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I was there. I remain convinced Cody came out mad because Brandi got heckled real bad during a Dark match vs Willow. Then Cody got it even worse & lost it. Most legit "no, we truly hate you" heat Ive ever felt at a show.

Willow is roughly 100000x better at pro wrestling than Brandi in that match

Sean@stholeary.bsky.social

In Jan 2022, I saw Willow play jobber for Brandi Rhodes on Dark. She was so instantly good the live crowd (it was in DC) got legitimately pissed off when she had to sell Brandi's ridiculously bad offense. Everyone knew they were seeing a young star. Glad she got her shot & made it.

I will never understand Cody Rhodes’ babyface appeal. He’s never not felt like he’s acting disingenuous (setting up a heel turn), or in denial about being unlikeable. And yet, fed fans ate him up like conservatives who didn’t realize Homelander was the bad guy.

WWE has consciously decided to aim their product at children and Cody looks like a GI Joe. He's corny, he's hokey, he's simple, but he's got bright eyes and a good smile. He's uncomplicated and one-dimensional but thats the appeal, he's basically Cena but more telegenic.

For some reason I memoryholed this and "AVOID AVOID AVOID" being the same promo but that's probably because it ran for so long I began to disassociate halfway through.

Patrick Valentine@koushiroizumi.bsky.social

I get what he was trying to do but "You got BALLS calling yourself Brody" has the same energy as the short running bit where Taz was annoyed by Orange Cassidy's name "Who the hell named you 'Orange?'" "...uh, my mom!?"

We were all so desperate for him to go full Heel and really embrace a power hungry EVP and break his no challenge clause and then he just...never did. Glad the Bucks did the EVP thing much later and probably did it better then what Cody would have done.

I still quote "Avoid! Avoid! Avoid!" to this day. It's such a "good" promo on paper, but it was so meandering and did little to build to his current match while doing more to build to a match against a guy that he wasn't going to face at all in AEW and oh BTW, Sammy, we got a ladder match.

"If you're an industry journalist and you don't agree with me, you're not a journalist." That's fascist rhetoric. No wonder he's done so well in the Nazi company.