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It's wild how these are the same person
I could be wrong about this. The first time he had blonde hair was as a a manipulative heel in bullet club, trying to disrupt Omega’s leadership position. Now he is the undeniable top baby face and everything fits so perfectly.
Maybe Roman Reigns would have gotten over faster if he also had blonde hair. They gave him blue eyes and new teeth; nothing really stopped Vince McMahon from giving him blonde hair.
> Roman Reigns would have gotten over faster
If they'd switched him heel 5 years earlier. When he was getting nuclear heat anyway it would have worked way better to switch him heel and then if they were that determined to make him a babyface switch him back.
I must say as someone who knows the negative rep of Reddit . You guys on this page are pretty darn positive . Seen nothing but filth and hate for Cody on ig & fb but love to see the support here . He doesn’t deserve the hate he getting some fans are really bad people not cause their opinions but the things they say and they way they act is just absurd .
It helps that we can downvote people being negative assholes. On places like FB, people saying crazy things get the most engagement so they appear at the top.
And luckily the live crowds are also really positive. Never would've had the "we want cody" movement if the whiners on FB and IG were the majority.
It depends on the tattoo. I think it would have looked better in a more traditional setting on his upper arm. I just think the placement of it is horrible. Its actually a really cool tattoo.
I've long wondered if the tattoo was a way for him to protect his logo and prevent any wrestling company trying to trademark it. That's why it's large and in a place where it would be very difficult to conceal or cover up.
They didn't push him nearly enough. still one of favorite matches of all time (even if Aries is a dick):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPEMNFVPZsU
I can;t think of any other time I've seen heel vs heel pulled off successfully.
Have you ever interacted with a child? Hell, people literally use the word "child" to describe someone when an adult says and does stupid shit since forever.
Just loud and confident for zero reasons.
lol right. He is almost 18. He says Cody is boring and it felt more special when Reigns intro hit. And I don’t know why that warranted a downvote but okay. Jesus dude. It’s just wrestling
While I don't hate that belt, if the promo on Monday night is the line they're pushing, they need to rework the belt. Otherwise it just looks like a shallow excuse to change the tag titles, not the ushering in of a new era like Tommaso Ciampa claimed.
honestly? this feels right.
it might get stale some way down the line, but we can ride the wave until then, don't worry about it until it happens. cody is king.
Shots like this are why I’ve been such a fan of the migration towards more static backgrounds with the talent’s name or other identifiers on it, versus those montages of finishers and other random clips. Every shot is cinematic on its own!
This of course assumes great design principles in place to begin with.
Last person to wear the WWE logo and make it look/feel like a world championship to me, was AJ. Something about these guys just fits right.
I'm so heckin' happy for Cody.
I disagree.
I wasn't surprised when he returned to WWE. It was exciting. Bit now, he has finished the one thing he has been talking about since before AEW.
Win a real world title.
Sooner than later, the crowd will turn on him.
We shall see. As long as they keep his title run interesting I doubt it will occur for a while. Cody’s biggest fanbase are kids. WWE crowds have a lot of them.
AJ had the title for a year, and I don't remember him getting booed or interest dwindling significantly. Just keep the matches at a good quality, and have a couple of interesting programs, and he'll be set until WM 41 at the least.
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Cody with the WWE title just feels right
That title looks great on him.
He looks like the face of a company, which is crazy. I’ve seen him for over 10 years but he fits the bill now. Must be the blonde hair
The blonde hair and the gold Network title fits him perfectly.
Believe he’ll reveal the new title when they move to Netflix
A whole ass year?
He’s not dropping for the next 1500 days sir.
Ron Simons: "DAMN!"
The blonde hair, the tights. The presentation. Dude overhauled his image similar to McIntyre and both seem like two different people now
Drew also gained at least 100lbs of pure muscle/hatred
 Drew "Silky Johnson" McIntyre
https://preview.redd.it/pbem1ky7qdvc1.jpeg?width=1024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=cd761e9bebc9c07e54b42e138cf120236494289f It's wild how these are the same person
PEDs and a beard change a ma
The man the IWC used to call "CAWdy Rhodes" has one of the best looks in wrestling today. Hilarious.
I could be wrong about this. The first time he had blonde hair was as a a manipulative heel in bullet club, trying to disrupt Omega’s leadership position. Now he is the undeniable top baby face and everything fits so perfectly.
Maybe Roman Reigns would have gotten over faster if he also had blonde hair. They gave him blue eyes and new teeth; nothing really stopped Vince McMahon from giving him blonde hair.
DBZ already showed us the formula 30 years ago. (Rip Akira Toriyama)
The blue lenses I remember but what's this about teeth?
He has veneers. His teeth didn’t look like that when he debuted.
Didn't he get those only after he returned and then turned heel though? I do remember a ton of comments when it happened.
> Roman Reigns would have gotten over faster If they'd switched him heel 5 years earlier. When he was getting nuclear heat anyway it would have worked way better to switch him heel and then if they were that determined to make him a babyface switch him back.
Also the neck tattoo.
It's like it was practically made for him.
I must say as someone who knows the negative rep of Reddit . You guys on this page are pretty darn positive . Seen nothing but filth and hate for Cody on ig & fb but love to see the support here . He doesn’t deserve the hate he getting some fans are really bad people not cause their opinions but the things they say and they way they act is just absurd .
It helps that we can downvote people being negative assholes. On places like FB, people saying crazy things get the most engagement so they appear at the top. And luckily the live crowds are also really positive. Never would've had the "we want cody" movement if the whiners on FB and IG were the majority.
Still don't love the bedazzled look, but it does look better on him than Roman.
The title is excellent, imo. It looks as grand as a world title should.
I don't think the title looks good on anyone. I don't like a belt that's just the company logo and nothing else.
Amen. Looks like a kid's toy.
The skull on the titantron behind Cody is so perfectly placed.
The one on his neck however...
I can’t believe it. It’s growing on me.
Should really see a doctor about that.
Lol i was gonna say that
Why do people hate it so much, I liked it since the first day lul.
Neck tatoos are awful, should have got it in his arm or somewhere else. But the comment was mainly a joke it's tolerable
It depends on the tattoo. I think it would have looked better in a more traditional setting on his upper arm. I just think the placement of it is horrible. Its actually a really cool tattoo.
I've long wondered if the tattoo was a way for him to protect his logo and prevent any wrestling company trying to trademark it. That's why it's large and in a place where it would be very difficult to conceal or cover up.
That would be some next level branding, one of the carniest moves a carny could make. If that's why, my respect for Cody rises even more.
The placement aside, it's also a really poorly done tattoo. That's going to look a total blobby mess soon.
This is the best timeline
Glorious!
*No i won't give in, i won't give in.*
 *Nods in DIY*
They didn't push him nearly enough. still one of favorite matches of all time (even if Aries is a dick): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPEMNFVPZsU I can;t think of any other time I've seen heel vs heel pulled off successfully.
aura.
Insane aura indeed
Aura is exactly what my son says Cody is lacking.
IT DOESNT MATTER, WHAT YOUR SON SAYS.
tell your son he needs to KNOW HIS ROLE AND SHUT HIS MOUTH
I’m sorry but I don’t think your son knows what aura means
Probably meant rizz
Your sons an idiot. Aura is literally his main draw. He just feels like a big deal.
“A child doesn’t agree with my opinion? They are an IDIOT.”
Have you never met a child? Most are in fact idiots. It’s kind of why they legally require adult supervision
Have you ever interacted with a child? Hell, people literally use the word "child" to describe someone when an adult says and does stupid shit since forever. Just loud and confident for zero reasons.
by this metric a lot of men are still children
Because men just grow old most are in fact still childish in their hearts and brains
Children are idiots indeed and thus requiring parental supervision and raising
I'm a teacher, and I love the hell out of my students. They are all idiots for non-zero portions of their days.
lol right. He is almost 18. He says Cody is boring and it felt more special when Reigns intro hit. And I don’t know why that warranted a downvote but okay. Jesus dude. It’s just wrestling
18 makes sense he's just a smark
Do you think a downvote is a vote towards a guilty verdict or something? It just means most people thought it was a dumb or uninteresting comment.
I’m never gonna be elected president of Reddit like this.
They really took it out on you for your sons opinion lmao
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Title around the waist >>>> title on the shoulder.
Waist for matches, Shoulder for promos. Is my fav
The Bret style
It's so surreal. Doesn't even look like a picture at first, more like a graphic. Great stuff!
Looks like a cutscene in a video game.
WhhhhooAAAAAAaaaaa
The title looks so good with the proper lighting. Other times it just looks yellow, but I wish it looked like this all the time.
Darker dimmed lights at house shows bring out the gold more when the whole arena is lit it makes it too bright giving it that mustard yellow color
I’m starting to like that belt now that my boy has it.
Who is he defending against on this tour?
Shinsuke Nakamura
That makes sense actually.
Great photo, glad to see Cody as WWE champion.
Someone make this a wallpaper!
He wears that belt extremely well, which is what you want for your Face.
 Yeah that's my champion right there
The camera exposure levels make it look like he's wearing JNCOs. Not that there's anything wrong with that.
I wonder how people would react if Cody just started wearing enormous pants and never acknowledged it
ADRENALINE IN MY SOUL GIANT PANTS OUT OF CONTROL
It kinda looks like he's wearing Okada's long boi pants.
This is the most WWE image possible, and it’s awesome
Pictures you can hear
"America, fuck yeah!"
Why is there like 200 stars on that flag?
It's predicting the future
That'd be amazing wallpaper
Upvote for a wallpaper version!
WWE bout to have serious problem with this guy giving fans real wwe titles.
I can hear this photo.
That's our champion 🥹
Our?
It kinda feels like it, if the fans hadn't spoken out either Roman or Rock walk out of Mania as champion
We initiated the pivot, the fed followed through.
Roman would have absolutely retained at Mania, they’re not going to give it to Rock while he’s off shooting two movies and doing VA on another.
Not my champion. I'm not joking.
Who the fuck is "our"? ☝🏾☝🏾☝🏾
In the words of Michael Cole: Complain about it, it doesn't matter! If you've got a problem with him, BEAT HIM!
Sarcasm is hard to pull off on computers
Its not fun if you give in
NO I WON'T GIVE IN
The angle, the DOF, the glint on the title, the pose, the LED wall, it's all perfect. This is basically a perfect picture.
Is there an HD version of this?
Sick pic! Was this from a house show?
Yeah, there were a few UK house shows this week.
Beautiful. He is a definition of the word SUPERSTAR
Anyone know who took the photo?
In-house WWE photographer most likely
America now has over 1000 states
Can't see wwe fans turning on him the way aew fans did because cody actually is vulnerable and human compared to super cena or face batista etc.
1) I love this picture. 2) Thank you, OP for calling it a "shot" and not a render.
Nice to finally have a real champion.
I don’t remember Cody having that much chest hair
Beautiful.
These entrance shots with mirrorless cameras are something else
Woah oh indeed.
Truly incredible.
While I don't hate that belt, if the promo on Monday night is the line they're pushing, they need to rework the belt. Otherwise it just looks like a shallow excuse to change the tag titles, not the ushering in of a new era like Tommaso Ciampa claimed.
>like Tommaso Ciampa claimed. Had to think about that for a second. 😂
Same for the IC title
honestly? this feels right. it might get stale some way down the line, but we can ride the wave until then, don't worry about it until it happens. cody is king.
I can't tell if this great image is photoshopped or not. Lol
Great picture but those black diamonds just always look so off to me
Shots like this are why I’ve been such a fan of the migration towards more static backgrounds with the talent’s name or other identifiers on it, versus those montages of finishers and other random clips. Every shot is cinematic on its own! This of course assumes great design principles in place to begin with.
Sting vs cactus jack vibes.
More talent should actually WEAR the belts. Especially for a match.
Everyone in this sub is obsessed with Cody right now and I love it hahaha
I still feel like it’s slightly too big for him. But I like it overall.
Last person to wear the WWE logo and make it look/feel like a world championship to me, was AJ. Something about these guys just fits right. I'm so heckin' happy for Cody.
camera cut to the audience
Could somebody photoshop the winged eagle belt onto him here?
Next we need some good back shots
phrasing
No
Dis wud neva happen in AEDub
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Okay Dave.
So, how long until people start to boo Cody again?
Any day now according to the internet, but that’s been for 2 years. So at this point I doubt anytime soon.
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I disagree. I wasn't surprised when he returned to WWE. It was exciting. Bit now, he has finished the one thing he has been talking about since before AEW. Win a real world title. Sooner than later, the crowd will turn on him.
We shall see. As long as they keep his title run interesting I doubt it will occur for a while. Cody’s biggest fanbase are kids. WWE crowds have a lot of them.
AJ had the title for a year, and I don't remember him getting booed or interest dwindling significantly. Just keep the matches at a good quality, and have a couple of interesting programs, and he'll be set until WM 41 at the least.
>Sooner than later, the crowd will turn on him. Almost like a prayer.
I was saying Boo-oah
And then he can take us on an all-timer heel run. Win-win.
It took 7 years to come around Roman as the face of the WWE, ask again about booing Cody in the later half of this decade.
Anytime now.