Hey guys, who you like better, Goldberg or Ryback?

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Originally Posted by CSL Well that's just a really silly thing to say. It definitely had everything to do with the company that's built the majority of the greatest stars in pro wrestling history (as well as any over or entertaining character they currently have under contract) and nothing to do with the guy getting the biggest monster push in some time running entirely out of momentum because as a babyface he's pretty much a one-trick pony and that one trick wasn't enough to propel him all the way to the top of the card/simply doesn't have the tools to be a top babyface atm. If Ryback was going to make some real money long-term at that point in time, they wouldn't have hesitated to run all the way with him.

Are you really comparing the WWE's current booking ability to the same booking that created Hulk Hogan and Steve Austin? Same guys with the same ability? Come on. Apparently I should have clarified that WWE CURRENTLY has no clue how to make stars.

Originally Posted by CSL maybe it's the sound or the quality of the video etc but it's "decent babyface reaction #3", it's hardly Rock or Brock returning, anything from post-Mania RAW and so forth. And the difference in the last paragraph says it all. Outside of the Sting angle, WCW couldn't book long term for shit. This is the same company that freely admitted to live Nitro's still being written or segments with no actual plan being scheduled as the show went on air. Goldberg would have gotten over at any time in any company in any era because he's a "one-in-a-million" type of guy, he has "it", that thing you can't quite put your finger on that makes wrestling fans go fucking apeshit, the thing that separates a Steve Austin from a Chris Jericho. WWE had to pound Ryback into people's heads to gain a modicum of the same reaction. Outside of the bald heads and the streak/monster gimmicks, the two are night and day.

I don't know. The video seems fine on my end. And I think everyone else at least acknowledges that it was a pretty monster pop as opposed to a "decent babyface reaction". Some just credit Punk instead. Again, it's not Punk in Chicago the night of MITB 2012 or Goldberg in the Georgia Dome when he won the world title. It's Ryback in fucking Sacramento clotheslining a guy who gets clotheslined often. lol And the pop was insane.