And yeah, the biggest difference between Ryder and Bryan is that they intended to RELEASE Ryder and he forced them not to. Ryder is CONSTANTLY gonna have to keep winning them over with merch sales and fan chants to justify his continued employment for awhile.
Bryan is someone who they intended to be at least a career midcarder with no plans to ever let him go. They may want to depush him down to IC/US level at some point but it's not like him getting over is not in their plans. He just got over as the wrong alignment. <_<
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Thank you, Eddie Guerrero.
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