Analyzing the Ongoing Saga Between Cody Rhodes & Gunther
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
Welcome to the Busted Open Podcast. This is Dave LaGreca. On today's episode, myself and Bully Ray talk Friday Night Smackdown. Gunther, Cody Rhodes, Sami Zayn.
What are the key storylines involving Cody Rhodes, Gunther, and Sami Zayn?
What does this mean moving forward for not only your champion, but your challengers? We discuss right now on the Busted Open Podcast. This is the Busted Open Podcast. I want to talk about something that you said I hope they do on SmackDown Friday. Do you know what I'm referring to, by the way? Does this have to do with Gunther and Cody? It sure does. So we open up SmackDown with Gunther, and Gunther's raged because of everything that took place at Clash in Italy in his match with Cody Rhodes. And he calls out Cody Rhodes, and out comes Cody Rhodes. Now, the whole time that Gunther is raging, he's on the microphone. He's talking and telling the crowd about how Cody Rhodes cheated. That his foot was under the rope.
There should never have been a count at all, much less a three count, which ended the match at Clash in Italy. And he's pissed off and he's angry. Out comes Cody Rhodes. And Cody takes the mic and the first thing Cody says is exactly what you said on this show last week and that he owned up to it. He says to Gunther, he goes, you're right. You're absolutely right. And he said, I am willing to give you a rematch, which is what you said. The other thing that Cody said that I kind of liked was like, hey, Gunther, and he didn't say this specifically, but in Cody jargon, this is what he was saying. Hey, man, shit happens. Like, shit happens. And you could go back to his match, Gunther's match with AJ Styles, where he outsmarted AJ Styles.
Cody kind of did the same thing to Gunther at Clash in Italy. I love the fact that Gunther was angry, as he should be, because that decision wasn't the decision that should have been made. But I like even more what Cody did, which is exactly what you said you wanted to see. Where Cody's like, yep, you're 100% right. That's exactly what happened. I shouldn't have won. And you shouldn't have got pinned. Oh, well.
So... Just remind me, AJ never brought up, I'm sorry, Cody never brought up to Gunther the AJ Styles match, did he?
No, no, he didn't.
How did Gunther react to his match with Cody Rhodes at Clash in Italy?
But that would have been a perfect thing to bring up to him. Hey, Gunther, remember when? And that would have made Gunther stop right in his tracks. And that's when you turn around and you go, so what I'm trying to say, Gunther, is shit happens.
Yeah. And, of course, Cody's never going to say that. But he did it in Cody's verbiage. And now we're going to find out. because of Gunther's and his complaints and his legal team. We're going to get some kind of stipulation for this match, which is going to be announced next week. And then in two weeks on SmackDown, we're going to get the match between Gunther and Cody Rhodes, which I love even more. It's not going to happen at a PLE. It's not going to happen at SummerSlam or Night of Champions. But actually on SmackDown, we're going to get this title match between Gunther and Cody Rhodes.
I love the fact that it's on SmackDown based on the gripe. Based on Gunther's gripe about Gunther's legs being underneath the ropes. What should the max stipulation be?
It's a great question because it's very rare, Bully, that we get this where the heel is the one that's coming up with the stipulation. Because usually when we talk about Oba and Brock, what that stipulation could be, it's the heel that has the gripe.
The heel, he said that if... Gunther said in not so many words, if that mistake never happens, I go on to beat you, Cody. So if I'm Gunther, it's not like he can just say, let's have a Hell in a Cell match. Let's have a TLC match. Let's have a Last Man Standing. Let's have a Bunkhouse Stampede. It would sound like Gunther would want to have a... No count out, no disqualifications match.
Or a submission match. And the only reason I bring that up is because of what Gunther's been doing, just putting lights out. So I can see something like where there's no pinfalls at all. No pinfalls. I don't want this shit.
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Chapters
6 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:13
2
What are the key storylines involving Cody Rhodes, Gunther, and Sami Zayn?
0:13–2:49
3
How did Gunther react to his match with Cody Rhodes at Clash in Italy?
2:49–5:56
4
What did Cody Rhodes say in response to Gunther's accusations?
5:56–17:19
5
What stipulations might be introduced for the upcoming rematch?
17:19–18:50
6
How does the concept of a heel choosing stipulations impact wrestling narratives?
18:50–32:53