Nic Nemeth on: how backstage heat in WWE ruined his push

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  • @KeepinIt100OFFICIAL
    @KeepinIt100OFFICIAL  9 місяців тому +21

    for the 60+ minute uncensored NIC NEMETH interview ua-cam.com/video/VXVqNoRD9-A/v-deo.html

    • @augustushaynes1311
      @augustushaynes1311 9 місяців тому

      Just so y’all know, Nic Nemeth’s name has one m, not two. You may want to change the title of this video at least as a show of respect to him, if nothing else.

    • @KeepinIt100OFFICIAL
      @KeepinIt100OFFICIAL  9 місяців тому +1

      @@augustushaynes1311 calm down

  • @Am0ment0fB
    @Am0ment0fB 9 місяців тому +97

    Dolph's near 20 year run:
    "It was a good few minutes."
    Ha.

  • @readmycomment3707
    @readmycomment3707 9 місяців тому +16

    He should have been the Shawn Michaels of this generation, guy had it all. Great promos, believable as both a heel or babyface, always in shape, amazing worker.
    I remember the fans were all behind him as recently as a few years ago but it just got to the point where you knew theyd never let him grab that "brass ring"

  • @layziefngroovy
    @layziefngroovy 9 місяців тому +3

    3 times i can vividly remember wwe dropping the ball on a ziggler push!! The cash in, him winning the i.c title from miz in the career match, and him being the sole survivor...

  • @ImmortalRimas
    @ImmortalRimas 9 місяців тому +36

    Nic Nemeth is a far cooler name than Dolph Ziggler which sounded like a name WWE were trying to bury him with from the start

    • @MINOFLOW1326
      @MINOFLOW1326 9 місяців тому +3

      "Dolph Ziggler" sounds like a cartoon name. Nic Nemeth sounds like a Rockstar name!

    • @andreasfischer3054
      @andreasfischer3054 9 місяців тому +1

      @ImmortalRimas True. Moreover it originates from his real name.
      His WWE ringname bore too much
      similarity to Dirk Diggler from Boogie Nights. That was the reason why I could him not as serious as he had deserved.

    • @JOK3RC4RDx
      @JOK3RC4RDx 9 місяців тому +2

      Facts I’ve always said that dolph ziggler name was holding him back the most

    • @daverichards9141
      @daverichards9141 9 місяців тому

      Sounds like a goofy nazi.

    • @telvanni8926
      @telvanni8926 9 місяців тому +1

      I thought they were talking about some Alex Wright type German dude the 1st time I heard the name Dolph Ziggler mentioned on TV

  • @GOLDEN-STATE-NATIVE
    @GOLDEN-STATE-NATIVE 9 місяців тому +108

    Nic Nemmeth is a bigger draw than Okada.

  • @jginger245
    @jginger245 9 місяців тому +11

    This is the best AVE see konnan look for a while he's got the colour back in his face hope he's turning the corner on his health troubles he well an truly deserves some good luck

  • @bigsteve8921
    @bigsteve8921 9 місяців тому +40

    Gable is getting the Ziggler treatment a bit now

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому +13

      Gable doesn’t have mega star potential. DZ did

    • @pinroshan020
      @pinroshan020 9 місяців тому

      @@marcbasiland also gable isnt an attractive anyway. Dz was

    • @polsdofer
      @polsdofer 2 місяці тому

      Poor shorty g

  • @jesterr7133
    @jesterr7133 9 місяців тому +17

    I don't think it was backstage heat. Nic was too good. He was so good at making other people look good that WWE used him in that role a little too often, and after a point, they beat him so much that it was impossible for him to really do anything else. It will be good for him to bounce around the indies for a year or two and then go back. Then they can do something with him. I met Nic at a Raw about ten years ago. I just ran into him outside of the arena. He was just out walking around among the fans. I was so caught off guard that I didn't even recognize him for a second. We ended up talking for a little while, and he is a really nice guy. I think he will have another run in WWE. It is a different company now. He just needs to reinvent himself and give it time for people to forget about the last few years of his run, and he will be fine.

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому

      Umm,no. It was his heat with Cena. Foley confirmed that in the Steve AUstin interview

    • @readmycomment3707
      @readmycomment3707 9 місяців тому

      @@marcbasil Cena keeps his "good guy" image but in reality who did he really put over during his run? The Rock and Brock? Both were bigger names than him thats the only reason they beat him clean, thats about it.

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому +2

      @@readmycomment3707 he only put over scrawny indie d0rks because they weren’t a threat to his spot/fanbase. Orland Park Punk/Bryan etc. Guys like Ryback, Ziggler, Masters, Riley, etc etc, guys who would’ve been threats to his demographics (women, kids, jocks etc), he went hard after politically & buried relentlessly. The guy is smart but insecure

  • @haydenmatzkows4581
    @haydenmatzkows4581 9 місяців тому +7

    I was thinking to myself while watching this, who are these marks with bad WiFi? And then I realized it was disco and Konnan, and I was like oh yea! that makes sense

    • @earthsucks9555
      @earthsucks9555 9 місяців тому

      Got me laughing pretty loud on that
      Good1 Haydenmatzkows

  • @pandavelli8176
    @pandavelli8176 9 місяців тому +18

    I was actually watching wrestling at the time he beat ADR, I thought it was super cool. It seemed like they could’ve run with Dolph for awhile and made him a bigger star.

    • @thelexanator7092
      @thelexanator7092 9 місяців тому +8

      ziggler was on the verge of being a bigger star once he won the world title of ADR, however, once he got concussed the following week, that was the beginning of the end 4 him. WWE basically gave up on him after that

    • @pandavelli8176
      @pandavelli8176 9 місяців тому +5

      @@thelexanator7092 Which was stupid, they’ve been loyal to way less talented guys with way worse injuries before

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому

      @@thelexanator7092no it was after the cena heat

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому

      @@pandavelli8176that wasn’t why his push stopped. Cena stopped it

  • @waltbbadd
    @waltbbadd 9 місяців тому +3

    I like how Nic has a frame Blood Hook poster in the background, awesome movie

  • @SuperMillwall
    @SuperMillwall 9 місяців тому +6

    He’s surely gotta be the biggest “What if” in WWE history.
    He has everything you’d want from a top main event star, it never made any sense after he became World Heavyweight Champion that he didn’t establish himself as “the” top guy.
    I feel like he should have left WWE 2 or 3 years earlier. That way he could have rebuilt himself like Cody and Drew did elsewhere and then come back as a main event star.
    Hopefully he can still achieve it though.

  • @johnnytheworldowner9130
    @johnnytheworldowner9130 9 місяців тому +42

    Nic Nemeth is proof that you don't need to make it to the top of the card to make a lot of money from wrestling. I can't wait to see the mark comments calling people jobbers or mid-carders.

    • @pkj2148
      @pkj2148 9 місяців тому +3

      Making a lot of money doesn't make anyone less of a midcarer or jobber.

    • @AJChaka
      @AJChaka 9 місяців тому +7

      @@pkj2148you’re right, but it does set him and his family up for a good life! 💯

    • @johnnytheworldowner9130
      @johnnytheworldowner9130 9 місяців тому +2

      @@pkj2148 why are you talking about wrestling card position as if it actually matters in real life?
      Are you ok?

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому

      @@pkj2148???

    • @pkj2148
      @pkj2148 9 місяців тому +1

      @@johnnytheworldowner9130 I'm not, I didn't intend to. My problem is that your argument wasn't good.

  • @tankboi8249
    @tankboi8249 9 місяців тому +14

    Nic/Dolph whatever you want to call him is such a good pro wrestler. Dude literally can do it al like Konnan said. It’s is double edged sword. When you’re that good you have the ability to get jobbed out to make other people who suck look good and that is what he was used for most of the time. Seems like a hell of a dude, no bad habits, unproblematic, and smashed sunny before the liver failure and vehicular manslaughter

    • @triplehfan609
      @triplehfan609 9 місяців тому +2

      This comment is it right here.

    • @pkj2148
      @pkj2148 9 місяців тому

      He was the first feud for a lot of the NXT call ups.

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому

      He had heat with cena

    • @Austin-l1j
      @Austin-l1j 9 місяців тому

      @@pkj2148yeah it killed a lot of their pushes because at that point Ziggler didn’t have any credibility anymore.

  • @Enriki810
    @Enriki810 9 місяців тому +23

    Arguably the greatest cash in ever.

    • @IAmNeomic
      @IAmNeomic 9 місяців тому +3

      It's definitely up there. I think I would probably have to say:
      1.) Rollins
      2.) Ziggler
      3.) Edge
      4.) Damien
      5.) Big E

    • @atimetraveler4910
      @atimetraveler4910 9 місяців тому +5

      ​@@IAmNeomicZigs reaction got the greatest reaction ever. Stop overrating Seth just cuz it was at WM

    • @pinroshan020
      @pinroshan020 9 місяців тому

      @@IAmNeomicno rvd? Lame!

    • @_BigTimer85
      @_BigTimer85 5 днів тому

      ​@@atimetraveler4910Rollins had the best. Main event of WM against two of the best from this era. Everyone else is a distant 2nd

  • @wildwes6405
    @wildwes6405 9 місяців тому +5

    The only guy I remember putting dolph over was Jericho and Mysterio.

  • @renafan3333
    @renafan3333 9 місяців тому +25

    Backstage Heat? After being in WWE for 20 years?

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому

      Uhh yeah?

    • @grunt-sw8si
      @grunt-sw8si 9 місяців тому +1

      It could be short-term heat. It could have been from one person who might have moved on from WWE or from whatever supposed heat was there.

  • @kd17Burger
    @kd17Burger 9 місяців тому +1

    Nic Nemeth still has a body that puts most wrestlers to shame 🤤

  • @EmpireWrestlingFederation
    @EmpireWrestlingFederation 9 місяців тому +3

    they really should’ve pushed him after survivor series 2014

  • @jupton198828
    @jupton198828 9 місяців тому

    I would say his career had been successful. 19 years with one company. Everyone knows hes a great worker and is a household name. And to top it off he was a world champion.

  • @gimmiebackmybike1831
    @gimmiebackmybike1831 9 місяців тому +3

    his character NEVER changed, h never did anything to make himself seem like a top guy

  • @james7ch
    @james7ch 9 місяців тому +1

    WWE mishandled him for sure! World class athlete in the ring! And underrated on the stick! 🎤

  • @jamesf791
    @jamesf791 9 місяців тому +1

    Konnan said that he and Disco put him over backstage once. If Disco puts you over that's the end of you

  • @hitmaneoin
    @hitmaneoin 9 місяців тому +1

    Is there heat bc you misspelled Nic's name in the title?

  • @philwalsh8975
    @philwalsh8975 9 місяців тому +130

    Nic Nemeth chose TNA over AEW because he can see that AEW is a failing company

    • @stephenmonachello6256
      @stephenmonachello6256 9 місяців тому +45

      Lol. Now that is three videos with same comment. Time to step away from the keyboard and leave your parents basement. Get some air. Forget about AEW lol

    • @philwalsh8975
      @philwalsh8975 9 місяців тому +1

      @@stephenmonachello6256 think about me more

    • @docessex943
      @docessex943 9 місяців тому +17

      @@stephenmonachello6256why are you keeping track of his comments?

    • @JasonStorm419
      @JasonStorm419 9 місяців тому +5

      ​​@@docessex943 Why do you care? Legitimate question.

    • @nixy..
      @nixy.. 9 місяців тому +6

      Absolutely. The ratings that TNA draw are incredible

  • @johnnytheworldowner9130
    @johnnytheworldowner9130 9 місяців тому +16

    the Ziggler vs ADR feud was so bad. I remember it was just ADR doing head kicks over and over again for like 20 matches.

    • @xxreyoxx
      @xxreyoxx 9 місяців тому +3

      ADR wasnt a good wrestler

    • @anthonycampos8057
      @anthonycampos8057 9 місяців тому

      ​@xxreyoxx yes he was. His matches with Rey Mysterio were awesome.

    • @Blood-zz2kt
      @Blood-zz2kt 9 місяців тому +1

      @@xxreyoxxhe’s a terrible person but we’re not going to act like he couldn’t wrestle

    • @xxreyoxx
      @xxreyoxx 9 місяців тому

      @@Blood-zz2kt he was mid at best to me. He needed someone good to really bring out a good match in him. Ie. AJ bringing a good match out of Cena.

  • @mansion1719
    @mansion1719 9 місяців тому +8

    Mick Foley buried Nemeth, he's said that his was always mouthing off backstage.

    • @fkjms73
      @fkjms73 9 місяців тому +2

      Source please

    • @Bangingyourmom
      @Bangingyourmom 9 місяців тому

      Mick is clueless...

    • @mansion1719
      @mansion1719 9 місяців тому

      @@Bangingyourmom Mick Foley isn't a legend in the wrestling business? got it

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому +2

      ….?? The reason DZs push stopped was because of his heat with cena. All Foley did was say it out loud in that AUstin interview

    • @saintleoraunt2341
      @saintleoraunt2341 9 місяців тому +1

      @@mansion1719you’re not even a legend in your own apartment building bro 🤣

  • @saurabhpatil3654
    @saurabhpatil3654 9 місяців тому +1

    Finally, the best zobber ziggler and the jobber for life disco in same frame again

  • @liamstewart4472
    @liamstewart4472 9 місяців тому +1

    Disco brings a guest on to talk about comments from a paywall message board. I bet Ariel Helwani is really afraid of Disco stealing his skills.

  • @TheBassJourney
    @TheBassJourney 9 місяців тому +1

    I always thought dolph would be the next Orton. WWE dropped the ball with this guy

  • @liublanka3925
    @liublanka3925 9 місяців тому +2

    The guy who slept with sunny after 90s version, yeah that’s TNA material. It’s hilarious to see how now people say TNA is staying around over AEW. All we heard for decades was TNA was going out of business

    • @pkj2148
      @pkj2148 9 місяців тому

      And Amy Schumer.

    • @nickhughes8179
      @nickhughes8179 9 місяців тому +1

      That man slew two of the most foul pean-demons with merely a pork sword.
      He deserves a Viking metal folklore song of his heroism that is passed down through generations.

  • @joypadlad
    @joypadlad 9 місяців тому

    The problem with Ziggler was that he was good, but he basically came off as a mixture of couple different guys and never really felt like he had his own distinct identity. People always compared him to HBK or Perfect. That and I don’t think the name Dolph Ziggler helped.

  • @Am0ment0fB
    @Am0ment0fB 9 місяців тому +4

    I haven't heard anyone called a "herb" in a really long time. It's a classic.
    Ha.

  • @dinashlal988
    @dinashlal988 9 місяців тому

    Wish we had more Del Rio, great talent, sucks how it turned out for him

    • @anthonycampos8057
      @anthonycampos8057 9 місяців тому +1

      He's doing fine down there in Mexico.

    • @dinashlal988
      @dinashlal988 9 місяців тому

      Good to know, need to go check him and it out​@anthonycampos8057

  • @MichaelHemotoxin
    @MichaelHemotoxin 9 місяців тому +1

    Nic cashing in on Alberto was the last time I got really excited about pro wrestling

  • @NottyGurlStyle
    @NottyGurlStyle 9 місяців тому

    I was so mad at the WWE aka Vince for not pushing Nic..I always seen him like the next Shawn Michaels…at first when he appeared I wasn’t sold on him but with time I was cheering for him every single time and he never got the big push he should have gotten many times over… it was a shame… I hate the Vince did that to a lot of good talent..especially when fans were behind them…

  • @boxninja577
    @boxninja577 9 місяців тому

    Should of pushed him when he beat the Authority at Survivor Series, him vs Seth would of been killer

    • @pinroshan020
      @pinroshan020 9 місяців тому

      It happened in 2018 but sadly the crowds ruined it by chanting the countdown instead of the wrestlers 😂.

  • @xanaduse
    @xanaduse 9 місяців тому

    Ziggler looks like he should a be a movie star in a different universe where didn’t choose wwe

  • @0tt0z
    @0tt0z 9 місяців тому +1

    The older Konnan gets, the more he looks like Edward G Robinson.

    • @nickhughes8179
      @nickhughes8179 9 місяців тому +1

      I find it funny that Eric Bischoff has morphed into looking like a mobster. He looked like Michael Franzese throughout the 2010s, and now as he’s reaching 70, Eric is morphing into Carmine “The Cigar” Galante

    • @0tt0z
      @0tt0z 9 місяців тому

      @@nickhughes8179 😄 😆

    • @kd17Burger
      @kd17Burger 9 місяців тому

      Yeah See

  • @joetroller514
    @joetroller514 9 місяців тому

    did they ever do Ziggler vs Cena?

    • @NoahKunz-j9t
      @NoahKunz-j9t 9 місяців тому

      They had a ladder match at TLC one year that was decent

    • @thelexanator7092
      @thelexanator7092 9 місяців тому

      they also had a match 4 the US title on raw in oct 2015

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому +2

      Cena & him had huge heat which is why his push stopped. Cena refused to put him over after the comicon interview

    • @joetroller514
      @joetroller514 9 місяців тому

      @@marcbasil what?

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому +1

      @@joetroller514 everyone knows about the CC interview & the subsequent dude love/stunning Steve interview after

  • @ninthlife1745
    @ninthlife1745 9 місяців тому +2

    I really hope that he's smart with his money so that he never has to go to AEW.

  • @Saturday6547
    @Saturday6547 9 місяців тому +4

    I think the reason dolph wasn’t a main event talent, was because he is not a believable baby face, or a believable heel, that could draw money in a story line with Roman, Brock, Undertaker, Rock, Cena, Cody, Strawman, Wyatt, Randy, Punk, hence why he was stuck in the mid card, I don’t hear or get the same feel from dolph, like I did when Cody left the WWE, probably because, Cody quit on his terms and had a plan in mind as to what he wanted to do, he had a chip on his shoulder, Dolph was let go, he would have stayed for another 19 years, if they kept extending his contract, it doesn’t seem like he has a plan in mind, or has a chip on his shoulder, like Cody.

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому

      Lol no…? He had heat with cena. That’s why his push stopped

  • @LusterThomas-if7nt
    @LusterThomas-if7nt 4 місяці тому

    The guy was not the next Shawn Michaels . At best he was Billy Gunn 2.0. twenty years with the WWE and made great money. I would call that successful.

  • @rickroberts7611
    @rickroberts7611 9 місяців тому

    Inferno Disco 😂😂

  • @DJYC21215
    @DJYC21215 9 місяців тому

    Shawn Michaels personally vetod the push

  • @TheBrakedown
    @TheBrakedown 9 місяців тому

    I thought konan was wearing hospital scrubs

  • @GOLDEN-STATE-NATIVE
    @GOLDEN-STATE-NATIVE 9 місяців тому +12

    Vince McMahon will always be a bigger draw than all of AEW.

    • @jkyle1018
      @jkyle1018 9 місяців тому +3

      Even bigger than REAL GLASS~?!

    • @dkmenace1990
      @dkmenace1990 9 місяців тому +4

      ​@jkyle1018 the real glass has no chance in hell!!!!

    • @jkyle1018
      @jkyle1018 9 місяців тому +2

      @@dkmenace1990 I guess I'll have to cry a river.

    • @nickhughes8179
      @nickhughes8179 9 місяців тому

      His turds are on TV every week, featured on the Cucamonga kids’ upper lips.

    • @LILJAYSO777
      @LILJAYSO777 7 місяців тому +1

      Bros defending a ped 💀 calm down dude you should be focused on him being bigger than wwe who even said anything about AEW you obsessed 😂

  • @Am0ment0fB
    @Am0ment0fB 9 місяців тому

    Thank you heat.
    Ha.

  • @DrSpoculus
    @DrSpoculus 9 місяців тому

    We just put McMahon on every thumbnail now for bait clicks?

    • @pinroshan020
      @pinroshan020 9 місяців тому

      Well mcidiot was nic’s former boss duh!

  • @jackiejones3296
    @jackiejones3296 9 місяців тому +3

    didn't he have some type of long running heat with Randy Orton?

    • @wildwes6405
      @wildwes6405 9 місяців тому

      I imagine probably by Cena too considering Nikki Bella was kinda getting tapped by Dolph.

    • @jackiejones3296
      @jackiejones3296 9 місяців тому

      @@wildwes6405 why would that cause heat? They're not teenagers

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому +1

      Everyone knows that his heat with cena is the reason his push stopped. This is old news

    • @EmpireWrestlingFederation
      @EmpireWrestlingFederation 9 місяців тому

      nah orton has gone on the record how much he loves ziggler in the ring

    • @jackiejones3296
      @jackiejones3296 9 місяців тому

      @@EmpireWrestlingFederation what's that got to do with backstage?

  • @reiketsuatosei2578
    @reiketsuatosei2578 9 місяців тому +1

    The showoff deserved better

  • @mikefegan2324
    @mikefegan2324 9 місяців тому

    Nic Nemmeth doesn't want to talk to you

  • @loooooooongstanding2141
    @loooooooongstanding2141 9 місяців тому +1

    it doesn't help that you used to date of the girlfriend of the biggest babyface in the company.

  • @Art-h6r
    @Art-h6r 9 місяців тому +1

    Why don’t yall just say Alberto Del Rio. Smh

  • @markmann5539
    @markmann5539 9 місяців тому

    just hear to laugh at AEW marks waking up to chaos

  • @louclarkson6098
    @louclarkson6098 9 місяців тому

    He made me appreciate it overtime through his work but in retrospect, Dolph Ziggler might be a top five worst wrestler name.

  • @MikeyMike-x4z
    @MikeyMike-x4z 9 місяців тому +1

    Survivor Series when Sting made debut and Ziggler got the pin to end HHH and Steph reign
    my favourite Dolph moment
    20 years is 20. Years
    Respect Nic
    👊👊

  • @illmerica322
    @illmerica322 9 місяців тому +1

    I AM FIRST THEREFORE I AM...
    THE BEST!!!!

    • @mattyblack9814
      @mattyblack9814 9 місяців тому +2

      I'm afraid it looks like you were just about beaten by AI. The future is here 😂

  • @hotcoldman77
    @hotcoldman77 9 місяців тому

    He should have gone the Cody/Drew treatment. Leave WWE to make yourself more valuable

  • @johnthomson4128
    @johnthomson4128 9 місяців тому +1

    Dolph was a former D1 wrestler that chose to not innovate, spend every match flopping and bumping like a fish, and spent too much time going through his Billy Gunn phase and then his HBK phase. At no point did Dolph show us Dolph or his wrestling

  • @BLACKSTA361
    @BLACKSTA361 9 місяців тому

    🧢🧢🧢

  • @temperedglass1130
    @temperedglass1130 9 місяців тому

    AEW are overpaying mercedes and people like that. Pouring money down the drain for small ratings.

  • @wingedhussar1453
    @wingedhussar1453 9 місяців тому +1

    He wasnt tht good to begon with

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому +1

      What’re you talking about..?

  • @GOLDEN-STATE-NATIVE
    @GOLDEN-STATE-NATIVE 9 місяців тому +4

    Disco Inferno will always be a bigger draw than Alberto Del Rio.

  • @spectralmuffin6487
    @spectralmuffin6487 7 місяців тому

    There it is Nick Nemeth crying Rather than taking responsibility as always, he's just not a very good performer. Maybe he should just move on. I don't understand why companies keep hiring him.

  • @shawnsdr3406
    @shawnsdr3406 9 місяців тому +1

    I feel like if Nic would of had 20 pounds more muscle on him Vince would of push him like a mega star.like the next Shawn Michaels.

    • @pkj2148
      @pkj2148 9 місяців тому +1

      Not sure. Vince is sometimes unpredictable. Cesar had the look and the in-ring ability, yet he wasn't pushed. Even LA Knight whom you'd think was Vince's wet dream wasn't pushed by Vince.

    • @marcbasil
      @marcbasil 9 місяців тому

      @@pkj2148cesaro…?LOL. Also, Eli Drake is old

  • @KyleJoseph-vo6vp
    @KyleJoseph-vo6vp 9 місяців тому

    Change the name to the jobber podcast of nobodies... none of u could draw a dime