Cody Rhodes Finally Finishing The Story At Wrestlemania 40 Appreciation Thread - WE DID IT BREHS!

[CM_Burns]

Rock as Vince with Cena as Rock and Cody as Austin woulda HIT

 

[Osmosis]

Rock as Vince with Roman as Rock and Cody as Austin will HIT

Fixed

 

[NYChase718]

Cody Rhodes finishing his story started the downfall. The product has been going downhill ever since.

Have vince come back and state this is why he never wanted to put a belt on a rhodes because if hed let dusty finish his story hed have finished his company way back in the 80s and and the only reason he left a couple years ago was out of disgust that cody was the face of the business

 

[DANJ!]

Cody Rhodes finishing his story started the downfall. The product has been going downhill ever since.

Eh... I don't think it has shyt to do with him specifically. It's them folks who own the company now. And even if Cody's win was the beginning, it's a solidified classic moment TBH. Some stuff is a moment in time even if the fallout from it isn't so great.

Warrior winning the title off Hogan is gonna be mentioned forever... even if it was the end of the 1st boom period.

Mania 17 was the greatest Mania, damn near perfect... and by the end of the year they wore our ass out with that Invasion bullshyt.

The Mania 40 shyt was one of them ones... and notably the first time they put a logo in the middle of the ring. Kinda symbolic when you think about it.

I think the "wrestling is cool again/WWE is hot again" feeling from early-2024 led to some overconfidence over there... it feels like they saw it going on and went overboard with a bunch of bullshyt instead of sticking to the plan (which usually is the reason anything stops being hot). At one point last year, they were on air talking about how many sellouts in a row they had and all that- heads got too big. They're nowhere near 1995 or 2007 levels of trash but the only thing right now that I think will get them back into that '22-'24 zone is criticism and declining numbers.

 

[FTBS]

Nobody new stepped up to carry the heel torch. The Roman thing was done and it was time for him to be a face. You had turned Seth for the 5011th time. Had Cena turn heel with the Rock unable to follow through on the angle. You brought back Lesnar again.

Hot periods dont last forever .

 

[R=G]

Nobody new stepped up to carry the heel torch. The Roman thing was done and it was time for him to be a face. You had turned Seth for the 5011th time. Had Cena turn heel with the Rock unable to follow through on the angle. You brought back Lesnar again.

Hot periods dont last forever .

Cena not being good enough to be heel on his own is one of the funniest things ever since hes so praised on mic ability.

 

[FTBS]

Cena not being good enough to be heel on his own is one of the funniest things ever since hes so praised on mic ability.

They didnt do him any favors though. What was his purpose in turning? What was he trying to do? It was a cool moment that had no substance behind it plus nobody was really tryna hate him on his farewell tour. Rock is an all timer on the mic yet when they gave him this rudderless generic Rocky Maivia gimmick his career almost ended before it began. Same with Ringmaster Steve.

 

[R=G]

They didnt do him any favors though. What was his purpose in turning? What was he trying to do? It was a cool moment that had no substance behind it plus nobody was really tryna hate him on his farewell tour. Rock is an all timer on the mic yet when they gave him this rudderless generic Rocky Maivia gimmick his career almost ended before it began. Same with Ringmaster Steve.

Why does he need hand holding and Austin didnt? Bret didnt? Hollywood Rock didnt? Mickie James didn't? Never heard anything like it.

Substance? Its on him to get that over..he's not a rookie. Is he that one dimensional? Because if he is..he's nowhere the top 30 in wrestling history. JBL is better than that and he's a utter non drawing piece of shyt.

Lol@comparing 96 Rock to Cena in his so called "legend" phase. One of the craziest things I've ever seen written on a forum.

 

[Silkk]

Cena the past 8 years is not the same Cena everyone knows that.

He would’ve tore Rock ass up had he done the heel turn in 2012 when he wanted, Shid look no further than



I aint NEVER seen Rock scrambling & scraping like that. Diddy would love it.

 

[FTBS]

Why does he need hand holding and Austin didnt? Bret didnt? Hollywood Rock didnt? Mickie James didn't? Never heard anything like it.

Substance? Its on him to get that over..he's not a rookie. Is he that one dimensional? Because if he is..he's nowhere the top 30 in wrestling history. JBL is better than that and he's a utter non drawing piece of shyt.

Lol@comparing 96 Rock to Cena in his so called "legend" phase. One of the craziest things I've ever seen written on a forum.

They all had a reason for turning that was clear and made sense. What did Cena turn for? Why does it matter? Why should someone care? How does it outrank his impending departure? Speaking of Austin, his heel run in 01 was a abject failure. Was it because of his mic skills or the clusterfukk that was creative at the time?

You got a thing against Cena? Ok. I am not a fan like that. But I think its a bit much to put a poorly booked angle all on his mic skills.

 

[R=G]

Cena the past 8 years is not the same Cena everyone knows that.

He would’ve tore Rock ass up had he done the heel turn in 2012 when he wanted, Shid look no further than



I aint NEVER seen Rock scrambling & scraping like that. Diddy would love it.

But Hollywood Rock owns any version of Cena...took Rock being out of his prime and gone for 7 years for that situation. He was getting owned by Edge, Lita, Carlito, Wade Barrett, the Rebel almost weekly from 09-2011.

 

[R=G]

They all had a reason for turning that was clear and made sense. What did Cena turn for? Why does it matter? Why should someone care? How does it outrank his impending departure? Speaking of Austin, his heel run in 01 was a abject failure. Was it because of his mic skills or the clusterfukk that was creative at the time?

You got a thing against Cena? Ok. I am not a fan like that. But I think its a bit much to put a poorly booked angle all on his mic skills.

What did Cena turn for? Who knows. Did he do a money promo to explain it like Hollywood Rock did in Toronto?? Like Bret the night after WM 13? Thats a bad performer and bad writing. Totally absurd. Amateur stuff. Bush league.

Austin was over as heel when Rock came back 4 months later....fans laughed with him before that against Taker, Angle, Benoit, Jericho, the Hardyz...

Basically knew the other Superman to take down Austin wasn't around so they cheered for him over them.

Thing against cena? Cena is lazy. He always was. All that "im glad you're here even though you boo me every week" bullshyt was weak. It was sorry. It was horrible. It was why Rock was able to come back as savior the first time in 2011. Cena has underperformed and you just noticing it now after this heel turn..what? You wanted the Rock to come out each week and run the show like he did before WM 40 even though Roman was champion? Cena is supposed to be superior to Roman on the mic. Odd mindset.

 

[VegetasHairline]

Cena still cooked Dwayne on the mic!

 

[FTBS]

What did Cena turn for? Who knows. Did he do a money promo to explain it like Hollywood Rock did in Toronto?? Like Bret the night after WM 17? Thats a bad performer and bad writing. Totally absurd. Amateur stuff. Bush league.

Austin was over as heel when Rock came back 4 months later....fans laughed with him before that against Taker, Angle, Benoit, Jericho, the Hardyz...

Basically knew the other Superman to take down Austin wasn't around so they cheered for him over them.

Thing against cena? Cena is lazy. He always was. All that "im glad you're here even though you boo me every week" bullshyt was weak. It was sorry. It was horrible. It was why Rock was able to come back as savior the first time in 2011. Cena has underperformed and you just noticing it now after this heel turn..what? You wanted the Rock to come out each week and run the show like he did before WM 40 even though Roman was champion? Cena is supposed to be superior to Roman on the mic. Odd mindset.

Cena didnt just turn, he turned on the Rocks command. You cant do that and then not have the Rock around anymore. That's piss poor writing and planning. Whats he supposed to say "Dude that aint here made me bad"? If he just turned on his own then yeah its on him to get it over. If they knew Rock wasnt gonna be around you gotta do that another way.


I am not a Cena fan and havent said any of that stuff so I am not sure where the rest of that is coming from.

 

[R=G]

Cena didnt just turn, he turned on the Rocks command. You cant do that and then not have the Rock around anymore. That's piss poor writing and planning. Whats he supposed to say "Dude that aint here made me bad"? If he just turned on his own then yeah its on him to get it over. If they knew Rock wasnt gonna be around you gotta do that another way.


I am not a Cena fan and havent said any of that stuff so I am not sure where the rest of that is coming from.

Ok...piss poor writing. Cripple H...HELLO? Whats up? He wanted all.the credit for the pivot but now the Rock is gonna take the heat for Travis Scott and Cena not knowing how to sell his own heel turn? Hahahaha...what is this nonsense? Insane. Bizarro world type shyt. Cena been at the main event level.since WM 21...WTF...Either he can carry his own weight or not He could of easily referred to selling his soul instead of ragging on fans for 20 years of rejection....just lazy.