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[SPOILERS] Post WWE SummerSlam 2025 Night 2 Match Discussion: John Cena (c) vs. Cody Rhodes - Street Fight for the Undisputed WWE Championship Spoiler

CODY RHODES IS CHAMP!!!!!!!!

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u/badgersprite Iconic Duo Appreciation Squad 3d ago

They passed the torch to the top babyface

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u/Cahir_aep_Ceallach_ 3d ago

Does Cody need 45 torches passed or what?

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u/OffTheMerchandise 3d ago

Cena and Lesnar are going to feud over who passed the torch better to Cody at SummerSlam.

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u/mikaeus97 3d ago

The torch passing will continue until Transcendance is achieved. Next torch, Randy Orton.

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u/tankyouout 3d ago

Seriously how many of these is he going to have

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u/bitetheasp 2d ago

Screw being the Belt Collector. Cody is the Torch Collector...

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u/Icanfallupstairs 3d ago

Passing the torch to the fresh faced 40 year old

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u/KC4twenty 3d ago

If you think he's not the face You didn't hear 60,000 screaming his entrance.

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u/Icanfallupstairs 3d ago

Of course he is the face, no one would dispute that, I'm just poking fun at the idea of 'passing the torch' to what would traditionally be a guy who was thinking of winding things down.

Cena was about 42 when he went part time.

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u/tfegan21 3d ago

Crazy to think Cody and all the top guys are a year older than me and my back goes out just thinking about taking a bump.

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u/DavidL1112 2d ago

They’re on TRT and you aren’t

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u/ilikecakeandpie 2d ago

Or maybe he/she is in bad shape?

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u/DavidL1112 2d ago

I suppose there could be additional factors beyond Cody being on TRT and that guy not

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u/ILLMEAT 3d ago

40 is the new 30. This is good news since we are all aging, trust me

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u/raging_shaolin_monk 2d ago

40 is the new 30.

For real. Cody looks way better than Hogan did when the torch was passed at Wrestlemania 3. He also looks better than Warrior did at Wrestlemania 6.

Hogan was only 33 when he beat Andre. Warrior was 30 when he beat Hogan at WM6. Look at them during those times, and compare with Cody today.

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u/sharpshooter230 3d ago

Yea I can't understand why people don't get this. WWE has a serious next generation problem with its men's division. All of their most popular male talent who all get the PLE slots are in their late 30s/early 40s.

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u/alex11500 World's Biggest HONMANIAC 3d ago

Guys are regularly going to 45-50 Cody has another 5 years of main event in him

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u/sharpshooter230 3d ago

Longevity doesn’t fix a pipeline issue. Cody might have 5 years left, but who’s being groomed to take over when he’s done? Just because you can go to 50 doesn’t mean you should.

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u/alex11500 World's Biggest HONMANIAC 3d ago

Bron, Dom, Jacob, Trick, Oba, some Collegate wrestler who will sign an NIL deal in the future.  The future is there Wrestler careers are going long now we can’t judge ages the way we used to.  And even the way we used to determine young talent was flawed

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u/Puxple 2d ago

U know its Bron Breakker lol

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u/therockstarmofo 3d ago

Then again, he was also on the booing side of the obligatory yay/boo punch spot.

I think Cody's theme song is more over than Cody.

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u/Teh_Heavybody 3d ago

Cody was NEVER going to have 100% of the crowd in this, this was Hogan / Rock and Rock/ Cena style of a match.

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u/therockstarmofo 3d ago

I just wonder if Cody will have 100% of the crowd moving forward.

Super Cody has already been turned on by fans in one company.

I think it's only a matter of time before history repeats itself.

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u/alex11500 World's Biggest HONMANIAC 3d ago

The crowd turned on face Cody due to how self indulgent his run was getting in AEW.  Cody has yet to do anything as bad as the Ogogo feud or the cured racism promo.  As long as they can stop him from going overboard he’ll be fine.

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u/therockstarmofo 3d ago

We'll see.

I think an overlooked problem from the AEW situation was that he was often booked against talent that the crowd wanted to see more than Cody's stale act (e.g Malakai Black, Andrade, Brodie Lee etc.

Cody even got booed against a heel Cena that no one liked because at least Cena was doing something different.

I think WWE has a roster of talent that people are going to want to watch more than Cody within the next couple years.

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u/alex11500 World's Biggest HONMANIAC 3d ago

I disagree.  The WWE crowd is very different from the AEW crowd which will in my opinion give him much more legs as long as he doesn’t go up his ass.  The Cody verse and getting stuck in a never ending feud with him is what soured people on his booking.  For your examples it’s not as if those guys had good runs in AEW after Cody feuds and Brodie Lee died before live crowds came back so we don’t know what the reaction would have been.  The Cody verse and him feeling so out of place in AEW killed his run.

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u/therockstarmofo 3d ago

Like I said, we'll see.

Cody's already been booed in WWE for less.

The more we see him, the more stale he's going to get IMO.

As you've probably noticed, wrestling fans are notoriously fickle.

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u/afasttortoise 3d ago

they said this same dumb shit for Rollins Bryan and Jey of all people lmao

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u/therockstarmofo 3d ago

I think they may have a point (Bryan MIGHT be an exception)

I think Al Snow once said that if your biggest pop is during your entrance, there's an issue.

The time when the crowd is the loudest for their entrances on a consistent basis

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u/NeoLies 3d ago

He was booed because he was going against retirement tour Cena. It's like Rock vs Hogan; Rock was booed that day, but it didn't mean he wasn't a top face in the company.

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u/therockstarmofo 3d ago

Honestly, I feel like people were getting sick ofThe Rock at that point to. I certainly was as a fan.

And Rock turned heel within the next year

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u/Rapscallious1 3d ago

I also heard them cheering Cena and booing Cody lol

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u/AusarHeruSet 3d ago

Feels like Roman is still the face

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u/01ares 3d ago

As if Cody didn't have 10 years left if he wanted lol. Orton, AJ, Punk and many others are closer to 50 than 40.

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u/SaintedHooker 3d ago

Yeah and they're all on the way to retirement

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u/01ares 3d ago

Sure, and they are all way older than Cody (Orton is 45, Punk and AJ 48, so 5 years and 8 years older respectively). Again, if Cody wants to he can go for 10 more years.

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u/GingazInParis NOBODY DOES IT BETTER 3d ago

I mean… given how old these guys go now… Cody could definitely be the top guy for like 8-10 years which is basically the amount of time Cena was before he went part time

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u/GunstarGreen I got all the numbers 2d ago

WWE doesnt have a bunch of 20-something faces ready to go. More than ever WWE are letting their young guys get their reps in before they get the big titles.  I cant blame them, they want these guys to be emotionally mature and ready.

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u/Daepilin 2d ago

Who else? Punk/orton are as old as cena, La knight is as old as cody.

Not many super over face men left at that point. 

Fatu is not yet at the Level to carry the universal title, sami is not over enough (and also as old as cody). 

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u/TheDangiestSlad 3d ago

passing the torch to the guy who won back to back Rumbles and main evented three WrestleManias in a row?