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Originally Posted by xrodmuc316
To be fair, Ryback was mega over for a time, granted 7 years later he still thinks he is that guy, but at least he can say he reached a height the others can't.
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Originally Posted by Noid
Ryback was somewhat over, but I think people overrate how deep that popularity ran. It was a very superficial thing and I don't think it would have translated into much more.
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Even though I wasn't really a fan of his, he was getting the Goldberg-like monster push (and the same push that Asuka got later, with the wrecking shit and even asking for handicap matches). It was mostly a physique thing, like with Chris Masters, and he really wasn't that great, but he served a purpose. And in the purpose, he could have very much been a top guy, even in all the superficiality. He was smashing guys in a badass way not seen for awhile, and it was nice to see them trying to make him a big deal in the midst of all the 50/50 booking nonsense.
But then came the dumb shit. A stop in his upward momentum. A fuck off to the midcard. A gay love angle with Heyman, of all people. Adding him to be another meatshield to stop CM Punk from getting at Heyman after they wrung that Curits Axel well dry... they killed whatever he had going for him themselves. Your badass buzzsaw that was tearing through all comers was now, like everyone else, just another guy.
Ryback wasn't the banner waver for the company, but he should have at least been in that company.