Things started to heat up between Cody Rhodes and WWE Champion CM Punk last weekend at Saturday Night\u2019s Main Event when CM accidentally clipped Cody\u2019s face with the belt on his way out of the ring. Cody returned the favor on tonight\u2019s (July 24) episode of SmackDown when he accidentally dropped the microphone for Punk to pick up.<\/p>\n
After they went back-and-forth about whether these are actually accidents or not, Cody decided to make things personal with CM. He revealed that their match at SummerSlam isn\u2019t just about winning the title, because he doesn\u2019t actually like Punk.<\/p>\n
Cody has worked his ass off to become the face of WWE, and has fearlessly stared down every superstar in the locker room along the way. And even though he is now the top guy who WWE sends to do mainstream interviews like the Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, Punk is the one person on the roster who he sweats and has a chip on his shoulder about. And it all goes back to Punk\u2019s infamous pipe bomb promo, which Cody followed to a tee to take the top spot in WWE.<\/p>\n
It sounded to me like Cody is jealous or feels threatened by CM\u2019s overwhelming popularity with WWE fans, which Punk brought back with him in full force when he finally returned after so many years away.<\/p>\n
Punk called out Cody for being a liar for saying he doesn\u2019t like him. The only thing he doesn\u2019t like is the fact that Punk is the champion. Rhodes can\u2019t handle having an athletic competition for the title against someone he respects, so he\u2019s doing what he always does by finding a way to make himself the victim and everyone else his enemy.<\/p>\n
But CM isn\u2019t Cody\u2019s enemy, unlike his past opponents like Kevin Owens, John Cena, and Randy Orton. That\u2019s because Punk is true to his word about not stabbing Cody in the back. He will instead stab him in the front and break his heart when he beats Cody\u2019s ass at SummerSlam.<\/p>\n
CM then brought back the famous words of his 2011 pipe bomb promo when he said Cody will have to come to grips with the fact that Punk is still the best in the ring, on this microphone, and nobody can touch him. Not even Dusty\u2019s kid.<\/p>\n
Who do you think got the better of this promo battle between Punk and Rhodes? Which one do you think is the liar? Let me know your reaction to this segment in the comments below, Cagesiders.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Things started to heat up between Cody Rhodes and WWE Champion CM Punk last weekend at Saturday Night\u2019s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":783315,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[88,4366,4367,4368],"class_list":["post-783314","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-wwe","tag-wwe-smackdown","tag-wwe-summerslam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783314","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=783314"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/783314\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/783315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=783314"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=783314"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=783314"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}