Bully Ray Defends WWE, Says Cody Rhodes’ WrestleMania 39 Loss Was The Right Call
Cody Rhodes, who up until WrestleMania 39 hadn’t lost a single match since returning to WWE last April, was pinned by the Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns in the main event of WrestleMania 39 (Night Two).
Cody’s failure to dethrone Reigns at The Showcase Of Immortals enraged loyal fans who questioned WWE’s booking and criticized the creative team for not capitalizing on Rhodes’ momentum.
On a recent episode of “Busted Open Radio,” Bully Ray explained Rhodes’ shocking loss at WrestleMania. According to Ray, WWE made the right call putting Reigns over Rhodes because the loss will now make fans want to see The American Nightmare win even more, and the Dusty Rhodes documentary episode also proves the fact that Cody will largely benefit from the loss when he does ultimately win the Undisputed WWE Universal Championship.
You can check out some highlights from the podcast below:
On the result of the WrestleMania match being the right call: “If after watching last night’s documentary you don’t believe that the WWE got it right, you truly don’t understand what this business is all about. It’s no coincidence that this documentary aired one week after WrestleMania.”
On how the loss benefits Rhodes: “Barring Cody getting injured, Roman getting injured … If they stay the course, this is going to be huge for Cody. If people would’ve gotten the way they wanted it, he would’ve come back at WrestleMania and won at WrestleMania also. In the world of the WWE, in that one-year span from Mania to Mania, what else would there have been for Cody Rhodes to do?”
On Rhodes essentially playing the role Dusty did against Ric Flair: “If you would’ve listened to Cody [in the special], going into the cage match with Flair, if you listen to the way Cody describes the story, the angle, and what was about to happen in the payoff, he basically is stooging off everything he’s about to go through.”
On where to go now: “I think that there’s two possibilities now for a huge Cody Rhodes moment. Madison Square Garden … could you imagine if they ran a Monday Night Raw from The Garden close to that same exact date [when Dusty beat Billy Graham in 1977], and Cody were to win it there? That’d be really emotional.”
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