WWE RAW star and the winner of the WWE Men’s Royal Rumble match of 2023 Cody Rhodes who is also a former two times WWE Intercontinental Champion recently talked about the current WWE Intercontinental Champion Gunther and praised him. He discussed his recent battle with the Australian professional wrestler at the Royal Rumble and he also expressed his desire to face the 35 year old in the near future again.
Gunther is currently one of the hottest products of WWE who definitely has a big future in the promotion lying ahead for himself. He is currently holding the prestigious WWE Intercontinental championship with pride and since joining the main roster of WWE he has been undefeated.
Cody Rhodes Would Love To Have Feud With Gunther
In the Royal Rumble match, he set a new record of surviving in a Royal Rumble match for the longest time period and he beat the previous record set by the WWE legend Rey Mysterio. His recent performances are being praised by the fans and the critics worldwide.
There were a lot of rumours on whom he would face at WrestleMania 39. Rumours at 1 point suggested that he would be going head to head with Brock Lesnar at the Grandest Stage of them all. There were even rumours of him going one on one with John Cena. Now it looks like he would be defending his Intercontinental Championship at the Showcase of The Immortals.
Cody Rhodes who is also a former two times WWE Intercontinental Champion recently spoke to After The Bell where he talked about the current WWE Intercontinental Champion Gunther and praised him. He discussed his recent battle with the Australian professional wrestler at the Royal Rumble and he also expressed his desire to face the 35 year old in the near future again. He said;
“I can tell you though, that’s the moment where I felt like I was truly back. It wasn’t the first chop. I believe (it was) a back suplex, and I was able to land on my feet, pop to my feet, and when he turned around, I thought I had him, but he had me with another one of those very flat, stop your motion, those type of chops are very specific.
“That one that he got me with was where I felt like, ‘I’m back.’ Some of us like the pain. That’s a weird thing to say. I had blood in my mouth from something earlier, then this chop came, and that’s where I felt like, ‘I’m back in it, this is what I do,’ it’s essentially what I was born to do. As much as it hurt so bad, it also felt so good. The next 50 chops or whatever didn’t give me the same response, but that specific (moment) felt like, ‘welcome back.
“I don’t know Gunther on a personal level, I’ve made fun of the name in the past, and maybe there was a little bad blood perhaps because of that, but I can say this. That [facing Gunther] looks like something I could see myself revisiting. I could see that happening again, in terms of a one-on-one encounter with the current Intercontinental Champion, who I believe just broke my record, not to mention he broke the Royal Rumble record, he broke my record for days with the Intercontinental Championship.
“That’s the kind of next-level elite athlete that I would love to wrestle anywhere in the United States, but specifically, I would love to wrestle him in Europe. In Europe, it’s an away game for me, it’s hostile, and I’d be all about that. I think there might be part of him that thinks, ‘I’ve gone an hour and I was able to hold it with you in there,’ and I want him to know that I had his number as much as he had mine.
“Right now, I can’t say enough superlative items about the current Intercontinental Champion. His future is massive, his present is also massive. We’re living it. I could use a few weeks before I’m living it again. Certainly, I look forward to another one-on-one encounter and I’d love to wrestle him in Europe to see what that feels like.”
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