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Fans try too hard to be bookers - makes me wonder if they even enjoy watching anymore?
Anyway, Ryback is over. Fookin' camera shaking over on Raw! It's fun, it's fresh and it's new. He has been in development since tough enough with Al Snow in the mid 2000's FFS so it's not as if he is new - it's just a newish gimmick. Whatever, as long as it's fun I couldn't care how long the buns been in the oven anyway.
That gimmick is not new. Granted, I'm sure most of the audience watching today never saw what Goldberg's meteoric rise in wrestling was like, so I'm sure that's why there are so many people rooting for him...but there are two problems with this gimmick, which was the same as Goldberg:
1. Eventually, he has to lose. Once he loses, and starts going into the routine of losing some and winning some, that's going to kill a lot of the buzz. Because, eventually, he's going to start getting treated as a regular competitor. Now, if the WWE is smart, they'll identify a good spot to make him lose, and then turn him heel or do something new with him before the crowd turns on him (which WCW didn't do in a timely manner with Goldberg).
2. His endurance is s**t. The matches are short for a reason...he can't work longer than ten minutes. So trying to get a solid 20 minute main event out of him is going to be next to impossible. When you start seeing more and more of his weaknesses in the ring, there's going to be less and less buzz about him.
And this isn't related to this topic, but I can't comment on it in that thread, but the Austin-Punk thing, while Austin isn't going to be cleared to wrestle by this Mania, there's nothing stopping him from being there and doing something to Punk so they can push the match for next year's Mania. And unlike Rock/Cena, you'll have a year long promo competition with the two best talkers to ever step foot in the ring and who understand how to keep things interesting.