5 WWE stars who threatened to quit but stayed

#4 Dolph Ziggler threatened to leave WWE

Dolph Ziggler has never been one to shy away from giving his opinion backstage in WWE.

Shortly before his match against Goldberg at SummerSlam 2019, the two-time WWE World Heavyweight Champion was told that he would lose within seconds after being hit with a single spear from the WCW legend.

This, needless to say, was not the match that Ziggler, who is widely regarded as one of WWE’s best in-ring performers, had in mind.

He revealed to talkSPORT’s Alex McCarthy in November 2019 that he did everything he could, including threatening to quit WWE, in order to have a longer match that day.

“I fought all day long, threatened to leave, threatened to quit, did everything I had to – ‘Give me two damn minutes!’ And I got a minute, whatever, what you going to do?”

As Ziggler said, even though the first-time-ever encounter lasted longer than just one spear, it was still a squash match, with Goldberg picking up the victory in 1 minute and 50 seconds.