Previewing Cody-Punk & Roman-Seth at SummerSlam!
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How will Cody Rhodes vs. CM Punk navigate a babyface vs babyface main event?
welcome to the busted open podcast on a sunday i'm justin labar along with raj desi today we talk about cody rhodes versus cm punk temper starting to flare what are we expecting at summer slam this is the busted open podcast both guys are two of the top baby faces in the company Up to this point, they are remaining that. One has not took this crazy heel turn. They are remaining babyfaces. But I will say, as I was listening closely this past week on SmackDown, Cody got his entrance. He got the whoa. He got all that. Pyro, Ballyhoo. Gets in the ring. While the Cody chants were there. in Oakland, there were definitely some boos trying to break through. I got none of that with Punk. Punk had the overwhelming positive reaction, I would say, if I had to pick between the two.
So talk to me about the navigation of a babyface versus a babyface. I mean, do one of them, come SummerSlam, when the bell rings, does one of them... Need to take a low blow, need to take a shortcut. Does one of them need to kind of solidify that, hey, I'm not going to be all-American good guy here. I'm going to do what it takes to win. Or do both of them do that? Do both of them realize the worth of their opponent? And do both of them start to get a little down and dirty? How do we navigate this? What do we expect?
That would be very interesting. But yes, we have two baby faces, but polar opposites.
Mm-hmm.
CM Punk is a edgier type of baby face almost a heel one could say as well as Cody um one can say Cody is a heel just how clean cut he is almost like a Bob Backlund type when I was growing up Bob Backlund returned and he was just such a white meat baby face and it was a Staring at his hands. Right before the Attitude Era, and the fans were wanting something else out of professional wrestling at that moment. Sometimes what it comes down to is what market you are in. Different cities might react differently, more, I think, south. The southern states might react more to Cody, whereas you go into the upper northeast area, might be more of a CM Punk heavy crowd there, but... Yeah, both baby faces. But what I think we're getting a glimpse of is the future of the business.
I think we're going to see less and less, maybe in a decade from now or 20 years from now, less clear-cut heels and baby faces. Because if we look at film and television, oftentimes heels, once you get to know their motivation and their struggles, they become baby faces. For example, Joker. I watched the Joker film what was traditionally portrayed as a heel character you got to see his insight into why he is the way he is his upbringing his history Etc so I think we're going to see more of that going forward and just more authentic storytelling authentic storytelling more uh real life type characters but for this match again the psychological warfare that is in play right now the tit for tat i would not be surprised to see what you mentioned one guy cheating behind the ref's back to gain an advantage and oftentimes when you do that it the crowd's not gonna boo because they understand the situation this is a title match um
this is for the biggest prize in the game. And at the end of the day, you got to do what you have to do to win.
Yeah, no, I think I, I think the crowd totally would understand that. I think you're right. To even to an extent, they might even be amused. I was like, look, look, look, look at what, you know, punk is push Cody to the limit. That's Cody's willing to do this. I think, I think there will be an understanding. And I think to your point, I don't even think we have to necessarily think that this is where it's going in 10, 20 years. I think there is a reality check right now of, um, More shades of gray than ever. And I think if we just look up and down this card, and we'll touch on different parts of the card throughout the show. If you look at this card, there's several different situations, whether it's a babyface versus a babyface like Chad Gable and Penta.
Or even there's a six-man of the bloodline. And there's a mixed bag of reactions of like, you hear...
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Chapters
4 chapters
1
How will Cody Rhodes vs. CM Punk navigate a babyface vs babyface main event?
0:00–7:30
2
How are crowd reactions and market differences shaping Cody and Punk’s feud?
7:30–16:15
3
Could SummerSlam’s finish force a moral shift for Cody or Punk to win?
16:15–26:35
4
What long‑term storytelling seeds has WWE planted leading into SummerSlam?
26:35–29:08
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