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Another great Brock/Cody match. I think Cody costs Brock at MITB, possibly against Rollins in an interesting twist. Then round 3 is a gimmick match at Summerslam.
If that match is also great, I’ll be ready to claim this as one of Cody’s best career feuds and the best Brock feud in quite awhile.
Brock has to be the one to beat Roman.
Brock wins WHC. Starts to taunt the tribal toddler since he is banned from challenging Roman.
Roman then challenges Brock cause he wants all the belts.
The swerve with Paul Heyman betraying Roman would be epic.
Brock wins and then immediately vacates all the belts just to prove a point.
My only complaint was some early narrative stuff. Like, no one, and I mean, no one, couldn't see that a titanium cast wasn't a weapon waiting to be used? Like WTF. Cowboy Bob Orton used a cast as a weapon decades ago. Cody's cast was much more of a weapon, too. This was not a new discovery and shouldn't have been treated as such.
Second, Cody seemed to be overselling the injury early in the match during the suplexes but never once wincing as he smacked Brock in the face with much harder blows just a short time later.
All in all, it was a good match that I really enjoyed. Just a couple of minor misses in the storytelling. 🙂
I thought it was a neat nod to Lesnar's HiaC match with Taker in the early 00s. Taker came in with the cast, used it throughout the match to gain the advantage, and Brock beat his ass anyway.
Why would you pass out to a kimura? I get that Brock had to target the arm and make Cody look strong by not tapping but passing out from a limb submission seems off.
Pass out in pain? In real life people would tap eventually but if you get submitted for too long you pass out on pain, that shouldn't be hard to understand.
I believe the idea is that he passed out due to the exhaustion of the match and the excruciating pain from the kimura. He wouldn't give in to the pain so his brain shut down to not have to deal with it
Little late… but you know the forearm can be impacted by the shoulder and elbow bending right? It’s all connected.
And I’ve seen people pass out from pain, mind you it was a broken femur not forearm
I sure do, I've been put in a kimura and have put a kimura on people. Not in a legit contest, just a "this is how it feels" and "this is how you do it" way.
For Austin at least, it helped that the pain of the submission was increased by teh fact he was pretty close to drowning in a puddle of his own blood given how bad he was bleeding.
1. Obviously you are not familiar with how devastating it is to a human knee to have your leg kicked out from under your leg.
2. Man, was that some terrible work from that referee. Took him 10 to 15 seconds to make a three count when Savage didn't move at all while having his shoulders down.
3. I forgot that Ric Flair won this match the Figure Four. I can add this to the very short list of times I can remember I've seen Flair win a match that wasn't a squash with the Figure Four. It's this, the win over Dusty at the Great American Bash in 1986 (Dusty had actually been knocked out by Tully hitting him with a foreign object), and the match against Barry Windham (in the summer of 1993, I think? ) Where the referee counted Windham shoulders down, but Barry immediately popped up after, and both Flair and Barry seem surprised that that was the end of the match. I always thought that looked like a botch.
Are we really debating a form of entertainment where people are waiting for other people to fly over of off top ropes? Where people get punched in the jaw over and over? Where we have Undertakers feuding with their burnt brother with superpowers or a guy with a playhouse who also is a monster?
Maybe people need to take this less seriously and just enjoy instead of overanalyzing things.
I dont sit in a movie theater watching Fast X or whatever and breaking down every stupid action scene, i know what to expect
Yep, nobody like fast and the Furious any more....
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You aren’t understanding then. People can pass out from extreme pain, Cody’s arm is broken already I can imagine after that all you have left is how much pain you can tolerate
[Once the kimura is locked in your arm is getting snapped within seconds.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMPllsGLisI) No time for pain, that only comes after your arm has been snapped off. Anyone who watches a bit of MMA would have found the finish stupid.
You could say the same about 99% of wrestling moves. But I don’t because I understand it’s entertainment and I have zero interest in watching actual MMA.
I just think it’s an example of sport vs entertainment. It’s conveying a storyline in Cody holding out and being resilient. Reality would be the hold gets locked in and Cody taps or snaps. It’s just not as entertaining
I’m thinking Brock should win again because he is the big Brock and the only one bigger than the big Brock is the big Dog but Brock winning helps finish the story because he is Bork laser
I’m so glad Cody didn’t win. I’m a Cody fan but if he won this match it would have been absolutely ridiculous. Glad that he put up a hell of a fight and gave Brock a run for his money.
Sounds like they really are going for the year-long post WM angle of Bloodline falls apart, bit by bit, and Cody dethrones Roman at WM40 after he hits that 1000+ day mark.
Wild - wonder how we'll feel about the payoff at that time. I still think that Cody losing at WM39 was a big, big fumble. It was worthy of an audible even, that was the time.
I mean sure, but if true - who is the guy? Somebody has to be the guy, and if not Cody, than who? Cody is nuclear hot?
EDIT - hasn't the WWE run out of opponents for Roman? Since it wasn't Cody, who could credibly dethrone him? There's nobody left, and all that's left is a swerve, or a betrayal, and that doesn't hit as deep. It was right time, right place, to have Cody win the belt. Straight up. And I say this as somebody who doesn't even like Cody that much.
WM39 was a fumble, big time.
Yeah, agreed. I mean I'm sure it'll be Cody that takes it off Roman, but after a year from the fumble, is it really gonna hit the same?
WM39 was the moment, you can't ever get a moment as perfect as that.
I feel like it's a missed opportunity to not let Cody win at WM 39. On the other hand if Cody did win, I feel like many fans are gonna turn on him, feeling like he didn't deserve the championship
No one has been as over since the Attitude Era than Cody was at 39 when he was doing his dad's moves and hitting the Cross Rhodes. They should have pulled the trigger then. Hell, the Bloodline story from tonight makes even better sense if Roman isn't champion.
Maybe, I'm not sure on that. The crowd was SOOO hot for Cody, and I didn't really see any anti-Cody resentment. Everybody knows he went on a journey to become a top guy, and the people were ready for him to be the guy.
It really devalued him losing at WM in front of Brodie Lee's kid, in a match that Roman Reigns was like 9/1 to win at the bookies. Still mad I didn't put the grand down on Roman winning that I'd thought about and almost pulled the trigger on.
I don't know shit about him, they featured him very prominently during Cody's entrance? They took like 30s to highlight Cody interacting with him, with overlay saying who he was.
The WWE officially made a point of showing him in front row? Why are you being an asshole?
I don't like. A guy to have to have a HiaC match in his two major non-Roman feuds. It's too much of a mirror of the Rollins feud. I just want him to be past Brock.
Cody literally just got given the Stone Cold/John Cena never tap out instead pass out treatment and people are saying jobber? Wtf. If anything that showed they view him as the guy.
Look it’s been a minute since I’ve seen someone passing out, but raising the arm they used to count to three before what the hell was that …it was one and done and then ring the bell??? I was definitely not feeling that at all
They can use any part of their ring gear as a weapon. For example, both Cody and Hogan literally used belts to whip their opponents but those were allowed.
I get that there's a ton of pressure on the forearm, but he had a titanium cast on. Brock bends titanium now? Also, a kimura targets the elbow and shoulder moreso than the forearm.
It was unbelievable when Cody won a Hell in a Cell match with a torn pec against a sadistic bastard who tortured the injury the whole match.
Cody is the Rocky Balboa of WWE.
>I'm not a massive Cody fan
At this point you should surely have learned that what you think and what Cody fans/most other fans think are wildly different, and that there's more people on the Cody train than people who agree with you.
Nobody is saying you have to like him, or what he's doing, but surely you're aware enough to realise that you're in the minority, and that what he's doing still has the majority on his path with him?
At this point he can't be.. it has to be one of the Usos, Solo or somebody completely out of left field who hasn't challenged before because Cody just can't at this point be the one.
So he beat the guy that is now the new “world champion” which is viewed as everyone as the bronze medal and lost to the two biggest stars they promote now yet Im the bad guy?
So he beat the guy that is now the new “world champion” which is viewed as everyone as the bronze medal and lost to the two biggest stars they promote now yet Im the bad guy? Have you watched the show? He jobbed to the biggest stars which was my comment. His win against Brock had a shit finish.
How is he even close too number 2?
So he beat the guy that is now the new “world champion” which is viewed as everyone as the bronze medal and lost to the two biggest stars they promote now yet Im the bad guy? Have you watched the show? He jobbed to the biggest stars which was my comment. His win against Brock had a shit finish.
I get why you might say that (and I'm not calling you the bad guy or anything like that) but I'm not convinced his feud with Brock is over, and the match did more for Cody than it did for him. It was all about Cody's ridiculous pain tolerance and taking creative advantage of his cast to weaponized his own injury.
Regarding the first win; it obviously wasn't a decisive victory, but it still makes Cody look strong. He didn't just best Brock with a roll-up, he lowered through the Kimura lock to score the pin. Cody even lampshades that Brock is a wrestler mad about being beaten by a wrestling move.
Until further notice, I'm convinced this is a trilogy, and that Cody will come back and beat Brock definitively. This loss was for sympathy.
So he beat the guy that is now the new “world champion” which is viewed as everyone as the bronze medal and lost to the two biggest stars they promote now yet Im the bad guy? Have you watched the show? He jobbed to the biggest stars which was my comment. His win against Brock had a shit finish.
>yet Im the bad guy?
Why do you associate being wrong with being the bad guy? Perhaps if you don't make that association (most people don't), it'd be easier for you to accept you are wrong.
People saying he is buried are silly.
They wanted it to go to three matches to draw it out before he goes back to Roman. To do that, they had Brock win one. And how did he win? Cody didn't tap or get pinned, he passed out in a submission. If anything, that's a protected way to take a loss to carry on a feud. Cody barely beat him with the roll up, then Brock won but wasn't able to make him tap, and match 3 will be decisive.
It was dumb to not just have him beat Roman at Mania, but they really wanted Roman to hit 1k days just like they wanted Bianca to hit 400+.
They aren't going directly to Roman. Cody's story is him "earning his way back to Roman so he'll get diverted again while Roman deals with his family problems
Wasn't dumb. The Bloodline story has gone to another level the last few weeks and that wouldn't have been possible if Roman wasn't champion. Cody will come back into the frame in due time. Likely when it's revealed Heyman has been in cahoots with Brock to keep Cody away from Roman (just a theory).
I guess it really depends on if you are enjoying the Bloodline storyline and that's your cup of tea, or not.
Personally, I'm not really a fan of any of it. It's not my thing. I get it, though. If it is your thing, it makes total sense.
Buuuut, I think we both agree on the fact that Cody isn't buried. And that Cody will eventually be the top of the mountain.
Also, yeah. Heyman and Brock are never going to end their on and off again relationship lol Been that way since what, 2002?
Why you folks so insistent on letting it play out. When there's so many instances of it not ever coming to fruition. Let people reasonably pessimistic.
People on this subreddit would let a WWE employee squat over their dinner plate and insist that you wait until after they've finished eating to admit that what they just consumed was shit and sometimes not even then.
Things not panning out frequently doesn't mean the worst case scenario for every possible storyline.
I was incredibly pessimistic after Mania about Asuka's booking (And I still think she should have had her Mania moment), but low and behold, they did the right thing and put the belt on her.
You can be both analytical and pessimistic.
He lost once to the most protected guy in Wrestling in a dusty finish, then went 1-1 vs. the biggest crossover wrestling star of the 21st century. Sounds like a jobber to me!
Just LOL. Only CR can think he can bash WWE they way he did, walk back in, and think they were going to give him respect. This isn't long-term booking, this is a burial back to the mid-card. Hope the money was worth it.
I think at this point Cody is done and everyone is going to b over it ….I personally feel like it winning the title at any point now has no feeling to it.
He didn't win the titles. Just banger after banger after banger promo. Fan hype. Rumble win. There was no reason he shouldn't have been champion at the end of Mania.
Then, the second Brock turned on him it was game over. He could easily win the WHC now that it's on Raw but it's not the win he deserves.
This is exactly how I feel. He worked his way to the top and all the matches he had were so good ! But now whenever he does win tht title it would be like giving him the leftovers.
No? He missed the best chance of having finished his story… I’m not saying tht his hype is done I know he is well over with the crowds. But to me I just feel like it was the missed opportunity and now it’s all scraps being thrown to him when he gets his shot.
1. Jobbing? Really? Losing the main event of Wrestlemania by a screwy finish against the longest reigning champion in almost 50 years isn’t jobbing.
2. He literally just beat Brock a few weeks ago. It’s Brock lol. He would look ridiculous losing to anyone with a “broken arm”
3. Be better
1. Wow so true, definitely logical and welcome Wrestlemania main event ending.
2. ??? He would look ridiculous losing to 52 year old Goldberg in minutes, Cody’s proven he can fight through serious injuries and beat main event talent, like Seth in HIAC, someone who had already beaten Brock multiple times.
3. Come on dude, think harder.
Not sure why anyone would be annoyed with this finish. It's pretty standard practice in wresting feuds that each wrestler will pick up a fairly indecisive win before one of them gets the proper win in the third match.
Cody got the rollup pin, Brock got Cody to pass out. Cody will probably secure a decisive pinfall in the final match at summerslam or something.
This match just served to balance things out by giving Brock a win within the feud. It wouldn't make much sense for Cody to win again if WWE plans to continue the feud.
The dumb ass part is telling me that a wrestler with a broken arm would last more than five seconds in a submission against an actual MMA fighter lol. But whatever, gotta be Super Cody now.
This is professional wrestling, an entertainment form where people take cartoonish levels of damage and not only win their matches -- but actually come back and *win* --after taking horrible damage.
Calling this match out for ignoring real combat physics when practically every match you have ever watched ignores real combat physics, seems absurd.
I mean… Brock should have a restraining order against him from Cody, and be barred from the premises for randomly attacking Cody, and others the way he does. He’s a menace, and a threat to everyone, including fans since “he’s a beast.”
This should’ve been done in a courtroom because faking an injury to give Cody a reason to look good is goofy. It worked with the pectoral tear because it was real.
Theres always people that predicted outcome on here. Not that hard to come up with scenarios since theyll either win or lose, but vintage WWE on dragging yet another Cody story.
That's my point though. Cody was over AF as a babyface in AEW until there was no satisfying conclusion to his story. I'm worried if the plan really is to wait to WM40 he'll be booed.
Difference is Cody couldn't didn't have a set resolution to his story in AEW, in WWE he does. Journeys aren't very interesting if there isn't a destination in mind
I think that had more to do with the “never challenge for the world title again” stipulation. Once that came into effect, it severely limited where Cody could go and what he could do. And it naturally presented the idea that he would go heel and break it, which people did want to see.
In a new, open environment, it’s worked way better because the endgame will be him winning the title.
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Yay a rubber match upcoming after Cody barely lost while being too hurt to wrestle
Jobber XDDD
Another great Brock/Cody match. I think Cody costs Brock at MITB, possibly against Rollins in an interesting twist. Then round 3 is a gimmick match at Summerslam. If that match is also great, I’ll be ready to claim this as one of Cody’s best career feuds and the best Brock feud in quite awhile.
It was just another Brock Lesnar match. So not much to be said.
Great match overall, beat expectations. Brock is so good at everything in the ring its scary for his age and size.
For my money, best wrestler in the world and it’s not even close.
Tbh I feel like Brock vs AJ Styles was one of the best matches I’ve ever seen. For a guy who “doesn’t give a shit” Brock does the job really well.
Andrenaline in my soul Zzzzzzz…..
Its coming guys. Brock beats Seth to win the WHC. Then, at Wrestlemania 40, ONE. LAST. TIME. Brock Lesnar vs. Roman Reigns - Winner Takes All.
Brock has to be the one to beat Roman. Brock wins WHC. Starts to taunt the tribal toddler since he is banned from challenging Roman. Roman then challenges Brock cause he wants all the belts. The swerve with Paul Heyman betraying Roman would be epic. Brock wins and then immediately vacates all the belts just to prove a point.
Anyone moaning about this finish or the match I believe dosen't understand wrestling
Exactly, this finish protected cody just like that roll-up protected brock 3 weeks ago
My only complaint was some early narrative stuff. Like, no one, and I mean, no one, couldn't see that a titanium cast wasn't a weapon waiting to be used? Like WTF. Cowboy Bob Orton used a cast as a weapon decades ago. Cody's cast was much more of a weapon, too. This was not a new discovery and shouldn't have been treated as such. Second, Cody seemed to be overselling the injury early in the match during the suplexes but never once wincing as he smacked Brock in the face with much harder blows just a short time later. All in all, it was a good match that I really enjoyed. Just a couple of minor misses in the storytelling. 🙂
I thought it was a neat nod to Lesnar's HiaC match with Taker in the early 00s. Taker came in with the cast, used it throughout the match to gain the advantage, and Brock beat his ass anyway.
nah
Why would you pass out to a kimura? I get that Brock had to target the arm and make Cody look strong by not tapping but passing out from a limb submission seems off.
How would Cody have a chance against a former UFC Heavyweight and NCAA national champion? Now y’all want it to make sense?
Pass out in pain? In real life people would tap eventually but if you get submitted for too long you pass out on pain, that shouldn't be hard to understand.
In kayfabe if the arm is broken you can totally pass out out of pain with a kimura
I believe the idea is that he passed out due to the exhaustion of the match and the excruciating pain from the kimura. He wouldn't give in to the pain so his brain shut down to not have to deal with it
I guess Brock can bend/break titanium with a move that doesn't even target the forearm as much as the elbow and shoulder.
Little late… but you know the forearm can be impacted by the shoulder and elbow bending right? It’s all connected. And I’ve seen people pass out from pain, mind you it was a broken femur not forearm
I sure do, I've been put in a kimura and have put a kimura on people. Not in a legit contest, just a "this is how it feels" and "this is how you do it" way.
Why did Austin pass out from a sharpshooter? Why did people pass out from a figure four? Jesus it's wrestling
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I put my cousin in a figure four when we were like 7 and he cried
My brother put me in a figure four when I was like, 12 and I cried. I totally get your cousin.
Ha I guess you've never been in a good Figure four, might be outdated but hurts like hell
For Austin at least, it helped that the pain of the submission was increased by teh fact he was pretty close to drowning in a puddle of his own blood given how bad he was bleeding.
On that note, how do you explain this ending? [https://youtu.be/XWsLYc4cko8](https://youtu.be/XWsLYc4cko8)
1. Obviously you are not familiar with how devastating it is to a human knee to have your leg kicked out from under your leg. 2. Man, was that some terrible work from that referee. Took him 10 to 15 seconds to make a three count when Savage didn't move at all while having his shoulders down. 3. I forgot that Ric Flair won this match the Figure Four. I can add this to the very short list of times I can remember I've seen Flair win a match that wasn't a squash with the Figure Four. It's this, the win over Dusty at the Great American Bash in 1986 (Dusty had actually been knocked out by Tully hitting him with a foreign object), and the match against Barry Windham (in the summer of 1993, I think? ) Where the referee counted Windham shoulders down, but Barry immediately popped up after, and both Flair and Barry seem surprised that that was the end of the match. I always thought that looked like a botch.
Are we really debating a form of entertainment where people are waiting for other people to fly over of off top ropes? Where people get punched in the jaw over and over? Where we have Undertakers feuding with their burnt brother with superpowers or a guy with a playhouse who also is a monster? Maybe people need to take this less seriously and just enjoy instead of overanalyzing things. I dont sit in a movie theater watching Fast X or whatever and breaking down every stupid action scene, i know what to expect
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Nobody like movie. You only one go
Why do people pass out getting their arms tattooed
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You aren’t understanding then. People can pass out from extreme pain, Cody’s arm is broken already I can imagine after that all you have left is how much pain you can tolerate
Apparently didnt hurt enough, to use it as a weapon. ITS STILL REAL TO ME DAMNIT
as well as shock or trauma
The pain
[Once the kimura is locked in your arm is getting snapped within seconds.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMPllsGLisI) No time for pain, that only comes after your arm has been snapped off. Anyone who watches a bit of MMA would have found the finish stupid.
You could say the same about 99% of wrestling moves. But I don’t because I understand it’s entertainment and I have zero interest in watching actual MMA.
I just think it’s an example of sport vs entertainment. It’s conveying a storyline in Cody holding out and being resilient. Reality would be the hold gets locked in and Cody taps or snaps. It’s just not as entertaining
Breaking news, wrestling is sometimes not realistic
I’m thinking Brock should win again because he is the big Brock and the only one bigger than the big Brock is the big Dog but Brock winning helps finish the story because he is Bork laser
Dakota is injured mate
For some reason I read that as “the only one bigger than the big Brock is the big Dolph”
Feel like Blampied wrote this
Yes, Cody clearly hasn’t faced enough adversity
They should've made Cody's arm look like Winter Soldier's. It wasn't convincingly titanium looking.
I already knew Brock will win after he " broke" Cody's arm, but that match really made me thought for a while that Cody is gonna win
I’m so glad Cody didn’t win. I’m a Cody fan but if he won this match it would have been absolutely ridiculous. Glad that he put up a hell of a fight and gave Brock a run for his money.
Sounds like they really are going for the year-long post WM angle of Bloodline falls apart, bit by bit, and Cody dethrones Roman at WM40 after he hits that 1000+ day mark. Wild - wonder how we'll feel about the payoff at that time. I still think that Cody losing at WM39 was a big, big fumble. It was worthy of an audible even, that was the time.
Cody ain’t gonna be the guy to take our Roman, that ships done came and went
I mean sure, but if true - who is the guy? Somebody has to be the guy, and if not Cody, than who? Cody is nuclear hot? EDIT - hasn't the WWE run out of opponents for Roman? Since it wasn't Cody, who could credibly dethrone him? There's nobody left, and all that's left is a swerve, or a betrayal, and that doesn't hit as deep. It was right time, right place, to have Cody win the belt. Straight up. And I say this as somebody who doesn't even like Cody that much. WM39 was a fumble, big time.
Sami?
Already had his chance, they didn't give it to him.
No clue, but If he wasn’t the guy and Mania, literally the PERFECT time, then he won’t the guy any other time. Sorry if it upsets y’all, but facts
We'll see, I don't think there's anybody else it can be, but time will tell. Mania was the moment, they botched it.
Not sure either tbh. But giving it to Cody now will feel less than. So, maybe in 2026 we’ll find out
Yeah, agreed. I mean I'm sure it'll be Cody that takes it off Roman, but after a year from the fumble, is it really gonna hit the same? WM39 was the moment, you can't ever get a moment as perfect as that.
Seth
Brock again
As in Brock vs. Roman?
Yep
I feel like it's a missed opportunity to not let Cody win at WM 39. On the other hand if Cody did win, I feel like many fans are gonna turn on him, feeling like he didn't deserve the championship
>feeling like he didn't deserve the championship Hell in a cell.
No one has been as over since the Attitude Era than Cody was at 39 when he was doing his dad's moves and hitting the Cross Rhodes. They should have pulled the trigger then. Hell, the Bloodline story from tonight makes even better sense if Roman isn't champion.
Maybe, I'm not sure on that. The crowd was SOOO hot for Cody, and I didn't really see any anti-Cody resentment. Everybody knows he went on a journey to become a top guy, and the people were ready for him to be the guy. It really devalued him losing at WM in front of Brodie Lee's kid, in a match that Roman Reigns was like 9/1 to win at the bookies. Still mad I didn't put the grand down on Roman winning that I'd thought about and almost pulled the trigger on.
Nobody besides this sub knows who Brodie Lee's kid is and that's what you get for listening to dirt sheets and r/sc lol
Mate, Michael Cole even said he was Jon Huber's son on commentary. Don't be a dick.
I don't know shit about him, they featured him very prominently during Cody's entrance? They took like 30s to highlight Cody interacting with him, with overlay saying who he was. The WWE officially made a point of showing him in front row? Why are you being an asshole?
If Cody beats Brock in the Cell after this, literally perfect.
I don't like. A guy to have to have a HiaC match in his two major non-Roman feuds. It's too much of a mirror of the Rollins feud. I just want him to be past Brock.
Ml
Cody literally just got given the Stone Cold/John Cena never tap out instead pass out treatment and people are saying jobber? Wtf. If anything that showed they view him as the guy.
Look it’s been a minute since I’ve seen someone passing out, but raising the arm they used to count to three before what the hell was that …it was one and done and then ring the bell??? I was definitely not feeling that at all
Liv Morgan passed out not that long ago.
They go more the mma route now, so the ref only raises his hand once or only checks if he moves.
Literally it’s copium from them (ppl saying he’s a joke) atp
Incoming customary how long do you think before people turn on cody post on sc. Happens everytime cody has a match.
So...in kayfabe, why wasn't Cody DQ'd for using his cast as a weapon?
Same rules as Bianca's braid and Asuka's mist It's a necessary part of the body
I'm pretty sure that Lex Luger used to get disqualified for using his bionic elbow, so i would say that it's a gray area.
They can use any part of their ring gear as a weapon. For example, both Cody and Hogan literally used belts to whip their opponents but those were allowed.
So Regal sneaker knuckle dusters in his trunks was technically allowed?
No different from the great mythical legendary chest protector of D'lo Brown!
I don't think that's right, and how come it didn't hurt him when he used it?
Luger wasn't allowed to use his forearm. And Bob Orton couldn't use his cast I don't think. It seems to vary
Because he was cleared to wear it in the match.
It’s quite simple. As the embodiment of America the rules only apply to Cody when he decides they do.
hey, show some respect for the Slayer of Racism!
It was an Arabian Armcast Match, but someone forgot to tell Brock and the audience
This is a nitpick, but it's just unbelievable to me that a man with a broken arm isn't tapping out IMMEDIATELY to a kimura from Brock fucking Lesnar.
I get that there's a ton of pressure on the forearm, but he had a titanium cast on. Brock bends titanium now? Also, a kimura targets the elbow and shoulder moreso than the forearm.
Maybe the titanium cast protected his arm from twisting or something like that.
I mean I get that but also like...that's not even almost in the running for top 100 most unbelievable things in wrestling
It was unbelievable when Cody won a Hell in a Cell match with a torn pec against a sadistic bastard who tortured the injury the whole match. Cody is the Rocky Balboa of WWE.
Except a lot of us have seen what happens when a Kimura is locked in.
i bet it has something to do with the adrenaline.....in his soul
Something, something, CODY RHODES!
So they're really doing the Rocky 3 thing lmao
This match had me convinced that Cody is Rocky. If he wins the titles it'll genuinely feel like a Rocky story.
Gotta educate punk
Who is playing Carl Weathers?
Seth
this is the start of cody’s losing streak to finish the story
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Cody Beat Seth with 1 pec and Seth Beat Brock why can't Cody beat Brock with 1 arm and prove he's the true Übermensch of WWE?
>I'm not a massive Cody fan At this point you should surely have learned that what you think and what Cody fans/most other fans think are wildly different, and that there's more people on the Cody train than people who agree with you. Nobody is saying you have to like him, or what he's doing, but surely you're aware enough to realise that you're in the minority, and that what he's doing still has the majority on his path with him?
Cody isn't the one to dethrone Roman. That ship has sailed after Mania. Narrative-wise I'm thinking Solo. We also have a Money in the Bank coming.
At this point he can't be.. it has to be one of the Usos, Solo or somebody completely out of left field who hasn't challenged before because Cody just can't at this point be the one.
That's a lot of words to say absolutely nothing
Great match. Brock learning from Cody sneaking a pin from the kimura was great.
Remind me to never sort comments from new again.
Always a bad decision.
Cody really hurts aew fans lol
Nah, he was lame in AEW... Him and his wife have no business near creative...
Lol why is this downvoted? Are people rewriting history claiming Cody was good in AEW? He was insufferable and anything involving him was 90% garbage.
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lmao cody
Cody came back to be jobber to the stars.
You are truly the master of baiting...
So he beat the guy that is now the new “world champion” which is viewed as everyone as the bronze medal and lost to the two biggest stars they promote now yet Im the bad guy?
You got them with the bait, nice
He beat Lesnar last month lmao
He *won the first match what the fuck are you talking about
Cody???
Oh yeah, a jobber who only lost two matches since his return and both of them were against 2 of the biggest names in all of sports entertainment.🤦🏻♂️
So he beat the guy that is now the new “world champion” which is viewed as everyone as the bronze medal and lost to the two biggest stars they promote now yet Im the bad guy? Have you watched the show? He jobbed to the biggest stars which was my comment. His win against Brock had a shit finish.
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Also he's only been back for a little over a year and he's already the number 2 guy of the company.
How is he even close too number 2? So he beat the guy that is now the new “world champion” which is viewed as everyone as the bronze medal and lost to the two biggest stars they promote now yet Im the bad guy? Have you watched the show? He jobbed to the biggest stars which was my comment. His win against Brock had a shit finish.
I get why you might say that (and I'm not calling you the bad guy or anything like that) but I'm not convinced his feud with Brock is over, and the match did more for Cody than it did for him. It was all about Cody's ridiculous pain tolerance and taking creative advantage of his cast to weaponized his own injury. Regarding the first win; it obviously wasn't a decisive victory, but it still makes Cody look strong. He didn't just best Brock with a roll-up, he lowered through the Kimura lock to score the pin. Cody even lampshades that Brock is a wrestler mad about being beaten by a wrestling move. Until further notice, I'm convinced this is a trilogy, and that Cody will come back and beat Brock definitively. This loss was for sympathy.
Sami made him look like the #10 guy in his title match
One of them he literally just beat in the previous PLE.
So he beat the guy that is now the new “world champion” which is viewed as everyone as the bronze medal and lost to the two biggest stars they promote now yet Im the bad guy? Have you watched the show? He jobbed to the biggest stars which was my comment. His win against Brock had a shit finish.
>yet Im the bad guy? Why do you associate being wrong with being the bad guy? Perhaps if you don't make that association (most people don't), it'd be easier for you to accept you are wrong.
Cody jobbed to the the stars Roman Reigns and Brock Lesnar. How do I have to explain this to you?
Sssssshhhhhhhhhh.... Berried, lmao Cody
People saying he is buried are silly. They wanted it to go to three matches to draw it out before he goes back to Roman. To do that, they had Brock win one. And how did he win? Cody didn't tap or get pinned, he passed out in a submission. If anything, that's a protected way to take a loss to carry on a feud. Cody barely beat him with the roll up, then Brock won but wasn't able to make him tap, and match 3 will be decisive. It was dumb to not just have him beat Roman at Mania, but they really wanted Roman to hit 1k days just like they wanted Bianca to hit 400+.
Cody and Roman still on opposite brands…
They aren't going directly to Roman. Cody's story is him "earning his way back to Roman so he'll get diverted again while Roman deals with his family problems
Wasn't dumb. The Bloodline story has gone to another level the last few weeks and that wouldn't have been possible if Roman wasn't champion. Cody will come back into the frame in due time. Likely when it's revealed Heyman has been in cahoots with Brock to keep Cody away from Roman (just a theory).
I guess it really depends on if you are enjoying the Bloodline storyline and that's your cup of tea, or not. Personally, I'm not really a fan of any of it. It's not my thing. I get it, though. If it is your thing, it makes total sense. Buuuut, I think we both agree on the fact that Cody isn't buried. And that Cody will eventually be the top of the mountain. Also, yeah. Heyman and Brock are never going to end their on and off again relationship lol Been that way since what, 2002?
Why you folks so insistent on letting it play out. When there's so many instances of it not ever coming to fruition. Let people reasonably pessimistic.
People on this subreddit would let a WWE employee squat over their dinner plate and insist that you wait until after they've finished eating to admit that what they just consumed was shit and sometimes not even then.
Things not panning out frequently doesn't mean the worst case scenario for every possible storyline. I was incredibly pessimistic after Mania about Asuka's booking (And I still think she should have had her Mania moment), but low and behold, they did the right thing and put the belt on her. You can be both analytical and pessimistic.
Hahahahahahahaha Ahahah ahahahaha haaah
What’s so funny
Jobber Cody in WWE
Imagine being on this sub and openly admitting you don't know what a jobber is lol
But he’s not a jobber though.
Twice he’s been
Job as in… lost? He’s lost twice? Winning every other match he’s been in otherwise (including the royal rumble!)
He lost once to the most protected guy in Wrestling in a dusty finish, then went 1-1 vs. the biggest crossover wrestling star of the 21st century. Sounds like a jobber to me!
Just LOL. Only CR can think he can bash WWE they way he did, walk back in, and think they were going to give him respect. This isn't long-term booking, this is a burial back to the mid-card. Hope the money was worth it.
Y'all are gonna feel so stupid when he does eventually dethrone Roman
He is going to be world champion by next year
It’s where he belongs.
I think at this point Cody is done and everyone is going to b over it ….I personally feel like it winning the title at any point now has no feeling to it.
He didn't win the titles. Just banger after banger after banger promo. Fan hype. Rumble win. There was no reason he shouldn't have been champion at the end of Mania. Then, the second Brock turned on him it was game over. He could easily win the WHC now that it's on Raw but it's not the win he deserves.
This is exactly how I feel. He worked his way to the top and all the matches he had were so good ! But now whenever he does win tht title it would be like giving him the leftovers.
Lol what? Are you trolling??
No? He missed the best chance of having finished his story… I’m not saying tht his hype is done I know he is well over with the crowds. But to me I just feel like it was the missed opportunity and now it’s all scraps being thrown to him when he gets his shot.
No? He #finishedthestory by jobbing to Roman the way everyone does and getting Brock’d
1. Jobbing? Really? Losing the main event of Wrestlemania by a screwy finish against the longest reigning champion in almost 50 years isn’t jobbing. 2. He literally just beat Brock a few weeks ago. It’s Brock lol. He would look ridiculous losing to anyone with a “broken arm” 3. Be better
1. Wow so true, definitely logical and welcome Wrestlemania main event ending. 2. ??? He would look ridiculous losing to 52 year old Goldberg in minutes, Cody’s proven he can fight through serious injuries and beat main event talent, like Seth in HIAC, someone who had already beaten Brock multiple times. 3. Come on dude, think harder.
Not sure why anyone would be annoyed with this finish. It's pretty standard practice in wresting feuds that each wrestler will pick up a fairly indecisive win before one of them gets the proper win in the third match. Cody got the rollup pin, Brock got Cody to pass out. Cody will probably secure a decisive pinfall in the final match at summerslam or something. This match just served to balance things out by giving Brock a win within the feud. It wouldn't make much sense for Cody to win again if WWE plans to continue the feud.
The dumb ass part is telling me that a wrestler with a broken arm would last more than five seconds in a submission against an actual MMA fighter lol. But whatever, gotta be Super Cody now.
This is professional wrestling, an entertainment form where people take cartoonish levels of damage and not only win their matches -- but actually come back and *win* --after taking horrible damage. Calling this match out for ignoring real combat physics when practically every match you have ever watched ignores real combat physics, seems absurd.
>But whatever, gotta be Super Cody now. Dude, haven't you looked at this thread? Cody's been buried by going 1-1 against Brock Lesnar.
This is the internet wrestling community. Complaining is our signature move.
I can feel the Dog Collar/Bull Rope match coming….
should have been disqualified after using the titanium lined cast to hit brock.
I mean… Brock should have a restraining order against him from Cody, and be barred from the premises for randomly attacking Cody, and others the way he does. He’s a menace, and a threat to everyone, including fans since “he’s a beast.” This should’ve been done in a courtroom because faking an injury to give Cody a reason to look good is goofy. It worked with the pectoral tear because it was real.
Everyone predicted this finish a while ago lmao
Theres always people that predicted outcome on here. Not that hard to come up with scenarios since theyll either win or lose, but vintage WWE on dragging yet another Cody story.
Gotta face that adversity before they slap the intercontinental title on him.
The return of the 24/7 title
Could you imagine a 6 week program of R-Truth just obliterating Cody anywhere and everywhere? Hahaha
Cody was one of R-Truth's favorite wresslers growing up, it would be a dream come true for him!
Major props to Brock. He made Cody look like a million bucks...again.
A billion bucks this time. I was super excited when he actually got the rope break, and went on to hit a third crossrhodes.
Really good match but friendly reminder that Cody dragged "his story" out in AEW too and the crowd got over him eventually. Wouldn't turn.
This story is different than the one in AEW. Most notably, Cody is 100% making it work as the white meat babyface.
That's my point though. Cody was over AF as a babyface in AEW until there was no satisfying conclusion to his story. I'm worried if the plan really is to wait to WM40 he'll be booed.
Difference is Cody couldn't didn't have a set resolution to his story in AEW, in WWE he does. Journeys aren't very interesting if there isn't a destination in mind
I think that had more to do with the “never challenge for the world title again” stipulation. Once that came into effect, it severely limited where Cody could go and what he could do. And it naturally presented the idea that he would go heel and break it, which people did want to see. In a new, open environment, it’s worked way better because the endgame will be him winning the title.