Rick Uccino

He's not jumping around and diving around and flying around.

He's pummeling people.

He is just using brute force and dominance to win matches.

And it's like he is such a counter to what pro wrestling has become, which is high octane, flying around, you know,

Pacing is just twice as fast as it used to be, maybe three times as fast as it used to be back in your heyday.

And Gunther's like, no, we're going to slow things down.

We're going to take things at my speed, and I'm going to beat the piss out of you.

And that's just who he has been since he showed up.

And, you know, Cody's big draw where he was calling Gunther a fake and a liar is the fact that he was like, look, if you didn't believe in all of these things, you'd still be who you were on the indies.

You would be that big, out-of-shape guy.

That's just work and house shows.

But no, you came up to the WWE main roster.

You got svelte.

You were looking clean.

You turned yourself into the most powerful athlete you could be.

And he's claiming he did it for aesthetics so he could look like a star.

But that's not why.

Gunther knew to survive at the main roster, he had to turn himself into this elite, in-shape killing machine.

So,

There definitely has been a tone shift with Cody over the last several months now at this point in the lead-up to WrestleMania 42.