WrestleMania is WWE’s biggest show of the year and in the weeks leading up to the event Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns met face to face a few times on WWE programming as they hyped up their big main event match. Cody Rhodes seemingly had a lot of momentum heading into WrestleMania, but when it was all said and done Roman picked up the victory on the Grandest Stage of Them All and The American Nightmare walked away empty handed.
There were a number of WWE fans who were disappointed with the finish and they openly expressed their disappointment on social media. Corey Graves recently addressed the match on the After The Bell podcast, and he defended WWE’s decision to have Cody lose at the Showcase of the Immortals.
“Look back to a person that was [name] dropped multiple times during the lead-up to Roman and Cody, that being ‘The American Dream’ Dusty Rhodes. Dusty became the common man because Dusty constantly came up short, usually due to no fault of his own. But people connected with that, people understand that. People live vicariously through WWE superstars, and there were a million people around the world in Cody’s boots with him.”
Graves went on to encourage fans to wait and see how the story unfolds when he added, “Whatever you take away from it, that’s fine. You’re not wrong. If you made a YouTube video cussing and swearing about how you’re done, you don’t like WWE anymore, good. Good, because you feel that emotion.. Just wait because it’s going to get better.”
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