Dolph Ziggler returned to WWE and even though it was only for one night only, the man behind the character Nic Nemeth had a lot of fun coming back.
Ziggler returned as a mystery opponent to take on Solo Sikoa in the Last Time is Now tournament and while he lost and isn't planned for any further appearances, he had the following positive comments about his experience while speaking to Busted Open Radio:
"Insanely fun and awesome and cool. I had to hide out all day, which was fun. In 20 years, I got to watch so many people hide or hide under the ring or sit on a bus somewhere — I never got to do the hiding. So I had all black on, and I put like a ski mask over my face and sunglasses. And they pulled me into the loading dock inside of the building. Then I got walked in and I got to hide out for like 5 or 6 hours. You know, once someone comes and visits you then a couple more people come to visit you. And then my brother goes, ‘Oh, I just found out online and it’s official that it’s you.’ And I’m like, ‘Okay, great.’ So it took a solid hour of people poking their head into wave to like put it online somewhere and some ‘journalist’ reported it."
"But, like, it was awesome. The in-between for a lot of stuff was Bob Roode, who was a badass wrestler and we got to tag together. And he’s the agent, and he’s even better at agenting than he is in the ring. And he’s still jacked, and awesome, and great. It was so cool to have him, like, going back and forth between him before we figured everything out. Surreal moment."
Nemeth revealed that he found out he would be making the surprise appearance a couple of weeks ago but felt that his match with Solo Sikoa delivered on all aspects:
"All these different pieces all added up to like — I was excited, but it’s wrestling, we have these egos, we’re crazy. I go, ‘I hope they remember.’ Because otherwise, what am I doing here? And then the music hits and you get that 1/1000th of like, ‘Okay, they do. All right. Let’s go to work.'"
"Solo was on point, great the whole way, so easy to work with. But I really think, in the time allotted, we crushed it. We gave everybody everything we could have. We gave the ups and downs of it. And, man, was the crowd there. It was a beautiful thing. It always flys by, but, like, it flew by. Really wanted to soak that in a little bit more."
(Quotes transcribed by f4wonline.com)
