Yes, ready or not, Ryback is the latest rising star within the WWE. Hate him or love him, Ryback makes the crowd goes wild every time his entrance-music hit. Before discussing why Ryback's rise is good for WWE, I want to give you my opinions on this powerhouse wrestler.
My opinions
Unlike many other writers and longtime wrestling fanatics, I have a good feeling about Ryback and his early rise. The most common articles surrounding Ryback, debates about the fact that he is not ready for the main-events on PPVs. "He has only wrestled squash matches", "He has never been in the ring longer then five minutes", "He has a tiny move-set, and is sloppy in the ring". These are comments being used against the early rise of Ryback. But does these comments have any credibility?
First of all, if WWE-officials didn't thought Ryback was ready, they would never push him the way they do at the moment. Second, Ryback has been within the WWE since 2004, and has long experience within those ropes, so people that thinks he can't wrestle more then 5-min matches, should really do their research better. At the moment Ryback does 20-min matches on many Houseshows/Live-events within WWE, this to prepare him for the PPVs. Third, Ryback has a very creative move-set, just to clearify that. After returning to television, I have counted over 15 moves that Ryback uses in most of his matches, and this is about 4-5 moves more then an average move-set for a Wrestler within WWE.
If you ask me, I have to say that Ryback is ready for a big run. If Cena isn't ready for HIAC, I really hope Ryback gets the title. Yes I will agree to the fact that he has to do more promos, other then the "feed me more" yelling (which is awesome), so his future feuds can make some sense. But his character has already been evolving to the direction that Ryback does his "talking" in the ring, with squashing his opponents, and that is something the fans love.
Why his "rise" is a good thing for WWE!
Ryback's rise is good for WWE, because it's refreshing and exciting. Because this is exactly what WWE needs at the moment. People are getting bored of these "on-going" never ending feuds within WWE, because it's not refreshing. Yes even though I love the Cena vs Punk feud, I have to say that it's going to be boring, if this feud goes on for half a year without a break. If they do it like the Shawn Michaels vs Bret Hart feud, it could work, because that feud lasted 6-7 years, but had long brakes, which meant that both wrestlers could find new and more refreshing feuds when not feuding with each other. This is the way the Cena/Punk feud has to evolve and therefore it makes sense that Punk moves on to Ryback now and to Rock later this year, and then who knows. He might end his feud with Cena at Wrestlemania, or something like that. But over to the story now. Ryback gives us the fans something different then what we are used to see. Because usually the face-wrestlers (Cena, Sheamus, Orton and so on) gets beat up and looks like an underdog, but always ends up winning. Ryback does the opposite, he dominates every inch of the fight, and even when he gets hit on he looks dominating. This makes it so much more fun to watch, and as mentioned it gives us a new and more unpredictable type of face-wrestler.
It's not a good answer, I know, but I really think that Ryback can help WWE with his rise to the top. Love him or hate him, he makes you react every time his entrance-music hits.
That was all for this time, have a great day, please comment, and tell me what you think about the rise of Ryback.
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