Dolph Ziggler Confirms His Haitus from WWE

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Dolph Ziggler has been off WWE TV since late December and all kinds of speculations are being made about him from joining AEW to working as a backstage producer at WWE. But in a recent interview with Entertainment reporter Chris Van Vliet, Ziggler has denied all those rumors and said that he is currently on a break only.

Ziggler has revealed that he is still under contract to WWE but he is currently on a hiatus. Ziggler also said he’s not currently scheduled to be at the Royal Rumble pay-per-view on Sunday. Ziggler is off the WWE TV shows since his match Steel Cage Match against Drew McIntyre but has appeared on WWE live events.

Below are highlights from the interview as reported by wrestlinginc.com:

His current WWE status:
“For now I am on a hiatus with WWE. It took me like 10 years to get a weekend off and this is it. So we’ll see where it goes from here. Like I said we have a handshake agreement that is different from what’s on paper. I’ve given everything and we’ll see if there is more for me to give, I’ll be happy to be a part of it.”

If we will see him at the Royal Rumble on Sunday:
“Technically I am still under contract, yes, but I am not scheduled to be at the Royal Rumble.”

Reports on WWE wanting to keep him on as a backstage producer:
“If WWE wanted to keep me around it would be to be in the ring. For now. Producing I could see happening 10 years down the line but I don’t know why I wouldn’t be doing some other stuff first. It’s a great thing and there are a lot of people who are good at teaching and giving back and I love pulling people aside or if they come up to me at work. Doing that full time and basically being in the best shape of my life, I wouldn’t be able to do it knowing that I could be like no let me just do this for you. One day down the line that could be something but I’m very much not interested in that.”

Drew McIntyre’s recent comments on Ziggler taking advantage of him:
“The guy’s great and he’s probably going to be doing something special at the Royal Rumble and probably at WrestleMania. Who knows? There’s nothing really bad to say about that part but I guess if I took advantage of him it’s because if he was, in our world, not existing for 10 years, I was putting the show on my back over and over again and you get to a point where it’s like you have lobster every day after a week you’re like this lobster is ok, after 7 years straight you’re like ‘Bro, enough with the lobster bring in the hot dog’ and there you have it!”

Thoughts on possibly signing with AEW:
“I wouldn’t say I would be the next big signing, I’d say I would be the big signing I would have to say. But I have some other things going on at the moment but that should always be an option for anybody especially someone like me who has been around for a long time and as Drew McIntyre says, maybe I was riding his coattails and I gotta get the hell out of here. So you never know. I think it would be great, I think it would be a great addition to that company which seems to be for true wrestlers who love the sport and the business. It’s a great idea.”

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