CM Punk/Cody Injury/Hell In a Cell

We got lots to talk about here today. Well, let's see, we had a rampage on Friday where c M Punk and New City's injured, but he's not relinquishing the a W title. We're gonna find out who the new interim a W champion is at Forbidden Door, and that's we'll tell you all about this whole rigamarole. We had Helen Cell last night. We had n x T two point oh in your house on Saturday. We have Raw tonight and yes, I guess we got to talk about Cody now,

don't we? Yes? You know, uh, before the show is sent for VV send me a message and he said, how did we manage to get the Sasha story, the MJF story, and now the Cody story all how could we be so lucky? And uh And what I said, my opinion is that it's not that we got three stories that people are reacting like, you know whatever to, but it's a fact that now we're at a point in life where people react like that to every major story. So this ain't gonna end. Cody is just the latest.

You know, By the end of this week, something else is gonna happen and everybody's gonna have to plant their flag and and get all passionate about it. But I'm gonna try to talk a little bit about Cody in a way that maybe everybody won't go crazy ha ha. I gonna anyway, We'll get going after the break, everybody Observer Live back in the show. Bran Albert is here Wrestling Observer Live Mix, and Bervitti also Wrestling Observer dot Com. All right, let's let's try not to waste too much

time on this. Okay, we don't have to talk about this all day, everybody, you know that, right, So, Cody suffered a torn peck. It was known Saturday night. Helena Cell was Sunday and w w E announced the news on the pre show, and it was actually a really funny part of it. So they announced the news on the pre show and then later they have the announcers clear up the story and then tell you what the

actual story was. It was. It was totally bizarre. They were like, uh, you know, the story is out that, uh, Cody was hurt in a brawl with seth Rawlins on Monday and Taurus Peck, but that's not true. Cody was injured but then tore his peck there like it was just it was weird. It was like, what anyway, So Cody torres Peck working out and uh, they acknowledged that and uh, and then they pushed that he was still

going to do the show. And so Cody comes down to the ring and he's got his jacket on and you can already see before he even takes his jacket off, like the middle of his chest it's it's all purple. So he takes his jacket off, and uh, this bloke's got a torn pack. It's purple and blue all over his chest, down his arm. I mean, it's it's gruesome.

And like for the first five minutes of the match, the crowd's almost in stunned silence, like, oh my god, how's this guy doing this and why and uh, he does the match, and about you know, ten ten minutes in, you know, the fans start to realize, you know, his his arm hasn't fallen off yet, and they haven't stopped the match. I feel I can safely get into this now. And so they got into it, and uh, you know, by the end, I mean torn pack or no torn Peck,

they had a great match. And when you add the torn Peck story to it, I mean it was just I think the word dave Us was compelling and bro was it ever And this guy he won, and crowd goes nuts for him, and he's kissing the matt and he's crying and he's thanking the fans and and this dude just comes off as like the biggest baby face in the history of mankind. And you know, we talked about it on the show and everything like that, and

then the blowback started. I turned the show off as soon as I heard one good thing about you guys said about Cody. We can't be glorifying and and uh, he this is a big one. He shouldn't have been in there. Okay, listen, as a fan and as a guy who likes Cody. I was grimacing the entire time. I was so worried about this guy. And uh, and obviously I did not think that he should have been

in the ring with that torn peck. Okay, but as I noted yesterday, they have doctors in w W E, and no matter what you want to say, these doctors aren't jokes. Okay, these doctors if if they feel that it is a danger for you to get into the ring, they will not let you in the ring. They will not clear you. There was that incident where, uh, Brian Danielson got injured in a match with Triple H and they stopped the match and he Brian Danielson was furious.

He was so mad he almost fought Triple H after the match, but they they stopped the match, they wouldn't let him do the match. They have retired people, they have they have permanently retired people. And I put that in quotes because some of them, like Paige are still permanently retired. Others like Edge and Daniel Bryan were permanently retired, but then you know they ended up being not retired. And uh, you know, if you if you follow the Brian Danielson story, I mean, the w w E doctor

was the last guy. He was the last holdout. Brian Danielson had gone to multiple doctors who were like, bro, you can do this again. You don't need to be permanently retired. And it was the w w E doctor that was the final holdout before he was finally allowed to come back into the ring. Okay, now I realize that we live in an age where there's an internet. Okay, And this accelerated during COVID. Everybody decided that they were

a doctor. Okay, but you know what, most of you aren't doctors, all right, And the doctor in w w E decided that it was okay for Cody to go out there and do that match. Now there's another doctor. I've actually got his name, and uh, you can go up and watch his video on YouTube. His name is uh and of course it's not right here, but I'm gonna get in just a moment. His name is uh Dr Brian Sutterer, Okay, and he does this for a living.

And he did a five minute video where he talked about the injury that Cody suffered and uh, the risks of going out there and uh. And it's funny because this video is is. Uh, it's out there and uh, I have already seen people cherry picking what they want to hear in his video because he actually was very balanced about it. But when you're balanced, then what happens is people can cherry pick what side they want to

go with. Okay, and uh. And what he said was the pack was torn off the bone, and you can't tear it anymore off the bone. It's not like he's gonna go in there and do any more damage to the pack. Okay. He did say that, yes, obviously we when you have an injury like that, you can overcompensate with other parts of your body and suffer another injury. That can happen. But his conclusion at the end was

that it was probably very painful for Cody. But anybody who is saying that, like a doctor, would be negligent to allow Cody to go into the ring. He does not feel that it was negligent to allow Cody to go back into the ring. So at the end of the day, like dude, I don't think he should have been in the ring either. Okay, But the doctor in w w E and another doctor here both believed it was not negligent to allow Cody Rhodes to go into the ring. So I don't even know what we're arguing about.

It doesn't matter when you're non medical. Gut tells you Okay, the doctor believed that Cody could go into the ring and do this match. And then you know other people who were like, oh, well, this never happens in real sports. And then you know people pointed out that actually it does happen in real sports, and here are a bunch of examples. But bro, that's not even a fair comparison

because wrestling isn't a real sport. Like the whole point of wrestling is to go in there and protect your opponent. That's the point. So Cody wasn't going into a real sporting event where seth Rawlins didn't care one way or the other whether his peck his torn. He's gonna beat the crap out of him or or in m m A he's gonna target an injury. They went in there with the idea to protect Cody Rhodes. That's the whole

point of pro wrestling. So you can't even make a comparison. Well, oh you know, uh, the Super Bowl this year, this guy had a torn peck and he played, that's the super Bowl, it's real. So anyway, I I understand. I I think that he shouldn't have been in there. But at the end of the day, the doc felt it was okay. Another doctor felt it was okay. So I don't even know why. This is like a big argument

about the safety and negligence and everything like that. The actual medical professionals said it wasn't negligent to let him go in there, right, yeah. Well, the the visceral reaction to that, to how it looked, you know, especially for a lot of people who are not into sports, saw that and go, that's a torn pack. We're being told, it's for real, a torn pack. It looks like that. How in the rule can this person go out there?

Because you can and it's not. And again, it looked a lot of people immediately it's toxic masculinity, it's meat headedness, it's it's dumb jock nous. It's like, no, it's it's actually not. If this person could go and perform, and the person he's working with felt comfortable, and a doctor said, look, the only thing you can do is if you can get through it, go ahead. And I'm and I'm used to that from the NFL in the NHL. So there's a there's a whole lot of things that could be true.

Should w W E can you have to have the opinion that maybe they should have not let him go in there at all. Yes, is there's a lot of what ifs, and there's a lot of things that are frankly true about this, including the fact that he was cleared to buy a doctor and he was able to go out there and perform. And you don't know what Cody and w W talked about as far as paying for the surgery and all that stuff. So I know we're going to break. We'll be back back in a moment.

Observer Live and the show. Brayn Elber is here Wrestling Observer Live. Mike zumber Viv, also of Wrestling Observer dot Com. Well, thankfully we got another injury to talk about. What's up? Maybe thankfully it's not the right word. Well, yeah, that's a little dark. Sam Punk has broken things. Excuse me, thanks, he broke some things. He broke some things. That's what we know for sure. It is believed that it's a broken foot, okay, but one way the other things are

broken and so h well, that's a multiple. Did he break like? He said? Thing? So, do you know what a foot is. There's a bunch of bones in there. If you break three little bones in your foot, they still say you have a broken foot. He said things. So probably he broke a few bones in his foot, would be my guess. Fine, kill me. He got all choked up. Hey, if you keep this up, we'll go

back to talking about Cody. Don't threaten me. So he came out on rampage and he announced that that he broke some things and that he had offered to relinquish the a W title, but Tony Conn told him no. And so this is what is going to happen. Sam Punk is gonna take time off to heal his things, and in the meantime, this coming Wednesday, there's going to be a Battle Royal on Dynamite. We don't know how many people, we know anything about it. There will be

some people in a Battle Royal. Okay, whichever person wins will be having a match with John Moxley in the main event of Dynamite on Wednesday. That man is gonna go to Forbidden Door and face the winner of Hiroshi Tanahashi and Hiroki go too for the interim a W Championship. Okay, now what are they gonna do? I got no idea? What would I do? What do I think would be awesome? I think it would be awesome, so funny, say go

to say go to No. I think it would be awesome if if John Moxley faced Hiroshi Tonahashi and Hiroshi Tanahashi beat him and became the a e W champion. Now let me give you my mindset here, Okay. So clearly the match they wanted to do was was CM

Punk against Hiroshi Tanahashi. Okay, which actually was a match that I I had suggested before they announced it, because it has to be like a big new Japan name, but it also has to be a big new Japan name that they don't mind beating that guy, they don't mind that guy losing in an a W title match, and Tanashi's perfect. Okay. But before they announced this, the match that they have been building forever that everybody wants

to see is John Moxley and Hiroshi Tanahashi. But they didn't do that on this show, and I was thinking why, And the answer may simply be that they wanted to do Punk versus Tanahashi and whatever. But you know, there was also that thought that, you know, maybe maybe New Japan what they want to do Tanahashi versus Moxley, but they want to be on a New Japan show and they want Tanahashi to win. So maybe that's why it's not happening on Forbidden Door maybe, you know. So anyway,

I don't know if any of this is true. All I know is that originally it was going to be

CM Punk defending the a W title against Hiroshi Tanahashi. Now, obviously the Monkey Wrench of Broken Things was thrown into the plan, So why not just have Tanahashi win the a W title and then two or three months from now, when CM Punk is is good to go, you do the match that you were planning to do the entire time, which was Punk versus Tanahashi, which presumably Punk was going to win, and Punk beats Tanahashi and he defies the a W and interim titles, and then away you go.

Everything is exactly how you had it planned in June. You're just doing it in August instead. So that's what I do. But I'm not Tony Khan. If you've ever seen one of my press conferences, so we'll see what he ends up doing, and there's gonna be an education process which would need to happen if you went in that direction. And I actually like that direction, um because it adds, you know, from a pro wrestling point of view,

and Tony CON's a big pro wrestling fan. You see how he modeled those Owen Heart belts after the Stampede belts, and he's a big belt mark and that stuff means

something to him. You know. The fact that you can add to your lineage by having again one of even though there's some people out there who don't know him one of the greatest professional wrestlers of all time, when it's certainly one of the best baby faces of all time, Hiroshitanahashi, who can still perform at a highly entertaining level and still have really good matches every once in a while. You can't do it on a regular base. Is but the fact that you can have that, I think is

a great idea. Now, obviously he's not going to be able to you know, he can emote on as far as getting over on American TV because of the way he wrestles, because of his personality, because of his style is flash. You know, he's brothers in the Three Musketeers with Shabbata and since kay Nakamura and you saw Nakamara got over here Tanahashi, once people see him and take to him. I don't think there's gonna be a problem with the American fan base, but there's gonna be a

little bit of education that has to go on. And this gives you a chance because you don't have a guy who's going to be cutting promos and taking up that time per se when it comes to, you know, a time on the show. It gives other people a chance to speak, and it gives you a chance to do some things with some other people. And that's what this Battle Royal could possibly do is lead to some new ideas and lead to some things that you can do coming out of this thing. And we don't know

who's in it. We don't know how many people are in it, but one would assume the entire top ten, and then I guess a group you know, of ten extra people that you would have in there, because I assume it's not going to be everybody in like two

rings or something like that doesn't make any sense. It cheapens it, so only have your best people out there, including Wardlow, who maybe gets screwed over by an Ethan pagro Scorpio Sky, which leads to him going after Sky for the the TNT title, which he is alluded to in an interview that again, that's fantasy booking, but there's a lot of things that could come out of this. Bottom line is Tanahashi as a choice for Champion, I'm

all for it. I also want to mention that there was a story and Business Insider by Claire Atkinson, and this from p w D Insider because the actual article was behind a paywall, and yes I pay for p W Insider, but not Business Insider. In the piece, it was noted that Stephanie McMahon's leave of absence, which was publicly described as McMahon taking a break to tend to her family, was actually quote executed by her father, Vince

mcmah in the organization seventy six year old CEO. The article noted responsibilities that fell under Stephanie's umbrella included marketing, brand, business and creative services, along with community and entertainment relations.

Company announced a new executive vice president head of Marketing today, Catherine Newman, noting and responsibility will include marketing, brand, community relations, entertainment relations, creative services, and photography, much in the same responsibilities McMahon had article noted, while Stephanie had described the potential of w w e's growth in sponsorship and marketing is having the potential to be in the quote hundreds

of millions of dollars range, that wasn't happening under McMahon, Atkinson, citing a company source, reported, we are seeing that growth, said the company insider of Stephanie's tenure. When someone has moved out of a company, it is usually the result of something not working. We took stronger control of that a few months ago. Now the way this is UH raised, it sounds like Vince fired Stephanie McMahon. But I don't believe that that happened. And I think Dave's gonna have

more on that here a little while. But I can tell you what is undoubtedly true. Okay, So Sephanie stepped away from her duties, all right, And it had been a long time coming. She had she had talked to people about stepping away from her duties, uh, dating back to when Triple H had is his hard issue. So this was this was coming for a while, okay, But the day that it happened, it was made very clear she is stepping away, She's going to spend time with

her family. She will be back and in the meantime, her duties will be split amongst different people. Different people will be taking on a little bit extra, but we're gonna spread it out amongst a bunch of people. All right, that's fine. Well, then a little while later, a week or two, all of a sudden, like they were hiring people for her role. That's when I first got a red flag, like, huh, you're hiring people to take on

what Stephanie used to do. And uh. And then in fact, as uh, as we talked about on some of the shows in in Vegas. Uh, you know, w w E all of a sudden, for some reason did a one eighty and they wanted word out that Stephanie was not very good at her job. Now what happened why, I have no idea, but clearly the folks that wanted the word out that Stephanie was not good at her job contacted Claire Atkinson here of Business Insider, and they in fact got the story out as well. So I don't

know what happened. I don't know if Stephanie will ever be back, but something happened and something changed, and uh and that's the latest as of right now. Do you know if Katherine is one of Victor's daughters from Genera City, who don't worry about that. Look, this place is now getting much much bigger. And I know we, especially old people like us, we've always had a McMahon family, whether it be Vince Sr. Giving the company to Vince Jr. And then seeing Shane and Stephanie come into it. Linda,

you know, became a featured person. But we see where Nick Cohn has taken this company and we see some of the moves that they've made that you know, when they went with the network idea, then when they got rid of the people that started the network and went in the direction that they're going in. Now you see the deals that con has landed and it's like, maybe this thing is actually now at a level where, yeah, it's now out of their hands. This time may maybe

do something else for everybody. And this is the way evolution happens in business. Back in a moment Observer Live, Well, we did have some shows this weekend, didn't we alright, So, if you've not seen it yet, watched the Young Bucks versus h Benton Phoenix match on Rampage. That match was better anything on the pay per view. It was so

unbelievably awesome. So that was Friday. Uh, you can skip SmackDown, I give you permission, but if you want to hear the report, Tom and I are going to do the report on that as well as New Japan Strong coming up in h two o'clock Pacific five Eastern video on f W online dot com. And he's gonna talk a little g c W turnament to Survival to now Wrestling Up dot com as well. Well, did you see it? What do you want me do? Well? Was he was he wrestling for Black Label this weekend? I have no

idea what he was doing. You should ask him that I was in quarantine. Noah's Man's schedule, your partner. We also had the n x T two point oh show, and uh, very quickly we had the Family Tony d'angelo's crew. They beat Legato del Fantasma, So now Legato del Fantasma will be uh gangsters. I guess match was pretty good all things considered, it's a pretty good match. I liked it. Toxic Attraction versus Katana Chance and Caden Carter not good. This was not a good match. In fact, it was

pretty bad. Although I thought Caine Carter looked good and Catana Chance, come on, we know her name. Anyway, she's improved, and they were pretty good. But Toxic Attraction retained the tag team titles because you know, we gotta, we gotta, you know, if you keep trying. Eventually was eighteen tote year old males are going to tune in to see these women with almost no clothes on. We just got

to keep trying. Yeah. Carmelo Hayes beat Cameron Grimes to win the n x T North American title was good match. This as good match as you would expect. Manny Rose beat Wendy Chew of course, to retain the n x T Women's title, and this was not good. It was pretty bad. The Creed Brothers beat pretty deadly. I like this match because you know what, I like these Creeds. I like these Creeds. Watching the Creed Brothers it's like

watching UFC one a styles clash. You're afraid, you know, maybe someone could be killed, but thankfully no one does get killed. And uh, you just never know what's gonna happen with these guys, and they're just they're like, they're like two nineteen ninety seven Goldbergs, just out there running rampant, and these these good word kers are trying to carry them and and they sort of can. I thought this was a fun match, and the Creeds one, and they won the NXT Tag team titles and for their parents,

I like this this was get stuff. Do you remember the old Johnny Valentine Why a lot of people have used it where it's like I can't make you believe that wrestling is real, but I can, damn you sure make you believe that I'm real. Like there is almost nothing n x D two point oh can do to make me convinced that any of it is real and not just one big hallucinatory cartoon. But the Creeds, You'll

never make me believe that they're not real. They are amazing puppies with big paus as Jr. Would always say, they are amazing athletes, and they are is if is close to one could come to actually what it was like being thrown around by the Steiners watching somebody do that. That's exactly what they are doing right now. And we had braun Breaker versus Joe Gacy, and uh, they gotta get this brawn breaker away from Joe Gacy like as soon as humanly possible. I'm gonna be losing money at

this rate. My god, this has taken this guy from like the hottest prospect and all of w W E some bloke having average matches on pay per view. It's it's the worst. So the story was he can lose the title via d Q, so they tease that a couple of times, but he didn't anyone. Can we move on? Now? That's my review of n x T two point o in Your House And it was so bad because nobody

believed that. So every time it was he would kick out it too, and then they would show a close up a brawn breaker and it's like he can't lose it, like okay, And then they did a bit with a chair about seventy five million times. The referee takes it away in slow motion, turns his back to walk away to put it's like, can you at least try if you're gonna like do this, at least try, And the

guys tried. I mean, Joe Gazy is he's fine. It's just the gimmick is death, and this feud has been death and it hasn't helped Ron Breaker and it sucks and I wish it was over. Please person here saying Brian's gonna lose his bet because of Joe Gaycy. It's I mean, Joe Casey is gonna cost me more money than MGF. No, he's not, he's not. Look once he breaks away from him, Look once anything happens with n XT,

once he goes up to the main roster. That's really at the end of the day, the bottom line, because there's only so much damage they can do for him in n x T as far as his whole career, which wasn't that what that was? The whole thing was about the ruin this guy. They'll ruin his w W career. Alright, Uh, he's not ruined, everybody. He's just in the middle of an absolutely boring, nothing happening, generic feud with a guy he needs to get away from. But no one's getting

no one's watching it, going, Oh, this Broun sucks. Now everyone's saying, can he get a new opponent? It does get him ready for the main roster, It sure does. Speaking the main roster, money in the bank. Bianca beat Osca and Becky in a three way also, which was an excellent match, which of course led to you know, somebody having to go out of their way to start a threat on our board asking why poor Oscar is

just being buried all the time. It's like the people who are anti Bianca that like crawled out of holes on Twitter last night. Just beat these people in the head with a shovel, put them back in there and make sure you pat it up and they can't get

back out again. People are out of their minds. Like if you want to say that Charlotte Serena Dieve is a better technical wrestler, absolutely, you want to say that Oscar is under used in a person that, because of her experience in her style, is a far more valuable prospect if everything were to fall apart than somebody the age of Bianca bel Air. But look, bottom line is she is the biggest thing in women's wrestling outside of Japan.

Barn On two. For for her to have picked up what she's picked up so far to be the athlete she is, to see how she comes across and to see like all those things that don't are in the ring like marketing potential and a spokesperson for the company and a role model and an influencer and all that

sort of stuff like man, she is it. So I don't know why there are people that maybe they're just trying to be And I do remember when I was a wrestler and its Tim Flowers and say, hey, you know what, You're gonna headline the Temple Theater with me in a singles match for the i c W Championship, but I'm gonna beat you, And I say, no, no, no, no. I don't want to headline in a championship match. I don't want to headline the Temple Theater in the title match.

If I'm gonna lose, i'd I'd rather work Mr Sexy in the second match on the card so that I could win get out of there early. That Bobby Lashley beat omas An m v P and then he prayed around with the belt. So when you think about m v PS, uh rhymes, Oh dude was awesome. MVPs rap was like multiple is better than anything on Raw last week,

anything on SmackDown and uh. In this match, Kevin Owens beat Ezekiel just pinned him clean in the middle we have not had the cameo by Elias yet, and you know, after this match is like, why is this few continuing to get to that? But I guess we'll see if if if they have any foresight whatsoever to take one guitar shot before they cut the guy's hair and shaved

his beard. I I absolutely hope so. And much like when it comes to any anytime talking about Kevin Owens, there's always something that you don't see and you've got to go back online to see he does I guess the talking smack or whatever the post show is called afterwards and he talks about knowing back in the day when Rikishi became the Saltan and knowing that that's who that was. It's just it's a small, dumb thing, but it just that's what's making this few great for me,

is Kevin Owens being a one man show. When it comes to having a field day with this stuff, it's it's great. We had the judgment day being a j Finnbellor and Live Morgan like this match, good match. Everybody worked hard, they got sixteen minutes and uh Edge got the win. I don't know where any of this leads, but that's what happened, So I liked it. Matt cab Moss,

happy Corbin. So we had a we had an issue that played out in the main event, which was that they had a falls count anywhere match and w decided to go old school. Well, we're using a table in the main events, so we can't use one earlier in the show. But it's a it's a no holds barred match. The fans for how long did this match go? Twelve minute match? It was twelve oh five, So for twelve minutes and four seconds, the fans chanted for tables and

they didn't get tables. And so finally in the main event, when he'll seth Rawlins, who's wrestling, you know, Cody Rhodes with his arm dangling from his side, seth Rawlins grabs the table and the fans have been waiting so long that they pop and they start thanking seth Rawlins for getting a table. Like, I know, there's rules, rules and everything, but bro, you should just give these guys tables. It doesn't matter. It would have made things much better in

the main event for people not cheering seth Rawlins. But anyway, they had hardcore match and then mad Cap pilmanized his neck with the steps in the chair one and uh and yeah he's got a new he's got a new look and everything, but he's still mad cap. That blows it absolutely stinks. Riddick Moss is his is a gimmick name anyway, but it sounds like a wrestler. Look at the guy, you go. That guy's name is Reddick Moss. You go, look at you. I believe that name. It

fits who he is, not just that dude. But they're all into just one name, bro, Just call him Riddick. That's actually cool. His last name is like you know, something green that grows on a tree. You can get rid of a part. Just call him Riddick. It comes out there all jacked up, you know, like me h, he beats on people, doesn't tell stupid jokes, and they call him Rick. You know, he doesn't even here Vince saying it Rack. He should have shows Riddick instead of Theory,

because man Theory had the most vanilla nothing happening. Bro, Maybe Riddick down the line can kill Theory and and and look, and it's nothing against Awston Theory because he's insanely talented. But he's been positioned as a geek that he's not getting over, and the specter of him defeating John Cena down the line bothers me and Riddick Moss has been I'm not saying he's been ready for a long time. He's one of those guys came from the NFL, went there. That's all he knows. But like the guy

has been a physical wonder. We've talked about how underused he's been for a long time. Now is the time not to screw it up our twitch chat. Sometimes they're dumb, but sometimes I've got such great ideas. Like you know, if if Riddick came out with like you know, antlers like uh, you know, House of Black and they called him nick Moose Hey is finished? Could be the ridicules. There's a lot of good ones here, all better then

mad Cap. It's too bad that Happy Corbin has blocked you because he could take some of this stuff and actually apply it to him, still telling jokes. I guess to Riddick, if he gets out of traction with his neck and whatnot, let's see how long it takes for him to sell this well back in a week with nothing happening. So all he comes out, They say, Chicago's own Ali. Oh, here's his wife, children, friends, and then he got beat of course he did. And then Cody

Rhoades beat seth Rawlins in the main event. Yes, if you didn't know, by the way, if if you've been listening to the show, Cody one, he hit him with a sledgehammer and he pinned him three and oh against seth Rawlings even with a torn pack. So they got plans for this guy's big return and eventual Devine title win. Come back to row rumble take four to six months anyway, it's out when it goes where a rum will would be perfect for something like that, especially if you don't

have the rock. But even then, you've got multiple nights, perfect time to dring Cody back. Then, uh, when when it comes to like the short term though, like now, you've gotta figure some stuff out like quickly, including anything out They got hold on how you plan on rebuilding seth Rollins because I am interested now. He loses to Cody three times in a row. Did all the mind games they all failed. He's there with his banged up he loses to a guy with an arm falling off

and a peck falling off. What do you got next? Sent bro? I love you, but dude, it's w w E. It doesn't make a bit of difference that he lost three straight matches to Cody. He's gonna come out here, he's gonna do his stupid laugh, he's gonna do his goofy dance, he's gonna cut a promo, and everyone's gonna forget all about it and move on to whatever's goofy feud is. We've seen this a million times, eternal sunshine

of the spotless mind w W fans. I can't think of one w w E person that's pushed as a main of ventnor where anything happens to them, and all of a sudden, the fans don't see them as a star anymore. This audience they're told he's a star, So he is, and they're like, yes, they have about two million really passionate people, and that's good for them, And so do we back at a moment is it alive? Hey Mike? How long did you test positive for UM? It was at least five days. I'm still positive today.

How long has it been for you now? Uh? Five? I think hopefully five days? Hopefully that's it is. Everybody else in the house. Did I know I know someone who test positive for two months afterwards? Oh god, the long COVID Well, no, they were. They just tested positive, but they just like they got over it, but they kept testing positive for two months. Jesus so sucks. Don't get out of here. He's talking about herpies, you geek talking about COVID. Well, hey, you know Cody's gonna be

on the show tonight. He didn't have gone, really does he? What Cody's gonna be talking about his torn peck and what it was. I forgot what it was, but we do know that he will be undergoing surgery for said torn peck on Thursday. That's when it's going to be happening, and they will film all that for the network, have a documentary someday. Brother. Let me tell you, dude, that's it's iconic that that will be there forever, much like his neck tattoo, that that bruise will live in either

infamy or whatever you want to call it. We're at a time everybody got to wrap it up. In an hour, myself and Filthy Tom will be talking all this fun stuff. That'll be at two Pacific five Eastern Video Dot f w online dot com audio or Wrestling Observer dot com. Check that out later on and that's in everybody. Thanks for listening. We'll talk to you again after a while. You have been listening to the Wrestling Observer Daily podcast on the eight Side Network