Ryback Talks Comparisons To Goldberg And Ultimate Warrior

Ryback was recently interviewed by The Two Man Power Trip of Wrestling Podcast. You can check out the full podcast at this link, or check out submitted highlights courtesy of Chad and John below:

Constant comparisons to Ultimate Warrior and Goldberg:

"People are always going to do that and the only thing you can do is go out and live your life and have your career. It is unfortunately that you are going to have people that they're extremely loyal to the people that came before you and I've always said that and I never once tried to go out there and replicate being any of those guys. I have a bald head and I have big traps. They did short matches and I do longer matches but that is the role that they played and I had played that role as well doing the shorter matches but that is just what people like to compare you to in the guys that came before you. In ten or fifth teen years if another guy comes along wearing an air-brushed singlet he might get compared to me. It is just the way that the business is and you can't really get too caught up in that because we are all our own individual person or wrestler at the end of the day and I think the fans that know our styles were completely different, the move sets are completely different and the characters are completely different."

The concept behind the look of Ryback:

"It was Vince's idea for the singlet. I was back doing live events (after) the ankle injury which was horrific and I've talked about that on my podcast to try and get people to understand that I still deal with it to this day. I actually just had the last piece of metal from a plate and five screws that they got out. They had to leave one screw in my foot and couldn't get it out from this doctor that originally botched the surgery that caused the nerve damage. It was not the easiest thing to overcome and I am grateful that I was able to do it but when I came back and was doing live events as Skip Sheffield still, eventually I switched to Ryback and I've talked about this story but Vince thought I was fat when I came back. How he thought I was fat to this day I can't and still don't know but I was in trunks and a part of this is that it is all just a f*cking game and that is the way it is and they wanted me in a black singlet but it looked horrible. I looked like a smaller version of Big Show with just having the bald head and it didn't fit and it was just a plain black singlet. They had the seamstresses make it and I put it on and went into Vince's office with Vince and Triple H and he couldn't have been more thrilled over the black singlet and I just thought it was the absolute sh*ts."

"I remember I got a hold of RVD and got his old airbrush guy initially and through him was able to kind of get the "are you all right if I go this route" and just doing the right thing because he wasn't there at the time and I didn't know if he was ever going to be back and he had no problem with it. It kind of went from there and to me I love the singlet now and wouldn't trade them in for anything."