World Wrestling Entertainment's Ryback Is Totally Right About The Internet

Although he said it to troll his audience, what WWE's Ryback has to say about the Internet is very profound.

I am a pro wrestling fan. I’ve been one since March 20th, 1994. That’s almost twenty-years-ago. I’m such a big fan that you can often find me hanging around Reddit’s r/SquaredCircle, submitting stuff and commenting on the latest news and gossip.

Why is this relevant? Well, for a lot of reasons. But the important one is that pro wrestling as an industry has this really weird relationship with the Internet. One that, if studied, can provide insight for the rest of us who’s job it is to get people to care about our products.

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