According to The Wrestling Observer Newsletter, the reason WWE booked Dolph Ziggler to vacate the United States Championship title and seemingly “walk out” on the company’s is the latest attempt to re-boot his character again.

This attempt comes weeks after another failed attempt when he was wrote off television for a while to try to repackage him.

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Ross informs that his book, “Slobberknocker: My Life in Wrestling” is now available wherever books are sold. This has been a long, interesting journey for him with a lot of twists and turns. The initial co-author, Scott E. Williams, passed suddenly away as they were in the middle of the project, and Ross’ wife, Jan, passed suddenly away as he was cluing up the project several months ago.

After his wife died he almost halted the project but he’s glad he changed his mind and decided to continue work on the book; he thought he owed that to both Williams and his wife. He’s very proud of the finished product and he can’t wait for his fans all around the world to read it.

Ross says he’s very much looking forward to Hell in A Cell this coming Sunday. He thinks this is a very deep card, and there are multiple matches that should be potential show-stealers. The Tag Team Championship match will take place inside Hell in A Cell, and Ross feels this definitely has a good chance to steal the show.

He suspects Jinder Mahal will emerge victorious in his WWE Title match against Nakamura, and he’s looking forward to the Baron Corbin/A.J. Styles match. He points out that Corbin’s about to enter the ring with the best in the business so he urges Corbin to bring his ‘A’ game and listen to Styles in the ring. He also thinks Dolph Ziggler and Bobby Roode are set to have a great match, and he feels the only way this match will fail is if the live audience starts to crap on it for some reason.

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Bryan Alvarez mentioned on Wrestling Observer Live that Dolph Ziggler mocking past and present WWE Superstars will eventually build to a match between Bobby Roode and Ziggler in the coming weeks. Alvarez speculates that Ziggler will mock Roode’s entrance, which will set up the match between the two.

WWE is currently advertising Ziggler vs. Roode at the upcoming WWE Starrcade event that will take place at the Greenboro Coliseum on November 25th. This could be an indication that the feud between the two could be a long-term one and not just a one-off match.

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Dolph Ziggler On Repackaging His Character

During an appearance on Fox Business’ Kennedy Nation, Dolph Ziggler was asked about WWE repackaging his character. Dolph was coy with his answer to the question…which was really a non-answer.

“I’m not exactly sure what I’m doing but it’s very special and it’s gonna be a helluva time, I think.”

Big Show Undergoing Hip Surgery

WWE announced today that due to the match he had on last week’s RAW with Braun Strowman where Strowman threw him through one of the wall panels of the cage, he suffered injuries that will require hip surgery.

EXCLUSIVE: @MikeRomeWWE announces that @WWETheBigShow will require surgery following his #SteelCage match with @BraunStrowman on #RAW. pic.twitter.com/iK5mKgh9BY

— WWE (@WWE) September 11, 2017

In reality, the angle and match were done because Show needed hip surgery. As it stands now, Show will go under the knife on September 29th.

Bray Wyatt On His Gimmick

In a recent interview, Bray Wyatt was asked about where he came up with the cult leader gimmick he uses in WWE.

“There is this show about a cult with the Monopoly masks. I’ve been studying it. Then there is Robert De Niro, ‘Red State.’ There are so many things I’ve taken from over the years. All over the place. You find inspiration everywhere. The best inspiration is the people you grew up with. Nobody else knows about you than when you were just regular, everyday people. That’s where most of it comes from.”

He also talked about how The Undertaker has influenced him.

“There are times where fans don’t understand that change is inevitable or that changes are done too fast. They say, ‘We like the way you used to be.’ Or they say, ‘We liked what you did then.’ You can’t stay the same. As you mature as an adult, you find out you have to keep changing in this business. It’s something The Undertaker laid on me.”

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WWE heads to the the Denny Sanford Premier Center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota for tonight’s episode of SmackDown Live. Here are the focus points for the show:

* Randy Orton and Shinsuke Nakamura battle for a WWE Championship opportunity tonight on SmackDown Live

* Natalya takes on Carmella tonight on SmackDown Live

* Will Kevin Owens continue to rail against Shane McMahon?

* Will Dolph Ziggler finally show off his star power?

* Corey Graves to take over as new SmackDown Live commentator

Check back here at 8PM ET for our live play-by-play coverage of the event.

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During the mailbag segment of today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Radio, Dave Meltzer was asked about the whereabouts of Dolph Ziggler and why he isn’t being used on weekly WWE programming.

Meltzer mentioned that Ziggler is working WWE Live Events right now and the company currently doesn’t have any programs for him to work. The belief is that the company isn’t pushing him so they have no reason to use him on weekly WWE programming.

Meltzer also noted that there are several other WWE Superstars that the company doesn’t have anything for, so they just aren’t being used.

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As many of you have seen recently. WWE is now doing picture-in-picture advertising on the SmackDown Live brand on Tuesday nights. This was apparently the USA Network’s idea as they plan on doing it for other shows. The idea is to keep the viewers from changing the channel during commercial breaks.

It’s worth pointing out that WWE is only doing the picture-in-picture advertising for the non-important matches and are still doing full-on commercials for their bigger matches. This past Tuesday on SmackDown they did normal commercial breaks for the AJ Styles vs. Dolph Ziggler match and other popular matches.

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WWE officially announced that John Cena will be making his return to WWE programming on the July 4th episode of SmackDown Live.

For the first time since @WrestleMania, @JohnCena RETURNS to #SDLive on the #4thOfJuly! pic.twitter.com/vf6VICL5MY

— WWE (@WWE) June 7, 2017

To combat low ratings, WWE is planning a big show for July 4th with Randy Orton vs. Jinder Mahal, Kevin Owens vs. AJ Styles and Shinsuke Nakamura vs. Dolph Ziggler.

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As seen on Tuesday’s episode of SmackDown Live, Dolph Ziggler defeated AJ Styles cleanly in the main event of the show.

Bryan Alvarez speculated on today’s installment of Wrestling Observer Radio that the finish appeared to be botched. It’s believed that the finish was supposed to see a three-count with Styles having his foot on the rope, however Ziggler screwed it up when he grabbed Styles foot as he went for the pin. The announcers even played into this finish by making mention of his foot being on the rope but quickly re-worded as they processed what had happen.

Dave Meltzer also mentioned on Observer Radio that with Ziggler defeating Styles clean on the show, he expects the two to have another match on either next week’s show or the week after so that Styles can get his win back. The company would have used the foot on the rope as an excuse for the rematch, but because it was botched that won’t be the case.

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Dolph Ziggler announced on the WWE Backlash Kickoff pre-show that his match against Nakamura will be the opening match of tonight’s show.

"I heard we are the FIRST match at #WWEBacklash, and I am going to put a CLINIC on @ShinsukeN!" – @HEELZiggler pic.twitter.com/hxJVNchJk8

— WWE (@WWE) May 21, 2017

You can check out our live coverage of tonight’s show at this link. We also have our live fan discussion on our new social media site at RingsideTalk.net!

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