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SWAGSUKE

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They need to at least keep him on tv, give him longer matches ffs, and let him be the gatekeeper. His last Rezort promo is one of my favorite of all time, and it's a fucking youtube promo. Built himself up, and honestly would love to see how he would be used anywhere but the WWE. Charismatic, good in ring, but bland because he has had the same gimmick much, much longer than i've even been back watching wrestling.

Push Ryder, IC title on him would be a TON better than this Miz shit. Hell, even the Rusev/Titus shit cannot be seen as anything more than Vinny Mac punishing Titus while for some reason continuing to make sure Rusev doesnt do shit with his belt.
Miz is fire right now with his and Maryse' hilarious promos. That said... he doesn't need the belt. Zack would benefit more from it. I agree on all of that. I'd love to see hella Ruff Ryders off the top rope
 

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Haha, Aids you're cracking me up with your ratings. :)

Let me be clear I'm a huge fan of Zack Ryder and I'm entirely optimistic about his career. He's done nothing but put in WORK to improve himself after his push dwindled before. People in this business live and die on reinventing and improving themselves, and that's all Zack does. He's gonna be just fine. I just like to crack jokes and shit too. :)
 

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They need to at least keep him on tv, give him longer matches ffs, and let him be the gatekeeper. His last Rezort promo is one of my favorite of all time, and it's a fucking youtube promo. Built himself up, and honestly would love to see how he would be used anywhere but the WWE. Charismatic, good in ring, but bland because he has had the same gimmick much, much longer than i've even been back watching wrestling.

Push Ryder, IC title on him would be a TON better than this Miz shit. Hell, even the Rusev/Titus shit cannot be seen as anything more than Vinny Mac punishing Titus while for some reason continuing to make sure Rusev doesnt do shit with his belt.
Don't think you know what gatekeeper means. He'll never be used to keep the houses up, in any capacity. No one spends $50 to see Zack Ryder in the midst of a shitty 3 hour show.

To add to what you're saying though, he needs a place on the card. He, and many others, just drift around the midcard. He should have a specific purpose. I think being the opener is his best place. He should be relied on to get the crowd excited. He's over and is a good wrestler, with a catchy gimmick. Perfect formula for an opener talent, and it isn't a diminishing or embarrassing thing, because all great wrestlers are relied on, at one point or the other, to open and get the crowd hot.
 

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Don't think you know what gatekeeper means. He'll never be used to keep the houses up, in any capacity. No one spends $50 to see Zack Ryder in the midst of a shitty 3 hour show.

To add to what you're saying though, he needs a place on the card. He, and many others, just drift around the midcard. He should have a specific purpose. I think being the opener is his best place. He should be relied on to get the crowd excited. He's over and is a good wrestler, with a catchy gimmick. Perfect formula for an opener talent, and it isn't a diminishing or embarrassing thing, because all great wrestlers are relied on, at one point or the other, to open and get the crowd hot.

Exactly. Opening the show is a lot of responsibility. You gotta get the crowd going.
 

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Well looks like someone has answered your prayers because as of Smackdown this week Ryder got a clean win over Sheamus and may be looking at a US title match at Summerslam.[HASHTAG]#Summerofwoowoowoo[/HASHTAG] ?
 

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- Everlasting explosion of Zack Ryder, has returned!
 

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Ryder seems to be the Ziggler of the lower mid card. Just like nothing came out of Ziggler's huge moment at Survivor Series 14, I doubt anything substantial would come out of this phase of decent-ish booking for Ryder. Both get shots of surprisingly strong booking from time to time only to be thwarted rather quickly.

This was exactly what came to my mind when I saw the match on Monday. It's going to be exactly like Ziggler at the 2014 Survivor Series but on the lower card.

I don't feel strongly about Ryder one way or the other. I would have been fine with him having a longer IC title reign though.
 
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Getting a new theme, as well. Just pushes the idea that Ryder is in-line with a push, coming soon.
 

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The new theme is actually old(ish). It's the downstait cover of his regular theme

 

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He came out to that one on SmackDown, although the "Woo Woo Woo" intro seemed a bit changed. ^ But, I dig it, nonetheless.
 

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Zack beat Sheamus clean and he's got a match with Rusev for the US title... Don't know if he'll win but this is definitely the start of something. He also has that new song! We in LI can be very happy now.
 

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Anything that isn't his song that he made in 2012, is perfectly fine by me. What was it, "Bros before Hos" or something, but it was horrendous. And this is coming from the guy who wanted the wig, head band and glasses get up they were selling for a while.
 
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He is a good MC talent. Good on mic, not bad in ring, has charisma and great interaction with fans. Instead of guys like Titus, Swagger, Darren Young he deserves push time to time.