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#2 Reason why Dolph Ziggler and Sonya Deville were split as a pair on SmackDown

ACTUALLY, Frankenstein was the name of the scientist.just like Psychopath pic.twitter.com/WUmeZRpl4m

— Nic Nemeth (@HEELZiggler) June 24, 2020

Dolph Ziggler recently moved to RAW and challenged WWE Champion Drew McIntyre for a match at Extreme Rules. As per WWE logic, Dolph Ziggler and Bobby Roode have been traded to RAW in return for AJ Styles coming to SmackDown.

What is interesting is that before Ziggler went to RAW, he was in a team of sorts with Sonya Deville on SmackDown. Deville is now going solo and it looks like the feud between Otis/Mandy Rose and Dolph Ziggler/Sonya Deville on SmackDown will now be turned into a one-on-one program between Deville and Rose.

Here is what Tom Colohue had to say about why Sonya Deville and Ziggler's pairing was broken:

I did ask about this, and I was told quite simply, Deville doesn't need him. I think he did extremely well, but his role was becoming smaller and smaller. They had promos where Sonya Deville was doing all the talking, even though Dolph Ziggler was there and Dolph, to my knowledge, was supposed to do the talking, but he said to Sonya Deville, 'look, here are my lines, go for it.' He knows what talent she has and really, I feel they did need to move on. Otis seems to be moving towards Baron Corbin. Corbin now seems to be going to feud with Riddle and so Heavy Machinery will be feuding with Miz and Morrison. That will give us the option of a six-person tag, and it does mean that Deville has similar people to work with, but I don't think Rose and Deville will need that support at the moment. I think they have both really exceeded expectations.