Rolling Stone's Year End Wrestling Awards: Dolph is Wrestler of the Year

[HYDRO]

With Dolph playing Bryan's underdog gimmick all year, next year right after Mania, they should recreate his day after Wrestlemania moment (but not that day) with him turning heel and winning the WWE title. Like let's say all our prayers are answered and Bryan shows up as number 30 in the rumble. He wins and wins at Mania. Then a month or so later Zigs calls him out on some "hey bro. we both overcame the man and his trying to hold us down" steeze and they bond over that. Then when the match happens later that night Zigs turns on DB and goes back to his cocky heel ways. He just works better as a heel (even though hes been great as a face this year) everything from his look to name to move set screams heel. The end result is we get another one of those deep rivalries like Rock/HHH, Austin/McMahon, Bret/Shawn with a new twist. Kinda like Venom vs Spider Man if that makes sense

 

[I-Hate-You]

Dolph had a solid year, but nobody is going to look back on 2014 and remember it for Dolph Ziggler.

 

[NkrumahWasRight Is Wrong]

Dolph had a solid year, but nobody is going to look back on 2014 and remember it for Dolph Ziggler.

right..but they acknowledged when he was getting his ass kicked and essentially jobbing out..so im not sure it was quite that he had the best run of the year or was the hottest for the totality of the year but more-so that he filled a bunch of different roles successfully and got back over again, fairly organically.

i agree that seth probably should have won but i see their case here and i think it was a well written article. i also agree with some of their other superlatives and if not can see the argument for who they selected. they put seth down as smothered in ring potential..and im not quite sure the criteria for that but im assuming they thought the E couldve let him run solo more instead of having security/authority/run-ins etc. idk

 

[Killer Instinct]

Well deserved.

 

[Da King]

Dolph had a solid year, but nobody is going to look back on 2014 and remember it for Dolph Ziggler.

The SS match made Dolph and it was the MOTY so I'm not too sure about that

 

[thaKEAF]

As a singles wrestler he was my wrestler of the year too in the TSC thread.

 

[Lord Scion]

I keep forgetting Ziggs is a 2x World Champion

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

idiots gonna come up with so much random bullsh-t again

houseshows in the fall to sunday night heat references

 

[TheGodling]

Only got back into wrestling recently but Ziggler has been the stand-out performer during that small time (that ladder match for the IC belt against Luke Harper deserves nothing but accolades). Add the SS match and he got a lot of momentum right now which surely helped his case.

 

[Norrin Radd]

 

[ThankUBasedBret]

"Sporadically Active Face/Heel" is a category we may need to keep around.

 

[ExodusNirvana]

That's my Dolphin

 

[El Cocodrilo]

Rolling Stone trying to force Vince's hand and finally strap Dolphdawg with the jetpack

 

[HollywoodP]

Wouldn't have been mad if they named Seth...but still I feel he deserves it so we celebrating
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[prophecypro]

Could have gone with Seth or Dolph (that 4th quarter push..dont even ask me how on the triple entendre, did it for him)

Reigns and D Bry were out for stretches I guess.