Vince McMahon apparently wasn't too fond of Ryback's physique during his time with WWE.
On a recent episode of Colt Cabana's "Art of Wrestling" podcast, Ryback (real name Ryan Allen Reeves) revealed his signature singlet look was the result of McMahon thinking he was overweight.
"It's funny because (Vince) was the one that put me in a singlet because he thought I was fat at one point. I have never been fat at any point in my career but this was a real thing," Ryback said, as transcribed by Doric Sam of Wrestling Inc. "Word had gotten back to me that I needed to lose 30 pounds, and this was right before I debuted as Ryback. I was in trunks, but they put me in a black singlet, which made me look like a black Big Show.
"I thought to myself that I had to do something with this, so I got a hold of RVD and asked him if It was cool that I airbrushed my singlet because I had to do something. I had done this the week before and everybody was like, oh that looks good, so I thought, OK, this is going to work."
WWE eventually tried to get Ryback to ditch the singlet for trunks, which he refused to do. He left the company in 2016.
"I responded back that it wasn't happening, and that he can talk to me if he wants to, but I'm wearing my singlet," he said. "I'm in control, I'm not wearing trunks. So, afterwards I started not to trust anything that was going on."