Dolph Ziggler's 'fired' speech hints at TNA

Dolph Ziggler, the former WWE World Heavyweight Champion, is selling his kayfabe firing from SmackDown! on his Twitter.

Here is the full rant:

First of all, I can't believe that I got to live my dream for this many years and actually come to do it pretty damn well! Even though I used to caddy around and actually went through a rigorous gymnastics and cheerleader training I thought we made it work! I got to make a lot of friends and a couple of enemies, but no matter what, every time I stepped through that curtain, especially these Last 2 years, I felt like a champion, I lived to go to work each day and try to steal the show like no one else could!

No matter what happens in the coming weeks and months, I appreciate the fact that my hard work and countless hours studying and learning Paid off! I was in the world title picture as a legitimate threat, and appreciate that I got that chance! Most don't!

I hope this youth movement continues, and I hope its just not to build young guys up and have the mainstays dominate and not pass the torch There is a ton of hungry young talents and they LOVE their jobs, just like I and did! Hopefully they get their chance!

I hope to see zack ryder, trent barretta, curt hawkins and some others get their chance, bc they love what they do, and remind me of why I got into this business! Hopefully Wrestlemania will not be a look back into the attitude era an have all the young guys watching backstage I love the wrestling business, and maybe its time to take that next step into the danger zone, brazzers are u hiring??? Haha

I'm sure the door is always open, and I know I busted my ass every damn day I worked for this company, and no matter how doughy and truly Annoying the miz is, he's obviously onto something (2,000 tries later)! Daniel bryan couldn't draw a dollar with a green crayon! I love Hating on him! He got carried to one of (actually THE best match of the year) and john morrison is nothing but a pretty boy doing ballet I will see all of u again, SOMEWHERE! And now its time to make an impact and spike someone else's ratings! U know me, I'd rather be in Dixie

Thank you dolphans for ur support! And know I loved pissing everyone off and stealing their show! I will truly miss this more than anything!

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Obviously the firing is kayfabe but think the lines of 'time to make and impact and spike someone else's rating! U know me, I'd rather be in Dixie' are unusually obvious to hint at TNA which is not something that WWE even bother with.

WWE has also released footage on their website from what happened after Smackdown went off the air following Dolph's storyline "firing."

I'm sure we all realise that the company likes Ziggler, as evidenced by the amount of "main event" TV time he's received the last three months on Raw and SmackDown. However, like with Kelly Kelly WWE has moved his profile to the "alumni" section on their website following their storyline "firings."

Anyway, the series of post-Smackdown events starts with Vickie Guerrero attempting to start Ziggler's re-match for the World Title after he dropped the title to Edge at the end of Smackdown.

Smackdown GM Teddy Long interrupts and has security escort Vickie Guerrero from the ring. Security is led by Southern California standout wrestler Joey Ryan (also one of the notable names that have failed to make it into the Tough Enough line-up).

With Vickie out of the picture, Ziggler asks Long for his title re-match against Edge. Long then brings out Big Show as security to escort the "fired" Ziggler out of the ring. Ziggler refuses, prompting a KnockOut Punch from Show. The footage ends with Show carrying Ziggler out of the ring.