Long term planning around punk is dangerous. He's so injury prone
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Seems like Cody will keep the belt beyond Mania especially if he does go heel
I reckon Cody says no to the Rock at EC. Punk wins the Chamber match after Roman beats up Seth setting up the WM match for those 2 ( also likely ties up the favor thing with Heyman/Punk).
We get a WM main event build up of Rock making Cody's life difficult and maybe hinting he'll help Punk, who says I want none of it. You get the build up with all 3 of these big names involved.
And at WM, Cody accepts Rock's help to beat Punk and retain the title. This sets up Cody to play the Homelander arc they've been touting for him, until finally he's beaten by Super(man) Cena at SummerSlam or Survivor Series for his 17th title.
We get a WM main event build up of Rock making Cody's life difficult and maybe hinting he'll help Punk, who says I want none of it. You get the build up with all 3 of these big names involved.
And at WM, Cody accepts Rock's help to beat Punk and retain the title. This sets up Cody to play the Homelander arc they've been touting for him, until finally he's beaten by Super(man) Cena at SummerSlam or Survivor Series for his 17th title.
Dunno I feel like this WM is shaping up to be a botch considering how much talent they’ve got for right now
I think he's fine with the schedule he has now.
The problem he had in AEW was that they wanted him to be completely full time, and he was basically wrestling 10-15 minute matches every week or two.
He's been back with WWE since November 2023 and wrestled just 14 matches, 11 since his return from injury in August, four of them were house shows, and another two were the WarGames match and the Rumble (the three before injury were also two house shows and the Rumble). He's only actually had five proper singles matches since getting back.
He'd wrestled eight 10-15 minute singles matches in AEW within his first three months.
He's not quite Mason Mount but he's Lisandro Martinez
He'll probably hold up better not being asked to go 20 minutes with Dustin Rhodes though, to be fair
Dustin Rhodes would get into United's first XI.
To be fair, Rasmus Hojlund could be a good midcarder
Rasmus Hojlund would be jobbing on Main Event
I think he's shown enough in ring skill anda charisma to be in contention for the US championship. It's just a shame he works as a football player.
goldbridge as manager for the promos?
I will walk with Elijah!
Rock and Cena as 2025's Two Man Power Trip would be wild.
Surely too soon to call the card mid? There's only 2 matches announced no?
Dunno if I posted it in here but I thought after royal rumble Cena might be heel going into mania and they do double turn on the night leading to homelander Rhodes. Could still happen.
Those matches in AEW were super competitive too with him taking ridiculous bumps for mid card or lower talents
It was a really stupid schedule when he'd not actually wrestled for a decade.
Why the feck did he need to go 10-15 minutes with the likes of Lee Moriarty and Bobby Fish?
I get they wanted him on the show as much as possible for ratings, but if they'd treated him like the special attraction he was he might have actually stayed fit, not fallen out with prats like Jungle Boy, and still been there today.
Well the rumoured one/one I predict will happen is.
Don’t think Cena and Rhodes face each other at WM personally.
Feels more corporate rock/McMahon if they went that route. A top baby face turning heel. Cena turning heel now also would be crazy on his last run. Although his promo post rumble was kinda heelish
Giulia versus Vaquer in a title v title match will be interesting.
Will be a fecking banger ending in tomfoolery.
Very surprised a few here think Cody is turning heel. I’ll honestly be shocked to see that happen and don’t think it makes a great deal of sense in all honesty.
Austin’s made sense because he was obsessed with the title and chasing it so much that he would do anything it took to get it. I just don’t think this is the right time or story for Cody to suddenly turn heel.
Punks favor from Heyman feels the most interesting. I imagine it’ll be Heyman interfering somewhere down the line to win Punk the title or a huge match. I wouldn’t even rule out Jey winning at Wrestlemania and Punk turning heel with Heyman helping him to win the title to tie it all in with Reigns. It has to be something more for it to be a slow burner like this.
Austin’s made sense because he was obsessed with the title and chasing it so much that he would do anything it took to get it. I just don’t think this is the right time or story for Cody to suddenly turn heel.
Punks favor from Heyman feels the most interesting. I imagine it’ll be Heyman interfering somewhere down the line to win Punk the title or a huge match. I wouldn’t even rule out Jey winning at Wrestlemania and Punk turning heel with Heyman helping him to win the title to tie it all in with Reigns. It has to be something more for it to be a slow burner like this.
It makes sense because of the 'pressure of the title' narrative they're pushing. I think it's a great time to turn him heel, he's in danger of going stale and the Cena route if they just leave him as is.
I reckon the Heyman favour is Roman murdering Rollins at the Chamber (leading to Punk winning).
Oh for sure, there's no way either one loses the belt yet.
They’ve got a Rock vs Triple H authority angle (albeit not a match) in their back pocket if they chose that route. Feel like authority/corporate angles generally are super played out though, it’s been 25 years. Are they basically floundering with the booking post Bloodline angle
Why does Mercedes Mone have so many belts?
Does it not make most sense for Punk to go corporate and side with Rock? Or has that already been mentioned and covered in here?
Punk selling out to get the WM main event and title shot adds up, and I would guess he would revel in it on the mic.
Punk selling out to get the WM main event and title shot adds up, and I would guess he would revel in it on the mic.
The real answer is probably because AEW can't believe their luck that she went there rather than back to WWE.
I personally think she's wasted there & will go back to WWE whenever her contract expires.
I've seen that touted quite a lot online.
Not sure I can actually see it happening. I'd personally have Rhodes eventually accept and turn heel side-by-side with Rock.
Or Rollins maybe. He was quite involved last time and he has history of selling out.
Yea, fair enough. The way WWE is I don't think they will go for the Cody turn yet. But they definitely have a lot of options, even if the storylines aren't intertwining quite perfectly at the moment.
Wrestlers still blading seems very played out.
Daniels being caught blading was pretty embarrassing, but the entire angle is a bit meh now; it was pretty good when it was slowly building, but MJF is so much better than Hangman on the mic it's a bit unbalanced.
One thing I haven't seen AEW getting enough credit for though is Ricochet, he's far more interesting now than he's ever been, there's actually a character there beyond being a flippy guy.
One thing I haven't seen AEW getting enough credit for though is Ricochet, he's far more interesting now than he's ever been, there's actually a character there beyond being a flippy guy.
It was a great segment until Logan stank the place up with his shitty mic skills, he's so bad on the mic it's crazy.
This! He stood out in a bad way.
Yep he was awful.