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Booking From the Seats: Dolph Ziggler

Today's version of Booking From the Seats features a perennial fan favorite. We look at the Show Off, Dolph Ziggler. Where do you see him?

As always, the tiers are as follows (for a full introduction to Booking from the Seats! click here):

1.) Tag Team: these individuals are best suited for tag team duty. This isn't a demotion. New Day and PTP are clearly tag guys, but also some of the most over on the roster.

2.) Lower Card: This is comprised of mostly jobbers and enhancement talent, but also of guys who clearly have a future they are just too new and raw to stand out. Lower card guys can get significant story time and should be important as well!

3.) Midcard: In theory this should be the division most populated. Should normally beat tier 2, but they aren't in the higher ranks. These are the guys who really carry a show between hot angles.

4.) Upper Midcard: This is where you have guys who might not be main event level, but should consistently beat everyone outside of the top tier. This tier has a lot of champions, as they are strong enough for both secondary and primary championship titles. (The latter normally as a transitional champion.)

5.) Main Event: This doesn't just involve the title holder, but anyone who is consistently trusted with major angles that drive the show. Even when Cena isn't competing for the big belt, he's still a centerpiece of the show.

6.) Part Timer: These individuals normally exist outside of the everyday WWE canon. (HHH is a part-timer but is exempt from this rule.) They seldom appear in ring, and when they do it is normally to pop ratings or ppv's.

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As was the case with Ambrose, I'm guessing he's going to be seated a lot higher than I would put him.

In my eyes, Dolph is a midcarder at this stage in 2015. Yes, he's only 35. Yet he's also has a concussion history. In 2012-2013, he was mega over, and deserved a main event slot. Yet as he got the push, Dolph frequently underperformed.

Combine that with times where he was legitimately robbed (WWE's refusal to push him after what might be one of the greatest Survivor Series performances ever), and I really think the sell-by date has passed with him. With all of the new and interesting talent in NXT, they can do a lot of the things Dolph can, only better. They can also do things he cannot.

So Dolph is a midcarder for me.

What say you, Cagesiders?

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For a recap of talent already booked by the best dang pro wrestling community on the internet, check the individual pages for:

Brock Lesnar
Roman Reigns
John Cena
Adam Rose
Big E
Big Show
Bo Dallas
Braun Strowman
Bray Wyatt
Bubba Ray Dudley
Cesaro
Chris Jericho
Curtis Axel
D-Von Dudley
Darren Young
Alberto Del Rio
Damien Sandow
Dean Ambrose

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