Ryback Talks Triple H Comment That Hurt Him, How He Avoided Getting Released By WWE In 2011, More

Source: Conversation With The Big Guy

Recently on Conversation With The Big Guy, former WWE Superstar Ryback spoke in great detail about his ankle injury from 2010 and how he believes the fallout from that injury would affect his WWE run. Notably, Ryback discussed former head of WWE Talent Relations John Laurinaitis calling him to fire him shortly after his third ankle surgery. Also, Ryback talked about how a flippant comment made by Triple H changed his perspective on the professional wrestling business forever.

Just as Ryback and Nexus stablemate David Otunga were being positioned to capture the WWE Tag Team Championship, the former Skip Sheffield broke his ankle during a match against The Hart Dynasty at a house show in Honolulu, Hawaii. Ryback endured three operations to repair his ankle. According to ‘The Human Wrecking Ball’, Laurinaitis called to release him from his WWE contract an hour after his third surgery.

“I was maybe awake for like an hour after surgery. Who do you think calls me at the time who was in charge? Yep, John Laurinaitis who was in charge at the time. And the phone call was being recorded. I could hear the echo on the phone. Yeah, to this day. And he was like, ‘well, we did everything we could to get you better, right? Right?’ and was asking me questions and I wouldn’t answer because I knew. I was like, ‘they’re going to f–king fire me.'”

Ryback claimed that Laurinaitis called to fire him again during the August 2011 round of releases, but that he was able to avoid being let go at that time.

“A couple of months went by and it was when Chris Masters, Johnny Prime, and I forget, there were a couple of other people released. They had all been released during the day. I was the last one, I guess, because I was keeping up with all of it at the time. I was in Gold’s Gym in St. Petersburg, Florida. I get a call from John Laurinaitis and he tries to fire me while I’m still f–ked up with my ankle injury.” Ryback recalled, “and I have to stop and cut …

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