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Post by Evil Abed on Jan 28, 2024 15:15:24 GMT -5
Man... I have to be honest, because of the Rock, my initial thought is they want Cody to lose again at Mania. And I think people are going to be so pissed if that happens. It's not hard to imagine. If they want Rock vs Reigns at SummerSlam, you're not taking the title off Reigns. If they want Reigns to pass the Hogan record, because when are they ever going to get this close with someone ever again, they're not taking the title off of Reigns. You can give Cody MITB. BUT I think that's a mistake for Cody's character. Even though that would be redemption for Cody since they gave his MITB win to Damien Sandow, for some unGodly reason. This is all so conflicting. Listen, if Rock never opens his mouth, if Rock never challenges Roman, none of this is an issue. Cody wins the Rumble, Punk wins the EC, they main event Night 1 and 2, and we're all ignorantly happy. But because the Rock challenged Roman, we're all kind of wondering how the hell that factors into this situation. That's unfair to Cody. It's super unfair to Cody. So for his sake, I hope it's all straight forward from here through Mania. Punk vs Rollins night 1. Cody vs Reigns night 2, and Cody wins. We all get to move forward. Then they can do Rock vs Reigns without the title and Rock has all this ammunition because Reigns doesn't get to brag about being champion. Plus, they're both part time and it puts them under no pressure to pin down SummerSlam or Mania or Saudi, whenever, to do that match. I'm just not sure how much of that is wishful thinking vs reality, though. Because ultimately, Reigns vs Rock is THE big money match, and they're going to do it if they have it, which is the part of me that thinks Reigns keeps going at Mania. I might be in the minority but the bigger match to me is Rock/Roman without the title. Fully opens up possibility for an 'anyone can win' situation. Otherwise as you said the whole thing seems counter-intuitive. Cody's momentum is killed, we're stuck with an even longer boring title run with Roman, and Rock still isnt going to beat Roman for the title so whats the point? Surely we're not doing this JUST to kill Hogans title run. So everyone needs to be smart. Roman is part time, Rock is non existant. Cody (whether people like it or not) is going to carry the company for years to come.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Jan 28, 2024 15:23:42 GMT -5
They've got an easy out. Rock is on the board now so they can always use it as a callback in the program down the road.
Not a single Rocky chant at the Rumble or and TV shows lately. Rock came in, did his same old tired stuff, dropped a teaser and left. That's what he always does. Comes in and gets himself over and leaves.
They've been trying to do the match since 2022 and it hasn't happened yet. If dude cared that much it would've taken place in Hollywood. That was the time and they missed the boat. Instead they had the top babyface in professional wrestling lose and it sucked the life out of the stadium and the following night damn near sucked the life out of WWE. Do the right thing and crown the next top guy.
Hopefully Triple H is smart enough to know what's truly best for business and not just what's best for slightly better media coverage and headlines for a couple weeks.
If they want the match bad enough do it later. If Roman still needs the title to fight Rock then he's not the star he's presented to be.
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Post by J-MANN on Jan 28, 2024 15:30:26 GMT -5
They've got an easy out. Rock is on the board now so they can always use it as a callback in the program down the road. Not a single Rocky chant at the Rumble or and TV shows lately. Rock came in, did his same old tired stuff, dropped a teaser and left. That's what he always does. Comes in and gets himself over and leaves. They've been trying to do the match since 2022 and it hasn't happened yet. If dude cared that much it would've taken place in Hollywood. That was the time and they missed the boat. Instead they had the top babyface in professional wrestling lose and it sucked the life out of the stadium and the following night damn near sucked the life out of WWE. Do the right thing and crown the next top guy. Hopefully Triple H is smart enough to know what's truly best for business and not just what's best for slightly better media coverage and headlines for a couple weeks. If they want the match bad enough do it later. If Roman still needs the title to fight Rock then he's not the star he's presented to be. I can’t like this enough. I really feel that Triple nose knows what’s best for business.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Jan 28, 2024 15:30:55 GMT -5
They've got an easy out. Rock is on the board now so they can always use it as a callback in the program down the road. Not a single Rocky chant at the Rumble or and TV shows lately. Rock came in, did his same old tired stuff, dropped a teaser and left. That's what he always does. Comes in and gets himself over and leaves. They've been trying to do the match since 2022 and it hasn't happened yet. If dude cared that much it would've taken place in Hollywood. That was the time and they missed the boat. Instead they had the top babyface in professional wrestling lose and it sucked the life out of the stadium and the following night damn near sucked the life out of WWE. Do the right thing and crown the next top guy. Hopefully Triple H is smart enough to know what's truly best for business and not just what's best for slightly better media coverage and headlines for a couple weeks. If they want the match bad enough do it later. If Roman still needs the title to fight Rock then he's not the star he's presented to be. I can’t like this enough. I really feel that Triple nose knows what’s best for business. The game nose what he's doing. I hope.
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Post by J-MANN on Jan 28, 2024 15:33:32 GMT -5
I can’t like this enough. I really feel that Triple nose knows what’s best for business. The game nose what he's doing. I hope. We will know in a couple months.
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Post by Ohtimate Wahriah on Jan 28, 2024 15:41:18 GMT -5
I think Rock Roman works as a battle for the Head of the Table & doesn’t necessarily need to happen for the belt. I think of it like Warrior/Savage at 7 or Jeff/Matt at 25. WWE really does look at the belt as a reason to have a match so anytime they have a personal problem, they feel it doesn’t need the belt.
Ironically, the biggest example of a time this wasn’t the case was possibly the biggest match of all time, Rock/Austin at X7 where they had a perfect story over the title and decided to throw Debra into the fued for absolutely no reason.
But it seems like when they have a personal issue, they don’t make the match about the title.
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Jan 28, 2024 15:46:10 GMT -5
The game nose what he's doing. I hope. We will know in a couple months. We ate sht for a year. I really don't wanna do it again.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 28, 2024 15:51:31 GMT -5
Ate crap? Did Cody even lose a feud this year? 🤣🤣
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Post by Back to the Codyverse on Jan 28, 2024 16:07:12 GMT -5
Ate crap? Did Cody even lose a feud this year? 🤣🤣 You should listen to Cody's opening part of the press conference. Pretty self explanatory.
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Post by rkmo: Just a Fact of Life on Jan 28, 2024 17:21:06 GMT -5
Cage Match if this happens at Mania? Big spot of Codes doing his moonsault.
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Post by finnbalor1 on Jan 28, 2024 18:39:29 GMT -5
I love Grumpyoldman hate for Cody and PJ hate towards Punk. Two of the nicest guys I've seen on here and their hatred for those two guys might be the best feuds this board has had in their history lol
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Post by PJ on Jan 28, 2024 18:48:30 GMT -5
Am I in a feud?! Alrighty then.
True I am not a fan of Phil the man. But I had no problem with the CM Punk character 10 years ago. But he’s not the CM Punk from 10 years ago. He’s not even close to that caliber anymore. So I am just not understanding the love the character is getting now because he’s not that guy.
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Post by J-MANN on Jan 28, 2024 18:52:01 GMT -5
Am I in a feud?! Alrighty then. True I am not a fan of Phil the man. But I had no problem with the CM Punk character 10 years ago. But he’s not the CM Punk from 10 years ago. He’s not even close to that caliber anymore. So I am just not understanding the love the character is getting now because he’s not that guy. He’s not that guy, pal.
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Post by GreyHaze:Big Bad Booty Daddy on Jan 28, 2024 19:51:14 GMT -5
I can’t like this enough. I really feel that Triple nose knows what’s best for business. The game nose what he's doing. I hope. The game does have a big nose
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Post by Grumpyoldman on Jan 28, 2024 20:07:05 GMT -5
I love Grumpyoldman hate for Cody and PJ hate towards Punk. Two of the nicest guys I've seen on here and their hatred for those two guys might be the best feuds this board has had in their history lol I shouldn't let it bother me so much, but it does. I don't like him or LA Knight, and it pisses me off that people do. They are to wrestling what Blink 182 & Sum 41 are to punk music. I can't stand what wrestling has become in the past 20 years.
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Post by PJ on Jan 28, 2024 20:13:33 GMT -5
I love Grumpyoldman hate for Cody and PJ hate towards Punk. Two of the nicest guys I've seen on here and their hatred for those two guys might be the best feuds this board has had in their history lol I shouldn't let it bother me so much, but it does. I don't like him or LA Knight, and it pisses me off that people do. They are to wrestling what Blink 182 & Sum 41 are to punk music. I can't stand what wrestling has become in the past 20 years. That’s another one I don’t get the appeal of. YEAH!
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Post by finnbalor1 on Jan 28, 2024 21:42:55 GMT -5
Love me some Cody but Punk is a different story for me too. Was a big fan of his early career but didn't see anything he did in AEW anything to write home about and last night was pretty embarrassing imo. People thinking he should be the guy to take down Roman is absolutely hilarious to me
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Post by JokerFC on Jan 28, 2024 22:45:10 GMT -5
Am I in a feud?! Alrighty then. True I am not a fan of Phil the man. But I had no problem with the CM Punk character 10 years ago. But he’s not the CM Punk from 10 years ago. He’s not even close to that caliber anymore. So I am just not understanding the love the character is getting now because he’s not that guy. Correct...He needs to hit the gym & get his cardio sorted out...the state of him last night 🤯 Ditto for the Rock chewing air after a people's elbow on Mahal. Flabbergasted people think HHH will have him headline WM vs Reigns
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Post by BØRNS on Jan 29, 2024 0:30:26 GMT -5
Am I in a feud?! Alrighty then. True I am not a fan of Phil the man. But I had no problem with the CM Punk character 10 years ago. But he’s not the CM Punk from 10 years ago. He’s not even close to that caliber anymore. So I am just not understanding the love the character is getting now because he’s not that guy. Correct...He needs to hit the gym & get his cardio sorted out...the state of him last night 🤯 Ditto for the Rock chewing air after a people's elbow on Mahal. Flabbergasted people think HHH will have him headline WM vs Reigns It's amazing Rock could be in such "great shape" and not seem to have 10 seconds of endurance to run across the ring. Those roids must finally be catching up to him, gotta be on Ozempic, too at that age.
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Post by ASR (therockisback) on Jan 29, 2024 7:02:29 GMT -5
Am I in a feud?! Alrighty then. True I am not a fan of Phil the man. But I had no problem with the CM Punk character 10 years ago. But he’s not the CM Punk from 10 years ago. He’s not even close to that caliber anymore. So I am just not understanding the love the character is getting now because he’s not that guy. Correct...He needs to hit the gym & get his cardio sorted out...the state of him last night 🤯 Ditto for the Rock chewing air after a people's elbow on Mahal. Flabbergasted people think HHH will have him headline WM vs Reigns Rock & Punk gotta hit cardio together lol
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