Along with his WWE profession now seemingly within the rearview mirror, the fame of former wrestling star Ryback is not the most effective, with him turning into extra related along with his social media exploits and actual life animosity with CM Punk than his in-ring work. As such, it is simple to overlook that, at one level, Ryback appeared poised to grow to be one of many greatest stars in WWE, with the previous Intercontinental Champion receiving a push in 2012/2013 that noticed him briefly go undefeated, and feud with prime stars similar to Punk and John Cena.
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Throughout the newest episode of the “Corridor of Fame” podcast, Ryback grew to become a subject of dialogue between WWE Corridor of Famer Booker T and his co-host, Brad Gilmore. After Gilmore famous that Ryback did appear to be on the cusp of superstardom throughout his push, Booker tried to diagnose what precisely when incorrect with Ryback. He in the end concluded that the most important factor working in opposition to him was Ryback being in comparison with certainly one of Booker’s long-time WCW co-workers.
“It positively appeared prefer it was going to peak out to be one thing enormous,” Booker mentioned. “The factor is, I feel it had the potential to be. However I feel with the followers eager to do the ‘Goldberg’ factor, it was all the time going to be onerous to interrupt out of that. I feel that was the one factor that Ryback had that was working in opposition to him greater than something, [it] was folks seeing Goldberg once they noticed Ryback. And why? I do not know. I do not know…was it the gear, was it the look…That could possibly be it. However I feel that was…I actually imagine that was Ryback’s greatest hurdle.”
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