5. Rhodes Brothers Slow Implosion
When word began circulating that Dustin Goldust Runnels was winding down his in-ring career and expected to transition to being a road agent, the first question was whether WWE would finally pull the trigger on a Rhodes brothers feud. A battle between Goldust and Cody Rhodes has been teased for years, but nothing ever really materialized. It looks like that might finally change, as WWE has one last chance to make this happen. Since Cody morphed into Stardust, the Rhodes brothers have had varying degrees of success, holding the WWE Tag Team Championships once, but also losing a fair amount of their matches. Lately, the duo has been used more as enhancement talent, and the brothers have been sniping at each other. Monday, when Goldust attempted to get through to his brother, Stardust snapped and told him to never call me Cody before storming off. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7V0tBQYrwY The problem with this feud is twofold: There is little faith in WWE to get this long-simmering feud right, and it seems like the end result is going to be Stardust just taking the place of Goldust as the weirdo on the roster. If thats the case, its a real shame that Cody Rhodes will be relegated to sideshow instead of somehow becoming a bigger player. Call this a negative that with some serious optimism could be a positive.
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Scott is a former journalist and longtime wrestling fan who was smart enough to abandon WCW during the Monday Night Wars the same time as the Radicalz. He fondly remembers watching WrestleMania III, IV, V and VI and Saturday Night's Main Event, came back to wrestling during the Attitude Era, and has been a consumer of sports entertainment since then. He's written for WhatCulture for more than a decade, establishing the Ups and Downs articles for WWE Raw and WWE PPVs/PLEs and composing pieces on a variety of topics.
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