Source: wrestlingnewsworld.com

For those curious why Ryback was booked in such a competitive match against Cesaro on this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw, it’s part of WWE’s plan to reboot him.

As we reported here on WrestlingNewsWorld.com Premium last week, one of the things that sunk Ryback’s push in addition to perceived behavioral issues was the crowd’s response to him. Vince McMahon hated the “Goldberg” chants that he garnered and it played a part in the company giving up. Now, WWE is revisiting what started to get Ryback over with the “feed me more chants” but they don’t want to book him in one-sided bouts in fear it will only restart the “Goldberg” chants from the audience.

This is why Ryback was booked in a competitive match against Cesaro — one that went over 14 minutes — rather than dominating him as expected. WWE is making an effort to tactfully elevate Ryback as opposed to force feed him, something they tried before and failed.

Bob-O wrote:Source: wrestlingnewsworld.com

For those curious why Ryback was booked in such a competitive match against Cesaro on this week’s episode of Monday Night Raw, it’s part of WWE’s plan to reboot him.

As we reported here on WrestlingNewsWorld.com Premium last week, one of the things that sunk Ryback’s push in addition to perceived behavioral issues was the crowd’s response to him. Vince McMahon hated the “Goldberg” chants that he garnered and it played a part in the company giving up. Now, WWE is revisiting what started to get Ryback over with the “feed me more chants” but they don’t want to book him in one-sided bouts in fear it will only restart the “Goldberg” chants from the audience.

This is why Ryback was booked in a competitive match against Cesaro — one that went over 14 minutes — rather than dominating him as expected. WWE is making an effort to tactfully elevate Ryback as opposed to force feed him, something they tried before and failed.

The Goldberg chants are going to happen no matter what.
I actually thought that the "force feeding" of Ryback worked. People were completely behind him. What killed him off is when he started losing. It started with Punk, then he lost the Rumble, and then they totally killed him off with that completely pointless loss to Mark Henry at Wrestlemania. Then they turned him heel and immediately fed him to Cena, and after that there was nothing left for him to do, so the people stopped caring.

Don't get me wrong: I'm glad that they are booking him the way they are this time, but that is because it is letting guys like Cesaro look better in defeat rather than because I think it will help Ryback at all.

Big Red Machine wrote: I actually thought that the "force feeding" of Ryback worked. People were completely behind him. What killed him off is when he started losing. It started with Punk, then he lost the Rumble, and then they totally killed him off with that completely pointless loss to Mark Henry at Wrestlemania. Then they turned him heel and immediately fed him to Cena, and after that there was nothing left for him to do, so the people stopped caring.

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don't forget becoming the most irrelevant 'heyman guy'. Even Axel got a title reign out of it