Ryback was the man who carried the torch of the WWE Intercontinental Championship after Daniel Bryan let it go in 2015.
With Daniel Bryan recently cleared to compete again, the former WWE Superstar Ryback was able to offer some unique insight on the situation. He said that he's personally spoken to Bryan, and shared his thoughts on the comeback while appearing on the Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast.
“I am very happy for him. I saw him back at Rusev's wedding last year and we were talking and it was when he had returned (I believe) he was on TV as an on air role at that time but I could see that it wasn't fulfilling to him because he didn't have that outlet to perform and he didn't have that physical aspect of it. You've got to understand that when you wrestle and he wrestled for a majority of his life and I could tell you first hand that especially for myself having to back off a bit this last year that it is extremely and mentally difficult when you are used to making money with your body and being told you can't do something is extremely taxing on the human mind. For him to have to still be in that environment, granted not as much as he was but to still show up to TV every week and to watch all these guys he came up with getting their opportunity to perform and not being able to do that is extremely frustrating. I felt for him deeply because I knew how bad he wanted to wrestle."
“It is really cool to see him get another chance because he was so hot when it all got taken away and I was there for that and I witnessed that on different occasions where he went through the different injuries up there and overcame them. So to see him return, I'd like to see him take it easy for a little bit and he seems to have thrown himself back into the mix full steam by taking an apron power bomb and doing those God damn dropkicks where he lands on his head but I would have liked to have seen him ease back in but I guess if you are going to go and he only knows one speed and that is why everybody loves him."
You can hear the full podcast at this link. Thanks to Chad and John for the transcript.
