Jim Ross Blog: Retirement, Bryan as Champion, Ryback/Paul Heyman

Daniel Bryan winning the WWE Championship: "Bryan is a wrestler's wrestler who has paid his dues and is an exemplary member of the WWE team and locker room. Congrats to him and hopefully he will have a long, productive reign as WWE Champion. Time will obviously tell on that one."

Ryback being a "Paul Heyman Guy": "Ryback aligning himself with Paul Heyman might be the best thing that Ryback has been able to accomplish since getting healthy. If Ryback is to become a major, major player in WWE then @HeymanHustle is the man to help Ryback accomplish such."

His retirement: "I haven't bought a rocking chair just yet in the midst of all this retirement talk. I've retired from WWE....but not from life. I'm being engaged by a variety of 'suitors' who are all presenting some interesting, potential projects to me."