Triple H IN-RING Return? Real Reason Kevin Owens Attacked Cody Rhodes!

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Triple H IN-RING Return? Real Reason Kevin Owens Attacked Cody Rhodes! | WrestleTalk
00:20 - Cody Rhodes Injured
03:05 - ADBREAK
04:46 - WWE Accused Of ‘Clear Mismanagement’
06:28 - ADBREAK
06:28 - CM Punk Hates ‘Movesets’
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Xavier Woods on Cody Rhodes / xavier_woods_on_twitter_damn_i_wonder_when
Kofi Kingston on Cody Rhodes / kofi_kingston_on_x_karma
WWE Accused of Clear Mismanagement https://wrestletalk.com/news/wwe-star...
Cody Rhodes injury https://wrestletalk.com/news/wwe-inju...
CM Punk moveset heat https://www.wrestlinginc.com/1738735/...
CM Punk vs Gunther WWE Plans https://www.cagesideseats.com/2024/12...
Gunther WWE Backstage praise https://www.cagesideseats.com/2024/12...

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00:00Cody Rhodes injured? WWE accused of clear mismanagement? CM Punk has backstage heat?

00:07With a word and more. I'm Oli Davis, and this is the WrestleTalk

00:13News. WWE Premium Live events no longer end when

00:23the main event is over, when the copyright corner logo has come and gone, not even when

00:28the actual broadcast feed has finished. Because just like after October's Bad Blood, where

00:33Kevin Owens attacked Cody Rhodes in the parking lot after the show had gone off air, the biggest

00:37wrestling angle of Saturday night's main event happened on Saturday night's dark

00:41segment to send the crowd home happy. In the Cody Rhodes vs Kevin Owens main event

00:46over the beautiful Winged Eagle version of the WWE Championship, Owens tried to use a

00:50chair behind the referee's back, but Cody countered, winning with a Crossroads onto

00:55that chair to retain his title, pushing the weapon out of the ring so the referee never

01:00saw it. It made for a justified cheating reasoning,

01:04with KO trying to use the chair himself. Cody hitting his move on it was a kind of karma,

01:08but also it lets Owens intensify his blood feud with Rhodes, because KO can look at this

01:13finish and say Cody knowingly cheated to beat him.

01:18And he chose to intensify right away. Cody started to cut a thank you promo to everyone

01:23for coming out to watch the show when Owens jumped him from behind and immediately hit

01:28a package Piledriver, which was his devastating finish manoeuvre before he went to WWE, back

01:35when he wrestled for Ring of Honor and the Indies. This is different to the standard

01:38Piledriver variant he hit Randy Orton with on the 9th November SmackDown, and it's

01:42the first time he's ever hit the move in WWE. And it wasn't even on TV!

01:48Orton hasn't been seen on WWE TV for over a month, selling the effects of the normal

01:52banned Piledriver. And with Cody being hit by the even more dangerous package variant,

01:57it seems he could be out for even longer, as WWE have posted a medical update on Rhodes'

02:04condition. Earlier today, it was confirmed that Cody

02:06Rhodes suffered cervical swelling and was kept overnight at a local hospital for observation.

02:12While X-rays were negative for a fracture, Rhodes has been officially diagnosed with

02:16axial compression of the cervical spine, as well as a cervical strain with spasm. This

02:21could be a way to write Cody off TV for the next three weeks, to give him a break over

02:25the Christmas period. Expect him to return on January 6th for Raw's debut on Netflix.

02:30Some have speculated that the angle was actually supposed to take place on the broadcast, and

02:35that timing issues meant it was accidentally done off-air. F4WOnline has confirmed that

02:40isn't the case, as the KO attacking Cody Angle was always meant to happen after the

02:45show had finished. But why? Obviously there's the work-shoot effect.

02:50By Owens doing his big Cody attacks off-air, it feels less like a standard pro wrestling

02:54angle, and therefore feels more real. It also fits with his anti-establishment character.

03:00But there is another reason. WWE is afraid of Cody getting booed. One of the most appealing

03:06parts of KO's heel character right now is… he's kinda right. He hates Cody for teaming

03:13with Roman Reigns, when Reigns had made Owens' life a living hell for years. And because

03:18of that, WWE is reportedly concerned that crowds will cheer Owens over Cody on TV.

03:24As cheering the fun heel against the blue eyed babyface is a thing us wrestling fans

03:29have been known to do once or twice. Using Cody's experience in AEW, where booing him

03:34became the fun thing to do, they understandably want to avoid accidentally making that happen.

03:39That's why so many of KO's angles or segments have either taken place not in front of a

03:44crowd or not on TV. Owens also had a physical altercation with

03:48Triple H, where Leveque shoved KO at the top of the ramp. Some have speculated this could

03:52be building a Triple H in-ring return, but Dr Chris Featherstone of Sportskeeda has reported

03:58I was informed that Triple H's physical involvement following Kevin Owens' post-match

04:02attack on Cody Rhodes at Saturday night's main event is only to elevate Owens as a heel.

04:07And the Cody-Owens feud is slated to continue. A Triple H in-ring return is not in the plans

04:13at this time. But Owens isn't the only person annoyed

04:17with Cody. On last week's episode of Raw, Rhodes bumped

04:20into the New Day backstage, where he said they should be ashamed of themselves for what

04:24they said to Big E. So both Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston have posted about KO's

04:30attack on Cody. Woods asked about Cody's injury. Damn, I

04:34wonder when he's coming back. A not-so-subtle jab at Big E, who's been out for over two

04:38years with his neck injury. And Kofi simply posted karma, with a clip of Cody telling

04:43him and Woods that they should be ashamed of themselves.

04:46But it's not just the WWE Champion the New Day are upset with. They're also disgruntled

04:50with Raw General Manager Adam Pearce and how he's booking the brand's tag team

04:54champions. Finn Balor and JD McDonough won the tag titles

04:58when they beat The Awesome Truth back in June, and during the five months since, they've

05:03only defended them twice. Once against the New Day on the 19th September Raw, and then

05:08against the War Raiders on the November 25th episode.

05:11Ahead of Saturday night's main event, and Balor's shot at Gunther's World Heavyweight

05:14title, Woods posted, hey Adam Pearce, if Finn wins the World Heavyweight title tonight,

05:19then is it going to be another 70 days before the world tag titles are defended again? To

05:24which Pearce pointed out, you lost your last tag match to Alpha Academy in like 30 seconds.

05:29Which set Woods off. I ask a legitimate question about your clear

05:33mismanagement of the tag division, and instead of answering, you respond like a troll. This

05:38was Judgment Day's first defence 70 days into their reign. But I guess you only want

05:43to rectify things when it suits you. Along with a clip of Woods getting a visible

05:47pin on JD back in September. And Pearce replied, you want to have a legitimate

05:52conversation? Knock on my office door in any arena on any Monday when we're in the same

05:57city instead of running your hornblower on Twitter like a mark.

06:00Thank you for your contributions to our television programs.

06:03Finn and JD will be defending their tag titles against the War Raiders again on tonight's

06:07episode of Raw, with the rest of Judgment Day banned from ringside. Either they'll

06:11drop their belt to the War Raiders, who could possibly be transitional champions, a face

06:16team for the New Day to feud with and win the belts from, or the Darkest Timeline, where

06:20the Judgment Day could retain again, and what's in Kingston's tension with Pearce motivates

06:25a New Day move to SmackDown in the Transfer Portal.

06:28Some believe that even if The Young Bucks didn't burst into CM Punk's locker room

06:32after All Out 2022, Punk still would've had a backstage altercation, because he can

06:37start a fight in an empty room. And now, in an interview done before Saturday night's

06:42we have a new name to add to his list of hated enemies. The word Moveset.

06:48When he wasn't interrupting everyone else, Peter Rosenberg said the word Moveset in the

06:53backstage clips, which prompted Punk to drop this pipe bomb.

06:57Don't say Moveset. That's garbage. It's garbage. If you say that, you're an idiot.

07:03Oh God. Especially if you're a wrestler and you say Moveset. That 100% tells me that

07:09you don't know what the hell you're doing.

07:11Punk's hate of the term Moveset in wrestling isn't anything new. Back in April 2021,

07:16before he even returned to wrestling with AEW, he replied to a fan asking which wrestler's

07:21Moveset he'd like to steal. Normalise getting rid of the term Moveset.

07:26But the week he said it this time, Moveset was a slightly more charged word.

07:31Following Logan Paul announcing his retirement from wrestling, Hangman Page joked on Blue

07:35Sky, I hope the next person they give half my Moveset to is at least kinda cool.

07:39Two days later, Punk brought up his Moveset hate again. Coincidence? Maybe. As for things

07:46Punk likes, last month Punk named Chad Gable, Bronson Reed, Ludwig Kaiser and Gunther as

07:51a list of wrestlers he'd love to work with on house shows, as he doesn't see them as

07:56money enough for him to wrestle on pay-per-view. Dr Chris Featherstone of Sportskeeda is now

08:01reporting Punk will get one of those as an early Christmas present, as he'll be facing

08:05Gunther in Chicago in a steel cage match as part of WWE's holiday tour over the next

08:11few weeks. WWE often runs matches on their live shows

08:14before they make it to TV, so it's speculated this could be foreshadowing a Punk vs Gunther

08:19programme over the World Heavyweight title early next year.

08:23Despite his perceived stiffness, Gunther could be a good person for the injury-prone Punk

08:27to wrestle, as Fightful is reporting he's receiving a lot of praise backstage for how

08:32he handled the powerbomb spot at Saturday night's main event.

08:35Damian Priest's foot hit the steel steps on the way up, which stopped the momentum,

08:39but Gunther was able to reset, lift Priest up and powerbomb him onto the steel steps

08:44while still making it as safe as possible. Punk vs Gunther for the World title in 2025?

08:49That sounds a lot like Luke's prediction. Watch mine and Luke's brand new episode

08:53of the Three Count right now, where we predict every WWE star's 2025 in three words or

08:58less slash fewer. Where I will convince you that solo Tokoa marrying Eva is an actually

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