{"id":49491,"date":"2023-07-24T22:11:55","date_gmt":"2023-07-25T03:11:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49491"},"modified":"2023-07-31T22:12:08","modified_gmt":"2023-08-01T03:12:08","slug":"cody-rhodes-is-the-ipa-hipster-of-wrestling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/?p=49491","title":{"rendered":"Cody Rhodes is the IPA Hipster of Wrestling"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"The irony of this post is that I\u2019m so not a fan of Cody Rhodes, but this probably like the third or fourth time I\u2019ve made a post about how much I don\u2019t like the guy right now.\u00a0 After the took the L at Wrestlemania<\/em> this year I called him something like the mega tryhard fantasy football player of wrestling, the way he thinks he\u2019s so wise and knowledgeable about the industry that he believe he sees the entire business on a completely tier as everyone else, and it\u2019s obnoxious as fuck listening to him talk about it.<\/span><\/p>\n

Well, he\u2019s done it again, because (likely as part of his contractual obligation), there some documentary about him that\u2019s set to release, and he\u2019s on the promotional warpath once again, and I can\u2019t stand the guy so much but I like wrestling so much I\u2019ll probably still watch it, so that I can have some inspiration to write about how much I can\u2019t stand the guy in the future.\u00a0 But in some recent interview<\/strong>, he talks about how he dislikes the catchphrase that he created leading up to his feud with Roman Reigns AND he takes time to shit on the secondary World championship blet that the company introduced because Roman Reigns has such a stranglehold on the company\u2019s top prize.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I like how at the very root of it, he\u2019s decided he doesn\u2019t like his \u201cfinish the story\u201d catchphrase anymore, because the internet got a hold of it and internet-ted it into a meme, and now he\u2019s all regretful for making it in the first place since he\u2019s soft as Charmin, and is too hipster transcendental to understand that there\u2019s actually nothing wrong with having one\u2019s catchphrase meme\u2019d, and that it\u2019s way worse to elicit no response at all from today\u2019s fickle wrestling fans.<\/span><\/p>\n

Frankly, I\u2019m with him; it is a lame catchphrase, but the difference is that I always thought it was, and didn\u2019t think it was cool at first but then turned on it because the fans ruined it.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

And then he has the audacity to take a big dump on the new big Gold blet that the company introduced, that\u2019s currently being defended like a madman by Seth Rollins.\u00a0 He proclaims that winning that title wouldn\u2019t finish his story<\/em>, because it\u2019s not the championship that his dad, big \u2018ol Dusty was incapable of winning, which is tantamount to basically saying that Rollins\u2019 World Heavyweight blet is second-tier and that the only title that\u2019s worthy of his obnoxious attention is big gold W that Roman\u2019s rocking.<\/span><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t think it would ever happen, because usually the WWE is fairly decent at fulfilling their contractual obligations, but I do think it would be funny if the winds change within the next year, and Creative have no choice but to alter the general Roman Reigns timeline to where it\u2019s not going to be Cody Rhodes who dethrones him at the next Wrestlemania, and he has to \u201csettle\u201d for the World Heavyweight championship instead.\u00a0 But then again, if they were willing to completely eat the rise of Sami Zayn for Cody, that\u2019s probably not going to happen.<\/span><\/p>\n

Maybe by the time Cody does dethrone Roman, Rollins or whomever will have elevated the new Big Gold to heights that the Big W will be looking up to, and so even if Cody does finally get his story finished, nobody will care, because all eyes will be on the gods work that Rollins and the Big Gold challengers will be conducting at that time.<\/span><\/p>\n

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The point is, whether Cody realizes it or not, he\u2019s truly the IPA-drinking hipster of professional wrestling.\u00a0 He takes so seriously an industry built on being carny, at times raunchy and\/or tacky, and at the very core of it was built around big sweaty men in underwear trunks trying to knock each other over and lay on top of one another, that he makes it completely uncool.<\/span><\/p>\n

Like when the WWE is on the road, and they need performers to go out and do press and help sell the product, Cody Rhodes is absolutely the wrong guy for that job.\u00a0 This is where guys like The Miz, Seth Rollins and Becky Lynch excel at, and lesser-known is Roman Reigns who fulfills a ton of Make-A-Wish Foundation<\/em> appearances like John Cena once did, and why the Rock is still tapped every now and then to help promote the company.\u00a0 Around the rest of the industry, guys like Big Show, Matt Cardona and MJF are also good spokesmen who do a good job of selling the product without turning people off or boring them away.<\/span><\/p>\n

But for better or worse, and it\u2019s the turd of WWE management for obligating themselves for so much Cody, he\u2019s going to be doing a bunch of these rando projects here and there until they\u2019re all contractually fulfilled, and we\u2019ll be forced to put up with his hipster, smartest-guy-in-the-room, holier-than-thou attitude.\u00a0 Hopefully they\u2019ll have learned their lesson to not give anyone else a Hulk Hogan-amount of privileges upon a contract signing again, and that Cody will be the last one to be allowed to think he\u2019s so much better than the business that made him, and his family of jobbers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The irony of this post is that I\u2019m so not a fan of Cody Rhodes, but this probably like the third or fourth time I\u2019ve made a post about how much I don\u2019t like the guy right now.\u00a0 After the took the L at Wrestlemania this year I called him something like the mega tryhard … Continue reading Cody Rhodes is the IPA Hipster of Wrestling<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[100,83,54,55],"class_list":["post-49491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brog","tag-comparison","tag-observations","tag-wrestling","tag-wwe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=49491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49493,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49491\/revisions\/49493"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totfc.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}