Cody Rhodes and Andrade El Idolo wrote the latest chapter in their rivalry in Wednesday’s main event, an Atlanta Street Fight that started wildly and chaotically with a brawl down the entrance ramp, through the crowd and to the ringside area.
El Idolo seized the upper-hand, lashing Rhodes with his own weight belt, then blasting him with a laptop. Rhodes answered with a low blow. When El Idolo recovered and tried for a moonsault, The American Nightmare sent a steel chair crashing into his face.
A chair shot from El Idolo busted Rhodes open, but could not stop him from retrieving a sledgehammer from underneath the ring...and tossing it aside. Instead, he opted for a golden shovel. El Idolo’s second, Jose, rushed the ring with a taser in hopes of stunning Rhodes but he ate the shovel to the face. Andrade flew over the ringpost and wiped out his opponent on the floor.
Back inside, Andrade delivered a running knee attack, driving a chair back into the face of Rhodes. A hiptoss through a table that Cody introduced continued the hometown hero’s suffering.
Later, Andrade set up another table and sprawled Cody out on it. Rhodes crotched him on the top rope and wife Brandi entered the ring, dousing the table in lighter fluid and setting it ablaze. Rhodes proceeded to deliver an inverted suplex off the top rope, through the table, for the win, all while a piece of his arm was still on fire.
Result
Rhodes defeated El Idolo
Grade
B
Analysis
At what point did the adults involved in this match decide that the Rhodes-El Idolo feud was so incredibly hot that it needed a flaming table spot? That was an asinine conclusion to a match that didn’t need to happen and was clearly only there so Cody could star in his hometown.
There was nothing about the feud to this point, which is really just an offshoot of Rhodes’ program with Malakai Black, that suggested it needed to go to that extremes of that spot. There were an infinite number of finishes that it could have gone with that would have been safer, could still have been spectacular, and would have given Rhodes the win.
Instead, we got the flashy, over-the-top conclusion.
It’s a shame, too, because the brawl leading up to it was really good. It was probably Rhodes’ best match in months and Andrade’s finest since the first match with Pac. It was a good, hardcore brawl that actually managed to turn the hostile hometown crowd back in Cody’s favor.
Rhodes was great, showing the appropriate emotion. He was passionate, fed off the positive reaction and brought the figurative fire to the match. The physicality was on-point and El Idolo was the perfect opponent for him to have this match with.
Why they went for the extravagant finish rather than just having a badass street fight with a simple-yet-effective finish is a question someone will surely try to answer at some point.
Oh, and where were Black and Pac, both of whom have played key roles in the feud but were conspicuous in their absence?
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