Ryback Believes Dolph Ziggler Should Take a Break From WWE

On the latest episode of Conversation With The Big Guy, Ryback commented on Dolph Ziggler’s status with WWE and said he should take a break from the company.

This comes after Ziggler teased leaving the company this past week on ‘Smackdown Live‘ after winning the WWE United States Championship at ‘Clash of Champions‘ just two nights before.

The former Intercontinental Champion explained that Ziggler deserves some time to himself. This is regardless of whether he is still with WWE or not.

“I personally think he should take a little break. I think he deserves a break. Whether he resigns or not I think he should take some time off, at least 6 months. I want to see him in the Bahamas just drinking. I say take a year off. He is still young enough.”

Ryback strays away from the topic of Ziggler for a moment to relate the issue to himself and his personal experience. He explains that had he not left WWE, he would have likely only lasted another year in the industry due to injury.

“I’m a big believer–when I left, and it was under different reasons, but when I left it was the best decision I had ever made because it allowed me to address my health that I put off for a long time, and physically I am in such a better place. No doubt in my mind that if I had stayed and re-signed the contract and given in to everything, I bet you my career would have been over after another year there. I would have had to of had back surgery. My back would have been done because I didn’t get MRI’s when I was there because I didn’t know how bad I was, which is a very hard-headed thing to do, but not everyone was necessarily like that, but you don’t want to know how bad you are f***ing up your body. Again, it was one move that really did me in, which was that back-pack stunner, but I didn’t know that, and I wouldn’t have known that had I not done the MRI’s and spoken to those who know about it. I feel that now I have a new body because of it at 36 because I took time off for different reasons, which was the best thing for me. I look healthy, lost a little weight, and I got to chill out, work out for three hours. Being that heavy takes a toll on you. I naturally have to train heavy, which I got to dial down on that and not train as heavy this year so that everything can heal up.”

Ryback concludes his discussion on Ziggler by saying it might be time for him to just take a break and get out of that bubble of his.

“When you are there for quite some time it’s okay to take a little break, whatever your reasons are. I always say that you work so hard in life and that everyone wants to talk about the grind, but you have to enjoy life. What is the point of making money if you can’t enjoy it? You are going to get to a point when you are 50 and realize you missed out on your best years. Not to say that you have years ahead of you, but stepping away and getting out of the bubble will open your eyes and see the light that is out there. There is always ways to make money and wrestling is always going to be there.”

With H/T to WrestlingInc for the transcription.

If you would like to hear the audio version of the comments Ryback made, you can listen to the short video of them below. Please be aware that the video contains strong language.

Ryback thinks Dolph Ziggler should take a break from WWE - CWTBG Ep. 69

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