Going to be a negative nancy here...

[Tom Guycott]

Originally Posted by #1-wwf-fan Ryback was massively over when they actually pushed him as a legit threat to the bad guys. Then they decided to start jobbing him out out of the blue. It's all in the booking. When it was good, the crowd was nuts for the guy. When it turned to shit, they weren't. It's really that simple.

Same could be said about Henning* actually. Remember when he was christened to be the next big deal by Paul Heyman? In a matter of mere WEEKS he was relegated to looking like a clueless baffoon instead of any kind of credible threat. He had no feuds to speak of, and was back down the card soon for little to no reason. "Better Than Perfect" makes little sense when you're jobbing most of the time. That much is on shitty booking. My point on Ryback is that though he was over, he wasn't "carry the company" over. They wanted him to do in months what it took DB years to accomplish simply because of how he looks. When that fizzled, it was somehow supposed to be because Ryback "didn't have it" instead of WWE realizing they tried to harvest that plant too early merely because it looked impressive in a misguided dash for the next cash cow, and caused it to wither.

They want badly to make the same mistakes with Rusev. No matter how many guys want Lana to ride thier baloney pony, it doesn't make Rusev less boring. Comimg out and simply refusing to speak in English doesn't draw the heat it used to back in the day... ask Tensai. For the successes of Brock Lesnar, how many Jackson Amdrews and Eli Cottonwoods and Bobby Lashleys have been in and out of Titan Towers? I believe Rusev is being set up to fail, then they'll discard him and move on to the next boring monster over and over until they eventually luck out and stumble on another hit, then go "see, we know what we're doing!"