Ryback speaks about the iconic Hell in A Cell match between The Undertaker and Mick Foley which occured 20 years ago at King of the Ring 1998. He points out that although some people critique the risks that were taken in this match, those two men told an amazing story. They’d been involved in a feud for months leading up to this match, and all the risks that were taken here was the story’s climax. He’s not sure if those risks were necessary, but that’s the style that Foley was accustomed to working back then.
Commenting on the fact that The Revival picked up a win over Roman Reigns & Bobby Lashley on RAW last week, Ryback says he was surprised by that finish. He assumes this will lead to a larger program featuring Reigns, Lashley and The Revival, and this finish was just a way to get to next week’s show.
Ryback talks about Daniel Bryan’s current positioning on the Smackdown Live roster. It appears that Team Hell No has reformed and this will slot Bryan into an upper-midcard role for the foreseeable future. Ryback doesn’t have any issue with that, noting that that’s where Bryan has been positioned for the majority of his WWE career. Bryan had a short run in the main event, but performers can’t stay in the main event all the time either.
He’s quite happy that Rusev is getting a chance to be in a main event position. He’s a big fan of Rusev personally and professionally, and he thinks it would be a wise move to let Rusev have a main event run as WWE Champion. He’d like to see what Rusev could do with a Title run in terms of producing entertaining content and delivering merchandise sales.
