This previous Saturday at WWE Crown Jewel in Saudi Arabia, Cody Rhodes added one other notch in his belt, because the Undisputed WWE Champion grew to become the primary man to win the WWE Males’s Crown Jewel Championship by defeating WWE World Heavyweight Champion GUNTHER. It did not come straightforward for Rhodes, nevertheless, who struggled in opposition to the Austrian native for 23 minutes, earlier than he reversed a rear bare choke right into a pinning predicament to drag off the win.
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Resulting from each Cody and GUNTHER’s standing atop the WWE meals chain, there was loads of dialogue main into the match concerning who ought to’ve been the rightful winner. On Monday’s “Busted Open Radio,” two-time Corridor of Famer and occasional “NXT” star Bully Ray talked in regards to the match, at first focusing extra on how happy he was that WWE performed the match straight with no shenanigans. Upon attending to the query at hand although, he appeared to have the same opinion with WWE’s mindset.
“Cody going over, is it the fitting resolution?” Bully stated. “It is the fitting resolution for the massive company firm with their huge cash, company relationship with the Crown Jewel occasion. You might have your smiling, World Heavyweight Champion babyface win. Now, conversely, Liv will not be your smiling Girls’s World Champion babyface. However, Liv was the fitting resolution additionally.”
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With GUNTHER now prior to now for Rhodes, the Undisputed WWE Champion will now probably flip his consideration again to Kevin Owens, who attacked Rhodes following Dangerous Blood a number of weeks in the past. Whereas no match is ready between Owens and Rhodes as of now, hypothesis has the 2 squaring off a while within the subsequent month, with the upcoming Saturday Evening’s Fundamental Occasion particular being seen because the potential vacation spot.
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