WWE: 4 Ways to Repackage Dolph Ziggler

1. Drop the Hair Metal Gimmick and Go Death Metal

Baron Corbin was named “The Most Metal Athlete” at the 2016 Revolver Music Awards, and both his old and new theme songs back that up. Corbin was also known for playing metal in the weight room at the NXT Performance Center, and you can see the metalhead attitude in the way he carries himself as a pro wrestler.

You know who else is into metal? Dolph Ziggler. The similarities between the current iteration of Ziggler and Shawn Michaels are certainly uncanny, and they go all the way down to the ring gear, hairstyle, and “Superkick”. Michaels’s early character work was based around being a hair metal band member, hence the whole “Rockers” thing with Marty Jannetty. As for Ziggler, he’s a noted fan of the genre, as evidenced by his conversations with Chris Jericho on “Talk Is Jericho” and his repping of bands like “Steel Panther”.

I’m willing to bet that Ziggler is into the harder stuff, too, because he once had a Megadeth patch on his jacket. OK, it was misspelled, but he did get it fixed.

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Instead of having Ziggler walk out to the ring looking like a hair metal singer, have him come out with a more heelish, angry, vindictive, and moody look. Make him go full death metal and give him new theme music. The “Here To Show The World” song is way too close to his “It’s Not Showing Off If You Back It Up” phase, and that just simply won’t do. He needs a much more forceful theme, because even though it’s probably too late for a name change or full repackaging, a new theme must happen.

I don’t mind seeing Ziggler’s character inspired by a musical genre, but let’s, as the expression goes, tune up a different band.