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I'm somewhere in between on Ryback. I really don't get the absolute fucking love for him. He was never anywhere near as charismatic or intense as, say, Goldberg. He was kind of just a boring guy playing a meat-head to me. And he never had the skill to supplement that lack of charisma. Like, I get why Johnny fucking Curtis should be given more, but I couldn't have cared less when WWE dropped the ball on Ryback, because it honestly felt like The Shield guys were instantly more interesting the moment they showed up.
The thing I didn't like was when he lost to Mark Henry. But he never felt like a genuine star, even in these moments that he was allegedly "white hot." He was hotter than Braun, for example, but not anywhere near a genuine thing where I felt like the ball was going to drop. Just to mixed ball-drop metaphors.
As it is with a lot of guys -- in different measures -- it's partly the office's fault, but it's also the talent. This dude did nothing to save himself.
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