A better timeline

This sounds like you enjoy having bad thoughts…Though yeah, I get that 😅

I think adam is actually one of the watchers hes the stan lee of wrestling he can see into the multiverse and what could of been

Goin' through it rn hahah

Same

What makes you say that??

You might be right. 😭

Wait till you find out who his brother is😮

No

Good call... If cody cries then it must be true😂

My dad about to pass at 58 just lost my mom at 64..shits sad, dont smoke cigarettes kids.

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Yeah 😓

Cody would've still been an acceptable surprise at 30. This isn't like Rey Mysterio coming out at 30 in 2014 (as someone with no story warranting a win, taking the potential place of someone else with a very clear story warranting a win).

I think it was to drum up as much interest as possible in the show. Because by announcing Cody in advance, you can now slap his face on all the posters and promotional materials. Announcing that the Rumble is the return of Cody Rhodes helps boost ticket sales.

@@Viper017 even if you want to announce his return, you don't have to bring him in at 30 or announce what number he's got. That turns him from a character to support into just a corporate prop. That's taking an organically over babyface and turning him into the most hated version of Roman Reigns.

@@Viper017 why put him at 30 though, hell if he was in any position under 15 it would be even better because then they can advertise that he's gonna be there for a significant amount of the rumble

They should have had Cody come out at #29: Build that suspense before crushing everyone's dreams by having Logan Paul come out at #30. Nuclear heat the WWE want to have on him anyway, and they can play it off as the plan all along when Sami turns face and gets his match on the road to Wrestlemania.

its fanfiction by a failed wrestling promoter of a bankrupt wrestling promotion.

​@blitzofchaosgaming6737 it sure is, and it's better than what WWE have done so far

@@jacohenn42 The problem is Adam said he would have booked Drew to beat Roman at Clash at the Castle. He doesn't build the story, he just violates the copyright to make himself look smart by changing the ending and never in a way that matches his previous fan fiction. He doesn't do any of the world building. When he attempted to do world building, he totally and utterly failed.

@@blitzofchaosgaming6737 why would they have to match? They're separate bookings lol

tbh they almost fucked it with the rock. they got bullied into doing it right

​@@peanut224it honestly doesn't seem that simple to me, it seems like they threw the Rock and to try and see how fans would react to it, to see if people actually wanted Cody in the main event (plus I mean, they didn't claim that this was always the plan so I'm inclined to think that it is, because when WWE claims that something they didn't want to do was always the plan it usually isn't the plan, and vice versa

it's so easy I don't understand why wwe always gets it wrong

The Rumble match and buildup to Mania from the Rumble need rebooking to make it better

​@@SimplyAlex312 winning from 1/2/3 has been overdone so much, it needs not to happen for at least 10 years

My thoughts exactly have Cody beat Roman and he could've have still do the Brock lesnar stuff and you could still do the bloodline civil war story but Roman would have a legitimate reason to be mad at the Usos

Face Cody. Heel Cody is what the AEW fans loved from NJPW. They didn't want cornball cringe Cody.

​@@kimchi2780also cody had way too much power in aew

I say stretch it to mania. In this months case have dom beat cody via Brock. Really hammer home that Cody had the worst year of his career, and let him be sarcastic about losing to Dominik in the records, stuff like that makes him funny and relatable. Put him in the rumble at #1, and have him lose to Gunther who enters at #30, shades of the previous year. At that point you have Cody do the Shawn Michaels undertaker rematch story but with Roman ofc. Wether he wins the chamber or forces Roman’s hand, he gets the match. If you have him win the rumble again he’ll be at risk of being booed.

@@kenadamsbusinessfirm2435 I would agree with you. I just don’t have faith in WWE to tell a story like that with Vince at the helm who can’t help himself. 40 years of evidence shows he isn’t willing to put over someone who’s not “one of his guys” unless they’re battering Shane at Mania. Even then Shane got way too much offense against AJ. I think Cody got hustled personally. Him leaving really undermined AEW’s image and WWE knew that. Do enough to prove your point, hurt AEW’s ratings, then bury the bastard. Have him riding high until you get to embarrass him at the biggest stage.

​@@Bman32x Drew didn't become a star HERE either, yet he went over Vince's favourite Brock in the main event of Mania. Cody just like Drew at the end is a WWE home grown talent, that's a big plus. Someone like AJ styles who was neither a home grown talent or became a star HERE was given gold after gold after gold in WWE, even a year long WWE title run by Vince. So it's not that hard to see if they didn't want to just hand everything to Cody at once instead of making his chase for the world title actually with some obstacles.

@@elamcyrilyou’re talking about “the chosen one” who just didn’t have the beef body he has now?

@@Bman32x I talked about AJ styles too who didn't have a need body & was an outside groomed talent, yet Vince gave him a lot, that too in less amount of time after he joined them.

It's not that the timing for his terrorist attack was awful. It's that launching a terrorist attack after insisting that he wasn't s terrorist made no sense at all. If anything, he should have gotten framed for the attack! That sounds like a Triple H-level plan, frankly.

Hassan is a heat magnet, everyone he faces suddenly become the biggest face in the company but truth be told,like how hassan said,if hassan gimmick is in today era, he would be cheered the heck out

You don’t think WWE has acknowledged that there is more than one royal family? That was half of the wrestlmania build. Every other Cody promo is about his family. The things you wanted happened. He just lost to Roman.

@@DaPrince135 more than one ROYAL family implies that another family can be CROWNED. The point isn't made without the title change.

@@rabbijoe316 To you. Yes I agree

Plus use of lead pipes, tournaments, super/avalanche finishers, person returns but initially doesn't speak, wrestlers can't make physical contact till the big match, masked men attacks, low blow finishes, etc

​@@Grizzexploderthats fantasy booking and why it should be kept away from the real bookers.

@@Grizzexploder ok but tournaments are fun

Well, it is. Story, charisma and mic work is always better.

Or another idea; when Solo Sikoa goes out to interfere, someone else goes out there to help Cody, like Bron Breakker, a fellow wrestler from a famous family, Cody wins, Bron then turns heel by attacking Cody after the match and that's the next feud, NXT champion vs World champion.

I was always confused why Cody entered the Rumble at 30 tbh, it would've been nicer to sell his comeback with a pseudo iron man performance from like number 5 or 10, maybe recreate Austin's first rumble win with WWE leaving him alone in the ring multiple times to confirm to the fans "this is the guy right?"

I also imagine there probably WAS meant to be an adversity arch prior to Cody getting injured

@@noname-hf9tyit did feel a bit like whatever direction they were doing got a hard detour in December. The rise of Sami Zayn, Vince coming back and I can’t be convinced he didn’t interfere creatively.

The issue I take with his "lack of adversity" is the fact his WHOLE career up to his return at Mania WAS the adversity. A solid workhorse born into a family of them that Vince never let get anywhere because NWA and such turned into a joke just like his father until eventually leaving. Making his way up the ranks on the indies trying to establish himself as someone that CAN carry a company on his back even starting a rival promotion but eventually going back to win the title his father never was allowed to. That is the most outside-the-ring adversity you could possibly get.

​@@switchblade6they couldn't cope with the adversity being the story of him being somewhere else. It has to be a story build wholly in WWE, or it didn't happen

He's so crap, I don't like him at all

I need him to win AND have a good title reign. I don't need a thousand days of gaslighting and family drama but I do need a good, solid "ima face all challengers" run with a bunch of bangers

​@@Lynch2507true that, just let him cook for awhile and put on 15-30 minute great matches

Jey needs to win it Cody has no business with the bloodline storyline and his story is cringy and stupid

@@willg1088 they should've put jey in mitb, have Cody win the title at like SummerSlam, Jey Cashes in, and then later on down the line roman finally challenges Jey for the title, flipping the script from 2020

The Bork Lazer book was awesome lol

Agreed. I think even just a week early would be plenty of bonus time for the Patreon.

I think what they have now is OK as long as they choose their subjects carefully. The timing of this one was a bit... unfortunate.

Fr I caught myself going "that's actually what happened" about the Bloodline parts like three times

Because WWE did it better?

Debatable. People only liked it cause Rock went heel and then they threw Cena and Taker into it as well.

Hulk Hogan, Shawn Michaels and Steve Austin have all won back-to-back Rumbles.

HBK won 95,96 Austin won 97,98

If Cody vs Roman II is still on the table, Cody would 100% win next year's rumble but as the first entrant this time.

@@valeriewithsalt I wouldn’t mind it, but personally I think Gunther should win the Rumble next year and challenge Cody.

Why not? Mans has taken quite a many bumps in his career, and the Cross Rhodes is one of those finishers that probably damages Cody more than the opponent lol.

He actually has a booking about the smackdown hacker that involves Both of them, I quite enjoyed it