8 Live Observations From WWE Post-WrestleMania Monday Night Raw
3. Cody Returns To Raw
With the dust barely settled on Cody's shocking and remarkably well-executed WrestleMania return, those in attendance at the American Airlines Center were hotter for the Raw redebut than just about anything else on the show.
They were rewarded for their energy.
Cody’s promo was as powerful as it was perfectly pitched to tell an actual story in the company that can’t do it anymore. Invoking Dusty Rhodes’ name wasn’t exactly a coupon buster, but mention his thirst for the WWE Championship back in the 1970s served as a perfect link to the reason he’s returned to the company.
Every bit for those that know of his past as those that were brand new to him on Sunday, Cody ducked and dived through the exposition with the deftest of touches, name dropping all the right people without ever giving the entire game away. Roman Reigns hung heavy in the tiddy of all of this, but it was his former Shield partner Seth Rollins who arrived with nothing more than a handshake.
If such a thing as the home run Cody return promo exists, this was definitely it.