WWE SmackDown Results: Winners, Are residing Grades, Response, Highlights After Royal Rumble

After World Heavyweight Champion Seth Rollins pled his case to Cody Rhodes for a match at WrestleMania on Monday’s Raw, The American Nightmare made his formulation to SmackDown to thunder the champion he’s going to peril at WrestleMania 40.

After waxing poetic referring to the figuring out of ending his epic and what that basically methodology, Rhodes printed, “I’m coming for you…appropriate no longer at WrestleMania.”

From there, The Rock emerged from the locker room to a thunderous ovation and engaged Reigns in a staredown to shut out the published, with a graphic announcing a press tournament in Las Vegas Thursday.

And with that, the year-long lope again to WrestleMania and the Undisputed WWE Neatly-liked Championship victory that eluded Rhodes in Los Angeles was for naught.

Worst of all, the plan it was all handled here lacked sense, felt unnatural, and did a disservice to The American Nightmare.

Rhodes stepping apart for Rock felt all too mighty esteem the horrendous conclusion of WrestleMania IX, the establish apart Bret Hart did the same for Hulk Hogan. It hurt Hart and took him a stable year to claw his plan again to the tip of the firm again.

Rhodes already put the work in, earned the followers’ appreciate and admiration, and received the Royal Rumble to jam up the return match with Reigns. Why would he enable himself to “take in counsel” from Rock and easily stroll far off from his WrestleMania dream because The Astronomical One advised him to?

This can also moreover be crucial that Rhodes offer up solutions Monday night in an strive to do sense of this conclusion. On fable of that, coupled with the truth Reigns responded to Seth Rollins’ criticisms by cooking him and the World Heavyweight Championship on the mic has a prospective showdown between The Visionary and Rhodes less appealing.

There’s no longer any denying the electricity between The Rock and Reigns to stop the indicate, nonetheless to e book that earlier than a match—that includes your top babyface—that was a year within the making feels esteem a long-interval of time inventive misfire.

A, easiest for the fun the segment will generate; from a inventive execution standpoint, it left A LOT to be desired

High Moments and Takeaways

• “Precisely, no pop,” Reigns, waking up and picking violence, said of the inability of response to Rollins’ title.
• “I work 10 cases lower than you and do 10 cases bigger than you,” Reigns said as he persisted to cook Rollins.
• “Cody, I’m no longer going to beg you esteem the synthetic man. It’s also possible to moreover be the enviornment’s easiest No. 2 or clutch one other crack on the No. 1.”
• “Does ‘enact the epic’ mean taking that title or taking everything?” Rhodes questioned.