8 Live Observations From WWE WrestleMania 38 Night 1
3. Seth ‘Freakin’ Rollins Vs Cody Rhodes
All along it was Cody, and that was all that mattered.
Seth Freakin’ Rollins (that name is low-key one of the stupidest things WWE has done this year and think of the ground that covers) had been all too potent a symbol of the company’s ills en route to WrestleMania.
A crazed fool desperate to point at the sign, the multi-time former WWE and Universal Champion became obsessed with the event to a damning and degrading fault. And all until Vince McMahon just gave him this anyway.
It had been the “this” that had been carrying the load for weeks. Because all along it was Cody. And that was all that mattered.
A good match became a great one when everybody actually came down from the high Cody’s entrance created. Rhodes and Rollins took their time, then spun a marvellous yarn which felt as much to do with the inside bits as it was the wild bumping and electrifying near falls.
Rollins couldn’t win - he just couldn’t - but the pair played with the biggest and cruelest timeline to pretzel the emotions of the audience every 60 seconds or so before delivering the big crowd pleasing conclusion.
This ruled hard and you’d be naïve to think it will last forever. But we’ll all always have this night.