WWE Superstar Dolph Ziggler lost his NXT Championship during this week’s episode of WWE RAW, but that wasn’t the original plan.
Speaking on Wrestling Observer Live, Bryan Alvarez revealed that Ziggler was originally scheduled to have a “long” reign as Champion, but plans changed.
“[On Saturday afternoon] I heard from someone who is close to folks in NXT and they know a lot about what’s going on there. They said, ’˜you know, it looks like Ziggler is going to be champion for a while'” Alvarez began.
“This was Saturday. So then Monday at about 11:30 or so, I heard actually from several people that we’re gonna have an NXT title change on the show tonight” he added.
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“One person said ’˜NXT title change tonight’ and the other person specified that it was gonna be Bron Breakker beating Dolph Ziggler to win the title back on Raw” Alvarez concluded.
It’s interesting that WWE decided to make such a last-minute change to Ziggler’s status. Breakker arguably should’ve won the title at Stand & Deliver if he was going to win it, but clearly, the company wanted him to have a major win on the RAW After Mania.
