SmackDown Live Live SmackDown Discussion thread, March 7th 2025: Cody Rhodes returns to SmackDown after John Cena's vicious betrayal

[Chris]

Oh, I only think rock should do mania at this point anyway. So he fucks off until next year‘s mania and then I would do a match with Cody.

when I'm trying to predict stuff, it's like I don't even have to think about if I want Rock to stay or go after Mania, he's going to for sure so just operate with that as a fact lol doing something with Mania every year is fine in theory too as long as it's good

 

[OsBlaze]

I was making a joke about who was it RL Stern and his crap.

Fair enough. I just have actually dealt with people who say something is bad for that reason

 

[Chris]

Chris wants Cena to win KOTR. Why I don’t know

it's the one thing he's never one, I've said that specifically. But that's not even the important part, I think he should break the fake record as a redeemed babyface lol he won't be a heel by the end of the year so why the fuck does it matter if he wins the belt as it

 

[Ricky Smarks]

when I'm trying to predict stuff, it's like I don't even have to think about if I want Rock to stay or go after Mania, he's going to for sure so just operate with that as a fact lol doing something with Mania every year is fine in theory too as long as it's good

Exactly. I think it’s both the case that we know he’s only gonna do mania because he’s a busy actor but also I think he’s such a huge star at this point. You really should only do it once a year.

And I think you could do a good thing every year as long as you built to it. And I think at this point you’d have two years of build between him and Cody.

 

[Shane]

I was making a joke about who was it RL Stern and his crap.

I was actually bout to say you sound like RL Stern

 

[Wang Chung]

Fair enough. I just have actually dealt with people who say something is bad for that reason

When Sabs said it first that is what popped in my head was his whole posts about the Rock

 

[Grim]

There's much more positivity and less toxicity here especially with Deezy gone

 

[Grim]

Even if I can be a dick sometimes and a haterade

 

[OsBlaze]

it's the one thing he's never one, I've said that specifically. But that's not even the important part, I think he should break the fake record as a redeemed babyface lol he won't be a heel by the end of the year so why the fuck does it matter if he wins the belt as it

Cause of the feuds for the title it sets up. Cody also is running out of challengers unless we turn someone else heel or do a face vs face feud.

 

[Ricky Smarks]

Chris wants Cena to win KOTR. Why I don’t know

If this was back when King of the Ring meant more, I probably would be against it, but at this point, I don’t revere it that much and to give Cena a little bit of closure on his career let him win something he never won and it allows Cody to at least get that torch first I’m on board.

 

[DameDollar]

I forgot there's a Minecraft movie starring Jack Black.

 

[Grim]

I forgot there's a Minecraft movie starring Jack Black.

Everyone wishes they could forget

 

[Chris]

If this was back when King of the Ring meant more, I probably would be against it, but at this point, I don’t revere it that much and to give Cena a little bit of closure on his career let him win something he never won and it allows Cody to at least get that torch first I’m on board.

its a SummerSlam title shot now

 

[Shane]

one thing I do know is that Cena isn’t turning babyface right after Mania regardless if he wins or not. No way in hell they’re turning him heel for one month and one match

 

[Ricky Smarks]

There should be plenty of people left for Cody to face. Because WWE likes to do the thing where he faces the same person like four shows in a row. Like I’m pretty sure he hasn’t had a PLE with Tama or Jacob Fatu yet right just those two alone would be like 5 months.