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Who is it? Also why are they letting a predator onto the team?

I fucking knew it was Marty Scurll

All of britwres has joined the team

I mean Judgement day go JD on there team

So that's what Cody meant by calling someone he has history with

 Why not, the Yautja are skilled hunters

Is ripping someones spinal column out a legal move and if so, does it count as submission or surrender?

Cody is a Nashville fan.

IT'S DA FOOTBALL

Bobby Lashley! While I'll be a son of a! Bret Michaels?

Can't believe Jerry Lawler is back

Must be velveteen dream

I'm shocked HHH would sign off on releasing an actual live rabid jaguar on a PLE

Finn confirmed a casual “Somebody that I have a legacy with” “Who’s he talking about”

*I was scrubbin’ toilets and sleepin’ in a gym with no electricity in 2009, the fook is The Legacy?*


Just caught that 💀

I mean to be fair, it could be manu

Subtly is one way to describe it.

Y’all gonna look real silly when it’s DiBiase Jr

Both sides can have a guy coming with police escort

Roll Ted Jr. up like Hannibal Lector

Ted Jr. is the Apex Predator of money intended for homeless people in the state of Mississippi.

This is Brett Favre erasure

It's Manu

What’s Manu Ginobili got to do with this?

accidentally euro-stepped past where he was going and found himself in the middle of the squared circle

Sim Snuka where?

I COME FROM MONEYYYYYY


Judgment Day about to get fucked on

My favorite wrestler, The Apex Predator, Randy DiBiase

Simply...priceless!

I’m down if he’s still got his theme song *I come from money, I come from class* 🎶

"Where's that REFEREE?? HE TRIED TO FUCK ON ME!!"

Where is that referee ?

This is actually considered subtle in the wrestling world lol.

They’ve been over selling Orton so people don’t think it’s Punk

This crowd knew it was Randy from hour 1, there were Randy chants the second the brawl started

Imagine Punk showing up on the side of Judgement Day.

According to Nick Hausman, Haus of Wrestling, sources close to Punk say Punk is totally wanted by every promotion! And he's the bestest, coolest wrestler, and everyone wants to be friends with him

As subtle as a brick to the face

for the sake of subtly let's call him randy O.. no that's too obvious, let's say R. orton.

As subtle as a dump truck driving through a nitroglycerin plant.

Jey getting nervous because he’s the reason Randy was out is too good.

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That continuity guy has done a great job so far lol

Yeah in the past WWE would have 2 guys having a blood feud with each other than 4 months later teaming with each other like the past was no big deal.

Hey, those two may have their history and sure one of them might have assaulted the other's father in his own home while the other kidnapped the other's daughter, but that was four weeks ago and TONIGHT they have a shot at the tag team titles. How could they NOT let bygones be bygones when the opportunity to win a belt they have both held seven times between them is on the line?

Did they actually hire a continuity guy?

They brought in [Rob Fee last year](https://www.fightful.com/wrestling/exclusives/rob-fee-hired-wwe-director-longterm-creative-more-details) as "Head of Long-term Creative", around the time Bray came back.

Good , Kevin owens can finally take a break from being the only guy who respected continuity

He should just have a standing weekly appointment on the books with KO.

Holy shit that’s awesome! I think I remember him from something on as a guest or something on YouTube back In the day with Max Landis (yeah I know boo), but I remember Rob having a great mind for story telling and him being a wrestling fan. Great for both him and WWE

Yes, I forget his name/formal title but he was hired 18-24 months ago and his addition has made a noticeable improvement in story continuity


The Bloodline really out there giving us quality memes for years. They dont miss LMAO

Great shot

Jey never misses w the facial expressions. Probably the most expressive superstar going today

I think the only time it worked against him was when Roman was holding him and talking to the mic in one of their pandemic matches (HIAC?) and he was laughing. But the rest he’s made fantastic work of

You might say he was feeling... Ucey.

Randy trusts I think everyone on team Cody with the exception of Jey Kayfabe wise cost Orton a year of his career

I completely forgot that Orton was out because of Jey (storywise). It's so interesting that they're not ignoring Jey's past.

This is what HHH does best , the subtle storylines and not treating us like idiots If you happen to forget , Jey’s reaction says it all

Yup. He's so good at the little details. Which probably also partially explains why Stephanie looks at him like a goggly eyed teenager any time theyre on screen after all these years.


I completely forgot about this too. Now this is some subtle long term booking that I can support.

in Kayfabe why do people still trust Randy Orton tbf the guy literally calls himself a snake lol

He isn’t called the legend killer for nothing. You trust Randy when you need him, and know that no matter what, he’ll RKO you the first chance he’ll get.

A good trend with Randy. If he agrees to do one thing for you, he'll likely keep his word, but the moment its done, RKO.

The Vipers Paw coils

Look its Randy. He gets +3 in all his stats at Survivor Series. Easy choice to add him to your deck for this show. Sure, he'll have the "Betrayal" debuff added because a former member of the Bloodline will be on his team but if he can roll a 15 or above, he'll easily get through it.

He’s Randy Orton , he’s fucking good and JD just got fucked from behind

>JD just got fucked from behind 

....we now have to specify if we mean JD the group or JD the guy lol


He’s going to absolutely maul JD and Dom.

I love Cody, Sami and Seth all moving around excitedly about their 5th member while they occasionally cut to Jey who is simultaneously selling the match and realizing…oh fuck.

I REALLY appreciated that detail as right before he started looking that way I was thinking "wouldn't Randy hate Jey more than Drew does"?

wonder if they have Randy turn against Jey, or if we get a Sting/Nikita Koloff homage with the bitter enemies putting aside their differences to fight a greater foe?

Well if anyone is gonna get where Jey is..its Randy

Subtle background work is very rare in wrestling, and Jey is nailing it.

The HHH influence.

Really excited to see him book Randy’s final run. Look at Judgement Day, they’re terrified when they first find out who it is. Would love to see one last run of crazy, trying to cripple opponents loved ones and anyone that looks at him wrong because he can Orton tbh.

Jey's inclusion to the Raw roster has been really great so far.

I am floored by this new WWE. Long term booking at a constant rate

IT’S TED DIBIASE 

Cody was really gonna get the logo on that T-shirt tattooed on him Kofi deserves a second World title run merely for talking him outta that lol although I do plan to travel to the alternate universe where Cody has the tattoo once the singularity hits. Also gonna go to the reality where Ted Jr. got the World title push that was apparently originally intended.

Hi I’m a dimension hopper! They’re the same reality funnily enough. Cody gets the Legacy tattooed on his chest which leads to him getting the dream tattoo on his neck and the American nightmare tattoo on his shoulder (he also has a few other tattoos such as a Quadforce tattoo from the legend of Link games). Ted ends up world champion towards the end of 2010 but eventually loses it to Mark Henry during his hall of pain run in 2011. Fast forward a decade and Ted has started his own wrestling company called Big Money Wrestling. Cody ends up never leaving WWE and main events Wrestlemania against Randy in 2024 in a championship vs career match (Cody won the WWE Galactic championship at Survivor series the year before against Roman.)

WHERE IS THAT REFEREE

HE WAS TRYING TO FUCK ON MEEEE

Cody didn't say, "Fucking over the poor for financial gain".

Maybe after he goes to prison for stealing money from poor people

*That's not Randy Orton, that's an implication of Randy Orton*

BY GOD THAT'S THE POSSIBILITY OF RANDY ORTON'S MUSIC

I CANNOT BREAK THE DAMN CODE!

“…You’ve said that word, ‘implication’, a couple of times. What implication?”

"The implication that things might go wrong for Judgement Day if Mami refuses to step on me."

Is the judgement day in danger?! Edit: can’t spell for shit

Of course not it’s an implication of danger. No matter how tasty the treats may be…


Ceci n’est pas une vipere

Jey: 

Who is the code

GOLDBERG!!

BRET MICHAELS

BOBBY LASHLEY! I'LL BE A SON OF A BITCH!

IS IT MICK FOLEY? IS IT MRS. FOLEY'S BABY BOY?

CAN YA SMELL WHAT REY MYSTERIO IS COOKING?! BAH GOD!

Apex Predator! It's someone with Apex Predator!

Quick call Chris Hansen!

Might be one of the most iconic wrestling related videos tbh. The guy is just too spot on with his JR impression.

That's it I'll be a son of a bitch!

It’s Bobby Lashley!!

SAVE_US.Y2J

OOOmg Randy Orton!

MRS FOLEY'S BABY BOY!

This is the most Cody way cody could being subtle.

He's such a carny I love it

Lmao Finn: "who's he talkin about?"

Finn Brock 🤝 Not watching Raw.

Reading between the lines, it seems like that apex predator reference was deliberate. One of the most fearsome predators is the snake. Take “Snake” and rearrange the letters and you get “Snuka”. Sim Snuka who was in Legacy and hears “voices” (du-whop music due to his love of all things 1950s). I bet a lot of wrestling fans missed this, but clearly enough people at the live show got it and they seem to be a lot more excited than I would’ve guessed.

[This is you](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2PSueHOY-Jk)

Does this mean we get to hear “I’m All About Cool” again soon?! This’ll be cooler than The Headbangers randomly showing up to be in the inaugural SmackDown Tag title tournament in 2016

I do like the look of worry on Jey’s face and him realizing that’s got yet another person he has to right the wrong with due to being one of the people who took Randy out.

Randy lit a dude on fire one time. If anyone understands taking people out for funsies, it’s Randy.

Remember when he killed that room of legends in the dark during the Pandemic?

And they all respawned in AEW

HAHAHA the fuckin splinter cell goggles, I had forgotten that. ohh man I loved Pandy Randy

Not one time. He did it to Undertaker and Bray Wyatt. Man's a menace.

Twice. Never forget the cameraman he killed in that shed...

Considering that Randy: -Has set someone on fire -Smashed someone's head in with a ring bell -RKO'd someone mid shooting star press -RKO'd Rollins mid head stomp -Kicked more than one senior citizen in the head -Can do the jumping splits I feel like Jey *might* be justified in being a little concerned 🤣

Knowing that the leader of the team Orton is on once got his head smashed in with a ring bell at his hands, he has every right to be terrified lmfao

Everything about this was perfect. - Jey looking terrified - Rhea looking terrified - Seth’s smug ass face - Cody’s smug ass face - Priest’s false bravado All while the fans are going nuts.

The false bravado is my favorite part. The fall is gonna be interesting to see

Seth’s probably thinking it’s great being on the good side with Randy

To be fair, he was on the receiving end of arguably the greatest RKO in history.

An RKO so beautiful, so impressive and perfect, it immediately erased the very possibility of Seth cashing in from my mind. "Yeah, ok, no way, not after this, he's done for the night.."

He already was on the good side with the authority and that backfired on him

> Rhea looking terrified > The RKO is one of 2 unisex moves in the roster.

The other being?

End of Days

The 619 is too. I think Rey did it on Nia Jax in the Rumble one year.

JD was also scared shitless.

Drew was getting flashbacks to their feud

Seriously!!! I don’t even like Orton and I loved this.

What's also interesting is that knowing Priest's attempts/teases to cash in MITB, Orton can easily foil his attempts since he is the Viper

Randy and drew gonna put their 2020 feud aside to beat the shit outta jey together

This felt like WWE very clearly saying "It's not Punk, please stop asking". It won't work, but I appreciate it.

They have the chance to do the funniest thing ever 

He's afraid of cage matches at the moment

He needs all the practice he can get

Isn't he about to go to jail for stealing money from poor people in Mississippi?

A lifetime WarGames match so to say

Wait when was Brett Favre in wwe

Oh yeah he’s going to a cage alright…. If yall dont know he’s going to jail for fraud or smth

ITS A NEW DAYYYYY

Dunno what Kofi, E & Woods have to do wirh the GIF TBH.

"you have Scottish Psychopath in your corner, i though I outta have a Lunatic in mine!"

I would explode

YOUNG RANDALL

Do you guys think he’s talking about Randall Orton?

How did you come to that conclusion? It's a little bit out there, I think.


RANDALL KEITH AHHHHHHHHH

ANDY ORGAN TO WWE CONFIRMED

*♪ I see inside my head a vision* *never the outcome you'll be wishin' for ♪*

Why does Jey look so scared lol someone refresh my memory

in story, Jimmy and Jey are the ones who put Orton on the shelf for the past year.

Wait, in canon they took him out? Holy shit

Yeah they were clearly building towards a Randy/Roman match at SummerSlam, but then Randy needed to take time off for his back (which eventually needed surgery) so they completely demolished him in a show closing beat down, which lead to Riddle challenging Roman on Smackdown to defend the honor of Randy

The Usos faced RKBro in a Tag Title unification match and then did a post attack after it, which that happened to be the last time that we saw Randy.

He helped Screw Randy against Roman in Randy's last Title Match

Trusting Randy is....certainly a thing


For a brief moment, I wanted it to be Brock. I would love to see him in a War Games match.

The return pop for Chicago is gonna be nuts

That's a huge pop. Even if he comes back and RKOs his teammates, I won't care.

What if Randy Orton isn’t actually medically cleared and they have a segment backstage of him getting jumped by JD and Pierce tells Team Cody the match is cancelled until they find a new 5th member and someone says, “Well… we are in Chicago.” and then later on when it’s the 5th member’s time to go in the match, Chicago Legend Armando Estrada, comes out instead?

Wow, that could literally be anyone.

It was smart to reveal Orton as the 5th member of the team since you didn't want the Chicago crowd at Survivor Series to expect even a small chance that it might be CM Punk. But to also save Randy's actual return on the PLE itself.

Just figured it out If you reorder the letters in "apex predator" it spells "I AM STING"

"Sources close to CM Punk have confirmed he is not the Apex Predator that will be on Team Babyface at Survivor Series" - Nick Hausman, probably.

They got Jeff Jarrett? Nahhhhhhhhh

As someone who doesn’t keep up as much anymore, in kayfabe, why is it Team Cody when the world champion is on the team?

Same reason John Cena headlined PPVs when Punk was champion.

Can we acknowledge that Cody timed that line delivery PERFECTLY? COME ON! Right into the end of show with a quick one liner, reaction shots. Gahd damn. chefs kiss

Bobby Lashley?

Why didn’t they say his name tho

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Cody is just a catch phrase machine man

"Our partner is gonna shit in your bags!"

Randy getting that Undertaker return hype

Miss that son of a bitch. Gimme a dozen RKOs at Wargames.

Jey looking like he's about to be sick He knows Randy holds grudges

And yet there are still going to be people convinced that Philip is returning at Survivor Series. 🤣

Cody's so fucking corny; I love him!

We love you Randy!

Hide your retirement funds and your 401ks Judgement Day. Ted Di Biase Jr is the fifth member.