Is This The End For Dolph Ziggler?

For a show that is an hour shorter than Raw, Smackdown has as many big storylines going right now as you would expect Raw to have. You have the WWE Championship feud and Bray Wyatt vs. Randy Orton. Miz vs. Dolph Ziggler is also continuing, and it has picked up more interest lately.

This week on Smackdown, it was announced that these two will go at it for the Intercontinental Championship again. This time, at No Mercy, Ziggler's career will also be on the line. That should grab some people's attention.

Is Dolph Ziggler leaving the WWE? There is a ton of speculation that this could be a real situation. Ziggler had the opportunity to leave last year and stayed. Is he unhappy so soon? I think Ziggler does have the potential to deserve to be pushed better, but there just comes a time when you have to move on if you are not happy. I do not know what the WWE promised Ziggler last year to get him to stay. I don't know if the WWE not treating Ziggler the way he expected to be treated might be a reason for him possibly wanting to leave again. But why waste so much emotion just to get the Intercontinental Championship? Ziggler has been stuck in the midcard for most of his career. He has given these heated promos in recent years about deserving better. If he really feels he deserves better, I don't see why he should settle for another run with the Intercontinental Championship. This is just more of the same. After a while, it just sounds like whining and the whining isn't getting him anywhere. Just leave.

If this is just a heated angle designed to draw in the audience, it will likely only have a big impact on smarks. And how many of them still care that much about Ziggler? I don't like angles like this. It isn't just because they blur the line between what is real and what is not or exploit real things going on for the sake of storylines, but because I usually do not find them that entertaining. It's just a whole lot of self-righteous complaining. And most of the men and women doing it aren't even as good on the mic as CM Punk. It is refreshing here and there, but the WWE has just relied on it too much in recent years. It loses some of that value. Pro wrestling is supposed to be about entertaining. That is why I prefer the kind of storyline you have between Bray Wyatt and Randy Orton. They are taking a guy with a unique gimmick and using that gimmick for the sake of a storyline and interesting segments. What is Ziggler's gimmick? Complainer? Yeah, Miz was also doing that recently. A lot of guys do that. What about interesting segments? Complaining on the mic and putting yourself over? Once again, a lot of guys do that these days. Less of that bitterness would be nice. Do something fun. Do something that is not tied to any seedy real-life drama. Stop making creative decisions aimed at smarks and start thinking about entertaining the wider audience.