AEW Friday Night Rampage

[Joe Blog]

I love how Eddie went full Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman when he was cutting his promo on Miro. Lovely stuff. 

[Arch Stanton]

'Redeemer, my man. Redeem Deez Nutz' is the best line in a promo in forever. 

[wordsfromlee]

 

[WyattSheepMask]

On 9/4/2021 at 7:26 PM, Vamp said:

The Black situation is really odd. Cody put him over big time but since he's vanished it's like their weakening Black. You'd think they'd keep him as strong as possible before Cody gets his win back. 

If it wasn't for the fact that Cody's probably booking it I'd think someone was taking the piss out of him. 

I forget who said it, but somebody once compared Cody to Poochie-

* At Revolution, Cody spends the majority of the Ladder match loitering in the background selling an injury, taking the focus off of anything in the ring and putting it on him returning to the match

* Cody is the first person to appear in the intros for both Dynamite and Rampage (a show that he has yet to appear on)

* This week on Rampage, Lee Johnson comes out wearing Cody’s weightlifting belt which he’s never done before and has that shitty Nightmare Family logo plastered all over the screen

Edited September 5, 2021 by WyattSheepMask

[gmoney]

14 hours ago, WyattSheepMask said:

* At Revolution, Cody spends the majority of the Ladder match loitering in the background selling an injury, taking the focus off of anything in the ring and putting it on him returning to the match

This is the maddest complaint. I remember watching at the time, he didn't steal focus at all. The people who are obsessed with Rhodes had their eye glued to him because he invades their every waking thought, but to normal people it wasn't very unusual. 

Edited September 6, 2021 by gmoney

[Chili]

For a very well off bloke, Cody loves living rent free. Long may it continue. 

[WyattSheepMask]

27 minutes ago, gmoney said:

This is the maddest complaint. I remember watching at the time, he didn't steal focus at all.

Tell me another time they’ve kept the face entrance way fully in the shot on the hard cam while a match is in progress

[gmoney]

The entrance was in front of the hard cam for that show wasn't it? I'm not going to get into it anyway, because the anti Cody lot are mental. Your questioning why he's in the intros for TV shows for another thing. You know, one of the blokes who it wouldn't have been possible to have those shows without. "WHAAAA, WHY'S HE IN THE SHOW OPEN!!"

Edited September 6, 2021 by gmoney

[Devon Malcolm]

He's booking himself as the midcard act that AEW fans said he was too good to be when he started AEW and now they're unhappy that he's too prominent there. Wrestling fans!

[Vamp]

I mean, could be different fans?

[BomberPat]

I can recognise why Cody's booked the way he is - his stories play out more or less in isolation to the rest of the show, and are largely focused around Cody Rhodes being very important even in defeat, and a big part of that is because the aim isn't so much to tell coherent wrestling stories as to platform Cody Rhodes as a crossover media talent. That's why Cody and Brandi are in magazine photoshoots together, why they have a reality TV show and so on - but that butts heads with wrestling logic, where doing a gender reveal for your unborn baby on a wrestling show feels like something so absurdly self-indulgent that only the most narcissistic heel should be doing it, yet Cody does it as a babyface. 

So yes, I can see why Cody is booked the way he is, and why it's a valid business move, but at the same time recognise that it's detrimental to my enjoyment of the show, and of his contributions to it in particular. It doesn't help that he leans heavily into wrestling's most melodramatic tendencies, but rarely with enough consistency to make it stick.

[andrew "the ref" coyne]

I'd love this "self indulgent" aspect of Cody to facilitate a heel a fuss with CM Punk. I know someone else mentioned it on here, and I think it has real legs.

Position CM Punk as a lockeroom leader who has a interest in supporting the new generation of wrestlers.

Then have Cody cancel a scheduled match on Dynamite for a few up and comers so he can announce his wife's brand new shoe store (or any other frivolous reason) and then let Punk rip on him for elevating himself.

There is your fued.

[quote the raven]

Edit wrong thread.

 

If anyone saw that spoiler from the PPV then i will take the ban on the chin. 

 

 

 

Edited September 7, 2021 by quote the raven

[The King of Old School]

Really enjoyed that episode of Rampage.

Andrade and Pac had a belting match, intriguing ending too.

Good to see talent like Pillman and Caster given a shot on one of the main programmes, thought they had a good match too that was obviously helped by being in Pillmans home town.

[The King Of Swing]

Yeah that was a decent 40 something minutes of wrestling.