Dolph Ziggler Says He Wanted an Extended Leave of Absence from WWE Television

WWE SmackDown Live Superstar Dolph Ziggler recently appeared on the All Things Wrestling Radio Podcast and talked about his recent absence from SmackDown Live. The former United States Champion revealed that he was actually hoping to be gone for a lot longer, for at least six months to maybe even a year:

“I will say that I really begged and pleaded for a couple months off the television show because no matter how good I am or what I’m up to, it seems that 99 times out of 100 I would lose. I didn’t think that I deserved to be on the TV show if I was someone that was losing every night, so I asked to be taken off. I was hoping for maybe six months or a year and it ended up being four weeks.”