The former WWE Superstar Ryback has started his own podcast, named Conversation with the Big Guy. In the recent episode, he stated that he decided to leave the company due to the limited creative plans for him :
"Me and Hunter had many conversations in that last year and they were quite heated at times. And I would tell him, 'it's not about the money' and he goes, 'it sounds like it's completely about the money'. No, and he finally understood when we were finally done with our last talk. It was about creative and it was about limiting me as a brand because I am responsible for my brand, the Ryback brand, the Feed Me More brand, that I believe so strongly in.
And when I'm told that I have to go out there and lose in two minutes or not have any buildup for a pay-per-view match, which happened time and time again, when I'm not given opportunities to do promos and be myself, that's what truly bothers me."
The former Intercontinental Champion claimed that Vince McMahon made a lot of fake promises to him :
"When I had that new contract offered to me by Vince, I'd been lied to at different times throughout my career there and that was something - I'd always been very loyal to them and I've given them everything that I've had at every moment.
I think it's just booking stuff and opportunities and just different situations. The particular thing I was lied to about after we came to terms on the money, which wasn't about the money.
It was about being lied to and the commitment and the things in the past with merchandise and things that we'll talk about. And he told me, essentially, that he was going to make me his number one heel [and] he was going to put the title on me.
All I had to do was listen to him, read his promos word-for-word, and he would take me to the motherland, [were] his exact words."
Ryback wasn’t delighted regarding his involvement in the United States Championship picture. Being booked in pre-show matches of the pay-per-views infuriated him. He made up his mind to leave the most popular wrestling promotion in the world when he came to know about the creative plans during the post-Payback RAW :
"I got there that day and I saw the direction we were going for the TV after having the pay-per-view match that we had. And so, now I felt like we were just going to run me into the ground before I left and get me as low as we possibly get me. We've seen them do it with guys and the booking that I saw for that day was 'you are a piece of s--t and we're going to tell these people that you're a piece of s--t'. And you know what? I'm not a piece of s--t. I'm not.
And I'm done being walked on, living in fear, and that was the day I told [Mark] Carrano, 'take me off this f--king TV show. I'm done.' I never saw Vince. I didn't want to see him. I'd had too many conversations with him where he lied to me.”
