The Rollercoaster Award
Our Winner: Zack Ryder
Zack Ryder won the WWE Intercontinental Championship at Wrestlemania 32 in the ladder match against Kevin Owens, Sami Zayn, the Miz, Stardust, Dolph Ziggler and Sin Cara.
It was an awesome moment for Ryder and he looked to be getting a big push after the incredible Wrestlemania moment!
That didn’t turn out to be the case. Ryder lost the title less than 24 hour later to the Miz on RAW. Ryder slipped back into obscurity, proving that his title win was used for the moment and nothing else.
After falling back down the card, Ryder went back to teaming with Mojo Rawley in the “Hype Bros”. The team was doing well, being featured on Smackdown Live almost every week in the tag team division.
Ryder won a battle royal to earn the “Hype Bros” a chance at the Smackdown tag team titles. During the match, Ryder injured his knee and had to get surgery the very next day. He will likely be out for a good chunk of 2017.
Talk about a rollercoaster of a year…
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What happened to Ambrose at WrestleMania was a travesty. He busted his butt to promote that match and got stuck with an opponent that didn’t want to work with him and didn’t want to do anything but the bare minimum. If Ambrose had been working with anyone else but Lesnar, that match would’ve more than lived up to the hype.
That’s because Lesnar sucks!!! I am glad Goldberg beat his a$$ and now they can both disappear and go away and let the wrestlers who want to work go!! Concussing Randy Orton and refusing to work with Dean Ambrose…SMH Lesnar!
Lesnar is the worst kind of part timer, he gets paid no matter what so there’s no incentive for him to put forth any effort or do what the company wants if he doesn’t feel like it. It’s galling to think that Ambrose worked so hard and got nothing out of it. If it had been anyone else, Ambrose would’ve looked like the star he is, instead he was made to look like a loser because his opponent didn’t want to work with him.