 What's good Josh the boy Ross back again with another video so we're gonna check out how Adam will book Cody Rhodes return to WWE This should be a good one man. He is he's pretty spot-on with his his booking decisions, man I am looking forward to this video should be great appreciate all of his support a dive blond figure in wrestling slowly chipping away His own popularity through obnoxious self-unawareness and transparent grandstanding. It should be no surprise I like Cody Rhodes quite a lot so much so than in fact Simon. Could you pop a neck tattoo on there, please? Now I'm complete Weird right I'm gonna have to go into the background straight away try and make any sort of sense of this There is just history Bloody everywhere on this one Cody Rhodes is a son of the late great Dusty Rhodes a legendary figure in NWA history Especially in the predecessor to WCW Jim Crockett promotions Dusty was an amazing talker who had an iconic draw Which I won't attempt an unparalleled connection to the common man a huge amount of booking influence and a tendency for creating things like Starcade war games and really annoying match finishes where a babyface wins in order to get a big pop but then that decisions instantly reversed by a Technicality I hate Dusty finishes so much his sons Dustin and Cody are both wrestlers Dustin Of course being most famous for being one half of the king of the road match with blacktop Uncensored 1995 and also gold dust and AEW and speaking of AEW Cody Rhodes competed in WWE for 10 years signing in 2006 white meat babyface hardcore Holly joined legacy became dashing became undashing Redebuted the classic intercontinental title design formed team Rhodes scholars who broke up he teamed with his brother had an amazing match with the Shield of Battleground 20 That match they had with the shield was Easily one of the best matches That match was so good That's so good 13 WWE then capitalized on this huge Rhodes family story line how important the Rhodes family was especially the name Rhodes by changing his name to stardust. Yep giving him the gimmick of Well, I'm boiling it down here, but Cosmic pervert he teamed with his brother. They broke up didn't really feud he teamed with the Ascension and then after pleading with WWE creative to end the stardust gimmick plays for six months in May 2016 Cody requested his release from WWE and set on a magical journey of self-reinterpretation Genuinely it should be taught in every wrestling school in the world Cody Legitimately went from undesirable to ungod damn Deniable and immediately putting himself in a high-profile series of matches with Kurt Angle one of which took place in WCPW He worked in a new Japan ring of honor in a great heel run became part of bullet club Try come took over bullet club really in a sort of civil war era literally everything a wrestler could do to make their mark short of founding their own promotion and Then on March 16th 2017 Dave Meltzer look at him Look at how silly he is he tweeted a response to at the WWE guy on Twitter who asked Do you think ROH can ever sell out an arena with 10k plus fans response was not any time soon to which Cody responded? I'll take that bet the following year Cody the young bucks and ring of honor Collaborate and what will probably be known as the most significant indie show of all time all in which sold over 10,000 tickets the first non WWE or WCW show to do so in 15 years the way success of the show led to the formation of all elite wrestling in 2019 and in May 2019 two years almost to the day after big Dave's big tweet and Cody took that bet AW held their first official pay-per-view Double or nothing Because because bet although Cody was really more of an obnoxious prick heel than face in the early days of AW by the time AW's weekly show Dynamite launched Cody and Kenny Omega with the top two baby faces in the company Kenny the Workhorse and Cody the emotion a self-appointed face of the revolution Smashing thrones with sledgehammers cutting the promos to send the fans home happy and doing earnest black hat white hat stories filled with Emotion and more importantly blood Yeah, yeah loads of blood for a time. The roads were paved with gold And then Cody began to be involved in decisions that started to seem tone-deaf Didn't gel with his real-life position in the company and executive vice president booking himself to go over a hot new Talent like Lance Archer that led the fans to inform Cody that he might want to Laveck his privilege after distancing himself from the rest of the elite the Nightmare family generally being a bit rubbish that whole America versus the world storyline with Anthony a go-go that really didn't play with the AW fans because AW fans Don't really care about flags that much the bloom fell off the roads Every roads has its I'm not doing this scorn fans began to boo Cody instead Fastly refused to turn heel almost seeming to enjoy trolling the fans about it really stuck out with aw's First major instance of not listening to its fans. Yeah, Randy is wife would be a conceited heel having bad segments of plenty But Cody just walked chin up through the booze until a few weeks ago when the shock announcement that one of the founders of AEW who gave the company their first five-star match couldn't come to terms with the promotion He created over a new contract He left and now it was all but a done deal that the face of the revolution was defecting back to the establishment That was WWE a company that ruined NXT because of AEW that counter-programmed ruthlessly against AEW But that also steadfastly refused to acknowledge AW in any way So how The fuck are we gonna do that? Just And here's the thing man. I I'm still I'm not a hundred percent sold that he's really gonna do this Because once again, it just does not make sense for him to go back When he was adamant to leave and there's a different this is a different situation He was adamant to leave To create something better for himself and others that makes any sense I get it some people come back to WWE after WWE after years You know it could be some type of situation while I'm on the bridge, but this is different from that This is someone that really didn't get the push that he was hoping to get and Was wanting a gimmick change and it never they didn't want to do it so he had to build himself up outside of WWE and Not only that he built himself up and it ended up starting a new company to compete With that same company you just left like it's it's just wild to even think that he would go back That's insane to me Let me have a go Good luck my guy cuz this is a No, but seriously, how are we going to do this? Try and look at it from all sides Cody Rhodes and WWE is Fascinating but in a way that WWE are seemingly incapable of addressing and exploiting to its full Cody Rhodes Founded the first legitimate competition to WWE since WCW. Yeah He smashed a symbol of Triple H with a symbol of Triple H and you know He's gonna come back and you know for one promo one promo They'll address the fact that he's been away and been busy but he's come home because he couldn't achieve his dreams over there and that you know people will chant a W everyone go Cody will smile and he says but that was then this is now and I'm back Forever and then he'll win the US title and defend it on the pre-show of summer Really want to be wrong about that Really do Is that he's the first major defector from the promised land? WWE can't frame it that way because it's promoting a W yeah as the promised land a w acknowledges that it's part of a wider industry uses that wider context to make its story Lines feel a bit more realistic and resonant with its super fans Although they do do it a bit too much. Sometimes they feel petty wwe doesn't do that All especially since NXT changed to a children's tea party WWE exists in this hermetically sealed world where it's the only game in town because anything less would be a Backtrack from the narrative they wrote for themselves when WCW closed sure CM Punk got to say cool stuff and name drop Ring of Honor, but he didn't go to ring of honor, but by and large WWE has a total disregard of fellow promotion Then it makes WWE feel a bit alien cold and inhumane like Oli what people want me to do here is book a storyline where Cody invades WWE talks non-stop about how much better AEW blows a whistle then suddenly the undisputed era burst out of a fucking cake to start kicking people in the leg really hard Well in real life. This is a supercharged World's collide kind of opportunity. We never thought we'd see coming up with something that would never ever happen Just doesn't feel like it's engaging. Yeah, I'm gonna be honest with you that AEW evasion angle would be probably the coolest thing ever It would it would oh my god, it would be fucking lit, but we know That will never ever Happen you know what Vince with Vince would have a goddamn. I'm not gonna say that now I don't want to even put that in I'm trying to put that out there Vince will lose his shit if that was to happen, bro Even if someone brought that up in a board meeting in a meeting to come up with creative storyline He probably fired that person on the spot like that would never happen. Would it be cool? Yes. Will it happen? No and with This brief I've always tried to do things that might happen So I've come up with something that hopefully serves both Masters that gives Cody the kind of motivation that you know He and specifically only him would have not just babyface template number four something that takes the last six years into account Historical context of his family name his accomplishments But also a story that WWE could tell and that could only be told within WWE like I think I have who knows I'm doing my best put the neck tattoo on me again Put it on and we're gonna start with and I want to get this right out of the way First I'd stay with me. Okay, Cody's WrestleMania opponent is gonna be Shane McMahon. I know I know He already knew I was about to turn off the video man. I don't what he knows He knows man. He knows a lot of us was about to instantly just like change the video. All right. Oh No, I know stop it. I know what happened at the rumble. I know he's such a weird man But look this like the Fast and Furious saga this has to be all about Family also I filmed this on Friday 24th of February if Cody debuts the Monday before this comes out It's better than this. I'm gonna get an actual neck tattoo. We'll run a poll on our patreon and whatever you pick I'll have that tattooed on my neck. That is an absolute promise and I it's definitely not something I'll cut out the video if he actually did debut on Monday. Did he debut on Monday, Simon? Good or applicable we begin March 14th why March 14th because that raw emanates from Jacksonville, Florida home of Daley's place the Spiritual home of a W and its permanent residence throughout the pandemic probably a bit more likely for the average fan in Jacksonville to know or care about Cody's non-WWE side piece in Jacksonville, so raw begins and then suddenly No, I'm kidding. Although that song is really good adrenaline and staff and soul. I am Cody Cody comes to the ring. He wants to do a big gesture like I'll kiss them out But please don't do that Cody. He walks into the ring He sits in a chair dyed blonde hair And he waits for the inevitable AEW chance to die down He sits down in the chair takes a microphone. Simply says I want to speak to Vince McMahon Waits after about a minute AEW chance, etc. Vince comes out says hey Cody Welcome back to a real company. Yep. I can see Vince saying some shit like that That sounds about right must be nice to see all this Production value again. Cody says cute. I'm gonna cut to the chase. I am back For my dad's stuff. See while I was away rebuilding who I was building if you can't say I will all Elite wrestling Chance for the longest time I did that without my father's name I was just Cody why because you own that name the name Rhodes was owned by Vince McMahon My father's name the name he crafted in the NWA in Jim Crockett promotion in WCW name He gave me belonged to you. I took that name back and I'm back For everything else and after all Vince, you know a thing or two about being gifted things from your father Vince says no, I talked about my father. You little piss act. You want it all? No chag's and Vince leaves Cody tells him to come back, but then here comes the money Here we go out comes Shane wearing a dark suit rather than his baseball shirt He walks down with a serious face. He walks right up to Cody road He fronts to Cody Cody low blows him hits him with the crossroads and while Shane is lying face down Cody takes a can of yellow spray paint and on the back of Shane's dark jacket sprays yellow polka dots next week a confrontation between Shane and Cody Cody proposes a match at WrestleMania if he wins WWE signs over to him everything his dad created war games the dusty classic Starcade the roads name the music all of it. I know dusty didn't create the dusty guy You know, I mean Cody talks about while he was gone from the company. He saw WWE bring back Starcade all these treasured roads memory Shane refuses telling him no And he's not gonna get it by threatening Vince. He says, I'm sorry that your dad is gone But mine isn't and he owns that legacy Fair and square Cody responds. Yeah, my dad's gone, but at least he told me he loved me before he went hmm and meant it Keeps needling Shane about why Shane left WWE all those years ago because he knew that all this Would never be his it still won't be his Vince would rather burn it down Than pass it on This is good. This is so good. He's he got I will say Adam knows how to book I don't know why he's not hired by WWE, but I like this gives a sense of realism. I like this man This is nice. Maybe he would pass it on if only he had a son He could be proud of Shane attacks Cody smashes in with the microphone keeps hitting him over and over and over He heads under the ring comes back with a bag. He shouts you want the match? You've got it, but if you lose We own you we own your name your legacy and you'll spend the rest of your contract Wearing this he opens the bag Star dusts gear Prone body on the go-home Raw before WrestleMania now be nice Cody wins He gets the rights of everything to do with the roads in perpetuity However, if he loses they belong to WWE Cody then mentions that in honor of Dusty's classics with superstar Billy Graham Tully Blanchard Shane versus Cody because we are in Dallas after all Will be a Texas death match at mania the two men go help for leather or as much as Shame can he can do a little jump off something if he likes feel your boots Vince even walks down to try and interfere Doesn't wrestle Pat Mack if he could that's weird. He gets a punch to the head from Cody He falls back and lands on a bunch of officials at ringside as safely as possible And finally Cody chokes out Shane McMahon with a Texas bull rope to win the match and regain the Rhodes family Intellectual property in the match between Reigns and Lesnar in the main event by the way Heyman chooses Roman and helps his tribal chief and mine win both the WWE and Universal champion as it should be We've done my little thing. We've had up. We've had my little match, which is more about whoo Narrative parallels aren't these some rich to nuance themed about family pride and living up to expectations in their scope for some death Emotional moments as both men fight for their father's pride and all that bollocks now Let's give you a match that you all actually want you people WWE WrestleMania backlash WWE backlash to WWE WrestleMania the backlash Cody Rhodes versus Seth Rollins on the roar of the mania Cody comes out to celebrate His father's name Seth interrupts to remind Cody that dusty may have given Cody a start in this business But there's one thing the dusty never gave Cody and that was a world Championship pointing to the Tron a picture of Dusty Rhodes handing Seth Rollins the NXT championship the first NXT championship so really he asks Cody when it comes down to it Who did your father respect more the whole thing isn't just gonna be bringing up dusty every two minutes by the way But this is off the back of mania Dusty's a huge emotional link between these two performers So he's definitely a big part of the story right now the two wrestle at the backlash to the backlash to the thing That's just begun Seth Rollins spends the whole time cheating to get head jaw jacking about how he's the champion son That dusty never had the ref goes down Seth throws Cody onto the outside He runs against the ropes he rebounds goes for a suicide dive when Cody hits him With a sledgehammer shot just stands over him looks at the sledgehammer and gives it a little kiss He rolls back into the ring One two three also on the show Roman Reigns wrestles two matches one for the universal championship against Drew McIntyre I want against Edge for the WWE Championship Roman cheats to retain against Drew in the opener But loses the WWE Championship to Edge in the main event after Drew runs in and Returns to favor with a claymore kick setting up another match between Roman and Drew another pay-per-view next up I've shot I can see that happening. He will drop the WWE Championship I don't want him to eat a pin like that, but that's the only way they're gonna be able to separate the titles That's exactly what's gonna happen. He'll try to do double-duty. He'll lose the WWE Championship fooled around some pay-per-views from the current 2022 schedule I do hope you don't mind. I also don't care instead of July The June pay-per-view will be money in the bank I'll take place in June Cody and Seth continue feuding into that show with both men entering the money in the bank ladder match Casting memories back to the early 2010s in 2013 Cody almost Won the briefcase. It was kind of a bit coming out match for him But he was betrayed by Damien Sandow and of course in 2014 the year after Seth won the thing So plenty of history there Cody Rhodes wins the briefcase becomes Mr. Money in the bank He truly is ungoddamn Deniable the next month's pay-per-view takes place on Sunday, July 3rd the day before Independence Day and to celebrate WWE decided to rekindle as a main roster show the great Batch great. I'm okay with that bringing back the great American bachelors that he's cashing in the briefcase For a shot of the WWE Championship at the great American bash after all it's one of his dad's Crowning achievements to beat Ric Flair for the £10 a gold at the same event in 1986 Edge and Cody trade some shooty poo pot shots at each other edge 10 Cody knows exactly what it's like to cash in that briefcase He tells him he's a fool for announcing it in advance He should go back to Florida where he can pretend he's a main event hero Cody says thanks He will head down to Florida soon and while he's there he'll be sure to say hello to edges Good buddy Christian at the event roads and Edge have a heated face versus face battle when the ref goes down and suddenly Charlotte flair runs down to the ring. She clatters Edge with the WWE Championship Edge staggers back into a crossroads Cody Rhodes hits it one two three becomes the new WWE champion he and Charlotte stand face to face in the center of the ring and they shake hands at the same event Where does he Rose be his hated rival Ric Flair their children? Unite to form a merger between the two great Wrestling families is not a romantic bond Just an alliance to make sure that both wrestlers get what they have you know people deserve their partnership is called The birthright together. They both vow to create a lasting dynasty in WWE also Lutely turn Cody Rhodes here. It's wonderful heel and also gestures bay clear AEW this leads to Cody Rhodes versus John Cena Summerslam for the WWE Championship a couple of reasons for this both men are keenly aware what it's like to beat the face of their company and for the Diehard fans of that company to look at that face and go, you know what what else do you have also? Cena will be competing for the WWE Championship a world title attempting to break Rick Record which would sit there is he's doing a lot of tie-ins. Yes. This is some this is some good This is what I like booking that ties into real-life Situations it all makes sense. I like this. I'm loving this Uneasily with Charlotte also their ideologies clash in a nicely thematic way the birthright feel their owed Greatness Cena's all about earning it through hustle loyalty and the third one or so He loves a bit of shooting doesn't he? Yeah, it's a hearing John Cena Give no f***s and name drop AEW a bunch. That would be really fun. I Enjoy that naturally Summerslam Cody and Charlotte cheat to beat Cena with Charlotte passing Cody the sledgehammer While the refs back is turned back One two three can also have Cody assist Charlotte in beating Ronda Rousey in a WrestleMania rematch So both Blair and Rhodes hold championship gold. It is an ultimate alliance the mega powers The birthright the rest of this booking is just gonna be a fun few ideas I had for extra bits to pass the time until mania where we'll end this story have Cody decreed that instead of Helena Cell WWE are gonna do war game. I Like that idea them doing war games instead of Helen the cell. I like that. I like that love this war games on the main Rasta. Yeah, he finally gets to be in the match his dad created thought these teams might be fun Cody Rhodes teams with Imperium because Walter knows a few things about having his name changed against his Will and also without the necktack Cody does look distinctly German so that that adds up those guys face The team of Rollins Valor Champa and Owens all former NXT champions and NXT essentially appropriated the format NXT to relationship with Dusty Etc. Also, I really want to see Walter jump off a war games cage. Can I? Roman have a December WWE pay-per-view be Starcade instead of TLC headlined by a Rhodes defending a world championship Cody and Charlotte treat the night as their own Personal homecoming in the main event Cody Rhodes versus AJ Styles and it's in this match That Triple H makes his long-awaited return to the ring smashing Cody in the face with a sledgehammer Costing him the WWE Championship I've been a bit wary about putting Triple H in this story because I'm his health Yeah, it's enough time for him to rehab and get back on his feet This leads of course to Cody Rhodes versus Triple H at WrestleMania 39 sledgehammer versus sledgehammer Triple H versus Triple H career versus career, which Triple H can lose. Maybe even Cody can lose go back to he W Yeah, that wouldn't that be fun. It's just he moves between the two making each promotion feel more valuable What that would be fun? Wouldn't it anyway? No no Triple H should should lose. Yeah, he definitely should. Yeah He probably should and that is my booking of Cody Rhodes in WWE set up a kind of faction Like for him give him a reason for being there which makes sense beyond, you know I wanted more money than AW you were willing to give me so Sorry about hitting the chair stuff, you know, it's a bit better than that It actually addresses stuff specifically to do with Cody rather than just hey it's a famous person, you know, who's coming back to WWE for a hot minute and It has some AEW stuff, you know You can't ignore it, but also it's not just Mentioning AEW all the time because honestly just constantly name-dropping the other place as we've seen in AEW It just it makes your own company feel a little small time Sometimes so that's a year in the life of Cody Rhodes in WWE. What would you do differently if you would let me I enjoyed this booking. I definitely did enjoy this. I like majority of the points that he made man this I like them bringing up the family stuff. Don't have him come back for some bullshit reason If he's gonna come back, you got to push him you have to Doesn't make sense for him for him to come back to be a jobber It gotta make sense. They gotta elevate elevate a lot of what's going on. You feel me? And I like that the you know, they bring up the family situation. I love that a sense of realism there I'm all for it man. If it makes sense if they're gonna if he comes back to really be doing the same shit He was doing before then what was the point? Because then it comes it looks like you just did it for the money But if you want to come back to create your own narrative the way you wanted it to be in WWE Do it Go ahead and do it I'm all for it. So if it works, but if they bury him because he went to another company then Don't don't even waste your time, bro. Don't even waste your time. So Comment down below. Let me know. Did you guys agree with Adam's booking in if there's anything you would have changed? What would you have changed? But I appreciate all of them support grow to send. Okay. Appreciate y'all kicking me. See y'all next