Cody Rhodes Is Doo Doo Butter

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

He beat MY MANS!!! and i'm not happy about it 

An arm will not be enough for Penta to take from this lame fool 

[Dub H]

I feel like Cody winning by rollup was completely unnecessry when we had the exact same finisher in the tag match

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

I'm ok with it if this leads to Penta winning the next match and then the potential blowoff

It's clearly far from over, with Penta celebrating post match at how he punked Cody out, but I feel like they're going the route they did when Penta lost to Fenix, and then he just turned around and destroyed him in the rematch

Penta's a showstealer, I think AEW's seeing that now. beating Cody would be the thing that takes him to that next level, the story of his own cockyness getting into check and being his downfall is the thing right now. Focused Penta wrecks people. He needs to tap into that LU energy.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Mar 17, 2021 21:09:01 GMT -5 Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-] said:

I'm ok with it if this leads to Penta winning the next match and then the potential blowoff

It's clearly far from over, with Penta celebrating post match at how he punjed Cody out, but I feel like they're going the route they did when Penta lost to Fenix, and then he just turned around and destroyed him in the rematch

Penta's a showstealer, I think AEW's seeing that now. beating Cody would be the thing that takes him to that next level, the story of his own cockyness getting into check and being his downfall is the thing right now. Focused Penta wrecks people. He needs to tap into that LU energy.

This is the chance to make Pentagon

Really, the only one to really f*** up Cody was Mr Brodie Lee and Cody got that win back. No one has really taken him out so if Penta can do that, he's star made 

[Facetious]

The Cody fatigue is REAL. He needs a decent break and Penta would be perfect to give it to him

[kingoftheindies]

For the first time in a long time it feels like Cody is just aimless.

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Said it in the main thread, said it in a few threads really, but:

Cody doing all of these "Oh, I just barely won even though my opponent looked way better" finishes is devaluing him more than it's making his opponents look good. His victories off that nonsense negate any amount of selling that he did to put over his opponent.

[Captain Stud Muffin (BLM)]

Mar 17, 2021 21:26:49 GMT -5 Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby said:

Said it in the main thread, said it in a few threads really, but:

Cody doing all of these "Oh, I just barely won even though my opponent looked way better" finishes is devaluing him more than it's making his opponents look good. His victories off that nonsense negate any amount of selling that he did to put over his opponent.

I call that the "Gail Kim defense"

[IgnahtaSempria]

Like I said in the thread, that ending stretch just did nothing for me.

In a span of about three minutes:

1. Penta kicked out of two of Cody's biggest moves (Cross Rhodes and Vertebreaker) and escaped the figure four, all with very little build up,

2. Penta hit the arm breaker, which Cody barely had time to sell before

3. Cody gets the quick rollup pin, using the injured arm.

It just felt a lot like they were doing the moves for the sake of doing the moves, without the storytelling or psychology necessary to make it look good.

In hindsight, it kind of felt like Cody was trying to tell the story of a 60 minute Broadway in 15 minutes, and the finish just felt like everything was thrown in at once with no room to breathe.

[Ishmeal Loves Kaseyhausen]

Mar 17, 2021 21:26:49 GMT -5 Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby said:

Said it in the main thread, said it in a few threads really, but:

Cody doing all of these "Oh, I just barely won even though my opponent looked way better" finishes is devaluing him more than it's making his opponents look good. His victories off that nonsense negate any amount of selling that he did to put over his opponent.

He's the bizarro world Cesaro

[Celgress]

Mar 17, 2021 21:02:46 GMT -5 Captain Stud Muffin (BLM) said:

He beat MY MANS!!! and i'm not happy about it 

An arm will not be enough for Penta to take from this lame fool 

Welcome to the dark side -

[Harry The Arrow was Wrong!]

I absolutely hated that he did the arm snap and then Cody immediately reverses using both arms for a roll up. That shit is trash honestly.

Yeah Cody might lose to him at some point but that shit sucked

[Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby]

Here's another thing:

Even if Penta wins a rematch, this match did nothing for either of them.

[Mochi Lone Wolf]

Thank goodness for the main event because if this was the headlining match of the night, I would have came away with a nasty taste from this show.

[Urethra Franklin]

Mar 17, 2021 21:38:58 GMT -5 IgnahtaSempria said:

Like I said in the thread, that ending stretch just did nothing for me.

In a span of about three minutes:

1. Penta kicked out of two of Cody's biggest moves (Cross Rhodes and Vertebreaker) and escaped the figure four, all with very little build up,

2. Penta hit the arm breaker, which Cody barely had time to sell before

3. Cody gets the quick rollup pin, using the injured arm.

It just felt a lot like they were doing the moves for the sake of doing the moves, without the storytelling or psychology necessary to make it look good.

In hindsight, it kind of felt like Cody was trying to tell the story of a 60 minute Broadway in 15 minutes, and the finish just felt like everything was thrown in at once with no room to breathe.

Just infuriating. You manage to completely shit all over the story you’re trying to tell in a matter of seconds. Zero psychology. Hated that finish so much.

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Mar 17, 2021 22:17:47 GMT -5 Dr. Bolty, Disaster Enby said:

Here's another thing:

Even if Penta wins a rematch, this match did nothing for either of them.

I see the logic in it to make a feud even if it could have been done better like Cody using his good shoulder to force all his weight on the rollup, but it gives Penta all the more reason to want to destroy Cody that Cody got the first win. The story they wanted to tell from what I could see was Penta lost because he got cocky. I get it sucks Cody rolled him up after the Arm Snap, but that's not a KO move, and Cody took advantage knowing he was f***ed if Penta hit the package piledriver. 

There's enough layers to this where I feel like you can at least have a worthwhile feud, so long as the endgame is making Penta a main event fixture through Cody, and showing when his eye is on the prize he's one of the most dangerous men in wrestling, like how he killed Fenix. 

[madness50]

I’m pretty sure Cody will be going away by the beginning of the summer to be with Brandi. He definitely feels aimless as a character now.

[Deleted]

Cody looked like a chump while Penta looked like a cool badass who was just taking the piss with him at the end by wearing the green hat.

I refuse to believe that was accidental.

[Dub H]

Mar 18, 2021 0:08:00 GMT -5 @hedm2005 said:

Cody looked like a chump while Penta looked like a cool badass who was just taking the piss with him at the end by wearing the green hat.

I refuse to believe that was accidental.

I mean you can try but Penta is never not gonna look like a cool badass

[Xxcjb01xX [PIECE OF: SH-]]

Mar 18, 2021 0:08:00 GMT -5 @hedm2005 said:

Cody looked like a chump while Penta looked like a cool badass who was just taking the piss with him at the end by wearing the green hat.

I refuse to believe that was accidental.

That's my thing, if Penta ain't sweating this loss then they definitely really ain't selling this as a big Cody victory as more Cody escaped. It almost feels like he's playing with his food.