10 Radical Ideas To Save Zack Ryder
8. Have Him Begin To Attack The Miz Randomly And For No Reason
The Miz and Maryse are legitimately awesome heels together, the pairing more heelish than the sum of its parts. When they cost Ryder the Intercontinental Championship the day after he won it at WrestleMania 32, they were as heelish as they could possibly be about it.
That’s got to rankle. So much so that no one could blame Ryder if, every time he saw the Miz and his stupid clothes and his stupid hair and his stupid, stupid face, he felt irrationally compelled to attack him and, I don’t know, put him in the crossface chickenwing and thrash him about like a landed sea bass, Crazy Bob Backlund style.
It should get to the point that The Miz is complaining to management, scared of his own shadow, hiding behind his own wife when he enters a room.
It’s the first step in a sea change for Ryder’s persona, and it doesn’t hurt that both he and the Miz can gain heat over the mini-angle. Miz looks more heelish and cowardly, and Ryder looks - for the first time - like someone you don’t want to screw with.