Nic Nemeth Reveals Who Helped Him Touchbase with NJPW

Nic Nemeth (FKA as Dolph Ziggler) has been on the path to writing the next chapter of his wrestling career, which began with his first appearance in NJPW. However, he recently revealed which WWE star helped him get to the Japanese promotion.

Appearing on Talk Is Jericho, the former WWE Intercontinental champion stated that current WWE star Shinsuke Nakamura initially introduced him to the Japanese wrestling scene, as Nemeth did not watch their product, and that led them to become good friends.

A couple of years ago, I’m not close friends with a lot of people, but a long time ago when Shinsuke came up from NXT, at the time I was doing the thing where everybody who shows up wrestles me. I didn’t really know him, I didn’t really watch Japanese wrestling, I don’t watch our wrestling. I famously don’t watch wrestling, I hate everything because I was in a bad place, but I love my job and doing what I do. After WrestleMania, Shinsuke comes up (to the main roster), does whatever he does, and we’re overseas. Him and I had to stay and do the dark match after TV and everyone else went on.“

“We’re sitting next to each other, we put a couple of matches together, I’m not really outspoken. I had requested a bottle of jackfire whiskey and we had that for the ride. ‘You want a sip?’ We just start talking, we had a couple of whiskeys, and we were buddies. It was so great because he’s the biggest sweetheart in the world. We had a good bond I liked wrestling with him.” 

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Nic further continued about Nakamura helping him get in touch with the concerned personnel of NJPW.

“A long time ago, every time my contract comes up, I’m like, ‘I’m going to get out of here. I have nothing left to do, I’m kind of sitting on the bench.’ Break in case of emergency when someone is having a world title match or something. [Shinsuke] goes, ‘If you ever get out of here, I have some connections and I would like to help you out.’ ‘That’s so cool, I don’t know anybody.”

The former Showoff made his first appearance for NJPW alongside his brother, Ryan Nemeth at Wrestle Kingdom 18, getting in a physical altercation with IWGP World Heavyweight Champion, David Finlay. A match between the duo for the title has been confirmed for NJPW New Beginning in Sapporo night one, taking place on February 23rd.

With Nemeth ready to explore an unknown territory, it would be interesting to see what the future holds for one of the most underrated and hard-working wrestlers in the world.

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Thanks, Fightful for the above quotes.