Ryback says the best advice he can give any wrestling fan is to stop reading the dirt sheets and reading spoilers. He thinks it’s so much easier for fans to enjoy the product if they don’t know everything about the inner workings of the business. Professional wrestling is scripted programming, and if you know what’s going to happen it’s hard for it to be entertaining.
When surprise returns are executed perfectly, like Shane McMahon & The Hardy Boyz, there’s nothing more exciting. On the contrary, the recent debut of Bobby Lashley was talked about for months prior, so when he finally debuted it wasn’t a huge surprise.
Ryback points out that fans can’t control themselves so they read spoilers, then when WWE does what the spoilers suggested the fans get angry and call the product “predictable”. Ryback notes that WWE should consider confiscating cell phones at television tapings so fans will be forced to watch the show. They wouldn’t be able to tweet out spoilers because there phones would be kept in ziplock bags and returned at the end of the show.
