It was the segment of the year to begin 2024 for Monday Night Raw, and Cody Rhodes and CM Punk exchanged a war of words heading into the Royal Rumble.
Both participants are favoured to win the 2024 Royal Rumble. CM Punk came back to finish his story and headline Wrestlemania. He did not get it before he left the company in 2014. Punk lost the WWE Championship to the Rock at the 2013 Royal Rumble and fought the Undertaker at Wrestlemania 29.
Cody Rhodes returned to WWE after his time away from the company. We know his history. Cody Rhodes became a Superstar that WWE had no choice but to bring back. He is embracing his father’s legacy. He wanted to accomplish something his father Dusty Rhodes never did and capture the WWE Championship.
Rhodes had his chance at Wrestlemania 39 and came up short in the main event against Roman Reigns. After going through several detours, Rhodes is back to Finish His Story.
These two men did not waste any time exchanging words. After a bride exchange of pleasantries, CM Punk and Cody Rhodes started to take shots at each other. Punk talked about their time together and how he helped watch the young Rhodes but said on Saturday he would not be doing that. Instead, he was going right after him in the Royal Rumble.
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Then Punk talked about Rhodes’s Father, Dusty Rhodes. Punk said that he was not part of wrestling royalty and did not grow up in it. He said he earned his way to the top, which makes him more of “the American Dream’ than Cody was.
Rhodes had the perfect counter with Punk’s infamous “pipe bomb” promo and said that Punk laid out the groundwork to start a revolution in the wrestling world. But then Punk left loudly; Rhodes told Punk right to his face. Instead of passing the torch, Rhodes said, Punk dropped it, and so he picked it up. Rhodes said he did everything Punk spoke about, which makes him more “CM Punk” than CM Punk.
His rebuttal came quickly, telling Rhodes that he had carried WWE for two years now, and just as it tends to happen, ” “a much bigger star” suddenly showed up to take it all away from him. This time, Punk says that the star is him. Rhodes said that he could only continue forward on his path, and the two ended the segment by going nose-to-nose as the fans cheered.
What a segment on Monday Night Raw. It was not too long or too short. The segment was perfect. You could feel the tension. There was a shed of reality on the situation. Cody Rhodes and CM Punk were blurring the lines.
The Royal Rumble on Saturday got a little more spicier because you have to see what these two do in the ring.
The Royal Rumble Happens on Saturday, January 27th.
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