It seems after coming off of the excellent Elimination Chamber PPV about two weeks ago that the WWE has been losing steam. Match-wise, this was not a good week for wrestling. It seemed that there were more promos than good matches on TV this week. The only match worthy of winning The Silverdome of the Week was Edge vs. Drew McIntyre from Smackdown. Being a week mostly filled with promos, it will be a nice time to introduce the first ever Silverdome Promo of the Week. From now on whenever there is a week where a promo outshines all the matches that take place, the Silverdome Match of the Week will be replaced by the Silverdome Promo of the Week. The inaugural Silverdome Promo of the Week goes to the now “Un-dashing” Cody Rhodes promo on Smackdown.
Way back in January, the then “Dashing” Cody Rhodes faced off with Rey Mysterio in a highly competitive match. During the match, Rhodes exposed Mysterio’s knee brace. So when Mysterio went for the 619, Mysterio’s knee brace bashed in Rhodes’ precious face. Rhodes went on to lose the match, but Mysterio took away something more from the Dashing One, his dashing good looks. Due to the loss of his looks, Cody Rhodes took on a character defining transformation. Rhodes would miss both the Royal Rumble and the Elimination Chamber PPVs due to reconstructive surgery on his face. He returned to Smackdown last week and assaulted Mysterio and then took the luchadors mask, which would lead into this week’s promo. Rhodes came out to Rey Mysterio’s entrance theme while wearing his mask. For a few moments, the crowd and people at home were tricked into believing that Rey Mysterio was on his way to the ring. Once Rhodes took off Mysterio’s mask, revealing his plastic face mask, the cheers turned to deafening boos. What followed was a promo with the delivery that was very reminiscent of great talkers such as Jake “The Snake” Roberts and Chris Jericho. Cody Rhodes has always been good on the mic, but ever since this whole storyline with Rey Mysterio began Rhodes’ mic work has skyrocketed to the stratosphere. Rhodes began to talk about how he has been the king of disappointed as of late and how what he did to Mysterio last week felt so right. Rhodes would then transition to challenging Rey Mysterio to a match at WrestleMania and how he will remove his mask and expose Mysterio’s face on the Grandest Stage of Them All for the whole world to see. Rhodes would then exit the ring and as he walked back to the ring, he would show everybody how his character has evolved over the past two months. Rhodes began to twitch and try to hide his face from the crowd. It showed how psychologically unstable his character has become. This feud between Rey Mysterio along with this new evolution in his Dashing character could be exactly what Cody Rhodes to elevate him to the main event level. Cody Rhodes always had the skill and charisma to make it in the wrestling business, but he has finally found the IT factor needed to become a main event star in the WWE. This promo does one excellent job of building Cody Rhodes vs. Rey Mysterio as one of the matches to watch at WrestleMania 27.
Cody Rhodes’ promo was the best of the week, but you should also check out the continuation of John Cena & the Rock’s war of words. This week, The Rock made his response to John Cena’s rap from last week and got everybody excited for the eventual face-to-face encounter these two stars will have in the coming weeks. This week seemed to have much more promos than actual wrestling, which is not bad thing, but it is not as exciting. WWE seems to be losing a lot of steam in these last few weeks leading into WrestleMania. The only feuds that have been gaining steam are the Cody Rhodes & Rey Mysterio feud and the Edge & Alberto Del Rio feud. The feuds on Raw have either been overshadowed by the war of words between the Rock and Cena or are not that interesting. Hopefully with the return of Stone Cold Steve Austin on the coming week’s Raw will give WWE the shot in the arm it needs to make it through the last leg of the Road to WrestleMania. Hope you all enjoy the inaugural Silverdome Promo of the Week. Until next Saturday, have a wonderful week and do not forget to have your healthy dose of professional wrestling. Cheers.
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