Nic Nemeth: Maybe Being Selfless In WWE Was Why I Had A Job For 20 Years

Nic Nemeth discusses being selfless in WWE with his bumping and selling over the course of his career as mostly a mid-carder in the company.

Throughout his run in WWE, Nemeth, who worked under the name Dolph Ziggler ring name, would become known for his bumping and selling abilities throughout his time in the promotion, but would never quite crack the ceiling of becoming a consistent main eventer in the company despite spending around two decades with the promotion.

While speaking to the Sweet Pop podcast in a new interview, Nic Nemeth spoke about his selflessness during his time with the company.

“Everybody has a different perspective, guys like Shawn Michaels and Lance Storm think very differently, right? But the core ideas, the 101 psychology of what works and what doesn’t, will never go away. That’s always there, and that’s what linked me to all these different teachers, and to a fault, I was a little selfless. I was like, ‘I want you to look great. I want this match to be great. I want everyone to be talking about it,’ instead of going, ‘I want to be talked about as world champion,’ and there’s a difference there. Maybe it’s a reason I had a job for 20 years. But also, it’s detrimental to yourself when you’re not fully stepping on some backs and knifing some people in the back. When you’re not doing that, you miss out on getting ahead.”

Elsewhere in the same interview, Nemeth spoke about competing in The Last Time Is Now tournament. You can read more about that here.

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