10 Wrestlers That Should Ask WWE For Their Release

5. Zack Ryder

The sad case of Zack Ryder has been written about for four years now. Previously the posterboy for getting over without any support from creative, a man who grabbed the brass ring only to find it was a glazed doughnut, Ryder is mostly famous now for being screwed over. He€™s not a wrestler, he€™s a sad sack in boots and trunks. Right now, Matthew Cardona is in the best shape of his life and still only thirty years old. He can still become the star wrestler he always wanted to be€ but is that what he really wants? He claims to love wrestling, but he works in a third string tag team on the developmental brand, and these days seems perfectly content to languish wherever WWE dump him. Is that because he€™s a mark for the WWE, rather than a man passionate about wrestling as an art and an industry? It€™s looking more and more as though, having accepted his lower card jobber role, Cardona only wants to be able to say he wrestles for the same company that featured Hulk Hogan and €˜Stone Cold€™ Steve Austin. That sounds harsh, but as a fan of the performer if not his cheesy character, it€™s even harsher to see what€™s happened to him. I would properly mark out for the man if he requested his release tomorrow and took a better, tighter, more intense version of that good-time bro gimmick to a career on the independents, or even a spot in New Japan.