Nic Nemeth talks WWE release

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Nic Nemeth opened up about his WWE departure in a new interview.

The former Dolph Ziggler appeared on Monday's edition of Busted Open Radio and said he had been preparing to leave the company for months before his release. Nemeth even said he sent emails to "the boss" saying it was time for him to move on.

Nemeth said:

I've been preparing for this so long and getting things ready to go that I wasn't like 'What? What do I do now?' It was I was planning this along for half of this entire last contract with WWE.
He continued:

It wasn't out of the blue. I had sent a few emails to the boss for the last six months definitely 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.

Nemeth appeared with his brother Ryan Nemeth at Wrestle Kingdom 18 last week. He attacked David Finlay backstage and appears to be positioned to challenge for the new IWGP Global title.

Nemeth continued to talk about what he would like to do in his post-WWE career.

I'm really looking forward to... the things I do behind the scenes or in the ring that I have the last 20 years in WWE, bringing that to several different places. And maybe even as a hired gun bouncing around and just saying, 'Here's what I pitched to WWE 20 years ago, for me to be the modern day Ric Flair who shows up in a territory and makes something happen and steals the show with their champ without even knowing who the hell he is and then moves on to the next town. So, hopefully something like that, which I've been really looking forward to for a long time.

The appearance on Busted Open Radio is available in the player below.



 
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"They didn't fire me, I quit"...... :okay2
 

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Ziggler is someone they definitely fumbled the ball with, but I have a feeling that after he got that concussion while being World Champion, they got cold feet any chance they were gonna give him a major push.
 

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I don’t think fumbled is the right word.

He was just a victim of bad timing.

He got hurt in the middle of his biggest push. And by the time he was 100%, the company focused on the new shiny play things in The Shield. It wasn’t Dolph’s fault.

Still say my favorite thing he did(outside of the cash in) was what he and Miz did for the IC title in 2016. That was probably Ziggler at his best imo
 

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He should've explored free agency 5 years ago.......as much of an absolute mid I always thought he was.....I still ben on record saying if he was in Japan, he'd be considered at Omega levels, take that for what you will.