Editor’s note: The following is an excerpt from an interview now posted on http://xfinity.comcast.net. Zack Ryder spoke with Gordon Holmes for his TV Blog.
It was the feel-good story of 2011. In a last-ditch effort to save his job, Zack Ryder, the long-forgotten, fist-pumping bro from Long Island had turned his tiny YouTube show into an Internet sensation. He rode that wave of popularity to a thunderous ovation at the Survivor Series and a United States Title victory over Dolph Ziggler at TLC.