{"id":337016,"date":"2026-05-19T05:24:20","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:54:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=337016"},"modified":"2026-05-19T05:24:20","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T23:54:20","slug":"bully-ray-believes-rocky-could-encourage-cody-rhodes-vs-gunther-at-wwe-clash-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/bully-ray-believes-rocky-could-encourage-cody-rhodes-vs-gunther-at-wwe-clash-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"Bully Ray Believes Rocky Could Encourage Cody Rhodes Vs. GUNTHER At WWE Clash In Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\">\n<article class=\"news-post\">\n<div class=\"news-article\">\n<div class=\"slide-key image-holder gallery-image-holder credit-image-wrap lead-image-holder\" data-post-url=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/2176078\/wwe-clash-italy-gunther-cody-rhodes-bully-ray-rocky-inspire\/\" data-post-title=\"Bully Ray Believes Rocky Could Inspire Cody Rhodes Vs. GUNTHER At WWE Clash In Italy\" data-slide-num=\"0\" data-post-id=\"2176078\">\n<picture id=\"pe60d41585391c93e77adbb8f962167b0\"><source media=\"(min-width: 429px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/bully-ray-believes-rocky-could-inspire-cody-rhodes-vs-gunther-at-wwe-clash-in-italy\/intro-1779145945.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><source media=\"(max-width: 428px)\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wrestlinginc.com\/img\/gallery\/bully-ray-believes-rocky-could-inspire-cody-rhodes-vs-gunther-at-wwe-clash-in-italy\/intro-1779145945.sm.webp\" type=\"image\/webp\"><\/source><\/source><\/picture>\n                    <span class=\"gallery-image-credit\">WWE<\/span>\n                    <\/div>\n<div class=\"columns-holder \">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes is about to defend his title against GUNTHER at Clash in Italy, and there are numerous fans who consider the &#8220;Profession Killer&#8221; needs to attain a giant win to maintain his momentum going. Considered one of those people is Bully Ray, who explained on &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.siriusxm.com\/channels\/siriusxm-fight-nation\" target=\"_blank\">Busted Open Radio<\/a>&#8221; he believes the &#8220;Rocky&#8221; movies could encourage the match, giving GUNTHER the win in Turin to establish an even bigger story.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The WWE Hall of Famer explained that he wants GUNTHER to take all hope, in addition to the title, away from Rhodes, a la &#8220;Rocky.&#8221; He said that the character&#8217;s loss made you wish to see the second film, because he fought so hard, that you simply believed in him.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">&#8220;Even when he thought he couldn&#8217;t, we get that moment in time that makes every man on this planet need to exit and fight,&#8221; he explained. &#8220;It&#8217;s when Adrian looks at him and says, &#8216;There&#8217;s just one I thing I need you to do for me. Win.&#8217; &#8230;Hope has been restored. Now we would like to pay money to observe &#8216;Rocky II&#8217; to see Rocky win. I need the entire hope to be taken away from Cody&#8230; I need to see Brandi tell him &#8216;win.&#8217; Or I need to see someone tell him &#8216;win.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Bully Ray said he desires to see Rhodes choked out on the remaining episodes of &#8220;SmackDown,&#8221; in addition to in Italy, to see the hope leave his eyes and make Rhodes query himself. He said the loss won&#8217;t impact Rhodes, because his fans will rally behind him, but when GUNTHER fails to win the title, he loses a few of his luster.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><em>For those who use any quotes from this text, please credit &#8220;Busted Open Radio&#8221; and supply a h\/t to Wrestling Inc. for the transcription.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article><\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WWE Undisputed WWE Champion Cody Rhodes is about to defend his title against GUNTHER at Clash in Italy, and there are numerous fans who consider the &#8220;Profession Killer&#8221; needs to attain a giant win to maintain his momentum going. Considered one of those people is Bully Ray, who explained on &#8220;Busted Open Radio&#8221; he believes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":337017,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21056],"tags":[5689,12474,1128,9118,21940,923,9059,7432,9119,555,6221],"class_list":["post-337016","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wwe-and-more","tag-believes","tag-bully","tag-clash","tag-cody","tag-gunther","tag-inspire","tag-italy","tag-ray","tag-rhodes","tag-rocky","tag-wwe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337016","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337016"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337016\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":337019,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337016\/revisions\/337019"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/337017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}