During the latest episode of “Conversations With The Big Guy”, Ryback discussed the sudden de-push of Cedric Alexander. Ryback speculated that the de-push may be the result of Cedric complaining about money and compared the current situation to his own experiences with the WWE. Here is what he had to say:

My last two matches there, and I talk about everything in detail on this where it’s supposed to be me and Vince have a handshake agreement with me winning the world title, signing the new contract, doing the heel turn and going all the way with it and it paying off. That was part of our handshake agreement with all of that and then with the contract with all of my trademarks that they wanted me to sign off on that I didn’t want to do, we started butting heads and I got moved to the preshow. Went from supposedly winning the world championship to now the US title, didn’t sign the contract so then I put over Kalisto off of the main card at WrestleMania now on the preshow. I had received some backlash from the small portion of fans calling me a bulls****er and a liar, but no, I have been truthful from the beginning.

This is another example with Cedric Alexander, who supposedly they had big plans for, Paul Heyman liked him and wanted to do something with him. All it could have taken was for Cedric Alexander to ask one wrong question in the back regarding pay, just so everyone understands. I am not saying that this happened, but he may have asked one thing about him and they were not happy about him inquiring about it.

Maybe, it was a payout for a live event so then they’ll be like, oh, we have to show him and then they will do something like this, which nobody on the outside can understand. Wait, this is crazy, Vince McMahon soured on him? Vince probably didn’t sour on him, it was [Director of Talent Relations] Mark Carrano and he asked something about a payout and it’s like, this guy is asking questions and so we have to show him who is boss. That will typically shut talent up because they know that they are scared because they know that their pay is going to start going down and they are going to start getting jobbed out and their equity goes down and they become disposable. So, that is a way to control talent, that is just one example, that may not have happened, could have been where they just didn’t want to push him anymore. But typically, I have seen this time and time again with people where they will crack the whip to give someone an ego check, and it’s not even an ego check. It’s just, the guy may have gotten paid $500 for a live event he main evented; it should have been $2,000.

So, this is the inner workings that go on over there and how screwed up it is and how talent are handcuffed. You have to be really careful how much you speak up over there until you have a little bit of equity in you.

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