Cody Rhodes: What You Saw With Roman Reigns And I At Georgia Tech Might Be A Direction The Industry Is Going

Ahead of WWE Bad Blood, Cody Rhodes and Roman Reigns found common ground at Georgia Tech in a cinematic video that aired on the September 20th episode of WWE SmackDown. 

WWE has done more cinematic vignette over the past year, including the cold open for WWE Bad Blood, which featured Cody, Metro Boomin, and Triple H. 

Appearing on the Pat McAfee Show, Cody commented on the direction of WWE.

“Raw being two hours again, the content being perhaps tailored a little differently, What you saw with Roman and I in that package [at Georgia Tech], that might be a direction the industry is going, and being old-school, those things used to…not for me, mini-movies and things of that nature. Years and years ago, my dad had produced something for WCW called White Castle of Fear. Sting went to the mountains to meet Vader, and there was little people and turkey legs, and it was just this crazy scene. Heavily panned by the audience, to the point where I just thought maybe that’s not ever gonna be our world. We’re never gonna have that cinema, and then I saw this, and I thought how, especially with what Mr. (Paul) Heyman did with it and Adam Pennucci, I thought wow, this might be a little bit more of the direction. We didn’t play it silly, it wasn’t spooky or anything of that nature. This was straight-up two guys who really sincerely feel this way about each other having a conversation, let’s capture it,” said Cody.

Cody and Roman teamed to face Jacob Fatu & Solo Sikoa at WWE Bad Blood. 

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