5 WWE Superstars who wanted to lose a championship match

#4 Dolph Ziggler wanted to lose the WWE Intercontinental Championship match at No Mercy 2016

Dolph Ziggler wanted to leave WWE for a year

The Intercontinental Championship rivalry between The Miz and Dolph Ziggler will go down as one of the best feuds in WWE SmackDown's history. Both the Superstars nailed their respective roles, and they faced off in an epic 'Career vs. Title' match at No Mercy 2016. The odds were stacked against Ziggler as The A-List Superstar had got the back of The Showoff's former Spirit Squad teammates, Mikey and Kenny.

Even Dolph wanted to lose that match and stay away from the ring for an extended period. However, Vince McMahon did not allow him to do so as he gave him a career-defining win at the pay-per-view. Speaking to Corey Graves on WWE's After The Bell podcast, Ziggler shared the details of the match at No Mercy and the finish that he had planned.

"I said, 'I have to leave now. Am I not going to re-sign a contract or am I going to fake an injury? But I have to leave.' I find out I'm going to be putting my career on the line against The Miz, one of my favorites. I go, 'This is perfect.'”

He also mentioned how desperate he was to leave WWE for some time.

“Anybody who looks back, I promise you, I wanted it to be my last match at least for a year or something. It was an awesome reaction and a fun time, but the next day we went back to me being Dolph Ziggler and sadly we didn't capitalize on it. So, I needed to get out of there," he continued.