Would he be over with you today? (Warrior)

[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by SixxT9 Never understood why Ryback was such an internet darling. He did nothing for me. Random, bald guy with a bear. EDIT: I meant "beard". Though he would totally me more interesting if he had a bear instead.

Because he was, ironically, a jacked up throwback like the ilk this thread was about in the first place.

He had the perfect storm of being one of the few new faces they actually seemed to give a crap about out of WWE's longstanding trend of trotting out all the old guys and consistently reminding everyone that the new guys they have now aren't as good as they were and will never be and them dumping a shit-tier gimmick when he came back from that one injury and giving him the Goldberg push.

I wasn't the hugest fan, but I could see the appeal. But, of course, they had to fuck that up by expecting too much too soon and then just dropping his push altogether and have him wallow around in doing stupid shit like becoming another meatshield for CM Punk to not get his revenge on Paul Heyman and tagging with Curtis Axel - anothe person they dropped the ball on. They would repeat this a lot, most recently with Asuka... although we shall see how this championship run goes, even though it looks like she's just going to be fed to Ronda instead of getting built back to her former prominence.