{"id":18840,"date":"2017-01-23T11:10:43","date_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:10:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/?p=18840"},"modified":"2017-01-23T11:10:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-23T17:10:43","slug":"ryback-says-leaving-wwe-proudest-moment-felt-final-wrestlemania-appearance-worst-day-life-explains-feels-wwe-opposed-wrestlers-gaining-popularity-organi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prowrestling.net\/site\/2017\/01\/23\/ryback-says-leaving-wwe-proudest-moment-felt-final-wrestlemania-appearance-worst-day-life-explains-feels-wwe-opposed-wrestlers-gaining-popularity-organi\/","title":{"rendered":"Ryback says leaving WWE is his proudest moment, why he felt his final WrestleMania appearance was the worst day of his life, explains why he feels WWE is opposed to wrestlers gaining popularity organically"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"prowr-13365780\" class=\"prowr-apple-podcast-button-link prowr-entity-placement\" style=\"margin-left: auto;margin-right: auto;text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/pro-wrestling-boom-podcast\/id1365989370\" aria-label=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?fit=320%2C78&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"SUBSCRIBE IN APPLE PODCASTS\"  srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?w=320&ssl=1 320w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/advanced_ads\/2019\/07\/Logo2019_ApplePodcasts_320wide.png?resize=300%2C73&ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 320px) 100vw, 320px\" width=\"320\" height=\"78\"   \/><\/a><\/div><p><strong><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6837 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/prowrestling.net\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/post\/2016\/05\/ryback1.jpg?resize=267%2C189\" alt=\"\" width=\"267\" height=\"189\" \/>Ring Rust Radio with Ryback<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Hosts: Donald Wood, Mike Chiari, and Brandon Galvin<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Audio available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blogtalkradio.com\/ringrustradio\/2017\/01\/18\/ring-rust-radio-jan-18-w-wwe-royal-rumble-talk-ryback-interview\">Blogtalkradio.com\/ringrustradio<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><b>On his long-term goals in and out of the wrestling ring:<\/b> So right now, my number one goal is growing my Feed Me More nutrition brand and my Conversation with the Big Guy podcast. Every week we are growing by the thousands on the podcast and every week we are getting into more and more stores and locations with Feed Me More nutrition. Obviously, my goal is to become the number one supplement brand in that industry and that\u2019s going to take a lot of hustle and hard work. I created an all-natural product that I truly believe in. I use my own products and created them over the past 12 years. I firmly believe that a lot of my success is what I invested in my body and doing it the correct way. Now I\u2019m taking that knowledge in the supplement industry\u2014which is a $50 to $70 billion a year industry\u2014which is corrupt and has a lot of negativity in it. I really want to bring a positive mind set into it. I want to be a positive example to kids so they can look up to a guy with a physique like mine and know you can achieve this without steroids. You can do it with proper supplementation, diet and positive mind set. I\u2019ve been on both sides of the fence and have learned from my mistakes. My goal is to build the Feed Me More brand and make it bigger than it\u2019s ever been. That\u2019s not an easy task while walking away from WWE, but I didn\u2019t like the way they were portraying my brand and limiting me from doing the things that I knew I could do outside of the ring. I didn\u2019t agree with any of the creative aspects. I talked about that before on my podcast. I gave you my opinion on all of that and why that was all correct the way it worked out the way it did. To be told you can\u2019t do magazine covers, or movies, to start your own supplement line, and to be restricted on what you can do outside was very discouraging for me. I don\u2019t like being told I can\u2019t do something when I know I can. It\u2019s only enhancing not only my brand, but the company\u2019s brand as well. That\u2019s when I knew I had to walk away and build my brand on my own now. What you are seeing is me being very diverse and putting my hands in a lot of different jars. Now I have to really focus in on three or four things, and build them up as big as I can build them before I start branching out to other things again.<\/p>\n<p><b>On his claims of being a top merchandise seller in WWE and why he feels WWE is against wrestlers becoming organically popular:<\/b> So, life isn\u2019t fair. I\u2019ve said Vince created that world and it\u2019s his right to do what he wants to do at the end of the day. That made it very easy for me to leave and go ahead create my own world, start from the bottom and work my way back up again. I don\u2019t agree with the way that he did things and I tried many times to communicate and express myself to him. When you are being told lies over and over again, eventually you just kind of check out. It\u2019s a very discouraging and unsettling feeling. I remember being at this last WrestleMania and the contact stuff was already at a very negative point. He left gorilla position, he couldn\u2019t even stand there and watch my match, then he walked by with this look of disgust on his face and I remember thinking, &#8216;This company f&#8212;ing sucks. This job sucks, and this is the worst day of my life.&#8217; This was all on WrestleMania and I thought it really shouldn\u2019t be this way. I think we sometimes have a vision as a kid how we think things are going to be. Telling the truth, from my own experience, I am telling you 100 percent of the truth of everything that went on there and that I encountered there. To be lied to time and time again, then to go out there killing yourself to give that brand everything you got and to be your best, and all you want is to be treated fairly and with respect, all the while you are a staple for that company that they have relied on, it isn\u2019t a good feeling and it\u2019s very motivating to me. Vince did motivate me in finding ways to work harder and to succeed more and to be the best version of myself. I don\u2019t hate him or Triple H, but it gave me that extra kick in the ass to want to succeed even more now. To show him I don\u2019t need him to be successful and I want to set a precedent for these other guys where WWE tries to own and control your brand and you can\u2019t make a living outside of them. No, that\u2019s not right. I created my brand, I\u2019m responsible for my brand and I can take my brand and do whatever I want to do with it. I don\u2019t need you to be successful in life. That is exactly what I am doing. I\u2019m going to blaze my own trail and show these other guys that you don\u2019t need them even though that\u2019s what they want you to think.<\/p>\n<p><b>Whether it&#8217;s easier to be a heel and whether there&#8217;s anything he wishes he could change in his WWE run as either a babyface or a heel:<\/b> I always took my pride in doing my job and what was asked of me. I\u2019ve spoke about that before so we don\u2019t need to break that all down again. Being a heel is a lot of fun and I don\u2019t mind being a heel at all. Being a heel, though, absolutely sucks when you\u2019re not allowed to get heat or have a lot of TV time to tell the story with a microphone. In that regard, being a heel sucks. When used correctly and allowed to get heat, wins and losses don\u2019t even matter, but when I say used correctly to get heat or get your heat back after moments of defeat, it can be a lot of fun. It\u2019s different than being a good guy as there are two completely different mind sets. I always enjoyed playing the heel role outside of that last go around. I was very adamant about not wanting to turn heel with Kalisto. I was lied to and told over and over that I was going to be a tweener. They had me going out there and mounting guys and it started getting a really good reaction then they told me to stop doing that. They had me stop doing the \u201cfeed me more\u201d chant again and it was like the first time all over again. I had enough and it was just time to go.<\/p>\n<p><b>On whether he&#8217;s received offers from other wrestling promotions is he enjoying being sought out:<\/b> Its one of those things where I don\u2019t care about being on TV. I have my brand, I have my name and I haven\u2019t been off TV that long. I am already very profitable in my business where I don\u2019t need to go on TV just to be on TV. I don\u2019t feel the need to be seen. I get to go out every week and work for myself, make a great living, wrestle, meet the fans and get to spend time with the fans. I get to be home every day, minus the shows I do once or twice a week. It\u2019s such a great feeling after being on the road five days a week. I don\u2019t want to go live in another country for three or four months at a time. I set myself up to be able to have success from home and to be able to just go do wrestling because I love wrestling and now I don\u2019t have to worry about anything. When you sign a contract, it doesn\u2019t matter what company it\u2019s for\u2014unless you get it written in the contract\u2014you are giving up freedom of your character and who you are. In this day and age, so many people believe the movie is real that I want to have some sort of control of the image I am portraying at different times. Owning the brand and trying to send out a positive message, it\u2019s detrimental when you have to go out there and do certain things like be a bully. People perceive that as real and it impacts your brand. We are kind of moving forward in this day and age where guys have to start looking out for themselves more because not enough of them do and not enough of them stand up for themselves anymore. I am enjoying this and I don\u2019t care to sign with anybody. The ultimate freedom to me is being able to work for yourself. It should be every human being\u2019s goal to not have to answer to another human being on what you have to do for a job. I don\u2019t have to do that right now so why would I ever want to again? I don\u2019t care about being on TV and once you take that out of the equation it\u2019s a very easy decision.<\/p>\n<p><b>On the promo process in WWE and whether it was creatively stifling:<\/b> Vince McMahon doesn\u2019t care if he makes $300 million a year or $100 million a year; he is making money off the people. So, he really doesn\u2019t care. He would rather do what he wants to do and at the end of the day that\u2019s the game for him. So, like I said, he created that world, nobody in his mind has the right to tell him how to run his business. I respected that enough to where I said fine, I am leaving. That sums that up in so few of words. I understand it from the WWE standpoint that they are a PG company and they have sponsors that they make a lot of money from. We all love the days where guys could go out there and organically say what they wanted to say and instead just be given bullet points. Throughout the course of wrestling, it has evolved into having all these writers and then having Vince, Hunter and Stephanie approve everything. Then you have to recite your lines line by line essentially or pretty close to it without straying from the topic. I can tell you from experience the process absolutely sucks from a wrestling standpoint and from a creative standpoint. It\u2019s just really difficult and it comes across when you are watching at home and you can tell when someone is just reading off a piece paper. I understand it from a corporate stand point of why they are doing, but I think they do it too much. I think there is a way to scale back on it and still keep your sponsors happy and give your guys the creative freedom to incorporate some of their character and who they are into the lines. That\u2019s how you find out what really gets over is letting guys be themselves and I always said my best promos were the ones I got to do on my own. Vince would essentially get mad over that more than anything. In his words, I didn\u2019t make sense or that I was out of touch and in my mind that always just baffled me because it was the complete opposite. He owns the company, he is allowed to think what he wants and say what he wants to say. I respected him enough to go ahead and leave and just not play his game anymore.<\/p>\n<p><b>On the most rewarding experience he&#8217;s had during his career as a professional athlete:<\/b> Walking away from WWE. By far it was the greatest day of my career. The fact I had the courage and by no means it wasn\u2019t an easy decision because it was going on in my head for over two years. It was such a proud moment for me to know that walking away and walking away from the amount of money I left to be free. I equate it to the Shawshank Redemption, that I was finally released. I did it on my own terms and conditions. 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