This week\u2019s episode of Friday Night SmackDown saw Cody Rhodes make his big return to television to answer Randy Orton\u2019s recent behavior. Orton once again made clear he can\u2019t be held responsible for what happens to Cody from here on out because the WWE champion endorsed this.<\/p>\n
Orton, by the way, teased giving up who he has been on the phone with in recent times only for Matt Cardona to interrupt him and club him over the head with a microphone while he was once again crushing him verbally. I actually think this was the only way Cardona could respond to save his character but he still looks like a big geek here.<\/p>\n
Funny enough, Aleister Black and Zelina outright talked about this to Cardona\u2019s face, laughing at him for picking a fight he knows he can\u2019t win because his ego is bruised over being called a \u201cmarky stooge.\u201d This feels like a rib on the artist formerly known as Zack Ryder, at this point.<\/p>\n
The match went exactly as you would expect it to. Orton won and then stood over Cardona while getting his hand raised. You know how it goes.<\/p>\n
As he was doing that, Rhodes finally showed up on his bus \u2014 there was no time for talking, no time for anything other than getting to the ring and duking it out. It was one hell of a pull apart brawl, one that saw Jelly Roll come out to get in between the two and Orton lay his ass out with the RKO as well.<\/p>\n
Then he laughed up the aisle while Rhodes tended to Mr. Roll on the mat.<\/p>\n
They haven\u2019t played too much into the past personal stuff just yet but what they\u2019ve done up to now has been fantastic. This is pretty clearly the better of the WWE title options for WrestleMania, and we should all be thankful they went this direction.<\/p>\n
Now let\u2019s get more personal!<\/p>\n
Sami Zayn was making like he was going to square up against Trick Williams on social media, and then he went to SmackDown and asked GM Nick Aldis if he would be making the card at WrestleMania 42.<\/p>\n
\u201cUnless something changes, I don\u2019t have a spot for you right now.\u201d<\/p>\n
This after Trick Willy was told he will be on the card. So, of course, Sami laid him out with a punch while he was still cutting it up with Aldis before promising he will make the card in Las Vegas.<\/p>\n
How would he do so? By winning the United States championship, of course!<\/p>\n
He didn\u2019t win it on his own \u2014 instead, Trick came out and tried to attack Zayn but ultimately ended up blasting Carmelo Hayes, leading to a Helluva Kick and the three count. It wasn\u2019t long after that Aldis said he would defend his title against Trick at WrestleMania.<\/p>\n
I absolutely understand wanting to get a title on Zayn and adding stakes to a match against a hot young upstart like Trick. I do not understand doing this to Hayes.<\/p>\n
There should be backlash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This week\u2019s episode of Friday Night SmackDown saw Cody Rhodes make his big return to television to answer…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":500235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[96,59,56,54,55,9482,24382,175732],"class_list":["post-500234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-gb","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-smackdown","tag-wwe-smackdown-results-reactions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=500234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/500234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/500235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=500234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=500234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=500234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}