Last week, the world was shocked by a fan favorite finally giving in to temptation and abandoning his cohorts, deciding that it was better to look out for himself than to try to play to the fans and his friends. Unfortunately, were talking Ryback, not a main eventer jockeying for the world title. The Big Guy walked out on Big Show and Kane during a six-man tag match against the Wyatt Family, leading to their defeat. Ryback later gave the reason as needing to look out for himself and not get bogged down in tag matches. That sounds all well and good, but does it matter in grand scheme of things? Ryback was a heel for much of 2013-14, feuding with WWE World Heavyweight Champion John Cena and CM Punk before sliding down the card. Currently, hes nowhere near that level of prominence on the roster. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnQQ54NJFqY Maybe the turn is meant to give WWE a top flight heel (because God knows theres a dearth of them right now), or maybe the writers are bored. What happens in the next several weeks will help determine what to make of this.
Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
