7 Ups And 4 Downs From WWE Raw (13 March - Review)

by Scott Carlson

1. Cody Can’t Miss

Cody Rhodes LA Knight
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This improbable build to WrestleMania pitting the never-ending champion Roman Reigns against the inevitable challenger Cody Rhodes continues to amaze week after week as it keeps building, the wave reaching higher and still not breaking.

Rhodes had a spirited match with LA Knight, dispatching with the brash superstar before cutting an impassioned promo in which he welded himself even closer to Sami Zayn (and Kevin Owens) rather than the opposite, then talked about how he wears tailored suits as a “protective armor” because he wants to be someone – tying back to how he’s desperate to beat Roman at WrestleMania so that the Tribal Chief (and the entire wrestling world) is forced to acknowledge him as the first Rhodes to hold the WWE Championship.

It was a straight fire promo that had fans eating out of his hands, and while we keep saying that’s hard to do every week, Cody keeps repeating it each week.

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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.