34th Annual PWI 500: Cody Rhodes is #1 (lemmy.ml)

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Top 10:

Cody Rhodes (WWE)
Swerve Strickland (AEW)
Will Ospreay (NJPW, then AEW from February)
Seth Rollins (WWE)
Tetsuya Naito (NJPW)
Damien Priest (WWE)
MJF (AEW)
Jon Moxley (AEW)
Gunther (WWE)
Mistico (CMLL)

Reminder: The PWI is ranked from July 2023 to July 2024

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[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 9 points 1 month ago

I will never understand the appeal of Cody. I don't find him particularly charismatic nor a great wrestler. Not bad by any means. Just not great.

[-] TheCelticPirate@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Dude, same. Comes off as corny and not self aware. I do like him much better as a heel though.

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

The most interest he got from me was when it seemed like he was going to turn heel in AEW, but then flip flopped on it for months before leaving.

[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 7 points 1 month ago

I think the point is we just aren't the target demo for him. While the adult male demo (hell even adult female demo) enjoying him is great, Cody is there for the youth.

It's been a long while since WWE had a 'Hogan'. We had a Hogan, a Stone Cold, a Rock, a Cena..a Cena, A Cena, A Cena, then we were supposed to get a Roman and plans had to change to bring us The Bloodline. So that was a long time without the kids having that 'superhero' to look up to in the same way.

I do find him charismatic but you can 100% tell he practices his shit in a mirror, but even so WWE needed that new big babyface for the kids and if there's one thing Cody looks like to a kid it's a goddamned superhero.

For us adults we just remember Stardust and Cody gimping himself out of the AEW title picture lol.

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 month ago

I am old!

[-] GeekFTW@lemmy.zip 6 points 1 month ago

I feels it in my knees. Seriously I moved furniture today ow lol

[-] Montagge@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

I'm replacing my roof by myself! I feel it in my everything!

[-] Neon_Carnivore@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 month ago

All I did was sleep on the wrong pillow and now my back/shoulder is sore af.

Good times.

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