SmackDown Live Live SmackDown Discussion thread, February 2nd 2024: The Road to WrestleMania begins

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them saying that rock wanted this sounds terrible. I'm hoping in his mind he gets asked when he's gonna face roman so much he actually thinks this is what the fans want and isn't just inserting himself for no reason. sadly it's probably both.
 
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Since it's in Philadelphia I have no doubt that a significant element is gonna shit on this
 

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Rock's gonna end like he started off... a rejected babyface with "Rocky Sucks" echoing all around him
 
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A serious question: what exactly is the appeal of a heel winning the world title and keeping it for over 3 years and beating every babyface ever?
 
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A serious question: what exactly is the appeal of a heel winning the world title and keeping it for over 3 years and beating every babyface ever?
I prefer heels most of the time and even I have no answer to this.
 

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I prefer heels most of the time and even I have no answer to this.
Yeah I understand that. I've been thinking about this since Smackdown ended and I'm still disappointed. Cody did everything right and he's still wrong apparently.
 
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Cody was a babyface that had my full support and rallied together most of the Universe behind him. Including people who had previously written him off in AEW like my food pal, Blaze. Wild that not see the importance in crowning him now.
 
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69% :hayden3

But seriously, over two thirds of the people disliked this development on YouTube.
 

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Only WWE could make me not want to see The Rock. Only WWE.
 
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An absolute monkeys paw wish if i ever saw one. You get rock and roman but cody fucks off.

I’ll read the results of raw to see the continuation that can hopefully save it but god this is gross
 

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Pretty much underlines what I thought first when they brought their World Heavyweight Title into existence and that is that the WHC is seen as a distant #2 "World" Title belt within the WWE. The consolation title. Doesn't matter, if they give Cody the title from Seth in the end. They blew it a second time.

And on top of it, it kinda makes the L at Mania last year feel even worse now, doesn't it?

A serious question: what exactly is the appeal of a heel winning the world title and keeping it for over 3 years and beating every babyface ever?
I prefer heels most of the time and even I have no answer to this.
I mean, let's be honest. The overall Title run was still pretty good. The first year Reigns as a heel was still pretty fresh and he together with Heyman was one of the very few highlights of WWE TV, especially seeing how much better Reigns was on the microphone, for example, compared to all his years as a face. The second year we had one of the best long-time stories the WWE put on in a very long time with the whole meat of the Bloodline-Storyline. Of course, this was mostly due to Zayn, Jey and Jimmy, but it's not like Reigns wasn't a big cog in that whole thing.

The big problem was this last year and I think people already forgot how good the run was until Mania 39. It was the perfect point to stop it. Especially with how the rest of 2023 turned out regarding the Bloodline-Storyline. ...but as so often in the past, WWE milked something for too long and now they are in such a narrow corner that there isn't a good way out anymore. Like I said before, even if they'd give Cody the W over Reigns this year (which they probably will at Summerslam now), it will always be tainted with "too little, too late"
 

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It's 100% because Punk got injured that this is potentially happening. I'll give it time to see how it unfolds but disappointing.
 
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