Welcome to our WrestlingINC.com Live WWE RAW Viewing Party. Tonight’s show comes from the American Airlines Center in Dallas, TX.
– The post-WrestleMania 38 edition of WWE RAW opens up with a video package of highlights from WrestleMania Saturday and WrestleMania Sunday. We’re live from the American Airlines Center in Dallas, Texas as Jimmy Smith welcomes us to RAW After WrestleMania. He’s joined at ringside by Corey Graves and Byron Saxton.
– We go right to the ring and out comes Cody Rhodes to a pop. Rhodes is wearing a suit tonight. He takes his time walking to the ring and the pyro goes of. Rhodes greets fans on his way to the ring as Mike Rome introduces The American Nightmare.
Rhodes enters the ring and the music stops as fans chant his name and chant “welcome back!” as he takes it all in. Rhodes asks the crowd what they want to talk about and they pop. Rhodes says it’s been 47 days since the abrupt news came out that he was a free agent. He heard all the theories. Everyone thinks the decision to return to WWE was difficult but it was not, it was simple really. The “star” that left them in the “dust” and the man that has signed a multi-year agreement, standing here now, and if there was… fans interrupt with a “you deserve it!” chant. If there was a glimmer of doubt, then the moment he rose up in front of 70,000+ fans, the moment he made the WrestleMania walk and beat a top Superstar in Seth Rollins, that doubt was eradicated. Rhodes recalls a quote he found, about how a man finds his destiny on the path he takes to avoid it.
Cody shows us a photo of his father, WWE Hall of Famer Dusty Rhodes, on the big screen. It’s so easy to say that’s his father, yeah he’s a legend, a common man, the son of a plumber, but to Cody he was his hero. Fans chant “Dusty!” now. Rhodes says the photo on the screen was taken in 1977 at Madison Square Garden, showing Dusty holding the title that WWE Hall of Famers like Hulk Hogan, The…