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The Rise and Fall of Zack Ryder
Zack Ryder started a YouTube series, "Z! True Long Island Story", in which he and his friends appeared in mainly comedy skits. He turned himself face with the show and became VERY over with fans despite being a jobber. He quickly became a top merchandise seller, with wigs, t-shirts, headbands and more. To give you an example of how well the show and Ryder caught on with the fans, during one Rock/Cena confrontation segment, the fans ignored two megastars for a moment to chant "WE WANT RYDER".
Ryder gradually started getting more TV time, from backstage cameos to being paired up with John Cena. He also got a spot on Smackdown as the assistant general manager. His push was stronger than ever when he won the United States championship.
Things only got worse from here though. From this point on he was used as fodder in a filler John Cena vs. Kane feud during the wait for WrestleMania. He was also attacked by Kane every single week.
He lost his job as assistant general manager and lost the United States title to Jack Swagger a few weeks after winning it. Swagger proceeded to never appear on Raw until he lost it to Santino Marella, who rarely ever defended it.
Meanwhile, Z! True Long Island Story moved to the WWE channel. Why? Because WWE signed a contract with Youtube to produce 4 shows, 50 episodes each. The sucess of Z! True Long Island story was the main reason for this success. However Zack Ryder was given no storylines and seldom appeared on Raw, never with John Cena. WWE constantly removed and rejected content from True Long Island Story, leaving Zack Ryder to complain about his show having run it's course on Twitter.
In a weird turn, it seemed to be kayfabe that Zack Ryder was the best at battle royals as he won two in a short space of time. The first was to become smackdown general manager for the night, in which he barely did anything (he didn't even book himself) and the second to have a shot at Antonio Cesaro's United States title, in which he was unsuccessful
During most of 2012, Zack took to Twitter to constantly moan and whinge about not being on TV. While having a genuine complaint, he became intensely irritating with this whining and became his own worst enemy.
Z! True Long Island story finished with its hundredth episode. It was also heavily speculated that Zack Ryder would be released due to post election spring cleaning, which doesn't happen.
Nowadays, Ryder is right back where he started. He was last seen teaming with other Jobbers To The Stars Santino Marella and R-Truth against the Three Man Band.
A new episode of Z! True Long Island Story was uploaded, in which Ryder walked out midway through. He stopped taking care and spiking his hair, as well, leading to speculation regarding a possible heel turn.
...Nothing came of it. Eventually he started a second YouTube series, "Last ReZort", which nobody cared about and which ended when WWE told him to knock it off.
The moral of the story? Don't get yourself over without the WWE's help, or the machine will turn on you to keep everyone else dependant on it
2011 in General
Andy Leavine won the new season of Tough Enough, got heat for poorly selling the Stunner and got released less than a year later.
RAW 2011: Starring Michael Tarver as Waldo. Michael Tarver began to re-emerge on RAW following the death of the Nexus, but never in front of the crowd. Instead Tarver began appearing during the backstage segments of other wrestlers, never speaking. Sometimes he'd just be hanging out, sometimes texting, sometimes watching a match. The biggest thing he would do was perhaps react if someone was laid out or dissed. The angle never went anywhere and Tarver was pulled off TV again, this time for good.
Christian won his very first World Heavyweight Championship at Extreme Rules, celebrating the win with Edge, who had recently retired. Returning backstage, Christian was said to have hugged Vince McMahon and thanked him for the opportunity. He lost the title to Randy Orton the Smackdown after the PPV (which was not well-received by the Internet at all) and had all his momentum killed off by a lackluster heel turn in which he constantly demanded one more match before being injured once again.
WWEShop briefly sold a shirt that appeared as if Sin Cara had an erect penis, once again failing to notice it until the Internet had thoroughly mocked them for it. Despite attempts to curtail orders for it once they noticed, a few of the shirts made it into circulation and onto eBay.
some major fukkery yall!
Zack Ryder started a YouTube series, "Z! True Long Island Story", in which he and his friends appeared in mainly comedy skits. He turned himself face with the show and became VERY over with fans despite being a jobber. He quickly became a top merchandise seller, with wigs, t-shirts, headbands and more. To give you an example of how well the show and Ryder caught on with the fans, during one Rock/Cena confrontation segment, the fans ignored two megastars for a moment to chant "WE WANT RYDER".
Ryder gradually started getting more TV time, from backstage cameos to being paired up with John Cena. He also got a spot on Smackdown as the assistant general manager. His push was stronger than ever when he won the United States championship.
Things only got worse from here though. From this point on he was used as fodder in a filler John Cena vs. Kane feud during the wait for WrestleMania. He was also attacked by Kane every single week.
He lost his job as assistant general manager and lost the United States title to Jack Swagger a few weeks after winning it. Swagger proceeded to never appear on Raw until he lost it to Santino Marella, who rarely ever defended it.
Meanwhile, Z! True Long Island Story moved to the WWE channel. Why? Because WWE signed a contract with Youtube to produce 4 shows, 50 episodes each. The sucess of Z! True Long Island story was the main reason for this success. However Zack Ryder was given no storylines and seldom appeared on Raw, never with John Cena. WWE constantly removed and rejected content from True Long Island Story, leaving Zack Ryder to complain about his show having run it's course on Twitter.
In a weird turn, it seemed to be kayfabe that Zack Ryder was the best at battle royals as he won two in a short space of time. The first was to become smackdown general manager for the night, in which he barely did anything (he didn't even book himself) and the second to have a shot at Antonio Cesaro's United States title, in which he was unsuccessful
During most of 2012, Zack took to Twitter to constantly moan and whinge about not being on TV. While having a genuine complaint, he became intensely irritating with this whining and became his own worst enemy.
Z! True Long Island story finished with its hundredth episode. It was also heavily speculated that Zack Ryder would be released due to post election spring cleaning, which doesn't happen.
Nowadays, Ryder is right back where he started. He was last seen teaming with other Jobbers To The Stars Santino Marella and R-Truth against the Three Man Band.
A new episode of Z! True Long Island Story was uploaded, in which Ryder walked out midway through. He stopped taking care and spiking his hair, as well, leading to speculation regarding a possible heel turn.
...Nothing came of it. Eventually he started a second YouTube series, "Last ReZort", which nobody cared about and which ended when WWE told him to knock it off.
The moral of the story? Don't get yourself over without the WWE's help, or the machine will turn on you to keep everyone else dependant on it
2011 in General
Andy Leavine won the new season of Tough Enough, got heat for poorly selling the Stunner and got released less than a year later.
RAW 2011: Starring Michael Tarver as Waldo. Michael Tarver began to re-emerge on RAW following the death of the Nexus, but never in front of the crowd. Instead Tarver began appearing during the backstage segments of other wrestlers, never speaking. Sometimes he'd just be hanging out, sometimes texting, sometimes watching a match. The biggest thing he would do was perhaps react if someone was laid out or dissed. The angle never went anywhere and Tarver was pulled off TV again, this time for good.
Christian won his very first World Heavyweight Championship at Extreme Rules, celebrating the win with Edge, who had recently retired. Returning backstage, Christian was said to have hugged Vince McMahon and thanked him for the opportunity. He lost the title to Randy Orton the Smackdown after the PPV (which was not well-received by the Internet at all) and had all his momentum killed off by a lackluster heel turn in which he constantly demanded one more match before being injured once again.
WWEShop briefly sold a shirt that appeared as if Sin Cara had an erect penis, once again failing to notice it until the Internet had thoroughly mocked them for it. Despite attempts to curtail orders for it once they noticed, a few of the shirts made it into circulation and onto eBay.
some major fukkery yall!
