Road Dogg gives his thoughts on Cody Rhodes losing to Roman Reigns
at WrestleMania 39.The Hall of Famer spoke on this topic during the latest episode of his Oh You Didn’t Know podcast, where he responds to the criticism that the American Nightmare should have dethroned the Tribal Chief at the Showcase of the Immortals.
The argument is a legitimate one to go back now that history has told that story and go, ‘Okay. Should he have got it then? Should he won it then?’ Like, man, I don’t think that’s smart business. I think that’s great booking if you’re a fan, but I don’t think it’s smart business. If you tell the story and go, ‘The end,’ close the book. Then, ‘Okay, now we got to start over,’ I just feel like this was just a chapter closing.
Road Dogg shifts the conversation to Rhodes, stating that despite all of his successes he did not face any adversity since returning to WWE.
He came in, and this has been said by some people that speak about wrestling that kinda know what they’re talking about, he came in, and he had no adversity. He went right through the Rumble, right through everybody, and right to the champion. So the argument could be made, ‘Man if you just give it to him now, did he earn it?’ Yes, he has over the extension of his career, for sure, if you can tell that whole story, and they have tried to tell that whole story as much as they could if you see in the promos, they talk a lot about what all he’s done because that’s a really cool part of his story is what he has accomplished in this industry. By himself, you know what I mean? Like, I mean, yes, he’s had some help. Yes, his father was a wrestler, his brother, all that. Man, he came in and changed the game a little bit, and kudos to him for that,” said Road Dogg on Oh, You Didn’t Know?
Despite those thoughts about Rhodes, Road Dogg does comment the American Nightmare for being a true entrepreneur in the world of pro wrestling.
So really, it’s a bigger picture conversation. Whether he has the title around his waist right now or not, let’s just stop and think about what Cody’s done and accomplished from a human standpoint. Holy mackerel, this dude’s an entrepreneur in the industry of sports entertainment, and that has never existed before.
Elsewhere on the podcast, Road Dogg discussed when WWE started talking about moving WrestleMania to a two night format. You can read about that here.
(H/T and transcribed by Fightful)