Vickie Guerrero is currently the only the person in the WWE
who plays the role of a manager.
The talent she manages is Dolph Ziggler. Now, why does the WWE still keep Vickie and Dolph together? It seems like Vickie needs Dolph more
than Dolph needs Vickie.
If we examine the role of a manager in professional
wrestling, we can say that they have the following responsibility:
- Guide the wrestler in his matches
- Be the distraction/outside help to gain the win
- Be the mouthpiece on behalf of the wrestler
- OVERALL, to get the wrestler over
Based on the general purposes, Vickie does none of
them. In matches, she’s more of a cheerleader
than anything. Dolph has great
skill in the ring. His ring
psychology is good with pulling out a win when a win isn’t expected. Vickie has contributed nothing as far
as helping Dolph win matches.
When it comes to being a distraction or giving outside help
for Dolph, as far as the storyline goes, she distracts Dolph more than his
opponent. She causes more drama
for Dolph than need be. This part
of her work may help the storyline, but if you’re trying to build up talent,
then this hinders Dolph from reaching a higher level.
Being the mouthpiece for a wrestler is usually done when the
wrestler either can’t talk, don’t speak English, or doesn’t have an promo
skills. She does gain a lot of
heel heat with her “Excuse Me!
EXCUSE ME!” but does that translate as heel heat for Dolph? No, it doesn’t. It gains heat for herself, and Dolph is
only gaining heat by association.
Now, if Dolph didn’t speak English or can’t cut a promo, then this makes
perfect sense, but he does speak English and has cut good heel promos in the
past.
Now, though Vickie being very popular as a heel may have helped
Dolph when they started, Dolph is already over as a heel. He has the arrogance. He cheats if he needs to cheat for the
win. He takes advantage of the
moment when it arises. He does the
things that heels do and does it very well.
So why are they still teamed up? Because Vickie needs Dolph more than Dolph needs
Vickie. If Vickie didn’t have
Dolph, then there’s no point for her to be on TV. Vickie is a good heel manager but she needs to be with
someone who needs a heel manager.
It’s a great idea that Jack Swagger now has Vickie as his manager, but
it took forever for that to happen. Swagger would gain a lot if he had
Vickie because he really can’t draw heat when he’s on the mic. I'm hoping that this leads to Dolph to breaking away from Vickie.
I’m a Dolph Ziggler fan. He actually has great verbal skills, which is something that
is hard to come by with the current up-and-coming talent. He has the look of arrogance that makes
you want to boo. I believe if he
just gets rid of Vickie, his character will grow much more, and become one of
the greater heels on the roster today.
I hope that the WWE can give him the shot to be on his own.
