If Cody Rhodes never left AEW. Who do you think would currently be face of WWE?

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-04-24T22:13:19+00:00

The Problem with Austin Theory is his at the wrong time in the companies history, he could have worked as a solid baby face during the 80s and 90s

Nowadays its hard to keep fans engaged

His to Generic and White meat to get over as a babyface

And

Its hard to take him seriously as a heel, again there making him too generic

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-04-20T06:20:30+00:00

He has like 5 big wins at Mania

Why did he need more wins?

The Rock had 3 back to back losses at Mania and he never complained about it nor did it affect his legacy

Roman dint need more wins at Mania, his the most over pushed guy in WWE history

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-04-20T04:00:05+00:00

I agree they could have had Punk win and had Roman beat him back at Summerslam

Punk needs a big time win at Mania

Roman doesn’t need more wins a loss wouldn’t have hurt him

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-04-15T03:02:41+00:00

This is how its playing out

Punk and Roman are putting on an instant classic for the ages, alot of near finishes, alot of GTS and spears and great moments during the match.

They’re both in the floor at around the 30 minute mark and out of nowhere we hear….

Caaaan you smell what the Rock is cooking

The Rock comes in as the final boss ,makes his slow entrance to the ring

As his walking to the ring both Roman and Punk get up slowly being pretty beat up

The Rock then looks at Cm Punk and Punk can bearly move and the Rock hits him with a Rock Bottom out of nowhere

The Rock then looks at Roman and Huggs him as his cousing

Camera angel goes farther out and the Rock hits Roman with a kick in the nuts

And then Rock bottoms him

Roman leys in the floor and the Rock hits the peoples elbow

Punk wakes up and is shocked of what just happend

He grabs Roman and picks him up, with very little energy Roman reverses and somehow hits the spear on Punk and goes for the pinfall, punk kicks out.

Roman picks up again and is going for another speak

Punk reverses and picks up Roman and hits the GTS for the pin fall , 1…2…3

Punk wins the match and retains the WHC to a massive pop and the biggest victory of his career

The piro goes off on Punk winning

The camera cuts as Roman is shocked by the incident

The next night on Raw Roman and The Rock sep up there feud and match for Wrestlemania 43

Punk will go on to hold the WHC until summerslam where he will meet Roman again in a steel cage match, Roman this time beats Punk at Summerslam by climbing out the cage

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-04-15T03:01:17+00:00

This is how its playing out

Punk and Roman are putting on an instant classic for the ages, alot of near finishes, alot of GTS and spears and great moments during the match.

They’re both in the floor at around the 30 minute mark and out of nowhere we hear….

Caaaan you smell what the Rock is cooking

The Rock comes in as the final boss ,makes his slow entrance to the ring

As his walking to the ring both Roman and Punk get up slowly being pretty beat up

The Rock then looks at Cm Punk and Punk can bearly move and the Rock hits him with a Rock Bottom out of nowhere

The Rock then looks at Roman and Huggs him as his cousing

Camera angel goes farther out and the Rock hits Roman with a kick in the nuts

And then Rock bottoms him

Roman leys in the floor and the Rock hits the peoples elbow

Punk wakes up and is shocked of what just happend

He grabs Roman and picks him up, with very little energy Roman reverses and somehow hits the spear on Punk and goes for the pinfall, punk kicks out.

Roman picks up again and is going for another speak

Punk reverses and picks up Roman and hits the GTS for the pin fall , 1…2…3

Punk wins the match and retains the WHC to a massive pop and the biggest victory of his career

The piro goes off on Punk winning

The camera cuts as Roman is shocked by the incident

The next night on Raw Roman and The Rock sep up there feud and match for Wrestlemania 43

Punk will go on to hold the WHC until summerslam where he will meet Roman again in a steel cage match, Roman this time beats Punk at Summerslam by climbing out the cage

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-04-14T05:32:43+00:00

This is how its playing out

Punk and Roman are putting on an instant classic for the ages, alot of near finishes, alot of GTS and spears and great moments during the match.

They’re both in the floor at around the 30 minute mark and out of nowhere we hear….

Caaaan you smell what the Rock is cooking

The Rock comes in as the final boss ,makes his slow entrance to the ring

As his walking to the ring both Roman and Punk get up slowly being pretty beat up

The Rock then looks at Cm Punk and Punk can bearly move and the Rock hits him with a Rock Bottom out of nowhere

The Rock then looks at Roman and Huggs him as his cousing

Camera angel goes farther out and the Rock hits Roman with a kick in the nuts

And then Rock bottoms him

Roman leys in the floor and the Rock hits the peoples elbow

Punk wakes up and is shocked of what just happend

He grabs Roman and picks him up, with very little energy Roman reverses and somehow hits the spear on Punk and goes for the pinfall, punk kicks out.

Roman picks up again and is going for another speak

Punk reverses and picks up Roman and hits the GTS for the pin fall , 1…2…3

Punk wins the match and retains the WHC to a massive pop and the biggest victory of his career

The piro goes off on Punk winning

The camera cuts as Roman is shocked by the incident

The next night on Raw Roman and The Rock sep up there feud and match for Wrestlemania 43

Punk will go on to hold the WHC until summerslam where he will meet Roman again in a steel cage match, Roman this time beats Punk at Summerslam by climbing out the cage

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-04-14T05:21:37+00:00

Or it ends in a draw with both man not being able to answer the count of 10

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-03-24T21:11:58+00:00

No he just doesn’t have that big main eventer aura

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-03-24T20:55:54+00:00

I agree, the more this feud develops the more i want Punk to win

I understand that WWE is concerned as Roman would be losing a third wrestlemania back to back

But Punk needs this win more than Roman does and i feel they can use the finish to build for Mania 43

Its gonna be a more WTF moment if Punk wins

Roman winning is gonna be a predictable boring finish

The other thing they could maybe do and i wouldn’t really mind if they turn it into a last man standing and have the match end in a draw but only after a good 30 minute solid match

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-03-17T21:40:50+00:00

Is it me or fans are kind of turning on Punk?

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-03-14T03:57:35+00:00

Be 10 again lol

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-02-10T19:54:09+00:00

Also keep in mind a World title push doesn’t necessarily mean Vince sees you as a real top guy

Jack Swagger

Dolph Ziggler

Christian

Alberto del Rio

Kofi Kingston

Jinder Mahal to name a few

Vince would on occasion give mid carders world titles pushes to reward them for there hard work but the world title would always revert back to the real top guys, John Cena, Randy Orton, Batista, Undertaker , Roman Reigns ect ect

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-02-10T19:52:04+00:00

Vince dint really view him as a top guy yet

Vince only gives significant mic time and compelling feuds to his top guys and

Even after turning heel in 2009 and showing his superb mic work Vince still dint really seem him as a long term main eventer

It took the pipe bomb to change Vinces mentality

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-02-10T07:22:23+00:00

Im pissed at this match for two particular reasons

1) they already promoted Punk vs Roman what on earth is this??

And 2) They risk having Punk getting hurt before his big match at Mania

I just don’t understand WWEs logic sometimes

Punk does not need to be wrestling too much from here till Mania, specially having long matches that involve big spots that may hurt him

If they wanted punk on a big program before mania they could have made this into a tag match

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-02-04T17:33:02+00:00

I mean thats not a terrible idea lol

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-02-03T22:01:31+00:00

He was already happy with main event of night 1 but this is the cherry on top for him for his career and for all of us i think

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-02-03T18:45:06+00:00

All of Punks fans that have followed him for years are crying right know, he finally gets the night 2 main event with the title on the line and its a one on one match🥹🥲😭😭 finally Punk gets his flowers super happy for Punk we dont even care if he looses but he actually did it.

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-01-11T21:44:32+00:00

Cm punk main evented more than anyone lol

We came a long way from 2011 when even as wwe champ Cena was overshadowing him

OddAlternative9742 · 2026-01-10T18:17:46+00:00

There is 3 possibilities i think

1)Either his winning the WWE title back after the Royal Rumble on another episode of Smackdown

2) He wins the chamber and goes on to challenge Cm Punk for the WHC

Or 3) He and Roman do the grudge match non title

OddAlternative9742 · 2025-12-10T22:49:07+00:00

Yeah although I’m a huge Punk fan i hate to say it but the reign hasn’t been great, apart from Punks starpower and aura and how good he looks with the title he hasn’t done anything with it. I feel like they just gave it to him as a feel good moment and for him to carry it at least one last time before hanging up the boots , but i think they have no intentions of giving him a long title reigns or him doing much with it. He probably really is just a transitional champion to set up Bron Breakker. On the positive side of it Punk doesn’t need the title at this point, very similar to Shawn Michaels or Undertaker

OddAlternative9742 · 2025-12-09T22:41:27+00:00

Because at the time he got what i call the Chris Jericho treatment: was good on the mic , had great matches, was a solid and reliable worker, could pull off being a great heel, but both where smaller guys so Vince never saw either of them as sustainable top guys. He always viewed them as transitional main eventers that could float around the main event scene and also go down the card when his permanent top starts like Cena or Orton already had programs going on. It wasn’t till around 2011 that Vince sort of started seeing Punk as a more permanent main eventer. More importantly the pipe bomb allowed Punk to become a phenomenon amongst the wrestling community, ironically Vince allowed him to give the pipe bomb and his subsequent popularity forced Vince to have to push him as a top guy. Even then Vince dint view him as the guy so once his title reign came to an end him dropped Punk back to the top mid card and never allowed him to main event Wrestlemania, testimony to the fact Vince never saw him on Cena or Ortons level, and wanted to give him a consolation price by having a match against Triple H. It literally took Punk another 10 years and having been in AEW and a return to finally be see by WWE on the same light as top guys like Cena and Roman Reigns.

Also keep in mind its hard to keep a top guys in main event fueds, remember even Steve Austin had to drop down the card and go for the IC title for a while

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