7 Most Insane Things Happening In Wrestling Right Now (March 17)
2. Ryback Has Reached Peak Delusion
Ryback has this week suggested that WWE put the Universal Championship on Goldberg at Fastlane because he had left the company on his own podcast this week.
He also suggested that WWE was foolish not to bring in Goldberg when "that was the match that would have made absolute sense," essentially confirming that he was Goldberg-lite all along, something he of course denied to the hilt when he was still with the company. Ryback is effectively stating that he would have drawn more intrigue to a big four WWE pay-per-view than Brock Lesnar.
Ryback is both making a fool of himself and ruining any chance he has of making money. He's hardly going to set NJPW or PWG alight. WWE is the only place he fits in, and he's burning that bridge on a weekly basis. "The marks who disagree just don’t get it," he followed up, "but when you are dealing with a bunch of idiots that is what happens." Yes Ryback. Everybody is stupid except you. Homer Simpson said that once...
Ryback wasn't the only wrestling personality deifying himself this week. In an appearance on the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling podcast, Virgil/Vincent more or less claimed an equal credit for the success of the New World Order, using the word "we" to eye-watering effect. He even went so far as to state that he was in the faction's elite top six and not put in there purely because he once worked for the WWF. That was what the Order was meant to symbolise. WCW would have put Barry Horowitz in the black and white if he wasn't jobbing to Leif Cassidy on the WWF house show circuit.
"People were going koo-koo for us, they were koo-koo for coco-puffs. Am I right or am I wrong? We brought a whole new thing into wrestling," he said. Note: you were wrong, Virgil. At least as far as the pronoun is concerned.