Ryan Nemeth Discusses Being Compared To His Brother Dolph Ziggler

Ryan Nemeth Discusses Being Compared To His Brother Dolph Ziggler

Dolph Ziggler’s younger brother Ryan Nemeth hadn’t wrestled since 2018 but recently resumed his career in AEW. He has competed five times for the company, including two high-profile appearances on Dynamite, losing to Adam Page and Pac Now Ryan has spoken to Chris Van Vliet and spoken about the constant comparisons he gets to his brother.

There are similarities. We are brothers, we are related, we were both trained by the exact same people in wrestling. We grew up wrestling for the same school together. But I will say I’ve spent my entire wrestling career looking and dressing the exact opposite of him. He had blond hair, I dyed mine black. He wore pants, I wore shorts. No matter what I do, for a decade, any time I’m in a match, the Internet says I’m a carbon copy of him. But we’ve had pretty different lives. He was a college wrestler, I focused more on acting and writing. In the past few years, to do so many of these things together is awesome. I never felt like we were competing for anything though. Ryan Nemeth

Ryan’s wrestling career began a decade ago when he started wrestling for OVW. This led to him signing with WWE in 2011 and wrestling for their developmental territory FCW. During this time, he competed under the name Briley Pierce and won their tag team championships with Brad Maddox. However, less than a year after FCW merged with NXT, he was released by WWE in 2013. He’d initially take a break from wrestling following his release but began working the Californian indie scene in 2016. During his time away from wrestling go to waste, he got into acting and writing, most notably making appearances on Jimmy Kimmel Live, playing multiple characters such as Cowboy Andy and Karate Kidney Bean. He currently has a short film in post-production called Heel, which he wrote and stars in, and includes his brother.

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