Paul Heyman Thinks WWE Fans Are More Passionate For Cody Rhodes After WrestleMania 39 Loss

WWE fans are behind Cody Rhodes more than ever before following his WrestleMania 39 loss to Undisputed WWE Universal Champion Roman Reigns, according to Paul Heyman.

Though The American Nightmare didn't 'finish the story' at the Show of Shows, the story is not yet over and Cody came out of the match better than he went in, per Heyman's interpretation.

During a recent interview with Ariel Helwani for BT Sport, the Wise Man commented on the match and result and speculated where Rhodes will go from here.

"I like the fact that everyone walks in now thinking this is the last title defence (for Roman Reigns) and I experienced this before with something I had a hand in ending which was The Undertaker's undefeated streak at WrestleMania and every year, you sat there and you said, oh, this is it and during the match, the audience is actually anticipating and salivating for this to be the moment that they get to witness the historical three count on The Undertaker to which the streak would finally end and then of course when Undertaker would defend the streak, they'd sit there, oh yeah, I don't wanna see this end. 

"I can't wait for the next chapter and then it finally ended and the audience was shocked, because they thought they would see it, they thought they would see it, they thought they — no, they didn't get to see it and this was year after year after year and they finally got to see it and I think that's the same thing with Roman Reigns' title defences now. You hope this is the one, you think this is the one, you're sure this is the one. You watch the match happening and you go, you know this is the one and then it turns out not to be the one. 

"Oh man, I can't wait to see the next chapter and the response to Cody Rhodes which was louder than the response last week to Cody Rhodes which was a response more passionate (on Raw after WrestleMania) for Cody Rhodes which was a response from an audience that believes in Cody Rhodes this week more than they did last week when they hung their hopes and their dreams on him and he didn't disappoint them, we disappointed them, we took that away from Cody Rhodes. Roman Reigns took that away from Cody Rhodes and the audience and they blamed Roman Reigns for it and they appreciate how close Cody came and they know now, they know the next time Cody Rhodes steps in the ring with Roman Reigns, this will be the one. 

"That's the business. That's the business at its very best. That's promotion at its very best, that's storytelling at its very best. That's what you want. You want the challenger to come out a bigger star than he would've been if he had won the championship because where do you go from there? What's the story to tell? Now you know the story. It's Cody’s redemption. He's coming back for what was just taken from him, from the defeat that he suffered that he didn't deserve to have to have inflicted upon him".

Cody looks set to clash with Brock Lesnar in the near future, after the Beast Incarnate turned on him during this past Monday's episode of Raw.

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