Diesel’s WWF Championship reign continued till November 19, when he was defeated by Bret Hart at Survivor Series. Ziggler then joined Team Cena at Survivor Series. The title match happened on April 7 at WrestleMania 29, the place Ziggler and Langston unsuccessfully challenged Bryan and Kane for the WWE Tag Team Championship. The next night on Raw, Ziggler and Jericho had been positioned in a “Strange Bedfellows” match in opposition to WWE Tag Team Champions Team Hell No (Daniel Bryan and Kane), but they misplaced when Kane hit a chokeslam on Ziggler and pinned him after Jericho framed him for pushing Kane. On the February 27 Raw SuperShow, Ziggler and Swagger unsuccessfully challenged Primo & Epico for the WWE Tag Team Championship in a Triple Threat tag team match, also involving Kofi Kingston and R-Truth. Three days later, Rolling Stone named Ziggler as the 2014 WWE Wrestler of the Year. Following this, Ziggler started feuding with Randy Orton on SmackDown 4 days later, after Orton hit him with an RKO when Ziggler tried to money his Money within the Bank contract on a susceptible Sheamus. Ziggler then began feuding with John Cena after he sided with Vickie Guerrero to help defame Cena and AJ Lee by alleging they’d a romantic relationship.

On the October 28, 2014, episode of Raw, Ziggler and John Cena shook fingers collectively backstage, which The Authority interpreted as a deal to plot towards them. On the January 19 episode of Raw, Sting offered one other help, as John Cena received Ziggler, Ryback and Rowan’s jobs again. Ziggler ended his feud with Cena after losing to him on the January 7, 2013, episode of Raw, in a singles match and in steel cage match the next week, regardless of outdoors interference from AJ and Langston in both matches. Later, Ziggler teamed with AJ to face Cena and Vickie Guerrero, however, the match ended in a disqualification after the debuting Big E Langston attacked Cena, additionally starting an on-screen relationship between Dolph and AJ. On the October 22 episode of SmackDown, Ziggler started a feud with the debuting Tyler Breeze, who aligned with Summer Rae and attacked Ziggler. On the July 29, 2013, episode of Raw, Ziggler defeated Big E Langston by way of disqualification after AJ Lee attacked Ziggler. On the next episode of Raw SuperShow, Ziggler and Swagger have been defeated by Clay and Marella in a tag workforce match. On the next episode of SmackDown, Ziggler once more tried to cash in the briefcase on Sheamus following a tag group match with Del Rio, but was laid out by Rey Mysterio and Sheamus earlier than he may do so.

On the July 19 episode of Heat, Jindrak formed a tag workforce with Garrison Cade by defeating the World Tag Team Champions La Résistance in a non-title match, thus incomes a title shot against La Résistance on the July 28 episode of Raw but didn’t win the titles. On the next Raw, Ziggler ended his relationship with AJ as a result of her actions the earlier evening and AJ exacted revenge by costing Ziggler a non-title match against Del Rio, then she attacked Ziggler and unleashed Langston on him. Ziggler returned to television on the next SmackDown and certified for the Royal Rumble match by beating Barrett in a non-title match. On the first Raw of 2015 (dated January 5), the not too long ago reinstated Authority forced Ziggler to defend his Intercontinental Championship against Bad News Barrett and he initially received. In the Royal Rumble match on January 25, Ziggler entered because the final entrant, eliminating Bad News Barrett and Cesaro however was quickly eradicated by Big Show and Kane. On the December 16 episode of SmackDown, Ziggler lastly defeated Seth Rollins in a singles match after failing numerous occasions before.

The subsequent night on Raw, Ziggler faced Kevin Owens in a shedding effort, however defeated him the next two weeks in a row. On the following Raw SuperShow, Guerrero, finally uninterested in the bickering between Ziggler and Swagger, organized for a match between them; Ziggler received the match and Guerrero’s affections, ending their partnership. Ziggler confronted Orton once more at Night of Champions on September 16 where he misplaced once more, ending the feud. At Night of Champions on September 21, Ziggler dropped the title to Miz, just for Ziggler to win it again the following night on Raw. In a rematch on the following week, Ziggler was defeated by Langston after a distraction by AJ and Kaitlyn. The night after SummerSlam, Ziggler defeated Jericho in a rematch; as a result Ziggler retained his Money in the Bank contract and Jericho’s WWE contract was terminated. At the Elimination Chamber on February 19, Ziggler failed once more to seize the WWE Championship after being eradicated second by Chris Jericho.