Brian Gewirtz on THAT Cody Rhodes Promo Where He Stepped Aside For The Rock

[Dale]

[Fightful/Masked Man Show]
Full Quote:

"Cody is a human being who is genuine and real, and he wears his heart and emotion on his sleeve. In Alabama [February 2nd WWE SmackDown], certainly, even if you tell me, 'that would never work, it's stupid to propose it.' The idea was supposed to be, it's like the Nixon-Kenedy debate a little bit where you read the transcript, you're like 'Nixon kicked his ass.' If you watch the actual footage, 'Oh, he was a sweaty terrible mess.' Cody, it was supposed to be, in some form, 'Yeah, Fuckin A! Go get em Rock! You're going to get your ass kicked, Roman! Let's do this!' and this uplifting promo. Instead, he looked like someone shot his dog in the face in the parking lot. Just look at his expression. By the way, someone else, even when the team wins, looks forlorn and upset and despondent.

That, I don't think, helped matters. It might not have changed or affected anything. Certainly, on paper, and I don't blame Cody for that, he's real and one of the realest people I've ever met. He said what he had to say in the promo, but you couldn't mask what he was really feeling, and I think the fans felt that a lot. They felt like 'he doesn't mean a word of this. This is being forced for him to say.' He's despondent. He's literally doing the Michael Cera-Arrested Development, Charlie Brown walk out of the arena when he's supposed to be on cloud nine. I think that had a lot to do with it."​

Man i'm glad it went down the way it actually did because this would have been genuinely awful

 

[Comrade Khan]

Yo this guy is such a bitch trying to gaslight us into blaming Cody's facials lmao

 

[Comrade Khan]

Also really not a fan of writers commenting on stuff like this, dude seems to really love pumping his own tires n defending his angles , sometimes while ongoing . It's goofy

 

[Grimoire Lenin]

Isn't this the same douche canoe who wrote some of the worst angles of the Ruthless Aggression Era?

 

[Smart Marx]

Isn't this the same douche canoe who wrote some of the worst angles of the Ruthless Aggression Era?

Yeah, he’s the main writer of Raw for like most of the late ruthless and pg era. He’s the rock’s go to guy, though.

 

[Chris]

Also really not a fan of writers commenting on stuff like this, dude seems to really love pumping his own tires n defending his angles , sometimes while ongoing . It's goofy

Pretty sure he only has a job for Rock's angles now too and he's not even a current employee other than Rock has that clause that's been revealed from SEC filings that he can bring his own writers in for anything he's doing

 

[Smart Marx]

Yo this guy is such a bitch trying to gaslight us into blaming Cody's facials lmao

I mean, he’s not entirely wrong. We could all see Cody felt defeated, but that being said, the creative fucking sucked and I’m glad the fans could feel his pain and we rallied behind him.

 

[Chris]

For the record tho, I did see the same with Cody's reaction but most of the defenders were using it as "proof" it was all planned bc dude looked just like he lost at Mania 39

 

[Smart Marx]

Pretty sure he only has a job for Rock's angles now too and he's not even a current employee other than Rock has that clause that's been revealed from SEC filings that he can bring his own writers in for anything he's doing

This is my understanding as well. Rock trusts him with his angles and especially his promos. He wrote a good deal of his best ones, supposedly.

 

[ETE]

Pretty sure he only has a job for Rock's angles now too and he's not even a current employee other than Rock has that clause that's been revealed from SEC filings that he can bring his own writers in for anything he's doing

To be fair outside of Cody stepping aside everything else related to The Rocks run was 1000 times better written than anything else in WWE. HHH is a very formulaic, unimaginative booker. All Title reigns go on for a year minimum, all feuds are just surface level feuds to fill time.

 

[Chris]

That is the narrative I've seen slowly forming that I imagine I'll have to block when everyone starts parroting it more

 

[JakeYourBooty]

That is the narrative I've seen slowly forming that I imagine I'll have to block when everyone starts parroting it more

I’d start with the guy who posted it here

 

[Chris]

I’d start with the guy who posted it here

Gonna turn into a "can't criticize WWE" forum now, sorry AEW

 

[JakeYourBooty]

Gonna turn into a "can't criticize WWE" forum now, sorry AEW

Haha
We just can’t win

 

[Comrade Khan]

Pretty sure he only has a job for Rock's angles now too and he's not even a current employee other than Rock has that clause that's been revealed from SEC filings that he can bring his own writers in for anything he's doing

I.thought he commented on some of the Becky stuff too but I coukd def be misrememberin. Either way it's like if Tony defended his story angles while they were on going - he'd get ripped to shreds