Although I have my reserves on the crazy quantity of summary video packages to which we were subjected to this week (it puts things politely), I do not find myself sick and tired of this jump quarrel, and it is partly thanks to the promotion of Cody Rhodes in the most recent episode of “Smackdown”. Rhodes went to the Friday edition of The Blue Brand, armed with nothing other than its title, the most knotty black eye of Man, and a microphone to publish its first statements after the betrayal of the brutal elimination chamber of John Cena.
Rhodes was well received by the worshiper crowd of Philadelphia, which helped create an air of solidarity and fear while Rhodes has cataloged the meaning of the city for him, from his old money in the dreams of bank to the completion of his ambitions as Wrestlemania 40. I know that people make a lot of comparisons between Rhodes and Homelander, but Rhodes is really the closest thing That WWE has a superhero, their own big blue scout. We already knew that Rhodes was going to be a strong babyface to counterbalance Rance and perverse energy emanating from Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson, Corporate Cena and Travis Scott, but he was in his element while he was attached to Philadelphia. Nothing revolutionary, but cool to see a master in his job play his art.
The end of Rhodes monologue was where he was for me. While Rhodes began to talk about her past interactions with Cena, you could see the emotional wound mix with physical pain on her bruised face, and you could hear the deep quantity of sorrow and betrayal in his voice – a voice that did not speak during the elimination chamber, a voice that communicates Rhodes “ injured in a way that his facial expressions and his blood could not detail. Rhodes remembers that Cena had told him about the heaviness of a championship, that the charges of a title holder are strengthened every day.
Rhodes then picked up the belt with one hand, and a dramatic effect was super visual. If the symbolism of Rhodes, so easily picking up a title of more than 300 days in its possession is not clear, then perhaps the way in which the tone of Rhodes has gone from dark to enraged things for you.
“You are convinced that you are the last one – you are not!” Rhodes Aboya. “I stand here, and I hold it above my head as if it doesn’t weigh anything!”
Chills. Rhodes’ desire to do anything for a scenario is a race joke with my friends, but Friday monologue showed that Rhodes is really * ready to do everything – going anywhere, emotionally and radically – for a scenario. The passion flowed in his voice and his anger was contagious. Rhodes has made himself a * strong * hero *, whose resilience draws from the desire of each soul to be strong, to be great.
This is a Cody Rhodes in Overdrive, and I live for that. If we can have more of this, tastefully punctuated in the next 43 days to Wrestlemania, then I will certainly “come and get it” every Friday.
Written by Angeline Phu
