WWE RAW: Why Mason Ryan Will Be the Next U.S. Champion

When you are 29 years old, stand 6'5" and weigh close to 300 pounds, you will probably get noticed in the pro wrestling scene. When you reside from Wales, WWE practically will drool over you. Mason Ryan is everything that WWE wants from a superstar. He is big, relatively young and gives the company another superstar from a European country. If Ryan had good mic skills and a decent moveset, he would probably be a champion already and fans would be clamoring for him to be in the world title hunt. Instead, Ryan is just a running joke for being a Batista doppleganger.

Ryan ran throught Florida Championship Wrestling and was bypassed from a season of NXT. Instead, Ryan debuted on the January 17 episode of RAW, purposely hitting CM Punk to have Punk win the match. Ryan would align with Nexus for the next few months, but would be injured when the faction randomly disappeared. Ryan faced Evan Bourne at RAW's Power to the People episode, even though there were some apparent issues with fan voting. That following weekend, Ryan would be injured at a house show and be out of a WWE ring until September 8, when he defeated JTG in a return match on Superstars.

His RAW re-debut would come later that month, when Ryan was the partner of Dolph Ziggler and Jack Swagger in a six-man tag match. With that being said, Ryan came out and attacked Swagger and the United States Champion. Last month, Ryan had a match with Ziggler and defeated him on RAW. Even though Zack Ryder is the guy getting title shots against Ziggler, the tide will slowly change to Mason Ryan.

Ryan is a big-time talent that, if handled the correct way, can be a fine United States Champion. His personality is yet to truly shine through, but when has that ever stopped WWE from giving someone a championship? There was once a plant at a show in Italy who became Intercontinental Champion. We now know him as Santino Marella. There was also a big man with little personality that was supported by fans in his reign with the Intercontinental Championship. That was Ezekiel Jackson and, even though we rarely see him or know much about his personality, he was a champion.

Mason Ryan can certainly be that big body that hasn't been seen since the likes of Sheamus and Bobby Lashley, who both had reigns that lasted for under 50 days. Nobody is predicting Mason Ryan to be a long-time champion, but the title will look good on him and his reign won't have to be long. Assuming that Ziggler is already busy at Survivor Series, and WWE won't give a first-time title to such a green superstar, Ryan can still get his first United States Championship in 2011.

If Ryan faces Ziggler at WWE TLC, the pay-per-view following Survivor Series, Ryan can win the United States Championship in a violent match that frees up Ziggler for Royal Rumble aspirations. It would halt Ziggler's reign at 182 days, just one day shy of the 183 days by Harley Race, the first-ever United States Champion in history. Ryan's seven weeks or less as champion would end in the beginning of February, well before Elimination Chamber, let alone WrestleMania.

Then again, WWE is currently in Europe on tour. Could Ziggler drop the title to Ryan closer to Ryan's home turf? What do you guys think? Should Mason Ryan be a United States Champion soon? If so, when should he be awarded the title?