On an episode of Ryback’s podcast, his co-host and adult film star Phoenix Marie talked about not wanting to date people that are super fans of her industry. I can certainly understand Marie not wanting to date a guy that is only with her because he’s watched her pornographic videos.
Similarly, Ryback apparently takes issues with dating women that are wrestling fans and seemed to imply that they have mental issues. Speaking on his podcast, Ryback said “That’s how I feel about a wrestler dating a girl that’s a huge wrestling fan. I don’t know if I would…” Marie said that it would be like “Oh my God, did you watch the match [and] that’s all they would want to talk about.” Ryback continued, “Yea, amongst other things – mental issues. I would just…it would be scary to me.”
Marie seemed to be taken aback by his “mental issues” comment and said even she has watched wrestling. It’s not the first time that he’s made controversial comments about women. Several weeks ago, he talked about women needing to play up their “sexiness” in matches and then there was this post on Snapchat, as well as recently harassing female Twitter employees on their private accounts in an attempt to stop WWE's suppression of his social media accounts.