5 questions from WWE Hell in a Cell 2017 that most need answering

#2 Is Dolph Ziggler the NXT momentum killer?

A Roode awakening.

Dolph Ziggler has had a strange time of it in WWE recently. After a relatively decent 2016, 2017 has been pretty chaotic for the show-off. First, there was the unexpected and frankly uncalled for heel turn, and more recently, we've seen him embrace a weird new gimmick which essentially amounts to disrespecting WWE legends.

Another feature of Ziggler's year in 2017 has been sucking the momentum out of promising NXT graduates. Shinsuke Nakamura was his first victim. In a series of promo segments and matches, Dolph failed to get Nakamura over with the main roster fanbase. The WWE should have known better than to put somebody with limited English skills against a bland, vanilla talker.

And even when it came to facing the Artist inside the ring, Dolph's recognised ability to sell his opponent's moves seemed to disappear as well. He did nothing to make 'Strong Style' stand out as the new and exciting approach to Western wrestling that it should have been. How Shinsuke found himself competing for the WWE Championship a few months later is anyone's guess.

Now Dolph has been placed in a position where he is required to help Bobby Roode take that next step to the main event scene after a highly impressive run on NXT. The Glorious one's ascension should have been the easiest thing in the world — fans are very keen to see him with a world title and nothing he did on Wednesday nights led us to believe that he wouldn't be capable.

But instead, he found himself in a throwaway match against the NXT momentum killer that nobody really cared about. That is not to say that the decision to turn Roode face is a bad one, but he really needed somebody more able as an opponent. Having Ziggler lose the match due to a roll up and then proceed to beat down on Roode isn't the way to go about making a new star.