Because he has no story lol. His story was finishing the story. His in ring needs work too. He relies way too much on springboards and is somewhat clunky in his execution.
agree. And unfortunately his finisher is a problem too. When the action goes closer to the finish, he starts to perform not so great looking finisher for 3 times straight. When he raises up from the first one you already know where this is going to and you basically just wait for it to end
@@blackspider6956 pretty much. It worked for Mania because it felt like he gave everything he could. If you're pulling this out the bag for a match in Berlin with Owens and your finisher is constantly being kicked out of, what's the point. Wrestlers need to protect their finishers more because it ruins the flow of every other match as the fans never expect a solo finisher to end a match. That can't be your champ.
His IN RING needs work? Uh… he overshoots his cody cutters and does his finisher three times? No. Cody is easily a top 3 performer on the main roster. Literally none of his title defenses have been bad, even the Solo Sikoa one.
@cazzok I don't think Solo is bad. And I don't think long matches make good matches. I don't think Cody is bad, but he does way too many things that make zero sense to me in a match that makes the opponent look stupid. Essentially, that one Samoa Joe spot where he walks away could be applied so many times in a Cody match with how slow he is not a wrestler that springboard as much as he does. Again, not the worst, but I prefer my wrestling to make a bit more sense, for as much as I do apply my suspension of disbelief.
The two major problems are the lack of opponents on SmackDown and predictability. Besides Randy Orton, Solo Sikoa, Kevin Owens, and Roman Reigns the only other wrestlers that could be potential challengers are Santos Escobar, LA Knight, Andrade, and Carmelo Hayes who are all in the midcard with everyone else being jobbers and/or tag teams. Also we know Cody Rhodes isn't going to lose the Undisputed WWE Championship until next year so it doesn't matter who he faces knowing they're not going to take the title from him, and in my opinion that makes the match worse because it never feels like they have a chance at winning. Gunther is in the same spot on Raw but when I was watching him versus Randy Orton I thought maybe WWE will swerve us and have Randy Orton win. I thought the same about Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens in the beginning of their match but that went away when Kevin Owens decided not to powerbomb Cody Rhodes on the apron.
Cody Rhodes is boring as hell, he is a terrible champion. I’m so glad that viewers are finally seeing what I’ve always thought about him since he became champion. Everybody is not lying about him, and the Cody Crybabies need to cope with it. He peaked at Wrestlemania 40 and been flopping as champion ever since then. His only saving grace is his theme song keeping him relevant and Roman Reigns returning back to save him from sinking.
I was very vocal about how boring Cody was coming back and being considered "the one." I didn't find him too compelling except for him being the "King of the Mid-Card." I got disrespected by his fans online just for being the one to see through his boring face persona. Reading praise for Cody is like reading comments made by Kamala Harris fans.
@@YourXellencyhe’s just doesn’t have it in the ring, on the mic, his song is the only thing keeping him over. He said “I’ll always be thankful for a spot Seth came up with” he has said this multiple times and promise it’s probably his triple cross-Rhodes. Cody couldn’t come up with an exciting match if his life depended on it
@@JohnTheSavageBNW He definitely needed AEW to get back into the good graces of Vince. Otherwise, he'd be back in New Japan or running TCW (Nightmare Factory).
I stop watching SmackDown after the draft. The problem is not Cody but the problem is the roster, SmackDown roster babyfaces who overshadows all the heels. Not having convincing and credible heels hurt Rhodes reign. HHH over relying with long term story of New BL definitely put other talents in SmackDown in cold. Their no heels that come off as threat. Cody have ran out of opponents. After Roman Reigns returned as babyface the margin is more big, he presence exposed the New BL who were getting carried by Roman's absence, only Jacob Fatu looks like a good heel in SmackDown. RAW objectively have better balance of Heel and babyfaces and hence the show have better pacing
No wwe fans including me even know who he was He came back And people overrated him so much Made him even defeat goat And now this midplayer is clearing showing this fans how boring he is
I think that the problem is in SD roster. If you look closely you won't see any main eventers nor top stars. They are all mid at best. All Cody's opponents are from midcard so far. He basically has only 2 options: Randy Orton and Roman Reigns. We won't see Roman close to Cody any time soon because of the bloodline story and maybe plans for next WM. And don't get me started on Orton... He just went to RAW to have a match 😂 On the other hand RAW has like half of the roster (I counted about 20 wrestlers) who are worthy of fighting for the main prize. I really don't know what they were thinking during the draft but there is an issue now and they need to do something about it
Proposed fix: Cody needs to establish a reason why him keeping the title matters I.e. - If he says beating Roman's title reign reestablishes the Rhodes as the #1 family in wrestling (now every defense matters because he's trying to achieve a goal and creates a compelling story when he falls short and makes every challenger a threat to that goal) Don't come for me it's just an idea haha
The with cody run ,he done more interviews, then five star matches , all does pose and make appearances on raw and smackdown, I through roman was part time after 4 yrs as full time main event , in five months cody rhodes has done nothing, this run is , 5 months of nothing
I never cared for Cody Rhodes, period. His feud with The Rock made him his storyline more interesting, but that's only because of The Rock. You could have inserted any random superstar into Cody's place, and the story would have been just as compelling. That said, he is an incredible athlete and has come a very long way since his days as Stardust. But here's the thing, your ability as in ring performer has little to do with your ability to be a compelling superstar. , you can have both stellar in-ring and mic skills, and skill not be a compelling superstar. I think in Cody's case, him gimmick is boring. It makes no sense. What is an American Nightmare? It sounds like a heel. Secondly, his feuds, at least as champion have been lackluster. There is no danger of him losing the title to some feud of the month.
They don't give him an arch enemy that can elevate his hero-like character, that's why. I mean, Raw has an testosterone overload with top tier roster right now and surely could move to Smackdown to work with Cody. Gunther would be a damn good one he can build up a long-time feud with. Roman is gonna be booked with the new bloodline until Rumble i bet.
Everyday he comes out and starts with So, what you wanna talk about. And then talks the same shit about how he won the championship by defeating Roman at WM and thanks every Tom, Dick, and Harry. He seriously needs Roman, Rock, Bloodline and Seth Rollins to stay relevant. Drew McIntryre would have been a way better champion than him and deserved to beat Roman at Wrestlemania
Is so true. Cody had been boring. Damian Priest with the judgementday was better. And most fans wanted him too losse earlier. Its all bloodline n more routine.
I dislike these kinds of reigns. None of these wrestlers in this era wakes up on a random Thursday saying, "I want to be champion by any means necessary," and does something about it. Wrestling characters now are dumb and lazy.
@@YourXellency That's the result of cheering unrealistic "wrestlers". How do you mentally cheer someone that looks like Kevin Owens or Zayn??? In a non-racist WWE led by an actual booker Bobby Lashley would be WWE Champ and Bron Breaker would hold both Intercontinental and World Heavyweight titles.
It’s not just them, it’s also members of the casual audience and even some Cody fans have even admitted his reign is boring, because it is. His feuds have been lackluster, his mic skills are mid, plus he isn’t even main event material
So u saying 80% of the wwe fans are roman reigns fans ? Wow he indeed has many fans ,kudos to him ,instead of asking your fav to buckle up and make the championship belt important again ,u are here blaming roman fans , Gunther's title is more interesting, wrestlers are challenging him instead of him just giving them title matches cause they are friends ,Cody needs to leave up to expectations,make that title the most wanted ,as a fan ask yourself why they are challenging Gunther instead of him?why does his title seem unimportant to the wrestlers instead of Gunther's,what kind of a champ goes around issuing matches ,wrestlers must work to get the title short ,his boring thats a fact ,and Roman does not need a title ,he has it for four years ,he needs to rest now ,four years was enough for him ,he will soon retire after he baby face run and win the title for the last time ,I bet he won't go for the cody title but Gunther's one ,can cody hold that title for more than 5 years when people are already complaining about his reign ?fact is his boring
@@SingularSoul3694 it's only been a couple of months it will eventually become better but still it's not bad it's way better than most of the Romans champion ship reigns before 2020
Not that complicated, Cody’s entire post-AEW WWE run is less about validating the career of a wrestling, & more-so re-establishing the WWE brand as a whole He’s not an actual champion, he’s an advertisement keeping the belt warm for the actual top guys (Roman & Seth) There to do the PR, galvanize the fans, & do business. His personality as a character is stifled by how two-footed he went into corporate synergy, & now his character cannot be divorced from the meta Doesn’t help that 100% of his challengers have lost to either Roman, Seth or Gunther in the past year. He’s a champion with a division that has no threats, on any scale, not even MITB The WWE Championship on Cody ain’t a title, it’s a big sign saying “Hey sign here & this might be you” Matches & promos don’t matter. He’s just there to push a business model, not compelling stories. It’s a reason he didn’t make it 6 months without going back to the Bloodline
Why do you think they had Roman be a inactive champion to avoid him being boring which he already was same old crap and not defending the titles lol Codys better he actually does something
You can’t call Cody Rhodes reign boring Roman reigns was it was always predictable no excitement we knew exactly what was going to happen when it happened
@@rexxamania Roman didn't have any great stories except The Bloodline, Cody Rhodes and Sami Zayn. The Bloodline story got really boring before Sami Zayn joined and after Sami Zayn left. Sami saved Roman from being boring.
@@MStoriesKJKK-pb6gc You compared Cody with roman... And about bloodline storyline. Its your perspective.. Everybody has interest in bloodline storyline after sami left.
Same cycle huh? People supporting one wrestler, that wrestler becomes champion finally, now same people says his title reign is boring. :D Better than Roman's title reign imo. At least you see Cody on SmackDown, Cody on segments, Cody on PPVs. I agree with lack of storyline part tho. He needs a good rivalry like John Cena vs Randy Orton.
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I’ve been saying this run is stale for a while. Once I saw Gunther as Champ. It confirmed it. Gunther vs Roman will be the best rivalry.
All that to say, Cody Rhodes title run has caused me to stop watching Smackdown. That's how dry it is.
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@@rexxamania yep
Nah seriously, I’m just waiting for the belt to be taken off of him
@@legendxd1295 you and me both.
Jealous
Honestly I’d much rather see rock as a part time champ then Cody as a full time
Same
NAH.... OVER HALF OF WWE FANS, wanted Cody to win but now the same one who wanted him to win is NOW complaining bout him....😂
Because he has no story lol. His story was finishing the story.
His in ring needs work too. He relies way too much on springboards and is somewhat clunky in his execution.
agree. And unfortunately his finisher is a problem too. When the action goes closer to the finish, he starts to perform not so great looking finisher for 3 times straight. When he raises up from the first one you already know where this is going to and you basically just wait for it to end
@@blackspider6956 pretty much. It worked for Mania because it felt like he gave everything he could. If you're pulling this out the bag for a match in Berlin with Owens and your finisher is constantly being kicked out of, what's the point.
Wrestlers need to protect their finishers more because it ruins the flow of every other match as the fans never expect a solo finisher to end a match. That can't be your champ.
More truth can't be spoken@@blackspider6956
His IN RING needs work?
Uh… he overshoots his cody cutters and does his finisher three times? No. Cody is easily a top 3 performer on the main roster. Literally none of his title defenses have been bad, even the Solo Sikoa one.
@cazzok I don't think Solo is bad. And I don't think long matches make good matches. I don't think Cody is bad, but he does way too many things that make zero sense to me in a match that makes the opponent look stupid. Essentially, that one Samoa Joe spot where he walks away could be applied so many times in a Cody match with how slow he is not a wrestler that springboard as much as he does.
Again, not the worst, but I prefer my wrestling to make a bit more sense, for as much as I do apply my suspension of disbelief.
Cody as champion is boring as hell
He’s better when hes chasing the belt
The two major problems are the lack of opponents on SmackDown and predictability. Besides Randy Orton, Solo Sikoa, Kevin Owens, and Roman Reigns the only other wrestlers that could be potential challengers are Santos Escobar, LA Knight, Andrade, and Carmelo Hayes who are all in the midcard with everyone else being jobbers and/or tag teams. Also we know Cody Rhodes isn't going to lose the Undisputed WWE Championship until next year so it doesn't matter who he faces knowing they're not going to take the title from him, and in my opinion that makes the match worse because it never feels like they have a chance at winning. Gunther is in the same spot on Raw but when I was watching him versus Randy Orton I thought maybe WWE will swerve us and have Randy Orton win. I thought the same about Cody Rhodes and Kevin Owens in the beginning of their match but that went away when Kevin Owens decided not to powerbomb Cody Rhodes on the apron.
Mediocrity is king.
Cody Rhodes is boring as hell, he is a terrible champion. I’m so glad that viewers are finally seeing what I’ve always thought about him since he became champion. Everybody is not lying about him, and the Cody Crybabies need to cope with it. He peaked at Wrestlemania 40 and been flopping as champion ever since then. His only saving grace is his theme song keeping him relevant and Roman Reigns returning back to save him from sinking.
You roman crybabies need to calm the fuck down
I was very vocal about how boring Cody was coming back and being considered "the one." I didn't find him too compelling except for him being the "King of the Mid-Card." I got disrespected by his fans online just for being the one to see through his boring face persona. Reading praise for Cody is like reading comments made by Kamala Harris fans.
@@YourXellencyhe’s just doesn’t have it in the ring, on the mic, his song is the only thing keeping him over. He said “I’ll always be thankful for a spot Seth came up with” he has said this multiple times and promise it’s probably his triple cross-Rhodes. Cody couldn’t come up with an exciting match if his life depended on it
@@JohnTheSavageBNW He definitely needed AEW to get back into the good graces of Vince. Otherwise, he'd be back in New Japan or running TCW (Nightmare Factory).
@@JohnTheSavageBNW wrong
He is so over-rated and continually giving same sobbing story
Achieve my dream, making my family proud and be a world champ
If MJF came dude would have the perfect storyline and he would be the one to win the belt
Lmao
I stop watching SmackDown after the draft. The problem is not Cody but the problem is the roster, SmackDown roster babyfaces who overshadows all the heels. Not having convincing and credible heels hurt Rhodes reign. HHH over relying with long term story of New BL definitely put other talents in SmackDown in cold. Their no heels that come off as threat. Cody have ran out of opponents. After Roman Reigns returned as babyface the margin is more big, he presence exposed the New BL who were getting carried by Roman's absence, only Jacob Fatu looks like a good heel in SmackDown.
RAW objectively have better balance of Heel and babyfaces and hence the show have better pacing
In ring he is great but thats it. I personally think they shouldve stretched the feud with AJ and have more matches between them like Cena vs Edge
It's WWE's fault!
Give the WWE title to LA Knight! YEAH!
Keep dreaming 😴
I can actually see Knight winning the Rumble and winning the title from Cody at WrestleMania next year
No wwe fans including me even know who he was
He came back
And people overrated him so much
Made him even defeat goat
And now this midplayer is clearing showing this fans how boring he is
He should be the us champion ❤
I think that the problem is in SD roster. If you look closely you won't see any main eventers nor top stars. They are all mid at best. All Cody's opponents are from midcard so far. He basically has only 2 options: Randy Orton and Roman Reigns. We won't see Roman close to Cody any time soon because of the bloodline story and maybe plans for next WM. And don't get me started on Orton... He just went to RAW to have a match 😂
On the other hand RAW has like half of the roster (I counted about 20 wrestlers) who are worthy of fighting for the main prize. I really don't know what they were thinking during the draft but there is an issue now and they need to do something about it
@@blackspider6956 Exactly roster is imbalanced🤧
Ontop of lacking main Eventers..they dont bother trying to build new stars
@@khesipresents1885Damian Priest? Gunther? LA Knight?
Proposed fix: Cody needs to establish a reason why him keeping the title matters
I.e. - If he says beating Roman's title reign reestablishes the Rhodes as the #1 family in wrestling (now every defense matters because he's trying to achieve a goal and creates a compelling story when he falls short and makes every challenger a threat to that goal)
Don't come for me it's just an idea haha
The with cody run ,he done more interviews, then five star matches , all does pose and make appearances on raw and smackdown, I through roman was part time after 4 yrs as full time main event , in five months cody rhodes has done nothing, this run is , 5 months of nothing
I never cared for Cody Rhodes, period. His feud with The Rock made him his storyline more interesting, but that's only because of The Rock. You could have inserted any random superstar into Cody's place, and the story would have been just as compelling. That said, he is an incredible athlete and has come a very long way since his days as Stardust. But here's the thing, your ability as in ring performer has little to do with your ability to be a compelling superstar. , you can have both stellar in-ring and mic skills, and skill not be a compelling superstar. I think in Cody's case, him gimmick is boring. It makes no sense. What is an American Nightmare? It sounds like a heel. Secondly, his feuds, at least as champion have been lackluster. There is no danger of him losing the title to some feud of the month.
They don't give him an arch enemy that can elevate his hero-like character, that's why. I mean, Raw has an testosterone overload with top tier roster right now and surely could move to Smackdown to work with Cody. Gunther would be a damn good one he can build up a long-time feud with. Roman is gonna be booked with the new bloodline until Rumble i bet.
Everyday he comes out and starts with So, what you wanna talk about. And then talks the same shit about how he won the championship by defeating Roman at WM and thanks every Tom, Dick, and Harry. He seriously needs Roman, Rock, Bloodline and Seth Rollins to stay relevant. Drew McIntryre would have been a way better champion than him and deserved to beat Roman at Wrestlemania
Is so true. Cody had been boring. Damian Priest with the judgementday was better. And most fans wanted him too losse earlier. Its all bloodline n more routine.
bloodline sucks so boring
He's going to keep it until WrestleMania until he loses it
I dislike these kinds of reigns. None of these wrestlers in this era wakes up on a random Thursday saying, "I want to be champion by any means necessary," and does something about it. Wrestling characters now are dumb and lazy.
@@YourXellency That's the result of cheering unrealistic "wrestlers". How do you mentally cheer someone that looks like Kevin Owens or Zayn??? In a non-racist WWE led by an actual booker Bobby Lashley would be WWE Champ and Bron Breaker would hold both Intercontinental and World Heavyweight titles.
I’m over it
To me Cody's is the best, 😢😢
Jealous
Cody Rhodes is dope. Hope his title reign goes for at least a year
you wish
Cope
Booring champion 😂
Nothing's wrong with the reign ,the only wrong is that is with Roman crybabies
It’s not just them, it’s also members of the casual audience and even some Cody fans have even admitted his reign is boring, because it is. His feuds have been lackluster, his mic skills are mid, plus he isn’t even main event material
So u saying 80% of the wwe fans are roman reigns fans ? Wow he indeed has many fans ,kudos to him ,instead of asking your fav to buckle up and make the championship belt important again ,u are here blaming roman fans , Gunther's title is more interesting, wrestlers are challenging him instead of him just giving them title matches cause they are friends ,Cody needs to leave up to expectations,make that title the most wanted ,as a fan ask yourself why they are challenging Gunther instead of him?why does his title seem unimportant to the wrestlers instead of Gunther's,what kind of a champ goes around issuing matches ,wrestlers must work to get the title short ,his boring thats a fact ,and Roman does not need a title ,he has it for four years ,he needs to rest now ,four years was enough for him ,he will soon retire after he baby face run and win the title for the last time ,I bet he won't go for the cody title but Gunther's one ,can cody hold that title for more than 5 years when people are already complaining about his reign ?fact is his boring
So you're saying Cody's title reign is everything you wanted it to be?
@@yoli406 80percentage I don't see 80 percentage of people saying he is boring all I see is some lame Indian fans of Roman reigns hating Cody
@@SingularSoul3694 it's only been a couple of months it will eventually become better but still it's not bad it's way better than most of the Romans champion ship reigns before 2020
He’s boring 🥱
Nah fr
Always has been
and so are you
Cody Rhodes is a mid card wrestler and has no business being a top guy..
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Not that complicated, Cody’s entire post-AEW WWE run is less about validating the career of a wrestling, & more-so re-establishing the WWE brand as a whole
He’s not an actual champion, he’s an advertisement keeping the belt warm for the actual top guys (Roman & Seth)
There to do the PR, galvanize the fans, & do business. His personality as a character is stifled by how two-footed he went into corporate synergy, & now his character cannot be divorced from the meta
Doesn’t help that 100% of his challengers have lost to either Roman, Seth or Gunther in the past year. He’s a champion with a division that has no threats, on any scale, not even MITB
The WWE Championship on Cody ain’t a title, it’s a big sign saying “Hey sign here & this might be you”
Matches & promos don’t matter. He’s just there to push a business model, not compelling stories. It’s a reason he didn’t make it 6 months without going back to the Bloodline
Jealous
bullshit
Why do you think they had Roman be a inactive champion to avoid him being boring which he already was same old crap and not defending the titles lol Codys better he actually does something
You can’t call Cody Rhodes reign boring Roman reigns was it was always predictable no excitement we knew exactly what was going to happen when it happened
Atleast Roman had great storylines...
@@rexxamania You're really comparing a 4 year title reign to a 4 month title reign?
@@rexxamania Roman didn't have any great stories except The Bloodline, Cody Rhodes and Sami Zayn. The Bloodline story got really boring before Sami Zayn joined and after Sami Zayn left. Sami saved Roman from being boring.
@@rexxamania Atleast Cody shows up every week....
@@MStoriesKJKK-pb6gc You compared Cody with roman... And about bloodline storyline. Its your perspective.. Everybody has interest in bloodline storyline after sami left.
To me Cody is the best
Shame on all those who call Cody boring champion,Cody is the best universal champion in Wwe History he is doing great things.🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯
Fiend was better.
Now I am not watching smack down
SD is so boring
no one cares if you are watching or not
The haters really just need to shut up 😂 they are more of a cry baby they butthurt he beat Roman
Same cycle huh? People supporting one wrestler, that wrestler becomes champion finally, now same people says his title reign is boring. :D Better than Roman's title reign imo. At least you see Cody on SmackDown, Cody on segments, Cody on PPVs. I agree with lack of storyline part tho. He needs a good rivalry like John Cena vs Randy Orton.
Cody is so boring you child 😂
@@joseatx1992 says another child