On a recent episode of his Conversation With the Big Guy podcast. Ryback doled out some praise for “The A-Lister”. The Big guy talked on why WWE may have released Emma, Summer Rae and Darren Young. We noted that Emma, Summer Rae and Darren Young got released from WWE last month.
Ryback also talked on the recent string of superstars released from the WWE. The list includes Emma, Darren Young and Summer Rae. He said Young’s firing in particular saddened him a bit because he and Young came up together in the Nexus.
“Darren Young, I have known for a long, long time, and he loves professional wrestling”. “That was the one for me–being a former Nexus, we all came in together, and I just know how much he loves wrestling, so that one really affected me. I know he’s had a couple of injuries, everyone gets injured up there, but he could have contributed much more had he been allowed to. He had done a lot of PR work for them and was always grateful for everything he had, and he was the kind of guy that didn’t get a lot of TV opportunities.”
Young was the first openly-gay superstar to wrestle in the WWE. Ryback said Young’s sexuality didn’t have an affect on his status with the company and it’s possible he’ll continue working for them in a different capacity.
Ryback said he got along with Summer Rae and he thinks she will be fine because of her endeavors outside of the WWE.
“With Summer Rae I’m not sure what the deal was. She hadn’t been on television for a while,” he said. “I always got along great with Summer Rae, I’m not there but I don’t know what the situation was with that, but I’m sure she will be fine. She had other things going on besides wrestling.”
Ryback said Emma’s use of social media might have been her undoing. Where as superstars like Kevin Owens and Baron Corbin play up their heel characters on social media, Emma would criticize creative and that didn’t fly with the WWE.
“With Emma, I know a lot of people thought it was weird because she had a competitive match with Asuka at the pay per view and on Raw,” he said. “I’m sure she’s had good matches on live events as well, but she just wasn’t used on TV in a good fashion; not to say, apparently with Emma supposedly with social media—if you do stuff out of the company guidelines and when you Tweet things about not being used the right way, or about your booking or creative, things like that when you don’t do yourself any favors, just go talk to them if you are not tweeting.”
