Has Your Opinion on Cody changed since coming back to WWE???

[R=G]

Never had a problem with him.

 

[Versa]

Always liked him (didn't watch AEW stuff) and now I love him. One of my favorites.

Very hard for me to love a pure babyface as an adult. He's doing something right.

 

[OGBobbyJohnson]

Always liked him (didn't watch AEW stuff) and now I love him. One of my favorites.

Very hard for me to love a pure babyface as an adult. He's doing something right.

 

[The Prince of All Saiyans]

I don't watch AEW but whenever I saw him in NJPW I was thinking 'this guy too much'

enjoying this CAWdy run

 

[Arcavian]

He come a long way since the CAWdy days,
He;s ready to win the big one
but he still need tongue reduction surgery though

 

[Stop_It_5]

The WWE polish + presentation leveled him up and filtered his worst traits. Torn pec match solidified him as a made-man.


Went from being the worst part of every Dynamite (w/ Brandi) to the biggest babyface in the business

 

[MenacingMonk]

still don’t care about the guy, but good for him for getting what he wanted.

 

[Peter Popoff]

I always liked him in the ring dating back to his first run in WWE. Nothing has ever changed about that. Character wise I haven't ever really cared for him, but I don't remember much of him as a heel. I've never really liked these white meat baby faces WWE likes to trot out because it appeals to little kids.

Dashing Cody Rhodes was my favorite iteration of him. Wouldn't mind the suit with the face mask as a heel otherwise nıgga kinda bland.

 

[Art Barr]

hes essentially the same its just less cheesy seeming because hes in a company where his act doesnt stick out like a sore thumb compared to the rest of the programming, it also helps that he doesnt have creative control to book his own stories and brandi isnt a factor so he's been reeled in while emphasizing the characters strengths and minimizing the weak parts that made him stale in aew

also he can actually compete for a world title in wwe so the goal of "finishing that story" helps whereas in aew he crippled himself early by not being able to which resulted in him trying to overcompensate with his feuds and matches which backfired

He made the can't be aew champion thing. To keep him from the scrutiny of being a failed main eventer
Plus being absolutely horrible versus the actual litmus test ti tell us if you are good:


Christopher Daniel's


Case in point the whole 'ring of honor' thing. Was done better by mjf.
parroting the entire thing on aew.
With a prop that was nowhere near the world title as well.
From undercard where mjf barely was even viewed.
Cody actually should have never let wwe remove his characterization. That Cody tries to put stardust.
in the same it was wack league.
as seven from Dustin in wcw and that is a lie.
When the seven gimmick build and entrance being as good as any wcw debut ever.
Till Dustin prematurely buried it minutes later.
Which never made any sense and reduced. What could have been an excellent character. Same as stardust. Cody just does not want to admit. The wwe was going to and still going to bury him.
just like they did his dad in polka dots. Plus make a emasculate and make mockery of him like dustin as golddust. When originally Cody only upside was possibly putting him.
into a character based grappler on wwetv. As wwetv was never going to build him up
aS a real champion and never ever.
going to give him the real main event spot ever.

All this Cody shyt been a lie since stardust.
Cody was trash on the Indies and completely exposed.
Not to mention, bullet club.
Was actually in all reality, just fine.
till him and omega singlehandidly ruined bullet club. As well.

Only people who talk positive about Cody. Never ranted the matches.
If they sat there for six hours putting a match into print.
Or even were smart frfr.
All this Cody shyt would not be.

Cody is a complete pr story.
not a story of quality between the ropes.
or vignette to vignette.
promo to promo.

This whole Cody shyt been a lie.
plus was exposed in njpw and roh.

Why people Continue.
this pr spin job.
to lie about the low quality of cody.
is a waste of marketing dollars as well.

Art Barr

 

[KFBF]

Didn't care before don't care now.

 

[StatUS]

I've said it before but Cody is running the same gimmick he was in AEW just with a filter and no stupid title stipulation.

He's able to galvanize a fanbase behind a goal which is always a good sign for a main character.

At this point he exists to beat Roman but I'm thinking they want Rome to beat Hogan's record. So it'll be interesting where that goes.

 

[Ripp]

I understand why he is over AF. I get it. He has good matches, solid worker, etc.

A fantastic B+, A- player with A+++ presentation.

But he hasn't gone through enough struggle for me to want to see him "finish the story."

It's alright to lose.

Do you mean since his return? Because the "finish the story" narrative is literally about the entirety of his career... from getting bytched out by Orton in Legacy, to dashing/undashing, him and goldust feuding with the authority, stardust, him ultimately leaving Because he knew who he was and what he was capable of even of Vince didn't see it or wanna give him a chance. Then he creates his character across various other companies, creates a new company, have the very fans he sought to provide an alternative for turn against him ... now he's back where he started to win the title his father never won....there has definitely been a ton of struggle in that, Real life and storyline wise

 

[Ripp]

I've said it before but Cody is running the same gimmick he was in AEW just with a filter and no stupid title stipulation.

He's able to galvanize a fanbase behind a goal which is always a good sign for a main character.

At this point he exists to beat Roman but I'm thinking they want Rome to beat Hogan's record. So it'll be interesting where that goes.

A new debuting bloodline member will scree Cody out of the Rumble... no need for him to win back to back and lose at mania back to back. This way they are once again seperated.. give Cody some other feuds. There's constant "he doesn't need to be champion" talk that gets thrown around but if anyone fits the bill its cody... as long as people still rock with him they should see how long they can stretch this shyt

 

[NYChase718]

Hes been less annoying in wwe

Aew made him out to be like he was the rock or austin
From the get go
With the most ridiculous over the top entrances while his opponents enter like jobbers

And having competitive bloody matches with no names was also stupid as fukk

 

[BrehWyatt]

Do you mean since his return? Because the "finish the story" narrative is literally about the entirety of his career... from getting bytched out by Orton in Legacy, to dashing/undashing, him and goldust feuding with the authority, stardust, him ultimately leaving Because he knew who he was and what he was capable of even of Vince didn't see it or wanna give him a chance. Then he creates his character across various other companies, creates a new company, have the very fans he sought to provide an alternative for turn against him ... now he's back where he started to win the title his father never won....there has definitely been a ton of struggle in that, Real life and storyline wise

Yes, since his return. And while I acknowledge all that you've said, I think the issue is that I never saw Cody as world championship material like that. Sure, part of it is how he was presented in WWE during his first run.

However, when he started doing the Undashing thing and moved toward Rhodes Scholars, Authority, etc., I realized that he absolutely was being underutilized and he was capable of more, but never to the point where it was like "It's an absolute travesty that this man isn't world champion/in the main event picture."

It's entirely possible that the narrative he had of himself wasn't the one he truly warranted until he went on that sabbatical to develop a character worthy of main event. Either way, once you get beyond the main event presentation and him dressing the part more often, he's largely the same Cody but with an OVERWHELMING crowd connection that is truly worthy of being the top man in WWE for a bit.