The many sins of Cody Rhodes

[Chili]

To make a completely separate point about Cody, the bleach blonde spiky cut with nice threads always gave me this Aryan comic book business villain look about him, added with his grandios way he cuts promos that can either sound epic and invoke his dad's immense shared skill, or he'll cut that apeshit promo where he ended racism, some of his needlessly wordy WWE stuff or that last AEW promo where he spoke in fucking riddles like he was trying to give out clues without his captors knowing.

Basically I think he's a genuine guy with fans especially kids, a great performer, a babyface that is incredible, but with some weird arse capitalism vibe about him in my head that only seems to make sense to me. I know Hogan is essentially the same template somewhat, but my mind splits them. The tattoo is still awful by the way. We're used to it now, but he should never be let off for it.

Edited November 1, 2024 by Chili

[SuperBacon]

Cody's not shit. The last hour or so here has been though.

I'm trying to sit through training with a camera off, come on lads!

[LaGoosh]

13 minutes ago, Lorne Malvo said:

I just find people like Drainmaker and WWEGareth absolutely exhausting. Imagine dedicating your whole life to being a tribalist social media dickhead. Do they never just feel like shutting up for a bit?

Not defending Drainmaker but he's relentlessly positive about literally everything AEW does and doesn't really mention WWE at all. While someone like WWEGareth is a massive hater and completely toxic. Both are incredibly stupid but I'd take psychotic positivity over endless hatred and bile any day.

[BomberPat]

Cody Rhodes saying that wrestlers have to be in incredible shape is a hell of a take. What happened to not looking like the athlete of the day is supposed to look, your belly being just a lil' big, your heiny being just a lil' big?

It's the old story of someone at an NWA promoters' meeting arguing that their champion had to be a good promo because only good talkers drew money, and The Sheik standing up and pointing out that he'd drawn more money than anyone in the room without ever saying a word. There's no hard and fast rule for how wrestling should work, for what should get over, or for what wrestlers should look like, because if there was, everybody would do it. 

Yes, some of the biggest stars in wrestling have had incredible bodies. But plenty of them haven't. On top of that, and I think this is equally important and goes overlooked, there are way more wrestlers with incredible physiques who never amounted to anything, so it can't be that high on the list of essential qualities. 

[SuperBacon]

10 minutes ago, LaGoosh said:

WWEGareth

No idea who this is, but one of the Google images has him kneeling down with his fist in the air in a WWE t shirt ?

Amazing.

[Chili]

Just now, SuperBacon said:

No idea who this is, but one of the Google images has him kneeling down with his fist in the air in a WWE t shirt ?

Amazing.

He's that white lad from the Nation of Domination meme but now he's (Wrestlemania 23) All Grown Up!

Thank you, thank you all, oh no YOU stop.

[Lion_of_the_Midlands]

58 minutes ago, Lorne Malvo said:

I just find people like Drainmaker and WWEGareth absolutely exhausting. Imagine dedicating your whole life to being a tribalist social media dickhead. Do they never just feel like shutting up for a bit?

I've no idea who either of them are and I'm happy for that to continue. 

The bit I've bolded is surely a rhetorical question Lorners. We have definitely had people in this little corner of the web who dedicated themselves to never shutting up, the rest of the toxic ocean of social media seems to be full of these types of cunt. 

[Carbomb]

1 hour ago, DavidB6937 said:

And this is why I mostly don't read wrestling twitter

Fixed

1 hour ago, Lorne Malvo said:

tribalist social media

Had to do a double-take here because of a mis-read. I thought Roman Reigns had declared he was a leftie.

[SuperBacon]

11 minutes ago, Carbomb said:

Had to do a double-take here because of a mis-read. I thought Roman Reigns had declared he was a leftie.

Socialism

Housing

Income for all

Engels 

Lenin

Democracy

SHIELD

[King Mal the Glorious]

Does that make Dean Ambrose the "Loony Lefty Fringe"?

[d-d-d-dAz]

49 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Socialism

Housing

Income for all

Engels 

Lenin

Democracy

SHIELD

When you're not calling discussions I'm a part of 'shit', your work on here is impeccable ? 

[SuperBacon]

3 hours ago, d-d-d-dAz said:

When you're not calling discussions I'm a part of 'shit', your work on here is impeccable ? 

Yeah was a bit harsh and silly, I was just annoyed at the social media bollox (alright Tiger RickBacon) that's all. Apologies all.

[d-d-d-dAz]

20 minutes ago, SuperBacon said:

Yeah was a bit harsh and silly, I was just annoyed at the social media bollox (alright Tiger RickBacon) that's all. Apologies all.

I think my tone came across more serious than I intended. I'm happy to say that my contributions to the discussion, at least, are shit if I'm using daft phrases like 'Viscera might be fat but he'd crush you you silly cunt.'

[SuperBacon]

He's such a loveable weirdo.

Wrong choice on nearly everything though.

[LaGoosh]

Posting and sharing AI. This may be the worst of his sins yet.