ARE YOU READY TO ADMIT FINISHING THE STORY WAS,.....

[Versa]

The reign has been mid because no feud has been good outside of AJ and Owens, and because they had me still meandering with the bloodline despite defeating them.

The finish the story thing was great though. Executed perfectly, and this sell your soul narrative adds to it imo.

 

[Notorious 1 E.Y.E.]

they booked themselves into a corner and also hhh tookover vince's story

 

[Mook]

There wasn't even a story.

 

[Art Barr]

The reign has been mid because no feud has been good outside of AJ and Owens, and because they had me still meandering with the bloodline despite defeating them.

The finish the story thing was great though. Executed perfectly, and this sell your soul narrative adds to it imo.

I think sell your soul is the booking receipt payback. For the finishing the story. Where now cody will become another vince mcmahon offshoot corporate stooge storyline. Yet we already seen that.
We never saw rock win the title.
as a face against another Samoan headliner heavy weight.

Oh sheit... now i think about it.
Plus we also never gonna get:


La knight v rock in any heel v heel, face v face , of face v heel dynamic or capacity.
Netflix never opened up like it should have either.
With the rock with the belt.

Which we never got rock as a face champion after mania with the wwe title moment ever.

now we may never get rock inring again as eell. As there is no draw to really book rock to get in ring. Now they jagged rock v roman and gave cody his story instead.

Like we not getting a lot. We should have gotten. That I feel wwe fans endured vince for. All those pow wwe fans. Who were held hostage just hoping you would finally get your ultimate payoff for enduring vince. Will never happen as well. As vince literally dangled this match over everyone's head. Since vince became fascinated with roman from the beginning. Now after roman ramped. Plus y'all endured all that forced booking.
to make roman into the real flagship. Now you never get the payoff. That you were held prisoner for. I feel for y'all. That shyt bogus.

All because someone wanted to prove a point. That did not need to be proved. Plus had no upside and it was proven on the indies twice. Even with daniels as the watermark. Cody never delivered as a champion. Plus hitching to cody.
also damaged all of bullet club. Till the tongans related to rock stepped in.
Now real talk.

Njpw and wwe have a lot of work to do. That still may never drive generating a large enough draw.
to make up for booking cody as this thing. That cody has never proven capable of being

or carrying at all in the main event as champion.



Art Barr

 

[ExodusNirvana]

Finishing the story was fine but the bread is stale now and I'm not in the mood for bread now.

Make Bread Pudding and turn him heel.

Make him The Final Bosses Champion

 

[Art Barr]

Finishing the story was fine but the bread is stale now and I'm not in the mood for bread now.

Make Bread Pudding and turn him heel.

Make him The Final Bosses Champion

That is not gonna draw.

Cody fsiled to draw over daniels in roh. When every indie legend cut their teeth with daniels. While cody failed in every possible way incomparison.

We told y'all not to do this.

Now the only way to really fix this.

Is start ot have the rock bully la knight after tur ing codym. As that is rhe only guy on active roster. That you could write television good enough to fix this. Yet I doubt they fix it. As la knight is a viewed as threat. Instead of being viewed properly as a blockbuster draw.


la knight is the only guy on roster that could stand up to the rock. By being a cac mirror to all of rock's insults. Then possibly make potential comebacks respectfully. While also looking the part.
Yet the wwe don't want none of that smoke in the mic front la knight tho. As knight will body you on the mic. If allowed to go. Like outclass vets like knight did James storm.


Art Barr

 

[ExodusNirvana]

That is not gonna draw.

Cody fsiled to draw over daniels in roh. When every indie legend cut their teeth with daniels. While cody failed in every possible way incomparison.

We told y'all not to do this.

Now the only way to really fix this.

Is start ot have the rock bully la knight after tur ing codym. As that is rhe only guy on active roster. That you could write television good enough to fix this. Yet I doubt they fix it. As la knight is a viewed as threat. Instead of being viewed properly as a blockbuster draw.


la knight is the only guy on roster that could stand up to the rock. By being a cac mirror to all of rock's insults. Then possibly make potential comebacks respectfully. While also looking the part.
Yet the wwe don't want none of that smoke in the mic front la knight tho. As knight will body you on the mic. If allowed to go. Like outclass vets like knight did James storm.


Art Barr

I sort of agree with you here that they have wasted LA Knight or maybe I'm just being impatient and can't see the vision?

I totally get that HHH is trying to slow walk him by giving him the US Title and having him go through his paces but man this dude was over as fukk and it seems like they cut his booster jets out of nowhere just to make sure other people on the roster were getting shine.

 

[Art Barr]

I sort of agree with you here that they have wasted LA Knight or maybe I'm just being impatient and can't see the vision?

I totally get that HHH is trying to slow walk him by giving him the US Title and having him go through his paces but man this dude was over as fukk and it seems like they cut his booster jets out of nowhere just to make sure other people on the roster were getting shine.

This.

Why they did that. When it was shown.
that was a mistake in tna.
While partnered with tna. Makes no sense.
Wwe is just throwing their weight around on tna. Plus burying their talent on roster systemically. While offering no real upside. Yet that is another discussion. That will became a real life alternative. If they do not fix the content and direction around Cody's reign.

Art Barr

 

[Yayo Toure]

Cody politicked and got ppl hyped up on a story that truly no one else besides him cares about.

Kofi's story was much more interesting and they ended it months later in a 3 second squash match, but Cody gets to carry the belt a while year with bland match after bland match.

 

[Dipsey Doo]

Wrestling fans are some of the most inpatient and jittery group of people ever.

 

[Jmare007]

From the outside, it feels like "finishing the story" was absolutely the right call. But Cody didn't need to be champ for a full calendar year.

Interest in the company is still high, they continue to sell a fukk ton of tickets (it was never realistic to maintain the pace they had estoy to mid 2024) and got the TV& streaming bag.

When things start going south (whenever that happens) I don't think anyone will point to Cody beating Roman as the main reason. At most they'll say not having a real plan for Cody as champ was a sign of a bigger problem.

 

[Art Barr]

Wrestling fans are some of the most inpatient and jittery group of people ever.

We waited for roman v rock.

Which got supplanted for what tho.
Now vince is gone.
How are you, saying someone is.... impatient.

Art Barr

 

[Dipsey Doo]

We waited for roman v rock.

Which got supplanted for what tho.
Nwo vince is gone.
How are you, saying someone is.... inpatient.

Art Barr

Only Roman glazers wanted to see Roman/Rock. Fans rightfully noped that shyt.

We were waiting for a worthy babyface to end Roman’s beyond stale reign and we got one.

It’s not Cody’s fault that he had no credible heels to feud with after his big win.

 

[Damnshow]

Whether they finished the story or didn't finish the story, the problem I see in WWE is that Triple H is not a good booker. He didn't have creativity as a wrestler and therefore he doesn't have a creativity as a booker.

Without even watching their shows I checked who are the title holders right now and names like viking nazi raiders showed up as tag team champs. That tells me Triple H is still in that outdated late 90s/early 00s metal/biker looks in professional wrestling. He's basically producing mutations of Triple H the wrestler.

He's also minimized the importance of black wrestlers in the company. Hurt Business are gone, Street Profits made irrelevant now, etc.

All that talent on the roster and he can't create anything major by himself, he's just riding on the Bloodline wave (something he had no business in creating) and he's just hoping after that is over some other interesting story will just come outta nowhere.


When Bloodline story is completely finished, it will look as boring as 03/04 after Austin and Rock were finished with WWE, and then Triple H giving fans some of the worst and most boring display of professional wrestling EVER once again just like in 04.

 

[Easy-E]

Cody finishing his story was the best babyface storyline wwe has done since Eddie was chasing the title. Wrestling fans act like they just started watching the shyt yesterday and every result they don’t like is the end of the world. I think he has a few more months left as babyface and the heel run will be glorious

I'm not sure TKO/WWE wants a heel Cody.

This is why I think Cena is gonna be The Rock's Advocate.

Cody is the TKOWWE mascot at this point and Roman don't seem to want to be that despite being prolly bigger to wrestling fans.