Sami Zayn would have liked to see Cody finish his story.
At WrestleMania 39, Cody Rhodes failed to finish his story when he lost to Roman Reigns with the WWE Universal Championship on the line. Since then, he has been feuding with Brock Lesnar with his future world title win looking a little more distant.
Speaking to Mark Andrews on My Love Letter to Wrestling, Zayn reflected on Cody’s return at the 2023 Royal Rumble and how his run has gone so far.
“There were two parts to it. One, Cody genuinely did have a lot of respect and equity with the audience, especially coming back from that injury, and they just like him. So, it wasn’t the same thing as Batista returning, who they hadn’t seen in years at that point, and they viewed him as a part-timer. You touched on something, which was the trust. At that point, the audience had learned to trust wherever the story was going. Even if they were skeptical and even if there were people who were like, ‘Nah, I really want to see Sami and Roman or they should go this direction.’ Over the eight months or whatever it was prior to that point, they learned to…even if it wasn’t what they wanted exactly, we earned enough trust for them to go, ‘Well, okay, let’s see where it goes.’ I do think, strictly from a story perspective, it would have been great to see Cody put a bow on it, but it’s still building. That’s the thing that people, it’s so hard to understand about WWE. We build to these things that appear to be these culminations, but there is always a TV show next week. We look at these things through the lens of TV shows and season finales. Even me, ‘Yeah, of course, Cody has to win,’ but you have to hold on to that trust. I’m a fan, I’m invested, and I trust they’ll pay this off properly at the right time and let’s see where it goes,”
Sami Zayn
Both Sami and Cody are set to compete at Night Of Champions on May 27th, with Cody once again battling Brock Lesnar while Sami looks to finish his story with The Bloodline.
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