quite frankly: i’m starting to get very tired of how WWE likes to treat cody so shitty, very single time a title feud starts to come to life that everybody has been begging for & wanting to see happen for so long.
- with cena, them not following through that well with his heel turn, the build not being as amazing as it could’ve been, having travis scott be in the main event of WM, having cody lose his first world title because of interference from him… and then just so much more BS following that.
- with drew, setting them tf up from the very start by only giving them the episode of smackdown before WP to promo with each other, the match itself having weird moments before ending in an odd fashion, then following that up with four. straight. months. of the two of them going back and forth in the most subpar matches with each other, drew constantly intervening in cody’s title matches with other people, have cody get the wins against drew in “controversial” ways, in order to “justify” him getting a rematch. then when cody lost the title to drew, they kept having him getting in cody’s business and costing him from earning a title shot (royal rumble, EC, getting involved in his qualifying matches), it was tiring.
- randy. the worst fucking offender. a match everybody had been counting down the minutes to, til we finally got it, and when we did, when we finally got the epic heel turn, too, that was bound to make their build and match that much more exciting, they fumbled the ball AGAIN. by adding a goddamn celebrity to one of cody’s mania feuds. pat mcafee never needed to have his nose stuck anywhere near a feud involving two competitors, who have such a storied history together. it led to some of the worst promos i have seen in a feud that was once meant to be cody vs randy, that suddenly got turned into cody vs pat.
- and then finally, we come to gunther. while the build for their match to clash wasn’t that bad, it wasn’t as it could’ve been, either, (especially since it’s becoming clear that they’re trying to follow the drew blueprint ) only letting the two of them actually promo like hell, the episode of smackdown before their match is set to take place, controversial, abrupt finish to their match, leading cody’s opponent to be mad at the referee and at cody, setting up a rematch, except this time they’re gonna let cody’s opponent choose a stipulation since “they technically got screwed”… i’m so damn tired, man.
what the hell does it take to give cody a normal story? what does it take for WWE to stop screwing him, and other world champions, hell, other wrestlers in general, out of having consistent, coherent writing?? i just want them to give this man, one feud where they stop trying to give him the shit end of the stick. they prop him and the other champions up so high, but do they ever stop to actually think about giving them writing that makes sense for once?
anyways, rant over, i’m just #annoyed