Professional wrestling legend and two times WWE Hall of Famer Booker T who is also a five times former WCW World Heavyweight champion and a former WWE World Heavyweight Champion recently talked about former WWE star Ryback and explained why he does not respect him.
Ryback work in WWE during the early PG era and he was one of the biggest prospect of the promotion back in the time. He was an exclusive product of WWE and the promotion was promoting him to be the next big star. He had feuds with all the big names back in the time including John Cena and CM Punk. Fans were already comparing him with Goldberg.
Booker T Explains Why He Does Not Like Ryback
But things did not go on pretty well for him. WWE tried their best to push him. He even won the WWE Intercontinental Championship. But he was having a terrible reputation inside the ring as a lot of wrestlers were claiming that he was very dangerous to work with. Critics were claiming he was terribly overrated.
Finally, in 2016 WWE decided to release him. He started working on the independent circuit after that. But everyone started to lose respect on him for whatever you started doing after that. Recently he called Vince McMahon’s dead mother a wh*re. Everyone has criticized him for doing so. It does not look like he has a huge career left in front of him.
Booker T who is also a five times former WCW World Heavyweight champion recently spoke to his latest Hall Of Fame podcast where he talked about former WWE star Ryback and explained why he does not respect him. He said;
“When you’re talking about somebody that you don’t know, that right there for me is taking it to another level [saying] something just personally just outright stupid, nasty, however you want to call it. My thing is too [he’s] looking for somebody to blame. Okay, I have no problem or personal issues with Ryback or anything like that but I’m not someone that hides up under a rock or anything or that’s afraid to tackle a situation like this one right here. My thing is this. Ryback didn’t make it in the WWE, right? That’s a fact, he didn’t make it in the WWE.”
“Did he do anything on the independent scene or anywhere relevant enough to where he should have been treated any differently than anybody else that came through WWE’s program? I mean, me personally, I don’t know anywhere that he’s been. As well as after WWE, where has Ryback gone and done something anywhere else to where he’s been relevant enough to where we could say ‘Ryback, man he should have been a big star man, maybe they should have gave him a bigger chance.’
“A lot of these guys like Drew McIntyre have fell down and picked themselves up and went out there and reinvented themselves because at that point in time, it didn’t work out. But they didn’t go around crying forever about not making it in a company. And me personally, that’s what I look at this as more than anything. Crying.
“Go and make it somewhere in the business anywhere to where a company looks at you and says, ‘Man, this is the guy that we want to push’ other than crying about WWE. If I cried about going to prison every five minutes and how the system didn’t give me a chance. Man, I can only imagine where I would be at. I mean, that’s just so much wasted time this guy is putting himself through. It’s amazing. You know what I mean? Like I said, go and do something somewhere and then someone might second guess and say maybe they did the wrong thing by letting this guy go.
“Then again, going out and talking about this company, it’s gonna be hard for any other companies to want to even deal with you because they may think, ‘Man this guy may do the same thing about us if we happen to let him go.’ So it’s just like, someone cutting his nose off to spite his face. It makes no sense as far as I’m concerned.”
H/T to WrestlingNews.co for the transcription