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Your announcers are Pat McAfee, Wade Barrett, and Michael Cole.
Since the crowd is chanting for him, we start off with John Cena as he makes his way to the ring.
John makes his way to the center of the ring.
Before John can speak, he is interrupted by Cody Rhodes' music.
Cody makes his way to the ring.
John cricles Cody before Cody gets his microphone.
John is disgusted by the crowd singing Cody's entrance music.
Cody says he will do the talking after the last two weeks.
He says that John was going to cook him.
Cody mentions his lisp and how he has trouble with some words with 's' and he says Stardust. Cody says that has to bother you because that is who you are facing in the final match. You are facing Stardust. Cody brings up his arm tattoo on his neck. Cody says he got booed in the company he created and he knows that Cena wouldn't miss those things. Cody says maybe he is having a tough time thinking that Superman is dead.
Cody says that would bring him to his next point. Your words have not matched your actions. You have lied to this audience for the last two weeks. We used to ride together and you used to care about him. He says that John used to care about them. Cody tells John to tell them WHY?
Cena says he is not going to punch down to Cody's level just to protect you because you have been protected for so long. He says he will not cook Cody, he will bury him. Just like he buried everyone else. They have been saying for years that John Cena buries talent. I don't bury talent, I am talent. I bury mediocrity. I don't give a rat's ass about your lisp or your failures. You have manipulated yourself to the top and your ego is greater than your abilities. Cena says he is so great that he can hand off his role to his chauffeur. A slimy pickpocket who thinks that because he stole the blueprint, he can run the kingdom. That disgusts him. John says Cody sat at his side and stole every secret but he is underwhelming.
Cena tells Cody that he has to be authentic or they can see you are phony. You are too perfect, too polished. You expect them to sing your song for you to get by. You are like the pied piper. All you have done is make people like a catchy tune to accept mediocrity. John says he will body Cody before his first breath. Cody does not look like him, act like him, or work like him. Cody you don't look like you, act like you, or work like you. You are afraid to show who you are.
Cody shows a generic mix of every superstar he loves or any show he watches. He looks like a sixteen year old who is afraid of public speaking. You have shown him one thing. A person who is mediocre who can dress like this can get past the people. He does not like a sociopathic nepo baby doing this and having his gimmick tattooed. It isn't where your tattoo is at, it is what it is. You are a common fan. You can go to Fanatics and buy the toy belt and call yourself their champion. John says he is taking the title home to expose Cody for what he is. An errand boy who got lucky.
John says There's your why.
Cody says he didn't expect to say this to John. He says maybe John is right. Maybe he was chosen. You never chose him. The people chose him. Can you say the same? Or was it one guy in the office who chose you and isn't here any more and we don't talk about. Who knows who they are. He says he is a wrestler, like his father and if anyone is a company creation, it is you. Everyone is so terrified of you on the mic, but Cody says he has more dick in his mic than in his jorts.
Cody says that John hangs out with Zac Efron and acts like he is 16.
Cody says Cena created a lot of disenfranchised fans who allowed him to pack his things up and go somewhere. Don't act like you left and found WWE better. There are two of them standing in the ring and he says what he is about to say may punch a huge hole in the logic. Which one of us sold out to the Rock? Cody says John is still his hero, but you are also a piece of s***.
John says your head of feces, not facts. He says he worked 100 times harder and never was he protected from anyone giving them their best. Every time he stands in the ring, it is a challenge to anyone dumb enough to take their strongest swing to put him in the ground. No one has been worthy so he decided to do it himself. That is why, he has never left. He has always been here. No matter how high the hill is to climb or how much garbage there is, he makes it great.
You left because you couldn't wipe his ass. He made empires for billionaires while you stole money from their heirs.
Cody tells John that never has an audience chanted at him 'You Can't Wrestle'.
John returns into the ring and he squares up and then he smiles and starts to leaves the ring. Cody avoids a punch and Cody gives John CrossRhodes.
Cody then Too Sweets and points to the Wrestlemania sign.
We have a video package for the Women's World Title match.
Kofi says thank God for the New Day. Woods wants everyone to shut the hell up. He says you are looking at the greatest tag team to step foot in professional wrestling. Woods says instead of using your small vocabulary, bow your head to royalty. Kofi says they came from the US to see them and take time from their families just to be booed by you? Woods says Pearce put them in a match to earn a tag title match? Haven't they sacrificed enough? Kofi says they are going to prove to everybody that they are going to force Pearce to give them what they deserve, a shot at the tag titles. Woods says when they win the titles, you can drop to your knees and say Thank GOD . . . for the New Day.
Adam Pearce comes out and he said last week that they need to earn it. Pearce brings out their opponents, Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne.
Match Number One: Xavier Woods and Kofi Kingston versus Tyler Bate and Pete Dunne
Bate and Woods start things off. They lock up and Bate with a wrist lock and a Greco Roman Knuckle Lock. Bate with a head scissors and he climbs the turnbuckles and tags in Pete. Bate with a head scissors and Pete with a clothesline. Pete works on the fingers and he stomps on the elbow. Bate tags in and he hits a hesitation senton off the turnbuckles. Kofi is sent to the floor and Pete tags in. Pete with a knee to Kofi off the apron and Bate with a plancha onto Woods. Bate sends Woods back into the ring and Bate with a European uppercut. Pete tags in and he hits a double stomp to the arm off the turnbuckles. Kofi tags in and he kicks Pete from the apron. Woods with a Harley Race knee to the back to send Pete to the floor. Kofi with a kick from the apron.
Kofi with a forearm and he kicks Pete in the corner. Woods tags in for more kicks. Kofi tags in and kicks Pete. Woods kicks Pete. Kofi tags in and Woods Irish whips Kofi into the corner for a baseball slide. Kofi gets a near fall. Kofi with a forearm and a slam. Woods tags in and Woods slams Kofi onto Pete. Woods gets a near fall. Pete with forearms and he tries to make the tag but Woods stops him. Pete with more forearms and he is unable to make the tag. Woods sends Pete nto the ropes and he chokes Pete in the ropes. Kofi kicks Pete in the ropes and Woods with a drop kick to the back against the ropes for a near fall. Pete with a chop and forearms but Woods with a forearm to send Pete to the mat. Woods holds Pete in the ropes and Kofi with a back senton on the apron.
Kofi gets a near fall. Kofi with an arm bar and a chin bar. Kofi with a forearm to stop Pete from making the tag. Pete flips out of the corner and tags in Bate. Bate with elbows to Kofi and a knee to stop Woods on the apron. Bate misses a boot in the corner but Bate catches Kofi in the corner and hits an exploder. Bate gets Kofi up for an airplane spin and he sends Kofi to the mat. Pete tags in and they hit a series of kicks in the corner. Bate with a rebound clothesline into a German suplex from Pete for a near fall. Woods kicks Bate but Pete kicks Woods and sends him to the apron. Pete pulls at the fingers and Woods falls to the floor. Kofi with SOS for a near fall. Woods tags in.
Pete kicks both men and stomps on Woods' hands and kicks Kofi. Bate tags in and he hits a jab to the head. Pete tags in and he hits a flying kick into the corner. Woods rakes the eyes and Kofi sends Bate into the apron when he tries for a springboard move. Woods with a back breaker and Kofi with a double stomp off the turnbuckles for the three count.
Winners: Kofi Kingston and Xavier Woods
Cathy stops Kofi and Xavier in the aisle and asks if they closer to a title match.
Woods says they deserve a title match and they want it now. Kofi demands what they want and what they deserve.
The War Raiders make their way out and they show them their tag title belts.
We take a look at what happened between Jey Uso and Gunther as well as Jimmy's comments to Jey later in the show.
Jey comes up to Jimmy and Jey says he would feel better if he was out there. Jimmy says the world has been doubting you but he is here to close that noise. There is no ring general in there tonight. Ther is a man who is beatable. He will beat Gunther tonight and Jey will beat him at Wrestlemania to become champion.
Jey tells Jimmy that he hears him. He tells Gunther to be careful.
We see Gunther walk in the back.
We go to commercial.
Jackie Redmond is with Ludwig Kaiser and she asks about the ups and downs and where he is as a singles competitor.
He says there might have been a delay in the inevitable rise of Ludwig Kaiser. We should be talking about the tragedy that the Wrestlemania card is taking shape and Adam Pearce has not given him a proper opponent to walk to the ring on the biggest stage of them all. If that problem is not going to be solved very soon, he might have to take matters into his own hands. You don't want to see what happens when he takes matters into his own hands.
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