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00:00Cody Rhodes talks heel turn and rock heat, WWE's huge success for Monday Night Raw,

00:06Will Ospreay is an AEW locker room leader and more.

00:09I'm Luke Owen and this is the WrestleTalk News.

00:13Do you remember a few years ago when Cody Rhodes came out for that one AEW pay-per-view

00:22and we all joked how he looked and well, just flat out dressed like Homelander from The

00:27Boys?

00:28Remember that feud with Anthony Gogo?

00:29Do you remember?

00:30We all collectively went, I get it now, he's a heel, he's Homelander, you know, the baddie

00:37from The Boys.

00:38But then over time that started to dissipate and we all realised, oh, I think Cody just

00:43really likes America.

00:45And now we've come to accept that he just dresses like Homelander and we cheer him anyway

00:49because he's a bloody great bloke.

00:51But now we're through the looking glass, people.

00:54In a new advert spot for the latest season of The Boys on Amazon Prime, we see what appears

00:58to be Homelander with his back turned to the camera, interspersed with clips from the show.

01:02But as the camera pans up, we remember that Homelander doesn't have a big neck tattoo

01:07and the man turns round to reveal he's Cody Rhodes, asking Homelander what he wants to

01:11talk about.

01:12The snake has eaten its own tail, Cody vs. Homelander at SummerSlam confirmed.

01:17And I bring up that Homelander story because a, it's a bit of fun, and b, it ties nicely

01:21into our next story.

01:23Cody Rhodes returned to WWE in 2022 in one of the most shocking things in wrestling history

01:28dot, dot, dot up until that point.

01:32A lot of mad things have happened since then.

01:41He came in as the uber blue eyed babyface and has remained that uber blue eyed babyface

01:46of WWE.

01:47He fought against the bloodline and finally toppled Roman Reigns after a near epic four

01:52year run with that world title in one of the best Mania main events of all time.

01:56He is, without question, WWE's number one babyface, their truest white meat babyface

02:02that fans actually like since, well, forever.

02:06So of course some pockets of the internet think he should turn heel.

02:10I don't get it either.

02:12This isn't like Roman Reigns or John Cena where the WWE fans were outright rejecting

02:17a top babyface and a heel turn would have, you know, benefitted them in the long term.

02:21You know, like what's actually happening with Roman right now.

02:24WWE fans love Cody Rhodes, he is selling a bunch of merchandise and is showing no signs

02:30of growing stale.

02:31But Cody Rhodes has now addressed this topic in an interview with the Pivot Podcast.

02:35It's a brilliant part of the interview where he talks about what it means to be a heel

02:38in 2024.

02:39You can't just run down the crowd or beat up a babyface to get booed anymore.

02:44He cites JBL as a great example of a heel you wanted to hate 20 years ago, and all he

02:48had to do was things like make sure none of his merchandise was for sale at shows even

02:52in his hometown.

02:53So he argues the only way to turn heel in 2024 is to really push yourself into positions

02:59to get booed.

03:00Effectively, without putting too fine a point on it, you need to work cancel yourself.

03:06He highlights what The Rock did to get booed during their Mania build, and said that if

03:10fans really wanted him to turn heel, then he would need to do, and say, some drastic

03:16stuff.

03:17But before we find out how drastic, here's a clip from our most recent WrestleTalk original

03:20where Oli tracks the cursed history of Money in the Bank.

04:06Cody said of the fans asking for him to turn heel, I don't really know if they know what

04:25they're asking for though.

04:26If you're really wishing for that, it's scorched earth.

04:30And then you might be like, ah, I don't like that, nope, that's rude to that group of people.

04:35No, that's the job.

04:37Someone's going to come out and beat me up in a minute, but before they do, I'm going

04:40to talk my trash.

04:42You have to really go scorched earth in this day, and in 2024, it's hard.

04:48Why do you think people want Cody to turn heel?

04:50Do you think it's because the blue-eyed babyface schtick just isn't working anymore?

04:54Let me know in the comments down below.

04:55Speaking on that podcast, Rhodes also talked about his feud with The Rock that led to their

04:59incredible First Night Mania match.

05:02Today sees the airing of WWE's long-delayed WrestleMania 40 behind-the-scenes documentary

05:06on YouTube, which will cover all of the drama of what went down at the start of this year.

05:11It seems like a lifetime ago, but Cody won the Rumble and made it clear that he wanted

05:15to challenge Roman Reigns for the WWE Championship, and then on an episode of Smackdown, announced

05:20that he was stepping away from that challenge to do so at a later date, and instead step

05:24aside for The Rock to face Roman Reigns for the title at Mania instead.

05:28Reports at the time said this was part of The Rock's deal to come back to WWE and

05:32be part of the board of directors, and other reports have said that Rocky was pushing to

05:37be the guy to dethrone Roman Reigns and win the championship as the People's Champion.

05:43There really is a part of me that wants to see what that timeline looks like.

05:48Not live in it, just see it.

05:50Thankfully, WWE perverted from their plans and went back to their original plan of Cody

05:55vs. Roman and turned Rocky into his final boss heel role.

05:59And speaking of pivoting, during that interview with the Pivot Podcast, Cody talked about

06:03his feelings on The Rock saying that they would butt heads during this period of time

06:08because The Rock came in and took his place at the top of the Mania card.

06:12He added a lot of people said, he's The Rock, he can do whatever he wants.

06:16I even saw a podcast with two wrestling heads talking and they said, I'm sure Cody is fine

06:21stepping aside for WrestleMania and doing it later in the year.

06:24In my mind, I'm thinking, that's insane.

06:26That's the Superbowl of what we do.

06:29To get to Sunday, the last day of WrestleMania, the last match, it's our literal Superbowl.

06:33Boy, I hope I'm not one of those two talking heads he's talking about.

06:38He added that it was nonsense that he would be cool with the idea of The Rock vs. Roman

06:42at WrestleMania.

06:56Yes more than likely this is Cody playing up the feud he had with The Rock earlier this

07:00year, as the reported plan is, he's going to face Rocky at Mania 41 next year, where

07:06the WWE Champion will face The People's Champion.

07:09Cody even alluded to this in that interview when asked when he'll be in the ring with

07:13The Rock again, and he said, if I could give you a guess, I feel like, I hope, it happens

07:18in the next year.

07:19How would you book the return of The Rock and his feud with Cody for next year's Mania?

07:23Let me know in the comments down below.

07:25Not that Raw really needs The Rock right now, because this week saw a huge success for The

07:29Company.

07:31Likely a combination of several things landing with their audience, Dom and Liv's storyline,

07:35the Wyatt Six, the Hot Angle from Smackdown and the lack of big sports competition, but

07:40WWE Raw posted its best rating since the Raw after WrestleMania this week, scoring 1.88

07:47million viewers, and a .62 in the all-important 18-49 demo.

07:53While those numbers all look good, there is one key one to look at.

07:57That .62 in the 18-49 demo isn't just 2% up from last week, it's 29% up from the

08:04same period of time last year.

08:07That means that the over 50 audience that's been WWE's bread and butter for so long

08:11are starting to move away, and a much younger audience is coming in.

08:15As Dave Meltzer writes in his report of the rating on Figure Four Online, this audience

08:20is the most important when it comes to selling tickets and merchandise.

08:24And speaking of big successes, AEW had huge success off the back of this past weekend's

08:29Forbidden Door show with New Japan Pro Wrestling.

08:32Not only did they post their third million dollar gate in a row for a Forbidden Door

08:37show, they sold over 11,000 tickets according to New Japan, who are not known to inflate

08:42numbers like their American counterparts.

08:45WrestleTix, though reporting a slightly smaller number of 10,600, say that NJPW have been

08:50pretty fair about their attendance numbers, so I won't outright refute this.

08:54Even if WrestleTix's number is the correct one, it's still a huge win.

08:58It's worth remembering that one of the genesis points of AEW, that original All In, was built

09:03on the idea that no one outside of WWE had sold over 10,000 tickets for a pro wrestling

09:09event in North America since the death of WCW.

09:12AEW have done it twice, this year alone.

09:15The show was headlined by Will Ospreay challenging Swerve Strickland for his AEW World Championship,

09:20and many wondered why this match was happening all as soon as it was, as many expected Ospreay

09:24to get his shot and win the title at All In in a couple of months time.

09:29However in a fascinating new report from Fightful Select, it was Ospreay who called for this

09:34match to happen now, as he grew tired of seeing that Swerve's title reign was a placeholder

09:39for Ospreay to win at All In, and he extended his desire to put over Swerve to help eliminate

09:46the talking point.

09:47Fightful add that Ospreay wanted to show that no one on the roster should be above losing

09:52to the World Champion, and Forbidden Door proved that point.

09:56In an interesting note, Sean Ross Sapp adds that Swerve vs. Ospreay for the title was

10:00never in the creative plans for All In, and both men have different opponents lined up.

10:05Now go and watch Oli Davis detail the cursed history of Money in the Bank by clicking the

10:09video on screen right now.

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