Cody Rhodes - The Story is Finished - 04072024

This transcription is about the wrestler Cody Rhodes and his journey to becoming the undisputed WWE universal heavyweight champion. The speaker expresses their admiration for Cody and discusses his career in various wrestling promotions. They highlight Cody's storytelling abilities and his previous championship wins. The speaker also reflects on their love for sports and professional wrestling and how witnessing Cody's success brings them joy. They mention the significance of Cody winning the championship his father never had and describe the atmosphere of All In, a game-changing event in wrestling. The speaker emphasizes that Cody's victory marks a new era in professional wrestling and expresses excitement for what's next for him as the champion. I am recording this at 10 58 p.m. on August the 7th on April the 7th 2024 this is the song that we left Wrestlemania 92 with and let me get by Howard single-voice ready and new undisputed WWE universal heavyweight champion the American nightmare Cody Rhodes what an unbelievable night of wrestling this was and this is this podcast is more dedicated to our new champion Cody Rhodes we're asking we'll drop a new podcast tomorrow reviewing night two because we also want to include the stuff that we hear from the press conference and everything else like that but this one is all about Cody Rhodes he finished the story tonight and became the undisputed WWE universal heavyweight champion and it was as good as as advertised it made me now understand and made me even be grateful for that Wrestlemania 39 moment because that moment he had last year that moment he had last night all were to what that moment was this evening and when I thought about this podcast when I thought about doing this podcast last year and it was just simply why sports why do we love sports so much why do we scream and yell because it's a night like this for people like Cody I have been a fan of Cody Rhodes since he first came into the WWE around 2008-2009 and I and I saw him he was wrestling he he was so creative so talented but just he didn't get what he thought he was supposed to get in he just felt like he was underused and when he left the WWE in 2016 I followed his career more intently then and I fell in love with him even more then I got to see him compete in TNA I got him to got to see him compete in Ring of Honor when he won the Ring of Honor world championship his first ever world championship I got to see him when he did all in and beat Nick Aldis to become the NWA world heavyweight champion probably to up until a few minutes ago the most memorable of his championship wins but ain't nothing compared to tonight I I think about why we love sports and I think about how we get so invested in the people and watching their stories and just rooting for them just seeing them on the sidelines and cheering for them because you get to see the work you get to see the effort you get to see the fruits of their labor and even though Cody and I had never met before I felt like I was right there in the ring with him and when I got to see all the people he got to celebrate with Jey Uso who he fought with and became brothers with Cody or Kevin Owens and Sami Zayn were also in the ring Seth Rollins was in the ring John Cena was in the ring Mama Rose was in the ring Brandi Rose Brandi Whitney she talked about the story what Cody felt in 2016 and for her to be there tonight to share that moment that was awesome to see to see to see little Brody uh Harper Luke Harper's son um in the ring with him and just knowing the story that he had he was with with that family when when Luke Harper passed away a couple years ago and see how he's still brought in this kid still how he loved this kid and to see how that kid felt on WrestleMania 39 and to see how that kid felt today I was cheering I was screaming I was everything today because that's why I love sports that's why I love professional wrestling and that is why I do what I do because I want to share my love of sports with everybody else and I want to feel everybody's love of sports when I was watching tonight and watching in Philadelphia I felt it it was awesome because they knew it too they saw it too and that is why the live sports podcast exists because of moments like this tonight I cannot wait to break down and review WrestleMania 49 to tomorrow because quite frankly the whole thing was just amazing but tonight this is just about Cody Rhodes like I said I think I saw when this guy left the WWE in 2016 and he was and I always found it interesting for me at the time that he competed on pro wrestling's biggest stages that year in 2016 he competed in WrestleMania 32 in Dallas he competed in Bound for Glory the TNA's biggest event of the year he got a chance to compete in Ring of Honor Final Battle their biggest pay-per-view of the year and then he got to compete a couple of weeks later on January 4th at the New Japan's biggest show of the year at the Tokyo Dome and then you got to see how Cody was rebuilding himself how he didn't want to deal with anything in the WWE I even got to see this guy in WCPW he was the first ever WCPW internet champion and people love Cody Rhodes they didn't like the Stardust they didn't like anything else like that they just wanted to be invested in Cody Rhodes and from all those times we got to see him in the independent American independence and British independence and European independence in the 2016 and 2017 until when he came back took Dave Meltzer up on his bed and changed the wrestling industry forever with All In in 2018 with Matt and Nick Jackson the Young Bucks because I I swear I one of them others I have started to fall out of love in professional wrestling then I saw All In and I didn't like everything that was a part of it but I just love the atmosphere I love the energy I love what it was because it reminded me what professional wrestling should be Cody Rhodes is one of the best storytellers I have ever seen I go back to that match he had with Nick Aldis at All In in 2018 they told as brilliant of a story as you possibly could for wrestling's oldest and richest championship the NWA world heavyweight championship of the belt that his dad had three times and made it and helped make it legendary along with nature boy Ric Flair Nick Aldis at that time was having his first of his two rings at that prestigious championship holder and they told a wonderful story through between Ring of Honor NWA and then what they did on YouTube and it all cultivated right there in Chicago and All In a year before that he got to win his first ever Ring of Honor world championship and that was his first world championship and it was so awesome to see that because I knew he could be a world champion and it was just great that it started off there and then he had that big moment his huge moment in Ring of Honor or excuse me at All In and then he got to open up All Elite Wrestling like I said that was a game-changer Cody Rose has been a game-changer throughout his career and when he left All Elite Wrestling in 2022 and everybody talked about the rumors of him coming back to the WWE and he came back and WrestleMania 38 defeated Seth Rollins and that's when it started that he needed to finish the story and over that over these two years he's had great matches his rivalry with Seth Rollins will go down probably as the rivalry of the year in 2022 his first crack at Roman in 2023 in last year's WrestleMania his series of matches with Brock Lesnar his back-to-back Royal Rumble wins joining the likes of Stone Cold Steve Austin Hulk Hogan and Shawn Michaels you talk about the pant you talk about legitimate all-time great growth in the WWE that's a hell of a list for Cody Rose to be on and but then all roads yeah pun intended all roads led to tonight and one of the I said this in my podcast earlier today it would be a love letter to professional wrestling and that's what this was and it officially felt like there was a new era in the in not just in WWE but it felt like a new era and professional wrestling almost felt like it kicked off tonight and the head and the bearer of that new era is now the new World Heavyweight Champion the American Nightmare Cody Rose I played his theme song to start off this podcast because quite frankly that's how he reintroduced himself to the world and if you ever got a chance to listen to the lyrics to that song it was pretty much he was going to break out on his own take this and it has been his signature since he left the WWE in 2016 and it is now become it is now become his it has now become a standing point now in 2024 as champion one of my favorite all-time wrestlers was his father the American Dream Dusty Rose and you get to hear the stories as far as how he he never actually got to hold that championship belt it he would it felt like he was gonna win it he actually was announced a winner but they changed it back and they gave it to superstar Billy Graham and that was always the thought about Cody Rose he just he wanted to get the belt that his dad never had and I think it's so ironic when you look at his career they got to share the NWA World Heavyweight Championship like again if you're a wrestling fan you know that is the oldest world championship in the game and now and now and now and now Cody Rose gets to hold the most prestigious championship in all of wrestling and he beat one of the greatest champions of all time to do it in the head of the table Roman Reigns Cody Rose I've seen you go through all the different people that you've beaten all the different people that you helped try to elevate I the stories with Nick Aldis your matches your last match in AW with Sammy Guevara your your strap matches with Jay Lethal the matches that you have had on the Indies and to see this moment tonight your match with Kota Ibushi your match with Kenny Omega for the IWGP Heavyweight Championship and to see you personally grow to this moment tonight is as a fan it is just awesome and yeah and the beautiful thing about sports as much as we celebrate the peak as much as we celebrate the moment we we start to go to what is next what is next for the American nightmare how does he celebrate this moment how does he go about talking about this moment how does he go about to challenging his champ for his championship I can't wait you look at WrestleMania and what it usually means and not just in the WWE but wrestling when it talks about crowning superstars I go back all the way back to WrestleMania 4 when the Macho Man Randy Savage won the championship in a tournament and it felt like it was a new era for the Macho Man Randy Savage WrestleMania 6 when the Ultimate Warrior won his championship and defeated Hulk Hogan you felt like okay this is a new guy somebody we gotta watch WrestleMania 10 the legendary Bret the Hitman Hart winning his championship back in Madison Square Garden you think about WrestleMania 14 when Stone Cold Steve Austin pinned Shawn Michaels to bring in to truly bring in the Austin era you think about all the way to WrestleMania 21 how the WWE was turning the page when John Cena and Batista won their championships at WrestleMania I take you to WrestleMania 30 when Daniel Bryan lifted the city of New Orleans and truly inspired the Yesomania when he became the undisputed WWE World Heavyweight Champion and then I take you up until tonight Cody Rhodes is now the guy as we move forward in the WWE as we move forward to in the world of professional wrestling and for all of his run in AEW and this new in this current run now in the WWE he doesn't get to this moment if it wasn't for how he dealt with all the rejection all the heartbreak that it was eight years ago he redefined himself and became the champion I look at sports sometimes as man I wish we can do that in our real lives how you could take a failure how you could take a frustration how you could take the lowest moment and sometimes when you get stuck in that lowest moment you can't ever think you can have a moment of celebration you can never think that you could ever have a moment of happiness but that's where you put the work in that's where you put faith in and then when it happens and the sometimes we don't know when it happens hell we thought last year was gonna happen at WrestleMania 39 but he even makes it that much sweeter that when it does happen you are here and you can you can celebrate in it and now the road that you took it now is no longer a road of heartbreak it's no longer a road of disappointment it is now a road of celebration it is now a road of triumph it is a road that you tell your kids it's a tell you tell your neighbor that brother when you're down you keep working you keep believing you keep fighting and you get a moment like we had tonight with Cody Rhodes and I say this about sports and I say this and I'm even feel like I'm talking to myself because Lord knows I'm going through some low moments and when I started this podcast I was worried about how my voice would sound I was and I always was worried like oh my god how it would sound because sometimes I get too high voice when I get excited but now it's just that moment I just want to keep putting that work in I keep on having my faith in God because I hope I can have a moment something like what Cody had tonight because it is beautiful and it is something that we get to see more in sports than really anywhere else in the world where you get to see an athlete that you believe in where you get to see something that you that you have been invested in for the longest time and when it finally happens you finally get to celebrate. Man, people love Vegas Knights and hockey and they and after all what that city's going through trying to get a professional team there they win the Stanley Cup and what a moment when the Washington Nationals brought home a world championship to Washington DC for the first time in one of the four major sports since the Redskins back in 91 for a local DC native it was something it was special when the Capitals did it a couple years earlier it was special because I invested I had seen the team grown up and I got to see that moment and it makes you believe and it makes you do remember that sometimes when you don't feel like it dreams do come true. Cody Rose congratulations on your moment and personally brother thank you because I am a fan we have never met but I am so glad I got to enjoy this ride with you as a small part and getting to see you have that moment tonight with your family with your friends and seeing everybody who has ever believed in you and trusted in you and you get to reward them with that moment tonight. Congratulations to the American nightmare Cody Rose and something tells me the dream the American dream is looking down on his baby boy and you know he's having a good old time up there tonight. Thank you everybody for listening to the Y Sports podcast it's been your boy Alvin Fain and when they ask you why sports you just answer I love it because of the American nightmare I love it because of Cody Rose I love it because of WrestleMania I love it because it is indeed professional wrestling. Thank you all so much for listening tomorrow we'll have a we'll go do a complete rundown of night two where there are so many other stories of celebration to talk about and just to feel like for the first time in a long time it really does feel like professional wrestling is back baby and to the American nightmare all I get to do all I can say to you is whoa love you all it's been the Y Sports podcast it's been your boy Alvin Fain we'll talk again tomorrow love you all good night everybody