Ignore, if you can, that Daily's Place popped for a couple of on-the-nose and low-hanging zingers and try and assess the segment as a whole.
Dan Lambert and The Men Of The Year are heels, cut a fairly unremarkable and corny Dan-Lambert-and-The-Men-Of-The-Year promo and got booed. Brandi Rhodes, by virtue of her association to mostly-loathed Cody Rhodes is a heel, cut a fairly unremarkable and corny Brandi Rhodes promo and got booed. A brawl ensued, was broken up, and got booed.
What was there possibly to enjoy about this angle unless you got a kick from Paul Heyman and Jim Cornette getting name-checked?
The Codyverse might stir up a bit of weekly discourse, but when the storytelling misses the mark, it does so by orders of magnitude. And that's if you can either be bothered to try and thread one thing to another. Kudos to those celebrating the biggest picture with everything tied to the TNT Champion, but the week-on-week still needs work.
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