Mr. Artistic guy
Better Off This Way
Yes and no. It's always an extreme risk putting a short build guy really high up on your roster, sometimes it pays tremendous dividend and other times it will prove disastrous, there's rarely middle ground on this matter. Ryback is a big guy that will prove to be very good at what he does as soon as he's locked into a story people care about, but the candle that burns twice as bright burns half as long. Guys like Goldberg, Lesnar, Warrior generally get over huge and then can never get restarted again once they hit a hitch. Once their initial mystique disappears it's very difficult to get them on anything like the same sort of level. Look at Goldberg pre and post streak, Warrior pre and post 92. Ryback is a potentially large cash cow for the WWE if they handle him well, but will only be so for a limited time.
But Ryback is different from all of the guys mentioned. Lesnar never really loved wrestling, he knew with his ability and build he could move into things he enjoyed more and thus did. Lesnar was never destined to stay in wrestling. Goldberg was never a wrestling fan either and had no issue staying away from the business when he did, and still not to this day. Warrior was more of a fan, but not as big a fan of himself and he couldn't put aside his issues for the things that were more important, such as business. Ryback is, in real life, a wrestling fan through and through. And what that means is that even when they exhaust all of his imminent momentum and his unstoppable schtick begins to bore people, he's going to be around for longer besides; putting people over or merely providing that veteran presence backstage. Whilst the character of Ryback can only exist for a limited amount of time before it loses it's appeal, it will have a few good prosperous years and after which Ryback will still be around long after the Goldbergs or Lesnar have disappeared.
But Ryback is different from all of the guys mentioned. Lesnar never really loved wrestling, he knew with his ability and build he could move into things he enjoyed more and thus did. Lesnar was never destined to stay in wrestling. Goldberg was never a wrestling fan either and had no issue staying away from the business when he did, and still not to this day. Warrior was more of a fan, but not as big a fan of himself and he couldn't put aside his issues for the things that were more important, such as business. Ryback is, in real life, a wrestling fan through and through. And what that means is that even when they exhaust all of his imminent momentum and his unstoppable schtick begins to bore people, he's going to be around for longer besides; putting people over or merely providing that veteran presence backstage. Whilst the character of Ryback can only exist for a limited amount of time before it loses it's appeal, it will have a few good prosperous years and after which Ryback will still be around long after the Goldbergs or Lesnar have disappeared.