Former WWE star Ryback recently took to his podcast “Conversations With The Big Guy Ryback” to talk about several professional wrestling topics.
Here are the highlights:
Ryback thinking WWE jobbing out Matt Hardy having to do with Matt being reluctant to sign a new contract:
It’s certainly not doing Matt any favors with that whole Jeff Hardy situation. But in my personal opinion, based on the history of Matt Hardy and how they have booked him in the past, they’ve always viewed Jeff Hardy as the bigger single’s star in the company’s eyes. Or, at least, used Jeff in better roles for the most part. With Matt Hardy, I do think the contract thing is a huge thing. And when Matt left – and this is how Vince McMahon and them operate.
It happened to me when I wouldn’t re-sign the contract, and they put the Intercontinental title on me to get me to be a mark and get me to sign their cheap contract, and when that didn’t happen, they started to downgrade me very slowly to try to get me to be a mark and say, ‘No, no, no. I want you guys to let me win. I’ll sign whatever you guys want; I will sign everything over.’
WWE possibly wanting to lower Matt’s value on his way out of WWE:
They already know Matt Hardy can get himself over, and can go somewhere else and get himself over. This is how they operate, rather than keeping him off television where he did the ‘Woken’ Matt Hardy. And look at where he was with all of that and how they have down-regulated him for no reason? It makes sense that his contract is coming up because that is what they do. They will lower your value on your way out so that it will make it harder for him to get himself over again quickly.
He has already done it before, but there’s no coincidence in that. It’s sad to see that this is how they operate. We’ve talked about it before when I told you that I wasn’t resigning, when Mark Carrano said to me that I might want to sign the contract because they are going to job me out, and pull me off TV, and are going to fire me if I don’t. That was direct from the company. Me, who was at a very good level at that point.
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