as Dolph Ziggler, talked about his WWE release. Nemeth said that he had been planning to leave the company for a long time.
“I was planning this for the half of this entire last contract with WWE going, ‘I know at some point, I am being paid way too much money to sit at home. So, I’m gonna have to get out of here.”
The Showoff said that he had sent a few emails to the boss regarding the exit over the last six months.
“I just wanted to have every option available. So, it wasn’t out of the blue and I sent a few emails to the boss for the last six months, definitively saying, ‘I have to move on somewhere else. Can you let me do this?’ And eventually, without exact back and forth, that’s how it worked out so, it wasn’t weird, because it was those six-to-eight, ten months in place for me going, ‘Here it comes, here it comes. Okay, great.’ Now I have 90 days of sitting around which is gonna break my heart but I gotta do it and I’ll just take up the extra workouts and everything like that.”