WWE in 2024 is a really completely different place than at any level within the promotion’s historical past, and never simply because Cody Rhodes lastly turned the Undisputed Common Champion.
The promotion is just not solely highly regarded with its wrestlers however in free company at giant, with big-name free brokers like Giulia, Stephanie Vaquer, the Lucha Brothers, and the Motor Metropolis Machine Weapons all selecting WWE over AEW, and even their very own abilities are staying, together with new offers for Cedric Alexander and Natalya over the previous couple of weeks regardless of not being prominently within the title image.
However why? Is it as a result of they’re placing extra precise wrestling on tv? Or possibly due to how nicely the promotion has constructed up new characters, with Gunther, LA Knight, and even Rhodes actually shining over the previous 12 months and alter? May it’s as a result of their PLEs have change into must-watch, as there may be at all times no less than one match or angle that will get all the web speaking that week? Or possibly it is simply the information that WWE is slicing ties with Def Insurgent shifting ahead, which is likely to be essentially the most attainable information of all?
In essentially the most humble opinion of the “American Nightmare,” it is all of the above, and the flowers for these selections ought to largely go to Paul “Triple H” Levesque, the Chief Content material Officer for WWE.
Requested for touch upon his profile in ESPN’s “The 15 most influential folks in boxing, MMA, and wrestling,” Rhodes put over Levvesque in an enormous method, noting that the quantity 5 man on the record has carried out greater than most to show WWE round, as he is been forward of the curve since he was operating store in Orlando because the chief of NXT.
“Triple H within the ring had world-champion instincts lengthy earlier than he ever was one. He applies these instincts expertly as we speak as Chief Content material Officer. He was additionally amongst a handful of gamers forward of the curve by way of evolving the game, which he showcased with the NXT black and gold period,” Rhodes informed ESPN.
“When the second got here for him to take over with Nick Khan and lead the ship creatively, he helped information WWE to large tv scores and social engagement will increase. I take the sector for him with immense satisfaction.”
Whereas Rhodes has a singular perspective on the black and gold period of NXT, as he was competing immediately with Levesque throughout his time as an EVP of AEW, he has since change into “The Sport’s” greatest ally, a lot in order that when Triple H’s daughter was going off to varsity, the “American Nightmare” took it upon himself to fill his function on the Bash in Berlin post-show media convention, giving out the stats whereas celebrating the wrestlers and reporters who helped to make the present work. Why? Properly, as a result of Rhodes fashions himself because the Tom Brady to Levesque’s Invoice Belichick, quarterbacking his recreation plan within the ring weekly. Whereas he might not keep champion without end, it is clear Rhodes needs to be the face of WWE for the foreseeable future, particularly with Levesque calling the photographs.
Bobby Steveson explains how Cody Rhodes helped him in WWE
Talking of Rhodes utilizing his platform to assist elevate the WWE product heading into the long run, do you know that he goes out of his method to assist his fellow Superstars get the place they need to be, together with those that are merely on the tv that week for a Primary Occasion taping?
It is true; in Bobby Steveson’s interview with Fightful, certainly one of his extra expansive choices since he left WWE and his NXT moniker, Damon Kemp, behind, he broke down how performers like Rhodes and Seth Rollins helped to offer him recommendation as he was arising, as he felt accepted in a method that enhancement expertise of yesteryear might not have skilled.
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“I imply, they’re all nice coaches there, however I feel the folks that basically have been like a shock to me to see there. So we have been on TV, Seth Rollins, he was watching the present, however fortunately I used to be on the present to have the ability to get his enter. As a result of high dude, you need to know what they’re considering, so you possibly can, like, work on that. Then so he watched the present, I received good enter and suggestions from him. However the different nice one was Cody Rhodes after my Primary Occasion match with Tyler Bate. I used to be within the locker room and I suppose he was preparing, he was doing one thing with Jey Uso and I used to be simply sitting within the locker room, simply watching the present on the TVs. He comes over, he was like, ‘Hey,’ he daps me up somewhat bit. He was like, ‘All that was good things on the market.’ I actually appreciated that. ‘Trigger high dude. At WWE, he is sizzling, so that you need everybody to be on their A-game once they’re on the market,” Steveson defined to Fightful.
“So when he came to visit to me and mentioned like, ‘Hey, nice job, you appear like you belonged on the market’ A type of issues, let me pinch myself actual fast, you already know what I imply? Cody Rhodes speaking to me. So when he mentioned that, it was a kind of issues, you query your self quite a bit within the wrestling enterprise—in case you’re doing good, in case you’re doing the best issues, or if individuals are having fun with what you are seeing. Then when Cody Rhodes came to visit to me and confirmed me some love within the locker room. I used to be like, ‘Alright, I am doing one thing proper.’ Simply preserve my head on straight and keep centered as a result of the largest canine within the firm is displaying you’re keen on, so that you should be doing one thing proper. That was fairly cool. That was one other advantage of having the ability to go up on these fundamental occasion matches, being round these high guys within the locker room, too.”
Sadly for Steveson, he was not a part of WWE’s future plans, as he and his brother each exited the promotion earlier this 12 months for one motive or one other. Thankfully, whereas his brother Gable did not stick on the Buffalo Payments’ 53-man roster, Bobby has struck it out on his personal on the indies, declaring that he is obtainable for bookings sooner or later. Whereas solely time will inform if he is capable of finding success as a journeyman, signing to a different promotion like TNA, and even again with WWE – which he’s open to – it is protected to say he needs to be a wrestler, which is commendable.
