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04-16-2013, 03:24 AM
- World Heavyweight Champion Dolph Ziggler was recently interviewed by The Rise Guys. Here are some highlights:
Does he hate John Cena?
"Yep. Question number two."
If most male wrestling fans over the age of 16 hate Cena:
"It depends. What he represents for our company is awesome. He is our
franchise guy. He's the go to guy. He's never not delivered with
something. He connects with the crowd. He's a great guy to have as the
face of the company, for now. Until I'm ready. So for right now, baby
steps made. New World Champion. I got my lovely lady next to me, AJ. And
we also have Big E and I think over the next couple weeks and months
we're going to make some great strides. I think it's going to be a show,
Monday's and Friday's are going to be about us because we're starting
to draw attention."
The Rock's part time status:
"The Rock is not just a huge movie star, he's one of the biggest stars
in the entire world. If you don't think that it's a smart business move
to have one of the hugest stars in the entire world going head to head
with our biggest franchise player on the main event of our biggest show
of the year, that's just dumb. It's going to come out, it's great
business. It's great to have him back, but it also really makes me
angry. Angrier than you can even imagine because I want to be in that
spot. I want a full time guy to be there every single night doing what
we do best, giving back to our fans. Live events, pay per views, Monday
Night RAW, Friday Night Smackdown, name it and we do it every single
night. But it's a special attraction to have guys like that back and
it's just good business."
If he was a Ric Flair guy growing up:
"Absolutely. At a very young age my uncle showed me Beta tapes of Ric
Flair and when you were supposed to you know, eat ice cream bars with
Hulk Hogan and look up to that guy, and I had the sand weights that
leaked [laughter]. And he was like okay cool, this is the guy [Hogan]
and at a very young age I go wow, no Flair is the guy. This guy looks
cool. He's like a James Bond guy in a suit, girls around him, goes out
there, has the best match. Right back onto the helicopter, gets out of
there with the Horsemen and those go out to party all night and probably
not sleep."
Does he hate John Cena?
"Yep. Question number two."
If most male wrestling fans over the age of 16 hate Cena:
"It depends. What he represents for our company is awesome. He is our
franchise guy. He's the go to guy. He's never not delivered with
something. He connects with the crowd. He's a great guy to have as the
face of the company, for now. Until I'm ready. So for right now, baby
steps made. New World Champion. I got my lovely lady next to me, AJ. And
we also have Big E and I think over the next couple weeks and months
we're going to make some great strides. I think it's going to be a show,
Monday's and Friday's are going to be about us because we're starting
to draw attention."
The Rock's part time status:
"The Rock is not just a huge movie star, he's one of the biggest stars
in the entire world. If you don't think that it's a smart business move
to have one of the hugest stars in the entire world going head to head
with our biggest franchise player on the main event of our biggest show
of the year, that's just dumb. It's going to come out, it's great
business. It's great to have him back, but it also really makes me
angry. Angrier than you can even imagine because I want to be in that
spot. I want a full time guy to be there every single night doing what
we do best, giving back to our fans. Live events, pay per views, Monday
Night RAW, Friday Night Smackdown, name it and we do it every single
night. But it's a special attraction to have guys like that back and
it's just good business."
If he was a Ric Flair guy growing up:
"Absolutely. At a very young age my uncle showed me Beta tapes of Ric
Flair and when you were supposed to you know, eat ice cream bars with
Hulk Hogan and look up to that guy, and I had the sand weights that
leaked [laughter]. And he was like okay cool, this is the guy [Hogan]
and at a very young age I go wow, no Flair is the guy. This guy looks
cool. He's like a James Bond guy in a suit, girls around him, goes out
there, has the best match. Right back onto the helicopter, gets out of
there with the Horsemen and those go out to party all night and probably
not sleep."