Jim Cornette on The Rock's Writer Complaining About Cody Rhodes' Reaction To Losing His Title Match 

This situation proves that no matter how star-studded or dream like a match is, a great wrestling story is what really grabs the people.

It would have looked worse if Cody was excited to give up his main event spot after winning RR. Cody gave an authentic reaction.

Gerwitz has been The Rock’s boy for years. He knows who is buttering his bread. That’s all he cares about.

It's so insane that Gerwitz thinks the problem was Cody and not Rock's last minute "No, wait, me me me!" nonsense. Like, once Cody wins the Rumble, it's too late. Anything else makes Cody look like a numbnuts. And nearly did. Shows what a hack Gerwitz is that he can't admit that he and his master nearly blew WWE's biggest main event in years. "No no! It wasn't me!"

Brian Gewirtz: How bout a smile, Cody? Cody Rhodes: How bout you piss off, Brian?

Cody knew what he was doing

If Cody actually did it while happy, he would have insantly turned into stardust in that ring

Reminder , Brian Gerwitz is the same writer who once booked Stone Cold losing to Brock Lesnar in 2002 King of the Ring qualifiers on random RAW episode with 0 buildup & storyline until Austin walked out . This writer is worst like Vince Russo

The Rock as Count The Monet, Jim as Béarnaise and Brian Gerwitz as the piss boy has to be one of the best thumbnails ever

Him not being happy about giving up wrestlemania was the saving grace to turn this around believably, Cody might not have recovered from that one if he listened to that writer.

Cody being cheerful about giving up his WM spot wouldn't make a lick of sense. Imagine Austin giving up his WM14 shot at HBK because Hogan popped out of nowhere and convinced Austin to let him step in and Austin being like "Oh hell yeah Hulkster, open up a can of whoop ass on HBK!" Lol

Rock Hogan says it doesn't work for me brother

Seven Bucks out here booking like the Young Bucks. I'm glad Cody didn't let them bury him

So Cody was supposed to grind for another year with fans backing him up, win the Rumble again, just so he can happily give up his spot up to The Rock? That writer is on The Rock’s lap!

its funny how the ones that get to the VERY top and refuse to ever go away all become universally hated at some point for being super marks for themselves

The fact that The Rock is so ego -blind that he thought he could just usurp Cody's spot at the top like he was some beloved Messiah is hilarious & disgusting.

The Rock politic his way to WM40 but WWE will try to show the fans that it was part of plan 😂😂. HHH booking and end goal was always Cody vs Roman 2, until The Rock came in to clean his dirty laundry after the controversies he had outside of wrestling. Their was difinetly power struggle between HHH and The Rock behind scenes, This is more evident when Steve Austin was reached at the last moment by WWE for his special appearance in WM40 only for Undertaker to take the call. The Rock politics behind scnes burried the Royal Rumble win in that particular SmackDown segment. Now The Rock as per rumours have even told LA Knight to stop doing the Taunts before he does his Elbow Drop. 😂😂 I like the wrestling character "The Rock", i liked his contribution to WM40 as a heel, but Dwayne Johnson is a different story he is a two face celebrity. The Rock is speed running to becoming another Hulk Hogan.

Gerwitz immediately had to do damage control and give a more reasonable answer a few days later.

The Great Brian Last vs The Rock Dwayne Johnson is the feud of the year

So they pretty much stole the angle from the WM 9 main event and pis boy is mad that Cody didn’t sell it as well as Bret? Maybe the ghost of Mr. Fuji should’ve came down and thrown ghost-salt in Cody’s face so it’d be harder to tell that he’s annoyed at getting screwed over.

The Rock is turning into Hulk Hogan more & more w/each passing day. The ego, the "That doesn't work for me BROTHER" attitude & the lying. Oh & the roids.

Dwayne "Hulk Hogan" Johnson...without the Wrestlemania IX black eye.

The idea of the Rock taking Cody's place was simply toxic. Cody has earned everything he has with blood and sweat. The idea of the Rock being handed it by this same person makes no sense whatsoever and reeks of unearned entitlement. Not to mention the joke it would make out of the Royal Rumble itself. Any half way decent writer would instinctively understand this. Unless they were a hack.

Brian Gewirtz is not as smart about the wrestling business as he thinks he is

I remember Raven once said Gerwirtz could write comedy for The Rock and comedy for Edge & Christian ... and thats about it.

Russo had his paper carrier in Ed Ferrara, The Rock has his piss carrier (or more importantly *SOMEONE ELSE'S PISS* ) in Brian Gerwitz.

Im glad Gerwitz at least understands why Cody did it. Ive heard people say for years like Briscoe,Prichard, Rock, Austin that he's a really smart guy.

To this day the most baffling thing to me is the fact they had Cody win the Rumble knowing Rock vs Roman was going to happen at mania.

2 Facts: 1. Gerwirtz is responsible for the poorly-acted, backstage cringe comedy segment we've been subjected to on nearly all WWE TV shows for the last 24 years. 2. Gerwirtz is largely responsible for killing off millions of WWF fans from the Attitude-era with his cringe comedy writing. These fans tuned out over the course of 2000-2004 and never came back--now they listen to wrestling podcasts that discuss how badly wrestling lost the plot. Russo gets the full heat for both of these.

Imagine not smiling about being replaced... Not like that was a normal human reaction or anything.

Don’t hate on Rock for ads when half this clip video is audio for an ad. I get it he’s rich but youd do it too.

The first time The Rock did it to Punk, I was like: "It's what Vince wanted 😒" The second time, I was like: "Wow, Vince is a dickhead." But THIS time, it's like The Rock wanted everyone to know: "IT WAS ME ALL ALONG!" What a dickhead move and I'm glad Cody didn't go along with what they wanted.

So basically this guy is mad because Cody half-heartedly went along with his terrible idea and didn’t give it a ringing endorsement? Is he that stupid?

Gerwitz looks like Johnny Cash 😂

The whole situation buried the storyline and turned the fans against the Rock. Cody putting a smile on his face wouldn't have changed that, but would've got himself buried as well, if he did so.

“Not jealous of the rock in any way” get real lmao

Cody called this whole melodrama to management, and his instinct was right. This whole thing backfired so out of proportion that Cody made the Rock turn heel.

Cody literally said that he knew while doing the segment that they were gonna change their minds. He was either working to accomplish that or people picked up on how he felt

Actually, the most interesting part of the Nixon/Kennedy debate was both moderators Gore Vidal and William F Buckley almost coming to blows on live TV. Vidal trolled him so hard.

I remember one time Gerwitz pitched to Candice Michelle that she was going to have a burlesque dancer gimmick only to reveal that she didn’t have a tongue ironically enough Gerwitz was taken off the creative team after that lol and that’s how he ended up working with the rock full time *For anyone wondering where I got the story it was on an old Talk is Jericho episode with Brian Gewirtz back when Jericho was still with the WWE

I don't think there would have been any way for Cody to save face giving up the WM spot like he did. It mode 0 sense. If that was indeed their plan, they should have went with an injury angle and had the Bloodline attack him. Cody forced to give up his spot because he's 'not cleared', Bloodline gloats, The Rock's music hits.

Sounded like Jim Cornette was cuttin a promo on Brian lolz.

If the Rock wanted to get over for that main event all he had to do was win the Royal rumble that's it.

Cody knew 100% that this wasn’t the right way to go, not the right decision. So Cody, the fans, and even Rollins changed everything for the better, and it gave us the best Mania Main Event ever.

The Full interview is up on Busted Open Radio. Basically the cliffnotes is Rock asked after WM 39 about the match with Cody and Roman what the plans for Roman were and he was told straight out Cody vs Roman was the Plan and the Rock still decided to push to try and get the match until we got what we got. That's the just of it all the Rock knew the plans a year in advance and still went on to podcast and on WWE TV teasing the Roman match thinking he could turn the crowd into his favor. Supposedly Cody knew of the match being Roman vs Rock at Royal Rumble and Cody pointed at Roman anyway.

I would of been pissed if Cody didn't win. Because he didn't do it last year. And if he didn't this year I don't think anyone would want it . Golddust called the Roçk a bitch.

Brian is always right about the Rock.

Why would Cody be happy about losing his spot?

I will say Cody made the right face this was a repeat of WrestleMania 9. Go get 'em Hulk. 😖

Is it easier to get episodes as soon as they drop if I join the Patreon? I haven't gotten new episodes in 3 weeks on RU-vid.

Omg - Travis, this History Of The World Part II reference is incredible

The fact that they still gave The Rock a belt to hold during this just proves he didn't wanna be outshined.

Brian Gerwitz looks like Joe Pesci in this pic...

Gerwitz basically spilling the beans that this whole thing wasn't planned like it turned out, that they really did pivot back to Cody/Roman due to fan backlash. They've been trying to convince us that this whole thing was planned this way from the beginning, going back to last year. Nah, Rock stepped in, tried to take the spot, and the fans shat on him for it so they had to backstep. If he's gonna pull shit like this, he can just stay behind the scenes or stay in Hollywood.

The moment I heard "piss boy", Travis's drawing made perfect sense 😂😂😂

Gerwitz threw shade at HHH in that interview too. He bitched about Cody winning the Rumble and that's not what he would've done. Well THANK GOD Gerwitz isn't the head booker (yet). HHH knew what was going on, guy plays the game better than anyone. It's in his name lol. He knew if Cody won the Rumble AND did the pouty face in that Rock segment, the crowd would turn. Also not a coincidence the behind the scenes doc about the pivot back to Cody hasn't come out yet. Who do you think is holding that up? Not HHH lol.

The arrogance of Brian taking credit for exposing the Rock for being a dick. Everybody has known that since he became a Hollywood liberal. Lmao

If Cody had smiled, the backlash would have been much worse

Where can I watch the Lincoln debates 😅

Great transtion to the sponsered ad, today lol

We all know Cody and HHH knew how the crowd would react, and how they would play into it. The Rock falls into exactly into the same bracket as Batista and Goldberg- entitled and taking the spot of someone who had been in the trenches, and really disconnected from reality.

I know Brian would love to carry a bucket for old Corning

4:30 exactly. You can almost see Triple H and Shawn Michaels coaching Cody Rhodes on how to get his main event back. I had a feeling that I may be right, but now I'm sure after Seth Rollins (a Triple H guy) screamed into Rocky's face that it's not his time anymore 2 weeks after the "pivot."

It would not have made a difference how it was delivered. The fans were not going to go for it.

As much as I'm not a fan of Cody, it wasn't making any sense for him to give his spot to The Rock, just because👎🏿. Besides, I never understood why some fans were clamoring for a Roman vs Rock, to begin with🤷🏿‍♂️

Brian Gerwitz is the one everyone credits with the good work Vince Russo claims is his.

Can't believe they put Cody in a position where he would have to go out and bury his character. How evil.

😂 The History of the World artwork is hilarious. It’s good to be the king!

Cody and HHH saved Wrestlemania. I like the Rock but him winning the title from Roman would’ve been a disgrace.

You will never see The Rock doing anything good unless the videos/cameras are rolling

This helps clear up the bs from people that claimed that the WWE planned Cody vs Roman from the beginning

Brian Gewirtz is Dwayne's yes man as much as Bruce Prichard being a yes man to WWE authority figures 😂

I'm so glad Cody went into business for himself and saved the WM Main event storyline. Gerwitz story just proves: Rock has had some shitty ideas since he came back (Going over Awesome Truth at Survivor Series, Winning the Belt from Punk beating his year long reign, Cena-Rock II didn't have to be for the title) and Cody making that face pissed off some people in Rock's team. Love Cody even more. I'm sure Cody and Seth couldn't talk about how much Black Adam sucked and this is why he's back in wrestling in promos.

If Vince were still in charge it would’ve been Rock VS Roman

This just shows gerwitz had no intention of putting anyone over but rock.

This is the greatest picture I've ever seen for a video.

If this isn't part of the story and Gerwitz is not working, if I were HHH, I'd call Rock right now and tell him that Brian is fired from his consulting job. The way Gerwitz tells the "supposed to be" story is absolute nonsense and would take away the cojones of the face (Cody).

The Rock is a mixture of Hulk Hogan and Vince McMahon

My issue was not finding a better way to do the switch, than just a handoff.

Not many people manage to come off as weaselly as he is. At least that Sam Roberts guy made it part of his schtick, Gewirtz got so lucky and you'd think all his success was based off talent rather than happenstance.

One of the VERY few positive contributions by Brian - The Kurt Angle "Playing with Boys" promo.

Brian be talking like Rock tagged his wife back in the day

Why did I think that was Johnny Cash at first?🤦🏻‍♂️

Dwayne the hulk

Ordering an In-N-Out burger is not like ordering a cheesesteak in Philly...

Everyone always forgets the Rock wasn't really a hero/pure baby face... he was an anti-hero who got over despite being a jerk. The Rock is not meant to be the pure baby face, he's really never been that dude

I kind of want a watchalong now where Cornette breaks down the Nixon/Kennedy debate.

he's bald, politics and makes bad movies. hogan or rock? both?

Gewirtz has been gargling the Rock since 2000. And this is the guy that was writing in WWE during the “guest host era” of raw…. And didn’t take over writing for RAW until Triple Hs reign of Terror in 2002-2004. 😂 guy has no clue.

It’s demone…. Not the money. I love this artistic reference.

I bet Jim also thinks Biden won the presidential debate against Trump too

As much as i am the rock fan it made no sense giving the rock title match cody won royal rumble and deserved title shot glad they all changed it in the end

I was gunna sell my WM tix if it ended up being Rock vs Roman. Thank god they came to their senses

Regarding in and out, I heard there was a secret menu that you can order from you just have to use the right terminology.

Dwayne the ad Johnson, then they do an ad 😂

That's a step up from giving the writer's head 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 man i gotta kick it with Jim C one day

I have to be honest, everyone raves about the build to mania this year, and in some cases rightly so as it was inarguably one of the hottest builds to mania ever. However, I much preferred the build to mania 39 between reigns and Cody as it felt far more organic and actually felt like it had more storyline substance. All that happened this year was that they built to a match that didn’t happen and somewhat watered down the main event between Roman and Cody, all seemingly because the rock wanted to be on the marquee every week. I’m absolutely not saying that didn’t have its merit. But I would have just preferred to have seen what Heyman, reigns, Cody and HHH could have cooked up on their own.

Well, to be honest, In N Out has a "not so secret" secret menu ie Animal Style (burgers and fries), flying dutchman, 3 x 3, etc. Just stuff that's not displayed on the menu board. My favorite is the neapolitan shake.

Definitely sounds like when Bret was cheering on Hogan to take his spot at WM9

The difference between the Cornette podcast and Busted Open' treatment of Gewirts is strikingly different. One calls it like it is and one kisses ass.