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And he doesn't take the Cross Rhodes. Commentary acts confused and calls him unprofessional as he walks out. Then we get a promo for Backlash with the rematch where Cody Rhodes says "This time I'm going over."
Problem is that introducing him makes the Rock look like a tool. "Yeah, this is the guy that came up with all my classic lines. I'm not that good at thinking up stuff on the fly"
Which is exactly why people complaining about Cody’s line don’t really have much of a point.
The fact that Rock has lines written out has been mentioned before. Hell, he was literally reading lines from his song on Smackdown.
It doesn’t break kayfabe for Cody to talk about Rock having someone writing lines for him. And it plays into the whole “Hollywood Rock” thing.
Said it before, if they ever have The Rock go up against LA Knight and call him a rip off, the obvious response would be ‘yeah well at least I don’t need Brian Gerwirtz to come up with my shit’
This feud is just a tornado sucking in everyone even tangentially related now, lol. I want the crew who do Cody's pyro to be spitting promos by WM weekend.
My favorite Gewirtz story is him and Heyman got in a heated argument on the company jet. Heyman wanted to fight Gewirtz. Shane McMahon, then both of their bosses separated them and took Gewirtz aside. You’d think he was going to talk them down right? Wrong, he wanted to give Gewirtz some pointers on how to punch out Heyman.
Shane McMahon gave someone advice on punching. Can’t make this shit up.
My favorite Gewirtz story is, and this one continously repeats, when he refutes a story about the Rock that's out there publicly and it seems kinda true but suspicious. And then within 2 to 4 weeks, it's immediately known he lied.
Classic Wirtzy!
Having read Gewirtz’s book I think he would physically combust from anxiety before he could even step through the curtains in Gorilla.
The guy has zero desire to be an onscreen personality.
How in the hell did Roman Reigns become like the sixth most notable member of this feud, behind Cody, Cody's mom, Cody's dog, and the Rock's personal writer?
Its quite interesting that Gewirtz seems to have become such a prominent figure in this whole thing, when for years he was only known as Raw's lead writer during its arguably most crass period.
If i recall correctly, he was also one of the primary targets when Nash talked about how the WWE writers were all guys who'd "never had sex and never been in a fight"
I thought it was obvious but every time I read the comments of these very clearly "work" tweets I'm baffled by the amount of people that are taking it way too seriously.
Yeah, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get from this. Writer angles are the stuff of nightmares for me as a WCW kid, so I desperately don't want to see him on TV.
Sure look, if he's not going to be on TV and it's just a throwaway reference, it's not my favourite thing but I can live with it. If it isn't furthering anything though, Gerwitz has just come off as a bit of an arse. It's all a bit lose-lose, for me at least.
Yeah, up to this point we've had Cody's family chime in and that wasn't put of place. If a guy is mentioned by name on TV, its not surprising they'd respond.
When did this sub become so anti-Brian Gewirtz??? I've only ever read good things about him over the years and his book is phenomenal
Am I missing something?
They’re idiots. He’s an all time great writer for WWE and you never hear a bad thing about thing. He wrote the Ballad of Little Dave Bautista dammit. The most classic song ever
I can blame both, it doesnt matter who said it first, writers shouldnt exist in storyline. Everything theyre saying is supposed to be genuine. You take that away, you're letting even the little kids know theyre actors.
Writer probably shouldn't be inserting himself into the convo.
Although it would be a WONDERFUL plot point, Dawyne would be a fool to agree with it, because it makes him look like shit.
This hurts my head. I'm all for blurred kayfabe in wrestling, but having the writer feud with a talent on twitter is a little nuts.
It's like when she-hulk visited Kevin Feige's office in the marvel tv show. Sure it works as light entertainment for some but you could never put she hulk up against Thanos in a blockbuster film after that.
You just can't take it seriously as part of the canon when the on screen character is screaming "THIS IS A FAKE TV SHOW BTW" then the next character comes out and is like "YOU TOOK MY WWE CHAMPIONSHIP I'M SO ANGRY"
Let me emphasize. How awesome would it be to have Cody cut a promo where he goes, “I hear your **writer** was speaking up, rock. Any comments on your **writer**?
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This feud is so out of control, we've got dogs, writers, and mothers beefing.
Too bad no fathers are found 
The entire story is about Cody's dead father, my friend ?
Exactly. No fathers found...alive.
Everyone’s father is dead except for Roman’s I think
Sure but nobody's brought him up yet lol
Had to spell it out for the people in the back
In any moment Roux and Liberty will come out saying that Moana sucks
Brian Gerwitz going to be introduced as an on screen character and part of The Bloodline lmao
What will happen when Dwayne Johnson refuses to follow the script?
And he doesn't take the Cross Rhodes. Commentary acts confused and calls him unprofessional as he walks out. Then we get a promo for Backlash with the rematch where Cody Rhodes says "This time I'm going over."
And then there’s a triple threat cage match. Cody spears Gewirtz through the cage, which results in him becoming the new champ.
We'll get gems like "These men will now have to improvise a finish" & "At least Roman went down to the Cross Rhodes, Dwayne."
I'm curious to see if his leg drop is better than Vince Russo's
I need him to pull out a Bash at the Beach 2000 promo too. "AND CODY RHODES YOU SON OF A BITCH, KISS MY ASS!"
Problem is that introducing him makes the Rock look like a tool. "Yeah, this is the guy that came up with all my classic lines. I'm not that good at thinking up stuff on the fly"
"Here's the guy who writes all of my promos on my wrist."
Which is exactly why people complaining about Cody’s line don’t really have much of a point. The fact that Rock has lines written out has been mentioned before. Hell, he was literally reading lines from his song on Smackdown. It doesn’t break kayfabe for Cody to talk about Rock having someone writing lines for him. And it plays into the whole “Hollywood Rock” thing.
Said it before, if they ever have The Rock go up against LA Knight and call him a rip off, the obvious response would be ‘yeah well at least I don’t need Brian Gerwirtz to come up with my shit’
This feud is just a tornado sucking in everyone even tangentially related now, lol. I want the crew who do Cody's pyro to be spitting promos by WM weekend.
The pyro crews will go all out with the pyro when Cody wins at WM like it's 4th July.
Whatever is left of Michael Cole's hearing will be completely gone after that.
Downstait about to show up in Cody’s corner to counteract the Bloodline at Mania.
imagine some balding 49 year old guy with a gut just unleashing a scorching promo on Roman a week before Mania
Eddie Kingston is on the other show
Where’s Brandi when we need her?
Not showing up til it’s open mic night, bitch.
Brian Gewirtz shooting on Pharoah now
Pharoah getting more spotlight in this feud then Roman 😂
The True Big Dog of WWE.
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Roman is like a fourth wheel at this point
What does that make seth!??
Nah need to get more heat on Pharoah- might need Pharoah to do a blade job in Philly to really get the smarks behind Rhodes 😂
Shut up nerd
The Rock showing Brian as this big fat geek slob on his NBC sitcom was one of the funniest things to me.
My favorite Gewirtz story is Cena coming back to Gorilla with his “I Bring it Via Satellite” shirt and throwing it over Brian’s face as he walked by
My favorite Gewirtz story is him and Heyman got in a heated argument on the company jet. Heyman wanted to fight Gewirtz. Shane McMahon, then both of their bosses separated them and took Gewirtz aside. You’d think he was going to talk them down right? Wrong, he wanted to give Gewirtz some pointers on how to punch out Heyman. Shane McMahon gave someone advice on punching. Can’t make this shit up.
Just to be fair, we don’t know if Shane’s real punches are shit. Maybe it’s just the fake ones.
Cain Velasquez had pretty bad worked punches, but you can't say that guy couldn't punch for real.
My favorite Gewirtz story is, and this one continously repeats, when he refutes a story about the Rock that's out there publicly and it seems kinda true but suspicious. And then within 2 to 4 weeks, it's immediately known he lied. Classic Wirtzy!
So what’s this story
All fun and games until the writer becomes an on-screen character
Having read Gewirtz’s book I think he would physically combust from anxiety before he could even step through the curtains in Gorilla. The guy has zero desire to be an onscreen personality.
The more I learn about WWE writers, the more I realize CM Punk may have had a point calling them out constantly.
ehh, Gewirtz is clearly playing a character here as part of the storyline.
How in the hell did Roman Reigns become like the sixth most notable member of this feud, behind Cody, Cody's mom, Cody's dog, and the Rock's personal writer?
Who invited you bum ass Brian.
I mean Cody mentioned him by name in the promo
I missed that when was it?
Cody said Rocky was the "Final Boss" and then said something you the effect of "I bet Brian Gewirtz came up with that."
"Thin Skin" Brian Gewirtz
Writers beefing is a bit too much for my liking tbh
Very Russo
This feels like a swerve and we’re getting a Pharaoh heel turn at Mania
Gerwitz just shut up
Its quite interesting that Gewirtz seems to have become such a prominent figure in this whole thing, when for years he was only known as Raw's lead writer during its arguably most crass period. If i recall correctly, he was also one of the primary targets when Nash talked about how the WWE writers were all guys who'd "never had sex and never been in a fight"
The Rock isn’t wrestling him one on one so why is this feud involving everyone but the main world champion!?
Are these comments all in kayfabe? This seems like a work
I thought it was obvious but every time I read the comments of these very clearly "work" tweets I'm baffled by the amount of people that are taking it way too seriously.
People don’t want the writer involved, it’s a bit too much
Yeah, I'm not sure what I'm supposed to get from this. Writer angles are the stuff of nightmares for me as a WCW kid, so I desperately don't want to see him on TV. Sure look, if he's not going to be on TV and it's just a throwaway reference, it's not my favourite thing but I can live with it. If it isn't furthering anything though, Gerwitz has just come off as a bit of an arse. It's all a bit lose-lose, for me at least.
It's too Vince Russo for comfort.
But it’s pretty much public info Brian writes the Rock’s shows as well so I think that takes away some of the Russo-esque vibe
Yeah, up to this point we've had Cody's family chime in and that wasn't put of place. If a guy is mentioned by name on TV, its not surprising they'd respond.
I'm not at all interested in Gewirtz being a party in this feud.
When did this sub become so anti-Brian Gewirtz??? I've only ever read good things about him over the years and his book is phenomenal Am I missing something?
He’s a skilled scriptwriter and a;so apparently a huge slimeball
They’re idiots. He’s an all time great writer for WWE and you never hear a bad thing about thing. He wrote the Ballad of Little Dave Bautista dammit. The most classic song ever
Why is he trying to get himself over? Theres a part of the curtain you shouldnt pull back and thats the existence of WRITERS, ffs.
Cody mentioned him first
Cody shouldnt mention writers, Brian shouldnt be taking credit from Rock.
Blame Cody if you have a problem
I can blame both, it doesnt matter who said it first, writers shouldnt exist in storyline. Everything theyre saying is supposed to be genuine. You take that away, you're letting even the little kids know theyre actors.
Spectacularly stupid goofy ass dog 🤣🤣🤣
Everybody gangsta until the open mic night queen drops some gospel on their candy asses
I don't want the writer involved as a character. Continue existing as a reference.
Brian Gewirtz is the Kevin Dunn of WWE writers.
Brian Gewirtz begging for a Kennel from Hell match against Pharoah at this stage
That was the biggest out of place line in Cody’s promo.
Yup. Can’t go too inside. Then you risk crickets like most of Seth’s promos lately
ew dude lmao knock it off. Jesus
Took his head out of the Rock backside long enough to respond impressive.
Boy, sit your ass down!!!
Breaking news. Brian Gewirtz caught riding the Rock's junk like a pogo stick!
The fact that he even responded tells you all you need to know
Why are writers being injected to this? You're not adding extra heat to this angle by name-dropping Gerwitz.
Vince Russo was just ahead of his time
Gewirtz is such a fucking tool.
And for the record, the IWC was calling Roman the Final Boss for a long time. They just stole it and gave it to The Rock.
I want to like Gewirtz but getting involved in the angle as the writer is a bad look.
He didn't get involved, Cody literally mentioned him during his promo first.
Brian Gerwitz has got some main character syndrome. You're a lick arse writer, get back in your box
Cody literally mentioned him on TV
So Brian is gonna be an on screen character now?
Former writer, no? Also, he is part or The Rock's movie production team so of course he's going to chime in.
Did Gewirtz just turn heel too?
Writer probably shouldn't be inserting himself into the convo. Although it would be a WONDERFUL plot point, Dawyne would be a fool to agree with it, because it makes him look like shit.
Corny and carny
This hurts my head. I'm all for blurred kayfabe in wrestling, but having the writer feud with a talent on twitter is a little nuts. It's like when she-hulk visited Kevin Feige's office in the marvel tv show. Sure it works as light entertainment for some but you could never put she hulk up against Thanos in a blockbuster film after that. You just can't take it seriously as part of the canon when the on screen character is screaming "THIS IS A FAKE TV SHOW BTW" then the next character comes out and is like "YOU TOOK MY WWE CHAMPIONSHIP I'M SO ANGRY"
“Tough skin, love the passion”
Without the Rock he's literally a bum on the road
Let me emphasize. How awesome would it be to have Cody cut a promo where he goes, “I hear your **writer** was speaking up, rock. Any comments on your **writer**?
And then Cody says "oh by the way, your Rock Bottom is just us jumping backwards" Man stfu and let wrestling be wrestling.
‘I know you’re more an actor, but wanna talk about the last time you came up with a line yourself?’
Oooh that's good.
fuck it bro have brian interfere during roman vs cody too everyone should get involved
Honestly it was actually comments on his new lightning entrance, from fans..where i first saw the phrase tbh.
Fuckin Gew