WWE star Dolph Ziggler was recently interviewed by The Phoenix New Times to promote tonight’s WWE Smackdown tapings at the U.S. Airway Center in Phoenix, AZ, and below are some interview highlights:
On working with Tyler Breeze on the WWE main roster:
“I look forward to anything, any kind of challenge, anybody new coming to the roster, anybody that wants to say, “Hey, I’m better than you” or younger or faster. Well, let’s see what you got and let’s see if you can hang with me. I’m someone who’s very open to new challenges, down to do whatever. And it seems like he’s pretty good, good head on his shoulders, seems like he knows what he’s doing and he’s been working really hard for a long time. He used to pick my brain, actually. So I gave him a couple pointers and I hope he can hang in the ring with me, and if he can, he’ll be on his way to a hell of a start.”
On Cena’s role in “Trainwreck” having to do with Ziggler’s real-life relationship with Amy Schumer:
“I honestly don’t know. You’d have to ask her. She was writing some stuff a long time ago. She was always working really hard at it and really good at it and funny, so… maybe it was.”
On using his start and stop WWE pushes as motivation:
“I mean, everything I do motivates me to work harder, whether I’m champion and can’t defend it or lose the first time I get it, or win Survivor Series and just have to work my way back up from the bottom. It’s anything. That’s how the business goes. It’s ups and downs, just like the entertainment industry. You want to be on top, you want to be the best, and if you’re not there, you’re striving to get there. And everything that’s happened is always driving me to be better. And when you know you’re as good as I am, you know its going work out one way or the other. The cream rises to the top. If you’re good, you’re good, and you’re going to be.”
Nick was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan, and lived there until the age of 18, when he decided to pack his flack jacket and move to New York City.
