7 Ups & 6 Downs From WWE Raw XXX (23 Jan - Review)

3. He’s Winning The Rumble, Isn’t He?

Cody Rhodes
WWE

If Cody Rhodes wasn’t your odds-on favorite to win the Royal Rumble this weekend, he certainly should be after the video that aired Monday.

The trilogy of videos leading up to last week’s announcement that Cody was returning from injury to enter the Rumble was perfect, but it left open the question of how they’d fill the time on the last Raw before the Rumble.

The answer was another video summarizing the others, then delving more into a training montage, with Rhodes dropping gems like, “Being in the ring is like oxygen, and I really need to breathe again.”

Everything built up to him trying to achieve his quest of winning the world title. If they don’t pull the trigger at this point, then it’s all just a cruel joke. It’s OK to telegraph the climax of a story, if the journey there is a fun ride. That’s what we’re staring down right now.

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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.