The Official Ryback Thread (For All Things Ryback)

[TheJosephBanks]

So you chose to ignore the fact that he did hit his finisher on TENSAI on Smackdown last week?

Probably easier to ignore that, and the fact he's been lifting /two/ men at once, so his point would work. xD

[Playboy Stevie V]

According to Michael cole the latest weapon in roidback's arsenal is the clothesline. What cole failed to mention is old roidy had to use the clothesline because he could not life Albert into his usual finisher. Now the botch machine is facing guys heavier than 90lbs he's finding out that he's not cena strong. Either get a new finisher or drop this bs destroyer gimmick because a destroyer that can't use power moves is weak.

I’m not here to make excuses for any wrestler, but last night was not Ryback’s fault. That botch was on Tensai. For some reason or another he limped out and made Ryback try to dead lift that worthless walrus. I don’t know why he did this, but if it was because he was purposely trying to make Ryback look bad, stay tuned for Tensai’s future endeavors. Anybody, who in some form has worked in the industry, could see what Tensai did to fuck this up. It's a BIG industry no no.

[Tommy Thunder]

Probably easier to ignore that, and the fact he's been lifting /two/ men at once, so his point would work. xD

Tensai weighs more than 2 jobbers though lol¬

[TheJosephBanks]

Tensai weighs more than 2 jobbers though lol¬

Still a fairly impressive feat of strength. xD

[Iron Ape]

On account of Tensai no-selling as soon as the match started, I'm inclined to believe he in fact did sand-bag The Skipper. Watch that match over again and you can tell that they weren't anywhere close to being on the same page.

[Tommy Thunder]

On account of Tensai no-selling as soon as the match started, I'm inclined to believe he in fact did sand-bag The Skipper. Watch that match over again and you can tell that they weren't anywhere close to being on the same page.

He's probably pissed that he's having to job to the guy that's getting the push he was promised.

[Iron Ape]

He's probably pissed that he's having to job to the guy that's getting the push he was promised.

That's exactly what was crossing my mind when I was watching it go down.

Just think: There was a time when Tensai was getting clean Ws over the likes of Cena. What a difference a couple of months makes.

[Peter Kaymakcian]

It may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Tensai sandbagged Ryback. It looked like Ryback was struggling to lift Tensai from the beginning. I know everyone keeps bringing up Smackdown!, but we don't know how many times it took Ryback to lift Tensai up on Smackdown!. I think that the IWC just doesn't like Tensai and is looking for a reason to blame him for what Ryback couldn't do. Plus if Tensai really did sandbag Ryback last night there would be some sort of report out there right now and from the mood Vince was in last night he probably would've been fired on the spot.

[Tommy Thunder]

It may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Tensai sandbagged Ryback. It looked like Ryback was struggling to lift Tensai from the beginning. I know everyone keeps bringing up Smackdown!, but we don't know how many times it took Ryback to lift Tensai up on Smackdown!. I think that the IWC just doesn't like Tensai and is looking for a reason to blame him for what Ryback couldn't do. Plus if Tensai really did sandbag Ryback last night there would be some sort of report out there right now and from the mood Vince was in last night he probably would've been fired on the spot.

It only took Ryback one attempt during the Smackdown taping. It usually says in the results on the main newspage if they did more than one take, for example, they always specify when Sin Cara had to redo spots in his matches, or if a promo segment had to be redone. Nothing was specified in last week's report, so to me that means he did it first time.

I like Tensai, but based on the clip, he did indeed sandbag Ryback there.

[Viperfish]

It may be an unpopular opinion, but I don't think Tensai sandbagged Ryback. It looked like Ryback was struggling to lift Tensai from the beginning. I know everyone keeps bringing up Smackdown!, but we don't know how many times it took Ryback to lift Tensai up on Smackdown!. I think that the IWC just doesn't like Tensai and is looking for a reason to blame him for what Ryback couldn't do. Plus if Tensai really did sandbag Ryback last night there would be some sort of report out there right now and from the mood Vince was in last night he probably would've been fired on the spot.

While it's true that SmackDown is edited where needed, I'm of the opinion that Ryback really didn't have a problem lifting Tensai that night. Just think about it, if they had to redo it, would you book the two of them on a live show the next week where they can't edit that stuff out? It just doesn't make sense to me... which is funny considering how little sense RAW in general is making over the last little while. I would've put Ryback against someone else and had him practice the lift with heavier guys off of TV rather than risk a failure like that on the flagship show.