Not even a single Seth Rollins appreciation tweet breaks my heart. He did everything he could, lost to Rock and Roman on Night 1, lost to Mcintyre on Night 2, took the beating and didnt hit a single shot on anyone, yet did the most impact throughout the match and even the feud. People were really criticizing Seth's inclusion in the rivalry, however he was the MVP for me in this Ending Saga of Roman's historic title reign. He is indeed a cryptonite of Roman. The story he told to stay as Cody's shield, and literally and figuratively he kept his promise.
@@hotdawg9666 I think Drew tried to get a thank you Seth going in his unhinged promo but no one caught on, plus I think he just wanted to leave at mania tbh he looked legitimately injured.
Absolutely agree. He, Drew and many others carried the WWE during the Pandemic. Fans by and large, only care about being entertained and not about the hard work, dedication, and sacrifice Wrestlers actually put in to entertain them. Well, like you, I appreciate Seth, he was a true fighting champion.
It’s because Seth just dragged out far too long. His title reign was awful and he the wrong choice to hold the belt. His song has become annoying and he doesn’t physically look like he belongs in the ring with Roman and the Rock. I’m hoping he takes a long vacation because even when he was injured and supposed to be out, he showed up every week with boring promos. Maybe he could go to AEW with the other pro wrestlers and leave WWE for entertainers.
I've still got a huge soft spot for Roman vs. Drew at Clash at the Castle. Not only is the match a banger, but Solo debuting and Drew losing still impacts WWE TV today
@@cerebralassassin2185way more than 6. Roman Vs Jey Clash of Champions 2020 Roman Vs Bryan Fastlane 2021 Roman Vs Edge Vs Bryan WM 37 Roman Vs Bryan SmackDown - Bryan leaves WWE Roman Vs Edge MITB 2021 Roman Vs Brock SummerSlam 2022 Roman Vs Drew CotC 2022 Roman Vs Logan Paul Roman Vs Sami EC Roman Vs Cody WM 39 Roman Vs Cody WM 40 All of these matches were great to excellent. And then all his other title defenses against people like KO, Seth, Cesaro, Riddle, Rey etc. were at the very least good. And then there were excellent matches where Roman didn't defend the belt: War Games 2022 Roman and Solo Vs Sami and KO Roman and Solo Vs The Uso's Roman and Rock Vs Cody and Seth
I'm not a massive wwe watcher since early 2000s but what stood out to me was that apart from the main event, the other matchs didn't seem to be any big fueds between the wrestlers other than the brothers but that was awful
I feel Stone Cold showing up during the match, would have overpowered the finish. We would have been gasping over Rock and Austin brawling, and that poetic ending with Roman, Seth and Cody will have been dissipated. While I think Austin made more sense than Undertaker, Undertaker taking out Rock literally from the scene (the "vanish") was just perfect. It's deeper than who gets the bigger pop for the save. It's who makes the save to allow that ending to play out and flourish like it did. That chair shot of the Tribal Chief who cannot let go...was just perfection.
It was always Romans Story. He finishes his story,as Solo said before John came,"Finish him,Finish ur Story". Cody didn't finished it,He started his Story.
@@manucr9183 But it's about the journey as Champion. How beloved u will be,How u can be relevant. I think Rhea is the best example,to be loved by Fans and have a title for whole year.
Not 6 months, but WWE has the perfect opportunity to break the cycle of the same guy being the Night 2 Main Event of Mania - Seth absolutely deserves to do it once and I think he should next year, despite whatever amazing feud Cody's doing.
I still want Seth vs. Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship. Calling it right now Seth is 2025 Royal Rumble winner and chooses Punk who at some point wins the World Heavyweight title off Drew Mcintyre. Priest is Champ only til Summer Slam drop the belt to Mcintyre so he can hold the belt to fued with Punk and drops the title to Punk and Survivor series. Cody gets down graded to Night 1 Main Event and he'll fight the Returning Rock cause when the Rock says he'll be back you know he's only returning for Wrestlemania.
@S316839 Yeah that actually makes way more sense. It sucks for Priest having only a 3 month title reign but it's his first of Many probably so he'll be alright. I mean the Main Event scene is stacked though. I know I made my prediction but I totally wouldn't mind Seth being the Elimination Chamber winner and facing Punk for the Title and Gunther being the Royal Rumble winner and Challenging Cody.
When The Shield music hit…I definitely thought Jon/Dean was coming out especially when the music played for a while…I was about to to lose it… I love Dean and didn’t want him to leave but I knew he had to go and I didn’t blame him. I always knew Roman was going to be a Champion when everyone hated him and I’m glad he got a real chance to do what most of us knew he had in him. Now for Cody I’m all for him new journey as Champion but they need to book Cody strong and be very careful with his run…Roman left some big shoes for Cody to fill so it will be interesting and exciting to see where this new chapter in Cody’s book takes us.
Starting watching your videos this year right before royal rumble (your video predicting the surprise appearances) been loving the ride ever since! Got back into WWE with CM Punk’s return and your videos have kept me hyped to not stop watching WWE Also Love the Podcast!!
I remember a few videos back when santi said that not having the signees (naomi and andrade) on wrestlemania is a bad look for the free agents. Which i agreed with but now with the power of hindsight, Papa H made sure to find a spot for them and i am extremely happy he did that. This id definitely a new era and i’m glad that the talents are getting utilized in some way🎉
Sami wasn’t a main eventer prior to challenging Roman. L.A Knight wasn’t. Logan Paul was fresh outta social media. And Jey USO definitely wasn’t Main Event Jey prior to challenging Roman. I’m not understanding where this idea comes from that Roman only faced people that were already the top of the card😕. He elevated others for sure
It's a dumb talking point. Facing Roman is what put Edge back in the main event , gave Cesaro a shot at the big one, elevated all the people you said. People just get a hard-on from shitting on Roman.
@@JayAthleticGamingI mean sami was literally jobbing whole his career in 2022 before joining bloodline storyline. Sami got over because of bloodline and it was mostly because people loves to hate roman for no reason so they keep telling sami saved bloodline storyline bla bla. Same goes to usos none of them would be single star main eventing if it wasn't for bloodline story. Cody too needed roman title to become big when he already had seth Rollins title to challenge as well but people wanted Cody to challenge roman instead of seth tells Cody too get uplifted by this
Just remember - before John Cena won his first WWE Championship in 2005 he was generally loved by everyone w his rapper gimmick. It wasn't until fans started turning on him during his title reign because he was booked to never lose and that got annoying.
Its because he was booked as Super Cena and got pushed. Cody was pushed by the fans, they can turn on him like Daniel Bryan but I hope they learned from that.
@@manucr9183no it wasn't. He started pandering to the crowd is what first turned some fans off. He wasn't Super Cena until later on when 30-40% of the crowd had already turned on him. It was the Super Cena that caused that 30-40% to always be against him.
@@manucr9183lol if you think that then you're just delusional internet fan who don't know anything. His run is nothing like Daniel Bryan. Bryan was never a top guy he was getting over by his own like la knight is doing right now that's why WWE started giving him push in main event by making him win WWE championship but he wasn't top face of business they brought Batista in 2014 for that purpose which backfires and due to bryan huge popularity WWE were force to include bryan in it. If you think Cody story is similar than you don't have enough brain at all. Cody Rhodes was handpicked by WWE to be next top face of the company that's why he won both the rumble and he was always destined to beat roman for that title. If you're talking about so called Cody moments that's what WWE wanted due to punk injury WWE has to change schedule so they try to do experiment by making rock vs roman this year and Cody vs seth but it backfires and people started supporting Cody and WWE changed again everything. WWE actually got huge benefit by this Cody moments because they wanted that for their new face to get audience support. For past years WWE failed to create top face who got fan support so WWE wanted a guy who can be like super cena and will have support like bryan. So they did this move and it perfectly worked and people like you still believe it was fans who made Cody top guy that's biggest joke 😂😂. The guy who got over by fans like Daniel Bryan is la knight not Cody Rhodes who was handpicked by wwe
If Gunther can hold the title for 666 days with day in and day out bangers and no one is complaining about his reign, I'm not buying the "less is more" approach to title defenses. It's always about how well the champ carries the belt and how well they treat it.
I'm already waiting for the tribal chief return!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉 Enjoy this Cody Rhodes story, but I'm telling you the Tribal Chief return will be "Huge" even though it's easy to like Cody.
Might help since this era of WWE has multiple people who can main event any show compared to past WWE who had to push one maybe two guys. As long as they make him a believable champion with less of the whole cliche babyface world champion bingo card, he’ll be fine.
This Mania proved that the 2 Night Format is the best format. I 100% agree with the notion that it was great to be done with Mania by 11PM. I stayed up to watch the 35 Main Event, because I'm a women's wrestling fan, and was EXHAUSTED the next day, and I think it actually made me not like the main event as much as I do now, years removed. 36 wasn't a good measuring stick, because it was Pandemania, and I think 37, 38 and 39 was still a little long because they hadn't figured out a good format, but 40 worked. They trimmed parts of the show and it worked.
5:04 Is what i thought I stood up in shock and said no way seth and dean are coming out to stop the bloodline me jumping in excitement just to see it was seth
Roman's essence it's too big right now, to have a Top heel champion. Cody is a face, shoud be a face and lose as face. Because Roman's title reign was too recent would overshadow, the title reign.
Hahahahaa i think you weren't alive during the Cena era. Babyfaces are always going to be booed once they win a title because the interest is in the chase and not in the defence.
Stopped watching wrestling around 2016 royal rumble,got back into wrestling at the 2020 rumble,I still followed along on social media and the only thing I wished I saw when it happened was the Hardy boyz return at wm33,still saw it on instagram when it happened but it doesn’t hit the same as if I was watching live
That's why I think he'll change it up long before then. I think that's what The Rock was hinting at during their Raw segment, that Cody will fail to uphold himself and his belt, "breaking hearts". When The Rock returns, Cody will be a heel.
Cody Rhodes is literally just Daniel Bryan 2.0! His entire character hinges on “finishing the story” so now that the story is finish’s he will become significantly less interesting. He has no real start power, he’s just being pushed really hard but it’s superficial. I know the crybabies are going to soy out about this take
The main event proved something Paul Heyman said during his HOF acceptance speech... ECW lives on. All the way to a classic lights out, lights on surprise superstar in ring suddenly, one move attack, lights out, lights on, surprise superstar is gone, match finish. It was classic ECW booking. Thank you Paul.
My only gripe about the big finish to the night 2 main event is that thus far, no one has brought any of it up. Cody didn't thank Jay, Seth, Taker, Cena. Rock didn't (wrongly) accuse Cody of doing exactly what Roman did in order to win. I know it's still early, but for NO ONE to mention those run-ins is kinda wild.
Takers involvement makes a lot of sense actually. Noy just because of history with rock and roman but he comes full circle. His first match in wwe was teaming with the million dollar man against Dusty and his team. He pinned him too. So he helped his son for helping him
I think the biggest problem with Iyo-Bayley was it was right before Roman/Cody. No fault of its own. No matter what went on in that spot would have gotten the same treatment.
Santi, please can you do these on UA-cam comments or tiktok comments, cause realistically, you could have so much more than 3000 ppl answering on other platforms cause not many people are allowed or would want to pay money to twitter just to answer Ur questions even tho we all love you
I'm just dissapointed Aj's new theme wasn't a country song, cuz of his character being similar to his Lone Wolf days in the end of his TNA run, and Evil Ways is such a good song
Cody vs Roman was the best match in Wrestlemania history. Not from an in-ring standpoint, but all-around presentation. The Imagine Dragon promo before the match with narration, the entrances where Cody’s had a “bloodied but prepared for final battle” vibe and Roman’s orchestra crescendos into something deserving of an Academy Award. And like you said the tale of two halves in the match, culminating in the best finish of all time and even furthered by the little things like Samantha’s voice cracking announcing the winner. The best match in Wrestlemania history. Period.
Also The story was bad. Cody wants to win a title for his dad, roman îs just The champion. Cody wins the rumble twice and roman has no choice but to fight him, The rock added sone spice to it since the feud was boring. The match îs overhyped since it need undertaker. Cena and The rock to add cheap hype and nostalgia bait to The match, since cody vs roman fighting was just averagem so no, this match îs not even top 50 matches of all time, period.
But it's ok, little boy, you didn't explain how this match îs The best, cuz it isn't. Adding the undertaker cena and rock made the match worse, since it was cheap way to bring hype. A match can only be amazing îf it's between the two contenders, no interference from legends to bring hype. Period
For example, The story and execution of the match was better în The Daniel Bryan triple threat, cuz it didn't have legends coming în The ring for no reason to bring hype, which makes it way better than this match, period. Prove me wrong.
I was personally there at WM40 and I had an absolute blast, this is the only Wrestlemania that only had one bad match, most of the others have 2-3 even 4 sometimes. From top to bottom this was an amazing Wrestlemania
7:35 Correct me if I am wrong, but is this not the EXACT reason people turned on Seth's reign? Cause he fought against top talent and kept winning. All I saw was people saying "He keeps beating the people we want to see as champion like Finn Balor"
The best part of the Triple H era is that I think the term "Sports Entertainment" is over. I've noticed that they say things like "The greatest parts of Sports AND Entertainment"
Cena at one point was the All-American Babyface, and they turned on him. Right before the feud with ECW he was the only babyface to be so unpopular and never turned heel
We were really shouting for the other bloodline members to come out before the third cross rhodes at the end. And then that's where Austin will come out and wreak havoc. But, I don't mind.. STORY'S FINISHED
Tbh the reason the undertaker made more sense, was because roman beat him at wrestlemania, stone cold had no connection to the bloodline story, undertaker at least had a small connection.
I think Undertaker was the better choice instead of Stone Cold purely for the fact that he had a perfect kayfabe reason to become "neutralised" in the form of teleporting away and protecting himself/everyone else in that sequence. Totally open to seeing anyone else's fantasy booking of how they could've gotten Stone Cold in to take care of The Rock and then gotten him out in a good protected way.
For 12 hours of tv (including Monday's Raw) it didn't seem such a long time But for context the longest things i've watch over the past few years was Mavel movies so it might be a low bar
I think the reason why HHH mocked them was because when he did that with Austin, everyone complained that he failed, even tho everytime he tried, someone interfered
I think the WM40 was tastefully overbooked. We got a legitimately great match between Cody and Roman before any interference, and the interferences didn’t feel super long and drawn out
it’s easy for the same ppl to say “oh we’re not gonna turn on Rhodes or yearn for a new champ” …. week b4 survivor series: maybe just hear me out probably Cody could just drop the …. 🤦
Definately Cody is Dropping before Mania. He will have a 6-7 month Reign,But it will be a Banger with Some Top stars of WWE. It will bangers after Bangers in every PLE.
Looked to me like Reigns laid down too easily for Rhodes, as though he wanted everyone to know he was following the script! Rhodes so desperately wants to be seen as an American Hero he won't turn heel, something he will really need to do if he doesn't want everyone to tire of him in 6 months!
People have been saying that since Cody came back. Hasn’t happened. He set merch records at WrestleMania. The WWE crowds are very different from AEW where they turned on him.
I am also happy that Priest's cash in was successful, mostly because of the stories that come out of it. But I don't care about Priest himself and I don't really see him as a world champion, so if he had lost the belt on RaM or if he loses it in a week or a month from now I would be fine with it. So I'm happy about it, but not because of Priest, like you said he looked like a buffoon and him successfully cashing in doesn't erase that, his status got severely diminish by all of that. In order for me to turn around on him, he'd have to become a babyface and survive extremely brutal matches against by a bunch of heels.
Just to see the undertaker over Austin ties roman story altogether. He beat taker at mania and now taker came back to make sure he feels what he felt when he lost
Survivor series 1998.....king of the ring 1999......no way out 2002.....vengeance 2002....and other triple threat matches and who can't forget that 6 man hell in a cell at Armageddon 2000.....the rock and undertaker had some great moments
similar to the mjf take i got my hopes up there was a possibility of an aj lee return and was slightly disappointed when i realized shes probably never coming back :(
Bayley vs Iyo was amazing. And I don’t believe this is the end of their story. Iyo is one of the greatest female wrestlers in the world and even with little defenses she put on great matches. I can’t wait to see what Bayley brings next.
And iyo îs one of The most boring women of all time. Her în ring skills are so slow and lame, and my god she can't even talk. No wonder she was a bad champion.
@@LuxeXing yes. Bayley was really bad în that match. The only thing she hâd îs emotion as she cried when she won The title. But during the match she was bad, iyo carried that match. The match hâd a bad and cliche feud, where the members turn against The leader. The match îs overhyped and overrated
For what it was… wrestlemania 36 was solid A tier show too… in response to him saying 37-40 has been very good. I think my ranking would be 37, 38, 36, 39, 40. But I do think wrestlemania 40 is one of the goat wrestlemania’s. It felt like the time flew by.
The new era under Paul levesque reign will be as good as if not better than the attitude era giving pushes to wrestlers who deserve to be pushed and other wrestlers will be lifted up to their best potential
The main event of WM 40 is the best main event of all Wrestlemanias and that's not recency bias. For me the best main event till now was WM 17. The heel turn by Austin was shocking but the cathartic effect which we get from either the heel/babyface winning, I don't think any match is even close to the main event of Night 2 of WM40. As a whole, I feel WM 17 is still the winner.
I think cody will be fine as long as they actually have stars to feud with. A big problem with roman's run was they kinda didn't let anyone shine other than roman which made his feuds feel less intense or spectacular but when he did feud with stars it felt great. Cody will be fine as long as they let others shine as well as cody to keep things fresh.
Y’all didn’t have this issue with John cena when Vince used to book cena they had cena have his run with the same opponents like Randy orton and Kurt angle and no one batted an eye 😂
@@Kingtutt4142005 jbl Christian Chris jericho 2006 edge rvd triple h 2007 randy orton Umaga the great Khali 2008 randy orton batista jbl Chris jericho 2009 edge big show shamus 2010 batista the nexus
I saw some videos about this and they really hate everything about this and say that Cody doesn't draw and that they only cater to smarks that like midcarders, so many negative opinions, it's insane. Not everything is always perfect but the entire roster is doing great right now.
Yeah i honestly would have been mad about priest winning the title but it was well done getting two stories out of it as well cm punk/drew story intensifies and now priest is champion which could breal up judgement day or jist have him have a normal title reign
I didn't care going in that much of the Final Testiment vs Bobby Lashley and the Street Profits, but Baba Ray and Snoop Saved that match and made it really entertaining. So it went from a Flop to an A to me. Just grading on what we had coming in with the match.
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Why would say that about Cody?
u took reference from Wrestlelamia channel for the content lol
cody said that he doesn't want to be a pro wrestler when he turns 40
@@ektran4205then why did he sign for another 5 years
Not even a single Seth Rollins appreciation tweet breaks my heart. He did everything he could, lost to Rock and Roman on Night 1, lost to Mcintyre on Night 2, took the beating and didnt hit a single shot on anyone, yet did the most impact throughout the match and even the feud. People were really criticizing Seth's inclusion in the rivalry, however he was the MVP for me in this Ending Saga of Roman's historic title reign. He is indeed a cryptonite of Roman.
The story he told to stay as Cody's shield, and literally and figuratively he kept his promise.
he wasnt shown much appreciation either after cody winning the title and on raw as well
@@hotdawg9666 I think Drew tried to get a thank you Seth going in his unhinged promo but no one caught on, plus I think he just wanted to leave at mania tbh he looked legitimately injured.
Absolutely agree. He, Drew and many others carried the WWE during the Pandemic. Fans by and large, only care about being entertained and not about the hard work, dedication, and sacrifice Wrestlers actually put in to entertain them. Well, like you, I appreciate Seth, he was a true fighting champion.
It doesn’t have to be said. We all thank Seth for his sacrifice to help Cody. It’s just Codys’ moment at the time.
It’s because Seth just dragged out far too long. His title reign was awful and he the wrong choice to hold the belt. His song has become annoying and he doesn’t physically look like he belongs in the ring with Roman and the Rock. I’m hoping he takes a long vacation because even when he was injured and supposed to be out, he showed up every week with boring promos. Maybe he could go to AEW with the other pro wrestlers and leave WWE for entertainers.
Video idea: Seth Rollins attires ranked (could make it big 4 only if easier)
His and CM Punk's. And maybe Edge as well. Ooh and Styles
WONDERFUL IDEA!!!
Video idea: Roman reigns matches ranked as the tribal chief
6 is like the perfect number cause I'd say over his entire run he had about 6 good-great matches all around. (This is not meant as an insult.)
Roman vs. Sami Elim chamber. Peak Bloodline
I've still got a huge soft spot for Roman vs. Drew at Clash at the Castle. Not only is the match a banger, but Solo debuting and Drew losing still impacts WWE TV today
@@cerebralassassin2185way more than 6.
Roman Vs Jey Clash of Champions 2020
Roman Vs Bryan Fastlane 2021
Roman Vs Edge Vs Bryan WM 37
Roman Vs Bryan SmackDown - Bryan leaves WWE
Roman Vs Edge MITB 2021
Roman Vs Brock SummerSlam 2022
Roman Vs Drew CotC 2022
Roman Vs Logan Paul
Roman Vs Sami EC
Roman Vs Cody WM 39
Roman Vs Cody WM 40
All of these matches were great to excellent. And then all his other title defenses against people like KO, Seth, Cesaro, Riddle, Rey etc. were at the very least good.
And then there were excellent matches where Roman didn't defend the belt:
War Games 2022
Roman and Solo Vs Sami and KO
Roman and Solo Vs The Uso's
Roman and Rock Vs Cody and Seth
More like tribal cheat.
Video idea: Shawn Micheals wrestlemania matches ranked
That and my Edge and Bret Hart (no bias)
I know Shawn vs taker will win but fuck that bro, I'm about that Shawn vs angle life.
@@jinxx9515 Shawn vs razor was also good. Don’t forget the triple threat with triple h and Kris- pen-wuah
I'm not a massive wwe watcher since early 2000s but what stood out to me was that apart from the main event, the other matchs didn't seem to be any big fueds between the wrestlers other than the brothers but that was awful
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Day 116 of asking for top ten wwe x aew dream matches
Santi, let the man finish his story
Blud is determined
The legend himself. MOOBURGER FOREVER
Man is quick w it
A new long reign arises from the ashes of WrestleMania XL
dude i was literally trying to find a video to watch while i make dinner. thank you
same lol
Same! Ideal aha
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Seth Rollins is the MVP of Wrestlemania 40.
He is the best
Seth getting all appreciated makes me feel like a proud dad😂❤
The WrestleMania MVP of this generation
New day Mr. Wrestlemania. He has bangers every year
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I feel Stone Cold showing up during the match, would have overpowered the finish. We would have been gasping over Rock and Austin brawling, and that poetic ending with Roman, Seth and Cody will have been dissipated.
While I think Austin made more sense than Undertaker, Undertaker taking out Rock literally from the scene (the "vanish") was just perfect.
It's deeper than who gets the bigger pop for the save. It's who makes the save to allow that ending to play out and flourish like it did. That chair shot of the Tribal Chief who cannot let go...was just perfection.
Did anyone notice that roman vs cody was pretty much a look back at romans career
It was always Romans Story.
He finishes his story,as Solo said before John came,"Finish him,Finish ur Story".
Cody didn't finished it,He started his Story.
@@cgxapurba8450 maybe our story is the wrestlers we beat along the way
@@manucr9183 But it's about the journey as Champion.
How beloved u will be,How u can be relevant.
I think Rhea is the best example,to be loved by Fans and have a title for whole year.
It was a live version of the Firefly funhouse match basically
You act as if he's gonna be done. Lol the dude is literally the same age as cody
6:30 Who said Roman isn't Tribal Chief anymore? He's just a chief without the title. 🙃
Not 6 months, but WWE has the perfect opportunity to break the cycle of the same guy being the Night 2 Main Event of Mania - Seth absolutely deserves to do it once and I think he should next year, despite whatever amazing feud Cody's doing.
Cody vs Seth duh
I still want Seth vs. Punk for the World Heavyweight Championship. Calling it right now Seth is 2025 Royal Rumble winner and chooses Punk who at some point wins the World Heavyweight title off Drew Mcintyre. Priest is Champ only til Summer Slam drop the belt to Mcintyre so he can hold the belt to fued with Punk and drops the title to Punk and Survivor series. Cody gets down graded to Night 1 Main Event and he'll fight the Returning Rock cause when the Rock says he'll be back you know he's only returning for Wrestlemania.
@@lsok1313nah drew is grabbing the title at clash of the castle in Scotland it’s so obvious
@S316839 Yeah that actually makes way more sense. It sucks for Priest having only a 3 month title reign but it's his first of Many probably so he'll be alright. I mean the Main Event scene is stacked though. I know I made my prediction but I totally wouldn't mind Seth being the Elimination Chamber winner and facing Punk for the Title and Gunther being the Royal Rumble winner and Challenging Cody.
@lsok1313 3 month is pretty good for a first run ngl. Especially given how stacked the rosters are and with the draft coming up.
When The Shield music hit…I definitely thought Jon/Dean was coming out especially when the music played for a while…I was about to to lose it… I love Dean and didn’t want him to leave but I knew he had to go and I didn’t blame him.
I always knew Roman was going to be a Champion when everyone hated him and I’m glad he got a real chance to do what most of us knew he had in him.
Now for Cody I’m all for him new journey as Champion but they need to book Cody strong and be very careful with his run…Roman left some big shoes for Cody to fill so it will be interesting and exciting to see where this new chapter in Cody’s book takes us.
I believe in Papa H.
Bayley and Iyo is going to be Piccolo vs Android 17 a great match apart of an even greater story
What a cringe comment
What just back and forth gut checks?
Starting watching your videos this year right before royal rumble (your video predicting the surprise appearances) been loving the ride ever since! Got back into WWE with CM Punk’s return and your videos have kept me hyped to not stop watching WWE
Also Love the Podcast!!
I remember a few videos back when santi said that not having the signees (naomi and andrade) on wrestlemania is a bad look for the free agents. Which i agreed with but now with the power of hindsight, Papa H made sure to find a spot for them and i am extremely happy he did that. This id definitely a new era and i’m glad that the talents are getting utilized in some way🎉
Sami wasn’t a main eventer prior to challenging Roman. L.A Knight wasn’t. Logan Paul was fresh outta social media. And Jey USO definitely wasn’t Main Event Jey prior to challenging Roman. I’m not understanding where this idea comes from that Roman only faced people that were already the top of the card😕. He elevated others for sure
It's a dumb talking point. Facing Roman is what put Edge back in the main event , gave Cesaro a shot at the big one, elevated all the people you said. People just get a hard-on from shitting on Roman.
@@MJHDRi quite literally
@@JayAthleticGamingI mean sami was literally jobbing whole his career in 2022 before joining bloodline storyline. Sami got over because of bloodline and it was mostly because people loves to hate roman for no reason so they keep telling sami saved bloodline storyline bla bla. Same goes to usos none of them would be single star main eventing if it wasn't for bloodline story. Cody too needed roman title to become big when he already had seth Rollins title to challenge as well but people wanted Cody to challenge roman instead of seth tells Cody too get uplifted by this
Yep
Just remember - before John Cena won his first WWE Championship in 2005 he was generally loved by everyone w his rapper gimmick.
It wasn't until fans started turning on him during his title reign because he was booked to never lose and that got annoying.
Its because he was booked as Super Cena and got pushed. Cody was pushed by the fans, they can turn on him like Daniel Bryan but I hope they learned from that.
@@manucr9183 This. They also for some reason dropped his rapper gimmick, which was what made him popular to begin with.
@@manucr9183no it wasn't. He started pandering to the crowd is what first turned some fans off. He wasn't Super Cena until later on when 30-40% of the crowd had already turned on him. It was the Super Cena that caused that 30-40% to always be against him.
@@manucr9183lol if you think that then you're just delusional internet fan who don't know anything. His run is nothing like Daniel Bryan. Bryan was never a top guy he was getting over by his own like la knight is doing right now that's why WWE started giving him push in main event by making him win WWE championship but he wasn't top face of business they brought Batista in 2014 for that purpose which backfires and due to bryan huge popularity WWE were force to include bryan in it.
If you think Cody story is similar than you don't have enough brain at all.
Cody Rhodes was handpicked by WWE to be next top face of the company that's why he won both the rumble and he was always destined to beat roman for that title.
If you're talking about so called Cody moments that's what WWE wanted due to punk injury WWE has to change schedule so they try to do experiment by making rock vs roman this year and Cody vs seth but it backfires and people started supporting Cody and WWE changed again everything. WWE actually got huge benefit by this Cody moments because they wanted that for their new face to get audience support. For past years WWE failed to create top face who got fan support so WWE wanted a guy who can be like super cena and will have support like bryan. So they did this move and it perfectly worked and people like you still believe it was fans who made Cody top guy that's biggest joke 😂😂.
The guy who got over by fans like Daniel Bryan is la knight not Cody Rhodes who was handpicked by wwe
@@manucr9183I hope they do turn on Cody. He got pushed so hard as such a boring wrestler. Give the title to a non boring wrestler
I’m done cutting on Damien Priest, I just met him today at Yankee Stadium and he’s a cool ass guy
If Gunther can hold the title for 666 days with day in and day out bangers and no one is complaining about his reign, I'm not buying the "less is more" approach to title defenses. It's always about how well the champ carries the belt and how well they treat it.
It's always been BS and nothing more than a way to justify Bork Laser and eventually Roman sitting at home with the title for months on end.
video idea: very very early WrestleMania predictions
I'm already waiting for the tribal chief return!!!!🎉🎉🎉🎉
Enjoy this Cody Rhodes story, but I'm telling you the Tribal Chief return will be "Huge" even though it's easy to like Cody.
Aj needs 1 more title run
As long as he isn’t over shown as hero, it would be fine
Might help since this era of WWE has multiple people who can main event any show compared to past WWE who had to push one maybe two guys. As long as they make him a believable champion with less of the whole cliche babyface world champion bingo card, he’ll be fine.
@ImTooms good luck with that. He's already getting the Cena treatment
@@anthonyanderson9303been getting it for 2 whole years lmao
@@anthonyanderson9303Nana,He is not.
@@anthonyanderson9303he is already getting way bigger treatment than cena if you look what he achieved in just 2yrs of his re debut as top guy
WrestleMania 40 (night 2) started with a shocking chokeslam and ended with a shocking chokeslam!
Video idea: All of the Roman Reigns title defences ranked
This Mania proved that the 2 Night Format is the best format. I 100% agree with the notion that it was great to be done with Mania by 11PM. I stayed up to watch the 35 Main Event, because I'm a women's wrestling fan, and was EXHAUSTED the next day, and I think it actually made me not like the main event as much as I do now, years removed. 36 wasn't a good measuring stick, because it was Pandemania, and I think 37, 38 and 39 was still a little long because they hadn't figured out a good format, but 40 worked. They trimmed parts of the show and it worked.
I'm also training to become a professional wrestler and cody rebuilt himself to where now wwe can't deny him.
Same bro I wish you the best of luck and hopefully we cross paths one day
Samdath3439 vs najpalace3458 at wrestlemania 41 lol, also good luck to both of you
I'm training too, anyone know any quality wrestling schools in Pennsylvania?
Good luck guys. Hoping for some belts in your futures
All the best my friend
5:04 Is what i thought
I stood up in shock and said no way seth and dean are coming out to stop the bloodline me jumping in excitement just to see it was seth
No comments in 30 seconds? Bro fell off
😂😂😂
imagine Cody slowly turning into a heel during his reign, or like an anti-hero of some sort.
No. No one wants another heel as the top champion.
Do u mean twiner kind of character
We had the best heel in the business for years. Let's let the good guys shine for a while
Cody needs to go full homelander bro that would be so tufff
Roman's essence it's too big right now, to have a Top heel champion. Cody is a face, shoud be a face and lose as face. Because Roman's title reign was too recent would overshadow, the title reign.
Video idea: Booking Cody Rhodes' title reign or his career after finishing the story
swear to god,if the fans turn on Cody the next 6 months,WWE is never going to have another mega star .
Hahahahaa i think you weren't alive during the Cena era. Babyfaces are always going to be booed once they win a title because the interest is in the chase and not in the defence.
Cody Rhodes aka star dust is not a mega star.
Cena got booed a lot rzn why he was able to do it was because he has the mic skills and he was able to make sure none of his stories went stale
@@princeofrock8178Nah, the exact opposite. Hope you feel better though!
@@dabearcub feeling great knowing you cant deny he is stardust and will forever be stardust no matter what he calls himself now
Stopped watching wrestling around 2016 royal rumble,got back into wrestling at the 2020 rumble,I still followed along on social media and the only thing I wished I saw when it happened was the Hardy boyz return at wm33,still saw it on instagram when it happened but it doesn’t hit the same as if I was watching live
That's why I think he'll change it up long before then. I think that's what The Rock was hinting at during their Raw segment, that Cody will fail to uphold himself and his belt, "breaking hearts". When The Rock returns, Cody will be a heel.
"You're MY boss,"
"So I'm YOUR champion,"
Seeds planted, and nobody even noticed it
Cody Rhodes is literally just Daniel Bryan 2.0! His entire character hinges on “finishing the story” so now that the story is finish’s he will become significantly less interesting. He has no real start power, he’s just being pushed really hard but it’s superficial. I know the crybabies are going to soy out about this take
The irony of a Cody fan calling someone soy
The main event proved something Paul Heyman said during his HOF acceptance speech... ECW lives on. All the way to a classic lights out, lights on surprise superstar in ring suddenly, one move attack, lights out, lights on, surprise superstar is gone, match finish. It was classic ECW booking. Thank you Paul.
Santi grew on me 😂 love the videos!
My only gripe about the big finish to the night 2 main event is that thus far, no one has brought any of it up. Cody didn't thank Jay, Seth, Taker, Cena. Rock didn't (wrongly) accuse Cody of doing exactly what Roman did in order to win. I know it's still early, but for NO ONE to mention those run-ins is kinda wild.
Takers involvement makes a lot of sense actually. Noy just because of history with rock and roman but he comes full circle. His first match in wwe was teaming with the million dollar man against Dusty and his team. He pinned him too. So he helped his son for helping him
Anybody been a Santi fan since before the channel was created!
Man was the Michael Myers goat in the past 😂
Who miss lio rush in WWE
LASHLEY LASHLEY LASHLEY
With how stacked the roster is rn, I don't think alot of people are thinking about Lio Rush 😂😂😂
that iyo vs bayley match was special man
Really? It was boring af.
But you are right, it was special, since it was so Boring yawn.
I think the biggest problem with Iyo-Bayley was it was right before Roman/Cody. No fault of its own. No matter what went on in that spot would have gotten the same treatment.
The past year and a half shows how much Vince has been holding us back for DECADES
Santi, please can you do these on UA-cam comments or tiktok comments, cause realistically, you could have so much more than 3000 ppl answering on other platforms cause not many people are allowed or would want to pay money to twitter just to answer Ur questions even tho we all love you
I'm just dissapointed Aj's new theme wasn't a country song, cuz of his character being similar to his Lone Wolf days in the end of his TNA run, and Evil Ways is such a good song
Bring back too your old videos they’re soo good
4:58 When the Shield music hit, Corey Graves said "The Rock is waiting for THEIR arrival." Instead of just Seth's arrival.
Denial Bryan story was much better....he single handedly beat whole authority
Not to mention his match didn't need a bunch of legends and nostalgia bait to make The match better like this main event did.
Santi zapped in the next great one I love your content yo
Cody vs Roman was the best match in Wrestlemania history.
Not from an in-ring standpoint, but all-around presentation.
The Imagine Dragon promo before the match with narration, the entrances where Cody’s had a “bloodied but prepared for final battle” vibe and Roman’s orchestra crescendos into something deserving of an Academy Award.
And like you said the tale of two halves in the match, culminating in the best finish of all time and even furthered by the little things like Samantha’s voice cracking announcing the winner.
The best match in Wrestlemania history. Period.
You know cody vs roman îs a mediocre match if it needed taker cena and The rock to help the mediocre match between cody and roman.
Also The story was bad. Cody wants to win a title for his dad, roman îs just The champion. Cody wins the rumble twice and roman has no choice but to fight him, The rock added sone spice to it since the feud was boring. The match îs overhyped since it need undertaker. Cena and The rock to add cheap hype and nostalgia bait to The match, since cody vs roman fighting was just averagem so no, this match îs not even top 50 matches of all time, period.
But it's ok, little boy, you didn't explain how this match îs The best, cuz it isn't. Adding the undertaker cena and rock made the match worse, since it was cheap way to bring hype. A match can only be amazing îf it's between the two contenders, no interference from legends to bring hype. Period
Also you even add the entrances to this? You are so pathetic 😂 you didn't prove how this was The best match, cuz you can't.
For example, The story and execution of the match was better în The Daniel Bryan triple threat, cuz it didn't have legends coming în The ring for no reason to bring hype, which makes it way better than this match, period. Prove me wrong.
I was personally there at WM40 and I had an absolute blast, this is the only Wrestlemania that only had one bad match, most of the others have 2-3 even 4 sometimes. From top to bottom this was an amazing Wrestlemania
7:35 Correct me if I am wrong, but is this not the EXACT reason people turned on Seth's reign? Cause he fought against top talent and kept winning. All I saw was people saying "He keeps beating the people we want to see as champion like Finn Balor"
Love the vids Santi
The best part of the Triple H era is that I think the term "Sports Entertainment" is over.
I've noticed that they say things like
"The greatest parts of Sports AND Entertainment"
Seth Rollins is the best worker in WWE. He deserves the rest…
Cena at one point was the All-American Babyface, and they turned on him. Right before the feud with ECW he was the only babyface to be so unpopular and never turned heel
Will you being doing a prediction for the upcoming draft?
We were really shouting for the other bloodline members to come out before the third cross rhodes at the end. And then that's where Austin will come out and wreak havoc. But, I don't mind.. STORY'S FINISHED
Tbh the reason the undertaker made more sense, was because roman beat him at wrestlemania, stone cold had no connection to the bloodline story, undertaker at least had a small connection.
And his fued with rock aswell
4:38 Rewatching the show, the commentary def sounded like something unexpected was happening. Moreso than just the shield theme being used
I think Undertaker was the better choice instead of Stone Cold purely for the fact that he had a perfect kayfabe reason to become "neutralised" in the form of teleporting away and protecting himself/everyone else in that sequence.
Totally open to seeing anyone else's fantasy booking of how they could've gotten Stone Cold in to take care of The Rock and then gotten him out in a good protected way.
For 12 hours of tv (including Monday's Raw) it didn't seem such a long time
But for context the longest things i've watch over the past few years was Mavel movies so it might be a low bar
Please bring back WWE trivia challenges!!!
Maybe once a week or once a month
I Think Jimmy Vs Jey II needs to happen and has to envolve being or staying in the BloodLine (or What’s left of it)
Bro Cody Rhodes Reign should not be More than 300+ Reign Plz
I am Sick with Long Ass Reigns
He should hold it till mania
I think the reason why HHH mocked them was because when he did that with Austin, everyone complained that he failed, even tho everytime he tried, someone interfered
I think the WM40 was tastefully overbooked. We got a legitimately great match between Cody and Roman before any interference, and the interferences didn’t feel super long and drawn out
it’s easy for the same ppl to say “oh we’re not gonna turn on Rhodes or yearn for a new champ”
….
week b4 survivor series: maybe just hear me out probably Cody could just drop the …. 🤦
Definately Cody is Dropping before Mania.
He will have a 6-7 month Reign,But it will be a Banger with Some Top stars of WWE.
It will bangers after Bangers in every PLE.
Those aren't even the worst people. There's people who unironically kept shitting on Cody's reign before he even showed up on Raw
Hes gonna be homelander type heel if that happen like character same as roman who get frustrated after the things hes done and gonna be a villain.
Looked to me like Reigns laid down too easily for Rhodes, as though he wanted everyone to know he was following the script!
Rhodes so desperately wants to be seen as an American Hero he won't turn heel, something he will really need to do if he doesn't want everyone to tire of him in 6 months!
it’s for sure surprising and a big pop when the undertaker came out but it makes 0% sense why he wasn’t dressed up. bro was wearing a hoodie
People have been saying that since Cody came back. Hasn’t happened. He set merch records at WrestleMania. The WWE crowds are very different from AEW where they turned on him.
I am also happy that Priest's cash in was successful, mostly because of the stories that come out of it. But I don't care about Priest himself and I don't really see him as a world champion, so if he had lost the belt on RaM or if he loses it in a week or a month from now I would be fine with it. So I'm happy about it, but not because of Priest, like you said he looked like a buffoon and him successfully cashing in doesn't erase that, his status got severely diminish by all of that. In order for me to turn around on him, he'd have to become a babyface and survive extremely brutal matches against by a bunch of heels.
Just to see the undertaker over Austin ties roman story altogether. He beat taker at mania and now taker came back to make sure he feels what he felt when he lost
Undertaker vs rock happened at no mercy once
Survivor series 1998.....king of the ring 1999......no way out 2002.....vengeance 2002....and other triple threat matches and who can't forget that 6 man hell in a cell at Armageddon 2000.....the rock and undertaker had some great moments
I was gasping with every pinfall in that Cody/roman match. That main event was just mental, bonkers
The thrill is in the chase. What does one do when one has achieved their dream? They can only go down.
similar to the mjf take i got my hopes up there was a possibility of an aj lee return and was slightly disappointed when i realized shes probably never coming back :(
The OG CALL OF DUTY MICHAEL MYERS ❤
40 was literally like infinity war and end game bad guys win in the first part then good guys second part
Bayley vs Iyo was amazing. And I don’t believe this is the end of their story. Iyo is one of the greatest female wrestlers in the world and even with little defenses she put on great matches. I can’t wait to see what Bayley brings next.
Nah The match was just ok. Bayley sucked în The ring, iyo carried. What a mediocre match.
And iyo îs one of The most boring women of all time. Her în ring skills are so slow and lame, and my god she can't even talk. No wonder she was a bad champion.
@@mihaimercenarul7467 ??? No😭
@@LuxeXing yes. Bayley was really bad în that match. The only thing she hâd îs emotion as she cried when she won The title. But during the match she was bad, iyo carried that match. The match hâd a bad and cliche feud, where the members turn against The leader. The match îs overhyped and overrated
@@LuxeXing and iyo îs bad în the mic, she can't even speak English. She also hâd a Boring reign
Video idea: tier ranking for wrestlemania 40
5:38 do not mess with the guy whose name is Muhammad Ali
For what it was… wrestlemania 36 was solid A tier show too… in response to him saying 37-40 has been very good. I think my ranking would be 37, 38, 36, 39, 40. But I do think wrestlemania 40 is one of the goat wrestlemania’s. It felt like the time flew by.
The new era under Paul levesque reign will be as good as if not better than the attitude era giving pushes to wrestlers who deserve to be pushed and other wrestlers will be lifted up to their best potential
2 nights keeps up the suspense. The suspense was incredible this year over 2 nights. I loved it.
The main event of WM 40 is the best main event of all Wrestlemanias and that's not recency bias. For me the best main event till now was WM 17. The heel turn by Austin was shocking but the cathartic effect which we get from either the heel/babyface winning, I don't think any match is even close to the main event of Night 2 of WM40. As a whole, I feel WM 17 is still the winner.
8:14 YES SANTI, PREACH my brother!
I think cody will be fine as long as they actually have stars to feud with. A big problem with roman's run was they kinda didn't let anyone shine other than roman which made his feuds feel less intense or spectacular but when he did feud with stars it felt great. Cody will be fine as long as they let others shine as well as cody to keep things fresh.
Y’all didn’t have this issue with John cena when Vince used to book cena they had cena have his run with the same opponents like Randy orton and Kurt angle and no one batted an eye 😂
@@Kingtutt4142005 jbl Christian Chris jericho
2006 edge rvd triple h
2007 randy orton Umaga the great Khali
2008 randy orton batista jbl Chris jericho
2009 edge big show shamus
2010 batista the nexus
I saw some videos about this and they really hate everything about this and say that Cody doesn't draw and that they only cater to smarks that like midcarders, so many negative opinions, it's insane. Not everything is always perfect but the entire roster is doing great right now.
Only thing that would have been better is if undertaker was in the full undertaker outfit
14:54 you should've put the Woody laugh meme
15:52 (Everybody who watched in the UK) I KNOW RIGHT?! 😵💫😵💫😵💫😵💫
Yeah i honestly would have been mad about priest winning the title but it was well done getting two stories out of it as well cm punk/drew story intensifies and now priest is champion which could breal up judgement day or jist have him have a normal title reign
I didn't care going in that much of the Final Testiment vs Bobby Lashley and the Street Profits, but Baba Ray and Snoop Saved that match and made it really entertaining. So it went from a Flop to an A to me. Just grading on what we had coming in with the match.
That was a hot take in itself “hhh didn’t book stone cold and taker because we would have all died of shock” not really wrong though lol
Paul Levesque era has begun..... ❤️ It is the time for game to play the game🎯
The Pride Vs. The Final Testament overachieved. Lol.