Dolph Ziggler (Nic Nemeth) on His “Insanely Fun” WWE Return Appearance at 11/17 WWE RAW Show, Backstage Update on Ziggler’s Contract Status with WWE

As noted before, Monday’s WWE RAW show at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York featured Dolph Ziggler, also known as Nic Nemeth in TNA and the indies, making a surprise return appearance to WWE. Ziggler was revealed as the mystery opponent for Solo Sikoa’s First Round match in WWE’s The Last Time Is Now Tournament.

A recent episode of the Busted Open Radio podcast featured Nemeth as the guest. One of the topics discussed included Nemeth’s thoughts about his recent surprise return appearance to WWE.

“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 also gave his thoughts about how he first found out about the plans for his surprise appearance around two to three weeks ago.

“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.’”

Nemeth also gave his thoughts about the match he had with Sikoa on the show for WWE’s The Last Time Is Now Tournament.

“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.”

In regards to Ziggler’s contract status with WWE, Fightful Select reported that their sources stated that Ziggler is not signed to a new contract with WWE and is still considered to be with TNA. Those spoken to within TNA reportedly stated that they believe Ziggler prefers to compete for their company where he can accept a number of short-term contracts with other promotions and claims he prefers that over being tied down to WWE.

It was reported that those spoken to stated that WWE officials were pleased with Ziggler’s performance against Sikoa on Monday’s show.

Transcript h/t: F4WOnline.com