When you choose an act, the way the crowd has chosen Zayn, it just hits different. But sometimes, the audience has a mind of its own. The powers that be select the most palatable performers from their roster and push them to the forefront. It’s kind of a big deal, the sort of event you don’t want mired in controversy or derailed by the mayhem of an angry crowd. Hard-core fans can name every main-event match since the first one all the way back in 1985. It’s the lifeblood of the industry, an event that powers the company’s billion-dollar revenue engine. Relating to Sami’s story was one thing hijacking WrestleMania by loudly proclaiming that Zayn should replace Rhodes in the main event of WWE’s Super Bowl is something different entirely.
That’s not what I expected.’ So everyone could relate to the Sami story.” “And then you sit with those assholes and look around one day and go, ‘Man, they’re really assholes, even to each other. “But they’re the center of attention, and I want to sit with those assholes.” Heyman, a one-man play in a custom suit, proceeded to act out both sides of a theoretical conversation about the ubiquitous desire to take that elusive seat at the cool kids’ table. And anybody that’s ever been in high school, you can recall sitting there going, ‘I want to sit at that table.’” “Sami wanted to be accepted by the Bloodline. “The entire Sami story was built on the very basic human emotion of acceptance,” WWE legend Heyman, consiglieri to the Tribal Chief Reigns, told The Ringer in an exclusive interview. It was a brilliant bit of storytelling, well acted by all involved, to the point that it almost felt too good for wrestling, as if an HBO drama had been carefully copied and pasted into a place once occupied by the ham-handed dramatics of Hulk Hogan and the Macho Man. This, safe to say, wasn’t going according to plan.Įveryone in WWE, of course, was happy to see the crowd energizing behind Zayn, the Canadian journeyman who had wowed the wrestling world with his desperate attempts to ingratiate himself with Roman Reigns’s Bloodline. In the back, where executives and superstars watched the show from the Gorilla Position, you could almost hear an audible gulp. They wanted to talk about Sami Zayn, and they chanted another man’s name as the babyface challenger for WWE gold stood in the ring. “So,” he asked the Florida Raw crowd, “what do you want to talk about?” Who Has WWE’s Momentum Heading Into ‘WrestleMania’? The ESTablishment: How Bianca Belair’s Wins and Losses Define Her Greatness Ten ‘WrestleMania’ Matches You May Have ForgottenĬody, decades after his old man wore his polka dots, years after occupying what felt like a permanent place on the undercard in his Stardust makeup, months since his decision to leave the upstart company he’d built to compete with the WWE machine, would finally, finally finish his family’s story. I’m not trying to add to the pressure or become anxious about it, but when it’s your whole life that’s the chase, the stakes are high.”
It’s a much longer story, and that’s what I feel maybe puts a lot of pressure on it.
It’s very different than what the American Dream went through in Florida.
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“Not just my whole professional life, my whole life. “The chase has been my whole life,” Cody told The Ringer from a studio he’d set up in his home, never for a moment wanting to look like anything but a star. But the American Dream’s title chase was a history that hung over Cody’s quest to win the WWE championship, and it was a history WWE was counting on to hold the Orlando crowd’s attention and pull at heartstrings. They all fell to the force of his bionic elbow, and Orlandoans in the early days of the theme park revolution were enthralled by this son of a plumber, who was putting on a show every bit as spectacular as anything happening in the Magic Kingdom.Īncient history, sure. Here, Cody’s old man had exuded an indefinable energy as he ran over and through a litany of wrestling’s most historic names. It was a Monday night in Orlando, the old stomping grounds of his father, Dusty Rhodes. It’s easy to forget now, just a little more than two months after that February 6 Raw segment, how precarious it all was, how close to disaster.Ĭody, resplendent in a peacoat so burgundy it almost shimmered purple, the color of royalty, looked every bit the champion he longs to be as he made his way to the ring.
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