Ryback On Surprising Admission From Vince McMahon, Losing To Mark Henry At ‘Mania, Atrocious Promos

Source: Sports Illustrated

Sports Illustrated has a great new interview with Ryback. Below are a few highlights:

Losing to Mark Henry at WrestleMania 29:

“I will never forget that day,” said Ryback. “My numbers kept climbing even though I was losing these big time matches. I was under the assumption that I was going over on Mark Henry at WrestleMania and then turning heel the next night on John Cena. When I found days before that I was not going over, but that they wanted me to fall on my face with my finish and look like an idiot, I said there was no way I was doing that. I asked, ‘Why are we doing this?’ I went to Vince and spoke with him for thirty minutes in ‘Gorilla’ [the staging area right behind the curtain] and he lied to me how this was the reason for my heel turn – that I fell on my face and tripped, I just couldn’t cut it, and that’s why I’d turn heel.

“Ultimately, though, they were just trying to run me into the ground …

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